- Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden, most often mentioned as Osama bin Laden or Usama bin Laden, is a Saudi militant Islamist and is reported to be the founder of the organization called al-Qaeda. He is a member of the wealthy bin Laden family. In conjunction with several other Islamic militant leaders, …
- Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(born October 28, 1956) is the 6th and current president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He became president on 6 August 2005 after winning the 2005 presidential election. Ahmadinejad's current term will end in August, 2009, but he will be eligible to run for one more term in office in 2009 presidential elections. Before becoming president, he was the Mayor of Tehran. He is the highest directly elected official in the country, but, …
- Norman Finkelstein
Norman G. Finkelstein (born December 8 1953) is an American professor of political science and author. A graduate of Binghamton University, he received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, and most recently, DePaul University, where he is an assistant professor since 2001. Finkelstein was denied tenure at DePaul in June 2007, …
- David Duke
David Ernest Duke is a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, a candidate in presidential primaries for both the Democratic and Republican parties, and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Duke is a self-styled "white nationalist," and he is commonly referred to by his opponents as a white supremacist. He says he does not think of himself as a racist, however, …
- George Galloway
George Galloway (born 16 August 1954 in Dundee) is a Scottish politician and author noted for his left wing views, confrontational style, and rhetorical skill. He is currently the Respect Member of Parliament (MP) for Bethnal Green and Bow, having previously been a Labour Party MP for Glasgow Hillhead and Glasgow Kelvin since 1987. Galloway is probably best known for his vigorous campaign to overturn economic sanctions against Iraq, …
- Edward Said
Edward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and is regarded as a founding figure in postcolonial theory.
- Israel Shahak
Israel Shahak (April 28, 1933 - July 2, 2001) was a Polish-born Israeli Professor of Chemistry at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the former president of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights, and an outspoken critic of the Israeli government and of Israeli society in general. Shahak's writings on Judaism have been the source of considerable controversy
- Gilad Atzmon
Gilad Atzmon (born June 9, 1963) is a jazz musician, author and anti-Zionist activist, who was born in Israel and currently lives in London. He was born a secular Israeli Jew in Tel Aviv, and trained at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. He studied philosophy in Germany and moved to London at age 32.
- Hassan Nasrallah
Hassan Nasrallah (b. August 30 1960, Bourj Hammoud, Beirut, Lebanon) is the current Secretary General of the Lebanese Islamist party Hezbollah. He is also a Shi'a cleric who is a protege of Ali Khamenei. Nasrallah is considered a terrorist by the U.S. and U.K. governments.
- Alexander Cockburn
Alexander Cockburn The Taj Mahal as Kitsch; the Editor and the Water-Walking Guru
- Israel Shamir
Israel Shamir is a writer and journalist who is known as a controversial anti-Zionist. He is a citizen of Sweden, where his legal name is Adam Ermash (previously Jöran Jermas). Critics (including several pro-Palestinian activists) have accused Shamir of anti-Semitism and of misrepresenting his background and career.
- Antony Loewenstein
Antony Loewenstein is a Jewish-Australian, Sydney-based freelance journalist, author and blogger. Antony Loewenstein has written for The Guardian, Haaretz, the Washington Post, "Sydney Morning Herald", "The Australian", Sydney’s "Sun-Herald", "The Bulletin", Znet, "The Big Issue", "Crikey", "Counterpunch" and others. Antony contributed a major chapter to 2004’s best-seller, "Not Happy, …
- Ali Khamenei
Ali Khamenei was not a "marja" when he was elected the Supreme Leader of Iran. Since the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran required the Supreme Leader to be a "marja", a new amendment to the constitution to allow a cleric of his then-status to be elected as the Supreme Leader was required. Since this had not been put to a referendum yet, the Assembly of Experts internally titled him a temporary office holder until the new constitution became effective.
- Henry Makow
Henry Makow, Ph.D., (born November 12, 1949 in Zürich, Switzerland) is a Jewish-Canadian non-fiction writer, the inventor of the board game Scruples, and the author of "A Long Way to go for a Date," the story of his courtship and marriage to a young Filipina. He believes that it is a good thing to maintain racial identity but would not let that prevent intermarriage. As a baby,he moved with his family to Canada, settling in Ottawa.
- Joseph Massad
Joseph Andoni Massad is an Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University. He is of Palestinian Arab descent from a Christian family. He became the center of a controversy over Anti-Zionism, antisemitism, and academic freedom in 2004 and 2005.
- Tony Judt
Tony Judt (born 1948, London, England) is a British historian, author and professor. He specializes in Europe and is the Director of the Erich Maria Remarque Institute at New York University. He is a frequent contributor to the "New York Review of Books".
- Ismail Haniyeh
Ismail Haniyeh ; born January 1963) is a senior political leader of Hamas and former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. In the wake of Hamas' military seizure of control of the Gaza Strip, he was dismissed from office on June 14, 2007 by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas; however, …
- Paul Findley
Paul Findley (born June 23 1921) is a former Republican United States Representative from Illinois, representing its 20th District. He was first elected in 1961. Findley lost his seat in 1982 to current United States Senator Dick Durbin. He is a cofounder of the Council for the National Interest, a Washington advocacy group. He resides in Jacksonville, Illinois.
- Rashid Khalidi
Rashid Khalidi Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood on the Israeli invasion of Gaza. What does Israel hope to achieve? Khalidi was in Palestine in November and early December of last year and says that Hamas and the Palestinian Authority were losing support.
