John Hagee
is the founder and national Chairman of Christians United for Israel (CUFI). In February, 2006, John Hagee, created a national grassroots movement focused on the support of Israel. He believes all Christian have a biblical mandate to support the State of Israel. He has authored several books including “Jerusalem Countdown” and “In Defense of Israel”.
Malcolm Heading
has been serving as Director of the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem (ICEJ) since 2000. He resides in Jerusalem and is an advocate of “Biblical Zionism” and Christian support of Israel.
Stephen Sizer
is the vicar, or senior pastor, of Christ Church, Virginia Water. He is a trustee and former chairman of the International Bible Society UK, publishers of the New International Version, the most widely read English Bible. He is also the author of three books, “In the Footsteps of Jesus and the Apostles”, “Christian Zionism: Roadmap to Armageddon” and “Zion’s Christian Soldiers: The Bible, Israel and the Church”.
George Morrison
is the senior pastor of Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada, CO. He also serves as an Executive Board Member of Christians United for Israel (CUFI). Faith Bible Chapel hosts an annual “Israel Awareness Day” and has adopted the Israeli settlement of “Arial”, the second largest settlement in the West Bank.
Ron Dart
teaches in the Department of Political Science, Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia. He also served as Amnesty International Canada’s representative to the Middle East from 1993 – 2003.
Gary Burge
is a Professor of New Testament Studies at Wheaton College. He has published several books, among them “Who are God’s Chosen People in the Middle East” and “Whose Land? Whose Promise? What Christians Are Not Being Told About Israel and the Palestinians”
Ben White
is a writer and freelance journalist specialising in Palestine/Israel. He frequently writes for Guardian Online “Comment is Free” as well as other news magazines. He has just published his first book entitled “Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide”.
Salim Munayer
is an Israeli-Palestinian originally from the city of Lydda (now Lod). He is the founder of Musalaha, a non-profit organization that works towards reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians based on the Biblical principles of peace, justice, and love. The name Musalaha comes from the Arabic word for 'reconciliation'. He also served as the Academic Dean of the Bethlehem Bible College and still teaches there today.
Ilan Pappe
was born in Haifa in 1954 is currently a Chair in the Department of History at the University of Exeter and a co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies. He is the author of several books including “A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples” and “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”.
Norman G. Finkelstein
received his doctorate in 1988 from the Department of Politics at Princeton University. For many years he taught political theory and the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is currently an independent scholar. Finkelstein is the author of five books which have been translated into more than 40 foreign editions: “Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history”, “The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering” and “Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict”
Matthew Hand
has worked and lived in the Middle East since 1982. He serves as a consultant on a wide-range of issues, including disaster relief, assistance to war-displaced families and inter-faithrelations. He has lived in both Jewish and Muslim communities in several countries. Over the past decade he has worked closely with the Reconciliation Walk and Lutheran Mideast Development and with numerous Middle East based organizations and leaders.
Kimberly Troup
currently lives in Colorado Springs, CO. She joined Christian Friends of Israeli Communities (CFOIC), in March of 1998, as a ministry coordinator, and in 2002, became the director of the US office. CFOIC was established in 1995, in response to the Oslo Process. They have an “Adopt A Settlement” program which looks to link churches in the west with Israeli settlments in the West Bank.
Evan Albertyn
is on staff with a local fellowship in Charlotte, NC. Evan grew up in South Africa and moved to the United States. He has taken several church trips to the West Bank to work alongside Palestinian Christians in the Bethlehem area.
Al Janssen
is currently director of communications and writer- in-residence at Open Doors International. He travels and writes with Brother Andrew, “God’s Smuggler” and he has authored or coauthored 22 books, including “Light Force: A Stirring Account of the Church Caught in the Middle East Crossfire”
