Avi Davis is an attorney, journalist, commentator, documentarian and senior fellow of the American Freedom Alliance. He was born in Melbourne, Australia where he graduated from the David Derham School of Law with Honors at Monash University in 1981. Since his arrival in Los Angeles in 1984, he has served as the Director, Streisand Center for Jewish Cultural Arts and Director, American Associates, Ben-Gurion University. For seven years, in the 1990s, he was the president of his own consulting company, based in Beverly Hills, which raised capital for the Israeli internet industry.
In 2003-04 he studied at Harvard University as a visiting fellow.

As a journalist, Mr. Davis’ commentary on Israel and the Middle East has appeared in opinion pieces, feature articles, letters and book reviews in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, Jerusalem Post, Washington Times, Melbourne Age, The Daily Telegraph, The Australian, Los Angeles Jewish Journal, Jewish Spectator, New York Jewish Week, among many other papers and magazines. He is a senior editorial columnist for Jewsweek.com, a contributing editor of Rapport Magazine and the former literary editor of the Jewish Spectator. His radio commentary is heard regularly throughout North America and he has been a television commentator on the Middle East for CNN, Fox News and Adelphia Cable.

Mr. Davis' writing today covers such topics as the threats posed to western civilization by excessive emphasis of multiculturalism; the damage that moral and cultural relativism can wreak in a democratic society and the alarming emergence of appeasement , both as an instrumentality of foreign policy and as a means of dealing with restive minorities. He is currently writing a book on the topic of appeasement.

Mr. Davis has been awarded professional designation certificates in the fields of journalism, public relations and fund raising from UCLA. His latest documentary - Remembering Munich – was released in September, 2008.  He is currently the Senior Fellow and co-founder of the American Freedom Alliance – a Los Angeles based think tank and activist network  formed to identify threats to Western cilivlization  and  promote freedom of expression, freedom of inquiry and freedom of conscience around the world. In this capacity he has, in the last two years, conceptualized and coordinated three major international conferences:  The Collapse of Europe? at Pepperdine University in June 2007;  Identity Crisis: Can European Civilization Survive? at the University of Rome in March 2008  and How Free Is the University? at the University of Southern California in June, 2008.