About Henry Kopel

Henry Kopel is a retired U.S. federal prosecutor in Connecticut with over 30 years’ experience investigating and prosecuting national security matters, domestic terrorism, violent crimes, narcotics trafficking, and white-collar crime. In that role Kopel prosecuted Connecticut’s most prominent white supremacist group for illegal weapons and explosives trafficking, and he successfully litigated one of the nation’s earliest cases that made available the use of forensic DNA match statistics in sex assault prosecutions. His work has received several commendations from the Justice Department and law enforcement agencies, including a prestigious Executive Office of U.S. Attorney’s Director’s Award. Kopel is the author of the book War on Hate: How to Stop Genocide, Fight Terrorism, and Defend Freedom. This pathbreaking work, endorsed by leading thinkers and policy professionals, exposes the flaws of much conventional wisdom about terrorism and genocide causation, and presents several innovative approaches that would substantially reduce the incidence of those mass killing episodes. He also has published “The Case for Sanctioning State Sponsors of Genocide Incitement” in the Cornell International Law Journal. Kopel has published several op-ed commentaries focusing on geopolitics, the Middle East, and contemporary legal and cultural issues, including in the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Dallas Morning News, the Times of Israel, the American Thinker, the Connecticut Mirror, and the New Haven Register, among other papers. He is an honors graduate of Brandeis University, Oxford University, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Kopel has served as a teaching assistant in the government department at Harvard College, and lectures on prosecuting hate crimes at the University of Connecticut Law School. He serves on the global advisory board for the Abraham Global Peace Initiative. Kopel’s next book, which he is presently writing, is titled The Great Forgetting, and will address the question, Why do so many of America’s leading intellectuals and opinion shapers embrace ideologies and policy positions that inflict substantial and highly visible harms upon their intended beneficiaries?