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Paul Findley

Congressman Paul Findley, Founder

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Author, speaker and pundit Paul Findley served in the United States Congress for 22 years representing central Illinois. Before his Congressional service, Mr. Findley served as a Naval officer with the Seabees in the Pacific in World War II, followed by work as a newspaper editor in Jacksonville, Illinois.

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Mr. Findley is the author of the best-selling book They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby, first published in 1985 and most recently updated in 2003. This was the first book to expose the power of the Israel Lobby throughout the United States: in Congress, academia, and the press. A reviewer noted:

“Because he questioned blind American support of Israel, the lobby deprived a conscientious Illinois congressman of the seat he occupied for 22 years. In doing so, it freed Paul Findley to write the most powerful expose to date of Israel’s abuse of American trust, a book which may prove Admiral Moorer’s prediction to him that ‘the American people would be goddam mad if they knew what goes on.’”

Paul McCloskey

Congressman Paul ”Pete” McCloskey, Founder

Attorney, law professor, decorated Marine veteran, and author Pete McCloskey served in the U.S. Congress for 16 years representing central California.

Mr. McCloskey received the Navy Cross, Silver Star and two Purple Hearts as a Marine rifle platoon leader in the Korean War. From 1953 to 1960 he commanded a Marine Reserve Rifle Company at San Bruno, California. As a Lieutenant Colonel, he volunteered for service in Viet Nam in November, 1965, but was not called. He retired from the Marine Corps Reserve in 1974 with the rank of Colonel.

While in Congress he initiated the effort to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1969, and made the first House speech suggesting the impeachment of Richard Nixon for obstruction of justice in June, 1973. He played a leading role in enacting the Capital Gains Tax Reduction Act in 1977 and in abolishing the Renegotiation Board in 1978, the first government agency abolished in 22 years.

Edward Peck

Ambassador Edward Peck, Chairman Emeritus

edward-peck Edward Peck served as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (U. Alexis Johnson) in the Nixon Administration, January 1971. He was Chief of Mission in Baghdad (Iraq, 1977 to 1980) in the Carter Administration and later held senior posts in Washington and abroad. He also served as a Foreign Service Officer inMorocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt, and as Ambassador in Mauritania. At the State Department he served as Deputy Director of Covert Intelligence Programs, Director of theOffice of Egyptian Affairs and as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs. He served as deputy director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism in theReagan Administration. He is president of Foreign Services International, a consulting firm that works with governments, businesses and educational institutions across the world.

Robert Keeley

Ambassador Robert Keeley, Chair

Ambassador (ret.) Robert Vossler Keeley had a 34-year career in the Foreign Service of the United States, from 1956 to 1989. He served three times as Ambassador: to Greece (1985-89),Zimbabwe (1980-84), and Mauritius (1976-78). In 1978-80 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, in charge of southern and eastern Africa.

From November 1990 to January 1995 Ambassador Keeley served as President of the Middle East Institute in Washington, a private, non-profit educational and cultural institution founded in 1946 to foster greater understanding in the United States of the countries of the Middle East region from Morocco to Central Asia.

Currently he works as a free-lance writer, lecturer, and consultant, based in Washington. His interests are not confined to foreign affairs, but extend to issues of domestic politics, economics, and social policy.

James Abourezk

Senator James Abourezk

Senator James Abourezk served South Dakota in the U.S. Senate between 1973-1979. Notably he was the first Arab-American to become a Senator. He also served South Dakota’s second district in the House of Representatives between 1971 and 1973. Currently he is a senior partner in Abourezk Law Offices, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Peter Viering

Peter Viering, Secretary & Treasurer

Peter B. Viering is an attorney in Stonington, Connecticut. For five years he served as lobbyist and public affairs officer in Connecticut for the parent organization of TheChristian Science Monitor. In 2003, Viering served as coordinator for Admiral Thomas Moorer’s Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Israeli attack on the USSLiberty. Viering has made six trips to the Middle East, serving as a member of American observer delegations to Palestinian presidential and legislative elections in 2005 and 2006.

Daniel McGowan

Daniel McGowan

Daniel McGowan is a Professor Emeritus of Hobart and William Smith Colleges and the founder of Deir Yassin Remembered, a not-for-profit human rights organization seeking to build a truth and reconciliation center at Deir Yassin 1,400 meters north of Yad Vashem, the most famous Holocaust museum in the world.

Hassan Fouda

Dr. Hassan Fouda

Dr. Hassan Fouda is former Assistant Director, Global Research and Development, Pfizer, Inc. and was a Board Director of Tandem Lab, a Scientific Research Organization based in Salt Lake City Utah. Currently, he serves as a Board Director of The Tree of Life Foundation (www.tolef.org) and as a Board Director of The Israeli Committee Against House Demolition (www.ICAHDUSA.org)

John Whitbeck

John Whitbeck

John Whitbeck is an international lawyer who writes frequently about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, often from Palestinian viewpoint, and has advised the Palestinian negotiating team in negotiations with Israel. Since 1988, his articles on behalf of Middle East peace have been published more than 600 times in more than 80 Arab, Israeli and international newspapers, magazines, journals and books.

In 1993,his “Two States, One Holy Land” framework for peace was the subject of a three-day conference in Cairo, attended by 24 prominent Israelis and Palestinians, including four Knesset members, under the sponsorship of The Middle East Institute (Washington), and his “condominium solution” for sharing Jerusalem in a context of peace and reconciliation has been published more than 50 times in various lengths and languages.

A graduate of Harvard College (1968) and Harvard Law School (1973), he left the United States in 1976 and has since lived and practiced law in Paris, London and Jeddah.

Zainab Elberry

Zainab Elberry

Zainab Elberry is a business professional active in numerous local and national civic organizations. She is cited in Who's Who In the World, 1997-2002; Who's Who In America, 1996-2002; Who's Who of American Women, 1996-2002; Who's Who in Finance and Industry, 1997-1998; Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1997-1998; and Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America, 1992. She received the Recognition Award, National Association of Professional Saleswomen; A Certificate of Appreciation, Mayor of Nashville; A Special Contribution Award, US Council of the International Year of Disabled Persons; The Outstanding Service Award; and other awards.

Ms. Elberry has served as a board member of numerous civic associations, among them the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs; the Advisory Board of the Women's Fund, a standing committee of the Nashville Community Foundation; the Advisory Board of 'Celebration of Cultures'; the International Cultural Association of Nashville; the United Nations Association; the Middle Tennessee Community AIDS Partnership; the Belle Meade Mansion; the Nashville International Cultural Heritage; and the International Year of Disabled Persons. She was Facilitator and one of first graduates of Study Circles of the Nashville Coalition Against Racism (NCAR); a member of the NCAR's Multicultural Outreach Committee for Churches, Mosques, Synagogues and Temples; nominated for membership in Leadership of Tennessee, 1994; National Association of Professional Saleswomen; and a charter member, CABLE, the Nashville Professional Women's Association.