ISSUES

At CUFI, we are focused on several key issues with the goal of defending Israel’s strength, security, and sovereignty.

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Archeology Issues

Sites vie to be seen as Christianity’s ‘lost’ city of Bethsaida

In the New Testament, Bethsaida is a place of miracles. Here, Jesus cured a blind man, turned a few loaves and fishes into food for 5,000, and walked on water. But mysteriously, its location was lost. Now, dueling archaeological excavations place it in the same vicinity on the northern bank of the Sea of Galilee, but at slightly different...

Hamas

Israeli jets hit Hamas targets in Gaza following rocket strike

Israeli jets struck two Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip overnight Tuesday, injuring at least three people, hours after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave hit an open area in southern Israel.

The Israeli military said in a statement that in response to the projectile attack in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council earlier Tuesday, “IAF...

Archeology Issues

“Final Thoughts” From Jordan River Site Where John Baptized Jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km4weiOzYL8

Archeology Issues

A John the Baptist Link to the Dead Sea Scrolls?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUhhMIebtiQ

Archeology Issues

A Look at Ancient Qumran and Why the Dead Sea Scrolls Were Written

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCGcS8oce1M

Archeology Issues

The Truth About The Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3131aZ-7_Iw

Hamas

One Woman’s Incredible Journey From Hardship in Africa to Passionate Pro-Israel Advocate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRyZW0eWPKo

Hamas

Modern Christian Zionist Movement Born in Great Britain: Can It Return?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTAm-YGl678

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Issues

The Disturbing Plight of France’s Jews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_LxCgoUkM8

US-Israel Relationship

Lt. Col Allen West On Threats Gathering Against America and Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpEpqVh9WZA

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Issues

Former UK Parliamentarian Calls Out Jeremy Corbyn on Anti-Israel Views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk_nLZCBE6E

Hamas

God wants to use you to be part of Israel’s story

At Christians United for Israel, we believe everyone has an important role to play in Israel’s story. Everyone has a sphere of influence they can use to defend Israel with the truth. Your voice has more power than you know.

Pam and Larry Perry are an ordinary couple whom God has used to make a huge difference in their church, their community, and...

Hamas

From Jail to Jerusalem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd-wLmQjSa4

All the best stories have a twist you couldn’t see coming. For Pastor Joey Steelman, CUFI’s Northern California Director, the first twist came when he found Jesus through a gym. Until then, his life was predictably headed in one clear direction – down. An angry and hurting young man, he was in and out...

BDS
Hamas

Beating BDS: Liberty University

Liberty University is the largest Christian university in the world, and it is legendary among pro-Israel campus activists for its consistent strong support for Israel. But just because Liberty’s student body has historically stood behind Israel doesn’t guarantee it always will. As young Christians are increasingly drawn to implement their faith...

Hamas Issues

At Hamas summer camp, kids ‘liberate’ Temple Mount, ‘kill’ Israeli troops

Children at a Hamas summer camp staged a reenactment of the recent tensions at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, with kids dressed up as Hamas fighters pretending to storm the compound and “liberate” the holy site.

Footage of last month’s graduation ceremony, which was translated Tuesday by the Middle East Media Research Institute, shows a group...

Israeli Society Issues

Record numbers of Jews visit the Temple Mount Tisha Be’av morning

With the Jewish people commemorating the destruction of the ancient Temples in Jerusalem on the fast of Tisha Be’av on Tuesday, more than 1,200 Jewish visitors went to the Temple Mount on Tuesday morning, activist groups said.

According to the Yeraeh organization, which promotes Jewish visitation and prayer rights at the Temple Mount and which...

Incitement Issues

PA payments to prisoners, ‘martyr’ families now equal half its foreign aid

The Palestinian Authority’s 2017 budget for payments to inmates in Israeli prisons and so-called “families of martyrs” is equal in sum to about half of the foreign aid Ramallah expects to receive this year, a recently published Israeli report shows.

According to the PA Finance Ministry’s 2017 budget, published on its website earlier in July,...

Talking Points

President Trump’s Middle East Trip

President Donald Trump recently left the Middle East after a brief visit to Saudi Arabia and Israel. While the president did not do and say everything we would have asked, we were very pleased with this visit.

He began with an important speech in Saudi Arabia. The President did not apologize for American behavior or focus on old grievances....

BDS
Talking Points

Boycott, Divest from and Sanction (BDS)

The effort to Boycott, Divest from and Sanction (BDS) Israel, is an anti-Semitic movement whose end goal is the destruction of the Jewish State. BDS activists have repeatedly acknowledged that “The real aim of BDS is to bring down the state of Israel.”

Despite the immense hatred for the Jewish state displayed by proponents of BDS, CUFI is...

Hamas

Headlines – Wednesday, August 23, 2017

In-Depth Issues:

Iran Extends Reach with Fight for Land Link to Mediterranean - Bassem Mroue and Qassim Abdul-Zahra (AP-Washington Post)
Thousands of Iranian-backed fighters in Syria's central desert region are advancing east, bringing Tehran closer to its goal of securing a corridor from its border, through Iraq and all the way to the...