Interfaith
Action
for Palestine
July 28-30
Our interfaith coalition is taking on the largest pro-Israel organization in the country
The Interfaith Action for Palestine brought together an interfaith coalition of organizations to counter Christians United for Israel’s (CUFI) Annual Summit July 28-30, 2024 in National Harbor, Maryland, and Washington DC. CUFI is the largest “pro-Israel” organization in the United States that promotes hawkish, white Christian supremacist, and genocidal policies. We mobilized hundreds in Washington, DC to disrupt CUFI’s supremacist agenda in a variety of ways, and called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
As people of faith, we are sickened that our elected leaders are fulfilling the goals of a far-right, Christian zionist organization
The Conveners
supporting organizations
Muslims for Just Futures • Buddhist Peace Fellowship • Black Faith Network for Middle East Peace • New Synagogue Project • Soulforce • Ceasefire Chorus • showing up for racial justice (SURJ) • Synagogues Rising • Our Collective Becoming • Jews for Racial & Economic Justice • PaxChristi USA • Highlander Research and Education Center • Palestinian Anglicans and Clergy Allies • Faithful America • Christian-Jewish Allies Working for a Just Peace in Israel/Palestine • Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBT Interests (BMC) • Episcopal Peace Fellowship - Palestine Israel Network • Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA) • Community Peacemaker Teams • United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network • IRTF Cleveland - InterReligious Task Force on Central America and Colombia • Catalyst Project • enfleshed • Tikkun Olam Chavurah • Liberating Lineages Collective • Reform Jews for Justice • En Conjunto • Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East • Hope 4 All Interfaith Community • Red Letter Christians • Baltimore Nonviolence Center • St. Columba Catholic Church Oakland CA • SE London Friends of Palestine (UK) • SCPLR • Social Justice Cttee of Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Society of Madison, CT • United Methodists for Kairos Response (UMKR) • Peace Action Montgomery • Rochester Witness for Palestine - RW4P • RadicalDiscipleship.net • Kardia Kaiomené • Rising Majority • Pax Christi Michigan • Sing for Change • Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) • Muslim Chaplains • Interfaith Communities United For Justice and Peace • Presbyterian Church (USA), Office of Public Witness • The Soul of the Movement • Interfaith Ceasefire • UCC For Ceasefire • Church of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ • Adelphi Friends Meeting • Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns • Peace Catalyst International • All Souls Church Unitarian, Washington, DC • NorCal Sabeel • Committee for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel • Twin Cities Ceasefire Choir • Prayers for Peace Alliance • Jewish Voice For Peace Austin
why counter cufi?
CUFI is a Christian Zionist organization founded by far-right televangelist Pastor John Hagee, who is known for promoting extremist anti-muslim and antisemitic tropes. It is by far the largest Zionist organization in the United States, with over 11 million members.
Core to Christian Zionist theology is the belief that all Jews must move to Israel and ethnically cleanse all Palestinians from the “holy land” in order to hasten the “end times” and the return of Jesus Christ. This dangerous theology is part of White Christian Supremacy.
The CUFI conference meets each year in DC with the goal of influencing members of US Congress to continue supporting Israel’s right wing government, even today in its genocidal campaign in Gaza. In the past, speakers at CUFI have included Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Vice President Mike Pence, and the organization’s founder Pastor John Hagee.