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Shalle' McDonald

Both Jewish and Christian pro-Israel leaders worked with the campaign of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (pictured) to bring about revisions in the GOP party platform's language on Israel. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons.

The grassroots and interfaith effort behind the GOP’s pro-Israel, anti-2 state platform

Shalle' McDonald

July 14, 2016

From left: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the White House for the signing of the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty. A photo of the peace treaty's signing was added to the new edition of “The Geography of the Arab World and the History of Modern Egypt,” a ninth-grade Egyptian textbook. Credit: Warren K. Leffler via Wikimedia Commons.

Amid warming Arab-Israeli relations, Egyptians push for open outlook on education

Shalle' McDonald

July 7, 2016

The building of the Agence France-Presse news agency in Paris. Credit: Tangopaso via Wikimedia Commons.

Watchdog calls out major news org over Palestinian journalist’s ‘conflict of interest’

Shalle' McDonald

July 1, 2016

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks at a U.N. Security Council meeting on April 18, 2016. Credit: U.N. Photo/Evan Schneider.

Israel’s U.N. envoy seeks to empower students to ‘fight and win’ against BDS

Shalle' McDonald

May 25, 2016

Retired lieutenant colonel Sargis Sangari, an expert on Assyrian Christians and founder of the Near East Center for Strategic Engagement think tank. Credit: Near East Center for Strategic Engagement.

Assyrian Christians’ Mideast fate tied to world powers’ agendas, expert says

Shalle' McDonald

March 31, 2016

In August 2015 in Detroit, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein (center right, at podium), founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, visits the New St. Paul Tabernacle Church of God in Christ, which is part of the nation's largest black Pentecostal denomination. Credit: Justin McMahan.

Outreach to black community becoming a staple in pro-Israel advocacy

Shalle' McDonald

Feb. 25, 2016

Click photo to download. Caption: Jordan Sekulow, executive director of the American Center for Law and Justice, speaks to a crowd gathered outside the White House on Sept. 25, 2014, to pray for the release of Pastor Saeed Abedini from prison in Iran. Abedini was eventually freed in January 2016. Credit: American Center for Law and Justice.

As Iran frees American pastor, persecution of Iranian Christians rages on

Shalle' McDonald

Jan. 29, 2016

Click photo to download. Caption: Eastern Orthodox Christian nuns hold candles and flowers as they walk along the Via Dolorosa in the Old City of Jerusalem on Aug. 25, 2015. Credit: Micah Bond/Flash90.

How Israeli Christians are coping with the wave of terror

Shalle' McDonald

Jan. 20, 2016

Click photo to download. Caption: The cover photo on the Facebook page of the Philadelphia-based Consulate General of Israel to the Mid-Atlantic Region. Credit: Facebook.

Experts downplay Israeli mission closings, say U.S.-Israel bonds not affected

Shalle' McDonald

Jan. 7, 2016