Rabbi Yechiel Z. Eckstein is founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. In 2005, Eckstein was appointed Goodwill Ambassador to the State of Israel. Contact through Tönya Derrickson.

A June 12, 2006, New York Times article (posted at the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee site) says that Arab-Americans, since 9/11, worry more about overzealous immigration enforcement and racial profiling by government authorities than they do about hate crimes. Federal agents have visited Arab-American communities around the country, interviewing a broad spectrum of people, many of whom […]

Earlier in April, the liberal watchdog Media Matters highlighted columns by Bryan Fischer, the American Family Association’s director of issue analysis for government and public policy, in which he advocated halting immigration of Muslims and repatriating them to Islamic countries. Fischer also said that Muslims who convert could “become not just good Christians but true Americans.”

Richard A. Landes is an associate professor of history at Boston University, specializing in messianic and millennial movements. He was the director of the now inactive Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University.

Michael Barkun is a professor emeritus of political science at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. He is the author of A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America and Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement.

Barbara Rossing is a professor of New Testament at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. She is the author of The Rapture Exposed (Basic Books, 2005), and The Choice Between Two Cities: Whore, Bride, and Empire in the Apocalypse (Trinity Press International, 1999).

A public interest law firm based in Washington D.C. that litigates on cases where people’s civil rights are being restricted.

Written by Timothy P. Weber (Baker Academic, 2004). Weber investigates the origins, developments and results of the relationship between evangelicals and Israel.

Interview with Southern Baptist leader Richard Land where Land explains the motivation behind evangelical Christian support of Jews and Israel.