Yossi Shain

Yossi Shain (; born 21 September 1956) is an Israeli Politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu between 2019 and 2022 He is also the Romulo Betancourt Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University where he also serves as head of TAU's School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, head of the Abba Eban Graduate Studies Program in Diplomacy and director of the Frances Brody Institute for Applied Diplomacy. He is also a full professor of comparative government and diaspora politics at Georgetown University, and the founding director of the Program for Jewish Civilization (PJC) at Georgetown. In 2007, he also served (pro-bono) as president of Western Galilee College.

In his September 2014 article "The Two Faces of Qatar" in The American Interest, Shain develops his concerns regarding Qatar. He observes that "For years Qatar has played a brilliant a double game between Islamism and the West, offering aid and comfort for the forces of the former while doing the bare minimum asked of it by the latter," yet Shain asks "whether this act beginning to wear thin?" Shain observes, that "recent events, however, have not all been favorable to Qatar’s strategy. In particular, the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood and the rise of Al-Sisi in Egypt were shattering blows to Qatar’s view of the Middle East. With the Muslim Brothers being the bitter enemies of the Egyptian regime, Egypt has also turned on its prime backers, the Qataris. And in Egypt today, Al Jazeera has developed a reputation as traitor to the Arab cause, and the Emir of Qatar as an instigator of radicalism and terror. Reporting on the crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt last February, Gregg Carlstrom noted how Al Jazeera became the mouthpiece of radical Jihadi views—featuring guests openly calling for an assault on the Egyptian Coptic minority. None of this, of course, made it into Al Jazeera English."

Books Shain, Y, The Israeli Century: How the Zionist Revolution Changed History and Reinvented Judaism, trans. Eylon Levy (Wicked Son: 2021) Shain, Y. & Fainberg, S. The Israelization of Judaism (book and documentary film in progress) Shain, Y. (2010). Śefat ha-sheḥitut ṿe-tarbut ha-musar ha-Yiśreelit (Who Controls Morality in Democracies: The Language of Corruption and Its Consequences (in preparation an English amended version of the Hebrew book). Or Yehudah: Devir. שפת השחיתות ותרבות המוסר הישראלית (דביר: 2010) Shain, Y., & Langenbacher, E. (2010). Power and the Past: Collective Memory and International Relations. Washington, D.C: Georgetown University Press (edited). Shain, Y. (2007). Kinship & Diasporas in International Affairs. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Shain, Y. (1999). Marketing the American Creed Abroad: Diasporas in the U.S. and Their Homelands. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Shain, Y., & Klieman, A. S. (1997). Democracy: The Challenges Ahead. New York: St. Martin's Press (edited). Shain, Y., Linz, J. J., (1995). Between States: Interim Governments and Democratic Transitions. Cambridge [England: Cambridge University Press. (Two volumes: Vol. 1: Theory. Vol. 2 is edited under the name Case Studies). Shain, Y. (1991). Governments-in-Exile in Contemporary World Politics. New York: Routledge (edited). Shain, Y. (1989; 2005 new and revised edition). The Frontier of Loyalty: Political Exiles in the Age of the Nation-State. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Translated to Hebrew by Aha'aron Amir in 2006.