- Yisroel Dovid Weiss
Yisroel Dovid Weiss (born 1956) is an adherent of Neturei Karta, a controversial anti-Zionist grouping of Haredi Jews. Based in Monsey, New York, he believes that observant Jews should peacefully oppose the existence of the Israeli state: "It would be forbidden for us to have a State, even if it would be in a land that is desolate and uninhabited." In late 2006 Weiss was condemned by other anti-Zionists, such the Edah HaChareidis and Satmar, …
- Michael Neumann
Michael Neumann (born 1946) is a professor of philosophy at Trent University in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of "What's Left?" and "The Rule of Law" and has published papers on utilitarianism and rationality.
- Ted Pike
Rev. Ted Pike (born Theodore Winston Pike) is an American clergyman and director of the National Prayer Network, filmmaker and author. He has produced such films as Unholy Alliance, Why the Mid-East Bleeds, and The Other Israel. Pike's work contains fierce criticism of Jews and of Israel and references to a Global Jewish conspiracy. He is also an outspoken critic of the Anti-Defamation League.
- Ahmed Yassin
Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin was the co-founder (with Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi) and the spiritual leader of the militant Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas, originally calling it "the Palestinian Wing of the Muslim Brotherhood". In addition to being nearly blind, he was a paraplegic and had to use a wheelchair after a playground accident in his youth. He was assassinated by an Israeli helicopter gunship.
- Uri Davis
Uriel "Uri" Davis (born 1943 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli academic and activist with a focus on citizenship, apartheid and democracy in Israel and the Middle East. Davis has served as Vice-Chairman of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights and as lecturer in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. Davis describes himself as an "anti-Zionist Palestinian Jew."
- Pat Robertson
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (born March 22 1930) is a televangelist from the United States. He is the founder of numerous organizations and corporations, including the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), the Christian Coalition, Flying Hospital, International Family Entertainment, Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation, and Regent University.
- Eustace Mullins
Eustace Clarence Mullins, Jr. (born 1923) is an American political writer, author, biographer, and the last surviving protege of the famous, 20th century intellectual and writer, Ezra Pound. He is also known as conspiracy theorist and has been accused of anti-Semitism by the Anti-Defamation League. As of 2005, Eustace Mullins is a member of the Southeast Bureau editorial staff of far-right Willis Carto's American Free Press.
- Jerry Lamon Falwell Jr
Last week, the city of Lynchburg, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the entire country lost one of our dearest sons in the passing of Rev. Falwell. Today Dr. Falwell was laid to rest. I am sad that business here in Washington kept many of us from being able to attend today's services, but since we were unable to attend, we have joined here tonight to pay homage to this great leader. Dr. Falwell's legacy is one that will not soon be forgotten.
- Avraham Burg
Avraham Burg (nickname: Avrum, born January 19 1955) is an Israeli politician. Burg was born in Jerusalem and is the son of Yosef Shlomo Burg, a minister in several Israeli governments himself. He served in the Israel Defense Forces and graduated as a lieutenant in the paratroopers brigade. He then studied Social Sciences at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Burg was an activist in left wing organizations and the Peace Now movement.
- Germar Rudolf
Germar Rudolf (born 29 October 1964 in Limburg an der Lahn) is a German chemist and Holocaust denier.
- Jacqueline Rose
Jacqueline Rose is a British academic who is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London. Rose is probably best known for her work on the relationship between psychoanalysis, feminism and literature. She is a graduate of St Hilda's College, Oxford and gained her higher degree (Mâitrise) from the Sorbonne and her doctorate from the University of London.
- Ilan Pappé
Ilan Pappé is an Israeli historian who used to teach at Haifa University. He has now taken a position at the University of Exeter in Britain. He is one of the "New Historians" who have re-examined and hold controversial views of the history of Israel and of Zionism.
- Elliott Abrams
Elliott Abrams (born January 24, 1948) is an American lawyer who has served in foreign policy positions for two Republican U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. During Bush's first term in office, he was appointed the post of Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs.
- Elmer Berger
Elmer Berger (1908-1996) was a Reform rabbi widely known for his anti-zionism. Berger was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His parents were Sam and Selma (nee Turk) Berger. He was the founding executive director of the American Council for Judaism.
- Alison Weir
Alison Weir is founder and executive director of the non-profit organization If Americans Knew, which focuses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with particular focus on media coverage of the issue. Weir speaks widely throughout the United States and has written numerous essays on this topic; some of the most prominent are "Gaza: A Report From the Front", published in The New Intifada (Verso publishing); "Choosing to Act: Anti-Semitism is Wrong"; "Israel and Palestine, …
- Hafez Al-Assad
Hafez al-Assad (') (October 6, 1930 - June 10, 2000) was president of Syria for three decades. Assad's rule stabilized and consolidated the power of the country's central government after decades of coups and counter-coups. He was succeeded by his son and current president Bashar al-Assad in 2000.
- Carlos Latuff
Carlos Latuff is a freelance political cartoonist, born in November 30, 1968, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Sayyid Qutb
Sayyid Qutb (also Seyyid, Sayid, Sayed; also Koteb, Kutb) (9 October 1906 - 29 August 1966) was an Egyptian author, Islamist, and the leading intellectual of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 60s. He is best known in the Muslim world for his work on the social and political role of Islamic fundamentalism, particularly in his books "Social Justice" and "Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq" ("Milestones").
- Joel Teitelbaum
Grand Rabbi Joel (Yoel) Teitelbaum, (born 1887, died August 19, 1979), known as Reb Yoelish or the Satmar Rav (or Rebbe), was a prominent Hungarian Hasidic rebbe and Talmudic scholar. He was probably the best known Haredi opponent of all forms of modern political Zionism.
- Michel Warschawski
Michel Warschawski (Mikado) is an Israeli anti-Zionist activist. He led the Marxist Revolutionary Communist League (previously Matzpen-Jerusalem) until its demise in the 1990s, and founded the Israeli Palestinian organization the Alternative information center in 1984.