Tom Gross is a British-born journalist, international affairs commentator,[2] and human rights campaigner specializing in the Middle East.

[13] In a profile of Gross in the Saudi-owned pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat in 2019, it was noted that he started as a non-political entertainment and feature journalist before becoming a political commentator.

[29] Gross's maternal grandmother, Vera Feinberg, also escaped Nazi Germany for pre-state Israel, but her parents were deported to Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp and later to Treblinka where they were gassed to death upon arrival.

[35] Gross discussed his upbringing growing up surrounded by cultural and literary luminaries in London and New York, as well as his later career and work with Roma and human rights, in an interview in 2020.

In Britain, he has written for The Guardian,[44] Daily Telegraph,[45] Spectator,[46] Standpoint, Evening Standard, and other publications; in Israel, for Haaretz, Maariv and The Jerusalem Post; in Germany for Die Welt;[47] and in Iran, for a number of opposition websites.

[48] In a series titled “Conversations with friends about their lives,” Gross has interviewed pianist Evgeny Kissin,[49] lawyer Alan Dershowitz,[50] filmmaker Hossein Amini,[51] New York Times columnist Bret Stephens,[52] Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland,[53] writers David Pryce-Jones,[54] John O'Sullivan,[55] Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff[56] and others.

[86] In The Guardian Gross has been critical of the fact that Prague still has no central state-funded Holocaust memorial, unlike most other European capital cities from which Jews were deported.

[88][89][90] For two years, based in Prague, he served as a special advisor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the plight of Czech Roma, mainly relating to citizenship issues arising as a result of the breakup of Czechoslovakia.

He criticized the internationally renowned liberal icon and playwright Václav Havel, in columns in The Spectator and The Prague Post,[91] for not doing enough to help Roma while he served as Czech president.

Tom Gross has worked on a number of television programs and documentary films, including BBC TV specials on Czech Roma, and on Sudeten Germans.

[99] Gross is a voluntary director of the Raif Badawi Foundation[100] named after the imprisoned Saudi liberal dissident, and a member of the International Advisory Board of NGO Monitor,[101] of Mideast Dig[102] and of Keren Malki, a charity helping special needs children in Israel.