Sasha Polakow-Suransky (born April 3, 1979) is an American journalist and author. He is the deputy editor of Foreign Policy, and a former editor of The New York Times op-ed page and former senior editor of Foreign Affairs.^[1]

In 2015 he was an Open Society Fellow, while writing a book about the political impact of immigration.^[2] His first book, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa, was published in 2010.^[3] His second book, Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy, was published in 2017.^[4]

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.^[5][6]

He is the younger brother of Shael Polakow-Suransky; both are the children of Valerie Polakow and Leonard Suransky, South African Jews^[7] who were anti-apartheid activists in South Africa before emigrating to the United States in 1973 to avoid possible arrest.^[8][9]

• The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa, Pantheon, 2010. ISBN 9780307388506, OCLC 800904318
• Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy, Nation Books, 2017. ISBN 9781568585925, OCLC 972386398