Forum for Discussion of Israel & Palestine

The Forum for Discussion of Israel & Palestine is a UK based charity devoted to undermining the Palestine solidarity movement.

FODIP is strongly related to the pro-Israel interfaith lobby group the Council of Christians and Jews.

People

Sadia Akram Programme Director | Dr Jane Clements MBE Founder and co-Chair | Rabbi Warren Elf MBE Co-Chair & Treasurer | Muddassar Ahmed Board Member | Canon Marcia Wall Trustee | Jawad Amin Board Member

Lord Harries of Pentregarth, former Bishop of Oxford, has written extensively on the ‘Abrahamic faiths’ as well as on Christian theology dealing with matters including ethics, secularism and war and peace. Former Dean of Kings College, London, Professor Harries was Chair of the Council of Christians and Jews and founded the Oxford Jewish Christian Muslim dialogue group.
Shaykh Dr Abdal Hakim Murad (Tim Winter) is Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, and is acknowledged as a leading Islamic scholar in Britain. His inter faith work includes joint editorship of Abraham’s Children (2006) with Lord Harries and Rabbi Norman Solomon.
Rabbi Dr Tony Bayfield is a former Head of the Movement for Reform Judaism and a President of the Council of Christians and Jews. A pioneer of serious inter faith dialogue in Britain, he has spoken and written extensively on the process and his collaborative publications include Dialogue with a Difference (1992), He Kissed Him and They Wept: Towards a Theology of Partnership (2001) and Deep Calls to Deep (2017) jointly edited with Alan Race and Ataullah Siddiqui.