Gil Z. Hochberg

Gil Z. Hochberg is the Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University. She has written three academic books: Becoming Palestine: Towards an Archival Imagination of The Future, Visual Occupations: Vision and Visibility in a Conflict Zone, and In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs and the Limits of Separatist Imagination. She previously taught for 15 years at UCLA. Her latest book is My Father, the Messiah: a Memoir.
Her statements on Israel were criticized by Karys Rhea in The Tower .