Brigitte Gabriel
Brigitte Gabriel is a Lebanese-American journalist, author and activist. She is the founder of the American Congress For Truth.
Early life in Lebanon
Brigitte Gabriel was born in 1965 in Lebanon to a Maronite Christian family
Life in Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War
Gabriel has said that during the Lebanese Civil War Muslim militants launched an assault on a Lebanese military base near Gabriel's house and bombed her home, collapsing it. Brigitte's mother was severely injured and spent 2 1/2 months in an Israeli hospital recovering.
Gabriel says that she and her parents were forced to live in a 8x10 bomb shelter underground for several years with no heat, running water and little food. To get water she had to crawl underground to a spring in a ditch. Before they left they said prayers, because they did not know if they would come back alive.
According to her in 1978, when she was 13, a man warned Brigitte’s family that Islamic militants were coming and the Christians are in danger. She says on that day she dressed in burial clothes in preparation.
Gabriel said that in 1978 a man warned her of an impending attack by Islamic militias. She claims her life was saved that night when Israelis invaded Lebanon in Operation Litani. Later, her mother became ill and was taken to an Israeli hospital where Brigitte noted the humanity of the Israelis in contrast to the propaganda she had viewed as a child. [3]
Career
Brigitte Gabriel was a news anchor for "World News," an evening news program that was broadcast weeknights throughout Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Cyprus and Lebanon.[citation needed]
She is a former production coordinator for ARD (German Television) in South Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank,[citation needed] and a former satellite video distribution coordinator for Middle East Television[citation needed]owned by Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network.
She immigrated to the United States in 1985 where she founded an entertainment company and became an American citizen. [citation needed]
Gabriel founded the ACT, "American Congress For Truth," in late 2001. She has appeared on news and information TV shows, talk radio and made numerous public speaking engagements. She speaks four languages: Arabic [citation needed], French, English and Hebrew.
She is featured in the documentary Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.
She was interviewed on CNN where she denounced Hezbollah and sided with Israel in the the war, thanking Israel for their efforts in her home country.
She has accused Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon of starting the Lebanese Civil War.[citation needed]
She has also accused CAIR of supporting terrorism.[1]
The Official Website of Hasbara Fellowships, IsraelActivism.com, lists Gabriel as one of its Hasbara Fellowship speakers, and arranges speaking engagements for those interested in contacting her. [2]
Gabriel spoke as part of a lecture series organized by Duke University's Jewish community to provide counter-programming after the fourth Palestinian Solidarity Movement student conference was held there in October 2004. She angered many members of the crowd when she referred to Arabs as "barbarians" and Duke's Freeman Center for Jewish Life later apologized for her comments. [3]
Bibliography
- Because They Hate 2006 ISBN 0-312-35837-7
Quotes
"The difference between the Arabic world and Israel is a difference in values and character. It's barbarism versus civilization. It's democracy versus dictatorship. It's goodness versus evil." -- Duke University Counter Terrorism Speak-Out, October 14, 2004
"As one who knows what's in the hearts and minds of Arabs, let me repeat what seems to be the hardest thing for world opinion to accept: The Arabs have no intention of having peace with the Jews period, exclamation point, end of discussion." -- Interview with FrontPage Magazine, August 11, 2005
They [terrorists] would prefer Democrats over Republicans because "the Democrats are the allies of the Islamists and those who wish our destruction." - Brigitte Gabriel, "Your World", 10/13/06
Articles and speeches
- Appeasement Never Works
- Because They Hate
- CBS Infinity Radio Uses 'Emotions' to Stifle Truth of Anti-Terror Conference
- Canada’s Unholy Alliance
- Exclusive: Al-Qaeda Decapitated in Iraq
- FrontpageMag articles by Brigitte Gabriel
- Freedom's Promise
- Family Security Matters
- I Believed the Lies about Israel
- Muslims Muzzling Memphis
- Speech delivered at the Duke University Counter Terrorism Speak-Out
- Speech at Columbia University : Environments of Hate: Indoctrination in the Arab World and Propaganda Advocacy in Americas University Classrooms
- Speech excerpts delivered at the Intelligence Summit in Washington DC
- Thank You Israel
- What the Arab World Thinks
Interviews & TV Appearances
- Phyllis Chesler, "A Survivor of Palestinian Tyranny," FrontPageMag.com (phyllis-chesler.com), October 13, 2004.
- Jamie Glazov, "Islam’s Torture of Lebanon," FrontPageMag.com, August 11, 2005. Interview with Gabriel.
- Transcript: "Crisis in the Middle East; Refugees Flood to Cyprus; Nashrallah's Popularity Rising," CNN American Morning, July 19, 2006.
- "Brigitte Gabriel on CNN Lebanese Muslim Pro Israel," YouTube, July 26, 2006.
- Jerry Gordon, "Listen to Brigitte Gabriel and Jerry Gordon of ACT," Israpundit, July 30, 2006.
- "The Atlas Interview: Brigitte Gabriel," Atlas Shrugs, July 31, 2006.
- "Watch Brigitte Gabriel on FoxNews Cashin’ In," Israpundit, August 4, 2006.
- "Brigitte Gabriel on Studio B With Shepard Smith 08/07/06," YouTube.
- "Interview with Brigitte Gabriel" on CNN, YouTube, August 9, 2006.
- "Recap of Saturday, August 12," Fox News, posted August 14, 2006: Gabriel: "The Russians are using the Arabs and letting them do the dirty work fighting America and Israel."
References
External links
- American Congress For Truth website
- Presentation to the Heritage Foundation
- Brigitte Gabriel's article about her lecture in Memphis: Muslims Muzzling Memphis
- A response to Gabriel's account of the Memphis lecture incident