Hani Almadhoun is the Senior Director of Philanthropy at UNRWA USA, a U.S.-based charity supporting Palestine refugees. Previously, he held leadership roles at Anera and Muslim Advocates, contributing to advocacy and humanitarian efforts for marginalized communities. Born into a family of educators, Hani’s father taught at an UNRWA school, and a scholarship from the LDS Church enabled Hani to earn a Master’s in Public Administration and a Bachelor’s in International Studies from Brigham Young University. Based in Washington, D.C., he has advanced causes in civil rights, social justice, and humanitarian aid for vulnerable communities in the Middle East. Last year, Hani advocated for Gaza in high-level meetings at the White House and Congress and wrote op-eds for CNN, The Nation, and the LA Times. He co-founded the Gaza Soup Kitchen with his brother, Chef Mahmoud, to directly support families in Gaza affected by the ongoing crisis.

Max Blumenthal is the editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, and is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah, Goliath, The Fifty One Day War, and The Management of Savagery. He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and several documentaries, including Killing Gaza. Blumenthal founded The Grayzone in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America’s state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions.

Helena Cobban is a writer and researcher on international affairs who lives in Washington DC. In 1984, Cambridge U.P. published her seminal study The Palestinian Liberation Organisation. Three of her six other sole-authored books dealt with political and strategic developments in the Arab-Israeli theater, the rest with more global matters. For 17 years she contributed a regular column on global issues to The Christian Science Monitor and Al-Hayat (London). In 2010 she founded Just World Books, which has published ground-breaking titles by Palestinian, Zionism-questioning Jewish, and other authors; and in 2016 she was a co-founder of Just World Educational, which she now serves as president. Her current main writing platform is Globalities.org.