Sasha Polakow-Suransky

Sasha Polakow-Suransky (born April 3, 1979) is an American journalist and author. He is currently executive opinion editor at the Financial Times. From 2017-early 2025, he was a deputy editor of Foreign Policy, and before that editor of international opinion at The New York Times op-ed page and a former senior editor of Foreign Affairs.

In 2015 he was an Open Society Fellow, while writing a book about the political impact of immigration. His first book, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa, was published in 2010. His second book, Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy, was published in 2017.

Life After graduating from Brown University, where he wrote for The College Hill Independent, Polakow-Suransky was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Oxford University, where he earned a doctorate in modern history.

He is the younger brother of Shael Polakow-Suransky; both are the children of Valerie Polakow and Leonard Suransky, South African Jews who were anti-apartheid activists in South Africa before emigrating to the United States in 1973 to avoid possible arrest.

Works The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa, Pantheon, 2010. , Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy, Nation Books, 2017. ,