Douglas Davis

Douglas Davis, originally from South Africa, is a London-based writer and analyst specializing in Middle East and European affairs. According to a biographical note 'He has lived and worked on four continents. In Israel, he was a senior editor of the Jerusalem Post for ten years and also the Middle East Correspondent of the Australian. He now writes regularly for the Spectator in London and has been an analyst on Middle East affairs for the BBC, ITN, CNN, and Sky television, among others.'

Davis is married to Helen Davis a long time journalist and public relations operative who in 2012 is a London-based conference organiser with Helen Davis Associates.

Journalism

Davis has written widely for conservative news outlets such as the [[Daily Telegraph] and Spectator. From at least 1990 Davis worked for the Jerusalem Post, providing copy from London from 1990 to at least 2002 and writing regular copy for the paper until 2005. He was for a period a 'senior editor' at the [[Jerusalem Post] according to some sources.

Views on the BBC and Israel and the US

According to the Jerusalem Post: 'On May 30, 2002 Douglas Davis, the London correspondent of the Post, wrote: "Why I won't talk to the BBC" and explained that since September 11, 2001 [the date of the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York], he had refused all invitations to appear on the BBC because it had crossed a dangerous threshold of anti-Israeli and anti-American bias.'

Think tanks connection

Between at least 2009 and 2012 Davis was a board member of the Paris based Jean Jacques Rousseau Institute

Publications

• co-author of Sharansky: The Journey Home (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York);
• The New Antisemitism (Profile Books, London)
• Israel Today for the World of Tomorrow Israel in the World: Changing Lives Through Innovation Helen Davis and Douglas Davis Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005, 228 pages, $42.95 cloth ISBN:029784409