Adalah Justice Project, Jewish Voice for Peace, and Christians for a Free Palestine invite you to join a conversation with Christian leaders and organizers reflecting on faith, justice, and solidarity with Palestine.

Across the U.S., Christian Zionism is receiving renewed political and financial backing through Israeli and U.S. state partnerships with churches, media campaigns, and targeted outreach efforts. Churches are increasingly the focus of surveillance, tracking, and digital targeting, and some pastors are being recruited as ambassadors for Israel. At the same time, significant cracks are widening within Christian communities — generational divides, theological debates, and growing numbers of people questioning how faith is being tied to state violence and empire.

In this moment, many Christians are charting a different path.

This conversation will feature leaders from Christians for a Free Palestine, sharing their lived experiences, organizing work, and reflections from within their own faith communities:

Rev. Dr. Crystal Silva-McCormick

Crystal’s work has been largely focused on Muslim-Christian relations, specifically in Latin America as well as current expressions of Christian Zionism. Crystal is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and has served on the board of the Parliament of the World’s Religions and as part of the immigration collaborative of the United Church of Christ. She is active as an organizer in solidarity with Palestine, immigrants, and all people oppressed by empire. Her academic research is informed by her commitment to interfaith relationships, the rights of immigrants, and the Latine community. Crystal was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. Her mother, grandmother, and aunts and uncles immigrated to the United States from Mexico, and it is their stories along with being raised on the border that have shaped her spiritual and personal identity as a scholar and minister. Crystal is on the National Leadership Team of Christians for a Free Palestine.

Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart

A Blackqueer daughter of Detroit, is a minister, professor, and movement strategist. She makes a life doing the work she was made for - preaching, teaching, and plotting resistance to inhumane political, economic, and religious systems.

Naomi is the Strategic Partnerships Director at Political Research Associates, a social justice research and strategy center. She teaches theology and religious studies at Villanova University, Arcadia University, and in Eastern University’s Prison Education Program. As a Religion & Public Life Fellow at Harvard Divinity School, she taught graduate students on topics related to religious literacy and government. Rev. Naomi enjoys engaging the arts, watching women’s basketball, and going home to her Black queer family.

Jonathan Brenneman

A Palestinian American Christian and Co-founder of Christians for a Free Palestine. He is a graduate of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, has worked in multiple countries doing Palestine advocacy, human rights monitoring, grassroots organizing, and challenging anti-Arab racism. Jonathan’s work connects the Palestinian decolonial struggle with those of other indigenous peoples, and challenges theologies of domination.