Global Peace for Israel: A New Think Tank among Jewish Legacy Organizations

We live in a world of fake news, biased journalism, agenda-based research, and ideologically grounded actions. Society is shaped by disinformation; factual history is impacted by communal memory; the actual cultural, religious, and ideological contributions of ancient civilizations vanish under revisionism, replaced by a plethora of carefully delineated and often reconstructed ideologies and belief systems: the famous or perhaps infamous “-isms” of history.

As an academic, a researcher, an academic advisor to a major Christian Zionist Evangelical organization, and an American Jewish Communal leader, I am engulfed by all of these viral trends. I find it difficult to identify like-minded colleagues and organizations prepared to investigate, to counter the agenda-based revisionism, and to demand historical accuracy. The world of Jewish Academia and Jewish Legacy Organizations is fraught with political, ideological, Leftist tension, and indoctrination.

About six months ago, my world was brightened by the discovery of a new activist-oriented and academically driven organization. Its name Global Peace for Israel intrigued me and drew me into its world. My hopes of addressing the tremendous systemic academic issues which threaten both our existential and physical existence were reawakened and strengthened. Their youth, passion, ethics, knowledge, and quest for the truth speak to everything important to and essential in me.

The following material was given to me by the Board of Global Peace for Israel for my use in this article. I have edited it only for length and not for content.

“Who We Are, Why We Exist, and What We Do”

Global Peace for Israel (GPFI) was founded in 2023 by four women, three of whom are veterans of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Our founders bring firsthand experience confronting extremist ideology, asymmetric warfare, and the real-world consequences of institutional failure, moral ambiguity, and silence. We have identified that the level of infiltration and indoctrination by extremists is at a record high, in every sector of western society. This has been happening over the course of decades, patiently and silently by foreign enemies. We are done waiting for institutions to catch up. We are done allowing extremism to be sanitized, rebranded, or normalized under the protection of democratic freedoms it seeks to destroy.

GPFI emerged as a strategic response to an escalating threat, a clear-eyed recognition that Western values are under serious threat from both foreign extremist ideologies as well as extremists operating openly within democratic societies, often shielded by institutional silence and distorted narratives.

We saw a widening gap between truth and public discourse. Educational systems compromised by bias. Civic institutions hesitant to name threats clearly. Community leaders lacking coordination, resources, or strategic frameworks to respond effectively. A demoralized society which can no longer tell the difference between truth and foreign-influenced narratives, especially among the younger generation who are to become our future leaders. We call this a silent World War.

We are a national strategy and coalition-building organization, dedicated to strengthening Western democratic values, countering extremist networks, and equipping leaders with the tools to defend truth, security, and civil society. Our work operates at the intersection of policy, education, media, technology, and grassroots mobilization.

What distinguishes our approach is our first-of-its-kind strategy coalition of experts carefully divided into 6 think-tanks. We convene private, closed-door strategy sessions with our think-tank experts which bring together influencers, educators, attorneys, policymakers, security experts, technologists, community leaders, media professionals, activists, and more. These are working environments designed to produce real outcomes: legal strategies, policy initiatives, communication frameworks, and replicable local action models to mobilize activists.

GPIF’s core areas of work include:

**Language and Communication: Developing strategic language and communication training for leaders, creators, and media professionals

**K-12 and Higher Education: Countering ideological infiltration and bias within K–12 and higher education, while supporting educators and students navigating increasing extremism and misinformation

**CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood, and NGOs: Exposing and confronting extremist networks operating through NGOs and affiliated organizations

**BDS and Protecting your Cities: Advancing municipal and state-level strategies to counter BDS initiatives and protect local governments from ideological capture

**Technology Hub: Leveraging technology, data, and digital platforms to identify funding streams, online radicalization, and coordinated extremist activity

**Building Bridges with Allies: Building durable alliances across faiths, ethnic communities, victims of Jihad, and political backgrounds grounded in shared Western values and national security

Bridge-building is a central part of our mission, as a strategy rooted in clarity and shared principles. We work to unite diverse communities around the foundational values of free societies: freedom of expression, equality under the law, pluralism, human dignity, and democratic governance. This global movement is how the truth can be seen clearly: Islamists/Jihadists are massacring African Christians and other African communities, Iranians, Christians across the MENA region, Yazidis, Kurds, Druze, Alawites, Jews, other minorities such as LGBTQ communities and Muslim women and girls under brutal sharia laws, ex-Muslims and moderate Muslim voices.

This moment matters. Extremist Islamic Ideology is not only operating in the Middle East and Africa; it is here in almost every major western city all over the world.

This is a silent war. We are building an army of leaders to face it with strategy, law, education, and truth.

And we have a lot more in the planning stage.”  https://www.globalpeaceforisrael.com

It is my honor to serve as Academic Advisor to GPIF. This young organization reminds me of Hadassah many years ago and awakens memories of my three mentors, Charlotte Jacobson, Bernice Tannenbaum, and Ruth Popkin, who taught me, guided me, and encouraged me to enter the domain of Jewish and Zionist Communal Leadership. I can see these powerhouse Leaders of National Hadassah smile as the leaders and the activists of Global Peace for Israel not only protect and strengthen the same Mission but also go beyond that Mission to protect America, Western Civilization, and Democracy against jihadist terrorism and indoctrination