With a straight face and on the world stage, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the UN in 2018 that Palestinians “are the descendants of the Canaanites who lived in the land of Palestine 5,000 years ago.”

A Palestinian Authority spokesman went even further, announcing the Palestinian people have a "glorious heritage that goes back to the dawn of humanity."

To put it mildly, there’s no evidence from history or archaeology to support this wild claim. In fact, the “Palestinian people” came into existence after 1967.

But this “big lie” does serve a useful purpose. It's a cynical and deeply anti-Semitic strategy to erase Israel's past and displace it with a new "Palestinian history."

In this twisted history, Palestinians are the central figures—and Jews are the outside intruders, the colonialists, the settlers robbing Palestinians of their made-up glorious past.

And that’s why Christians in Defense of Israel’s advocacy is so needed. With your help, CIDI works every day to tell you the truth about Israel. We expose the lies which, if not refuted, will fuel hatred for Israel and attacks against the Jewish people.

Will you give to help CIDI tell the truth about the Jewish state across America and on Capitol Hill?

When you support CIDI today, I want to help you share the truth about Israel by rushing you a powerful publication exposing anti-Israel propaganda. Big Lies: Answers to the Top 10 Slanders, Smears and Libels Against Israel is a powerful tool you can use to better understand Israel and the lies used to demonize this amazing nation. Including this one . . .

+  +  The Temple never existed?

Not only is Jesus a “Palestinian”—as Abbas claims—but in the much-revised Palestinian version of history, the Temple never existed.

Incredibly, Palestinians convert the Temple Mount — where Jewish temples stood for some 900 years — into an exclusively Muslim holy site. PLO leader Yasir Arafat told a shocked Bill Clinton in 2000 that there never was a Temple in Jerusalem. And just a few months ago, the PA’s official daily newspaper dismissed the “myth of the alleged ‘Temple.’”

But facts are stubborn things—especially when they’re embedded in stone.

What I’m about to share powerfully testifies to the Jews’ “rock-solid” claim to their biblical homeland. And how far Palestinians leaders will go to deny the truth about Israel’s Jewish past. You’ll be stunned by this recent event. . .

+  + "Pilgrimage Road" displays Jewish history from time of Jesus

Just this month in Jerusalem, archaeologists inaugurated one of the most compelling and significant archaeological finds since modern Israel came into existence. Dubbed the “Pilgrimage Road,” it’s a 2,000-foot stone path that extends from the Pool of Siloam up to the Western Wall where worshipers would ascend to the Temple on stairs. 

Discovered in 2004, this 25-foot wide once-buried road dates to the time of Jesus. It’s very likely that Jesus Himself and His disciples walked it. Like millions of other pilgrims, they would have purified themselves in the Pool of Siloam and then made the journey up the stone road to the Temple to worship God. 

The Pilgrimage Road dig has turned up hundreds of artifacts—a clay shard with a sketch of the Temple menorah, a gold bell probably used for ceremonial dress and even arrow fragments and catapult balls likely used when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70 A.D.

But one of the most extraordinary finds is an ancient bronze coin, dated to the year 70, which declares in Hebrew, “For the freedom of Zion.” It’s a powerful testimony to Jewish history and Israel’s ancient and well-settled claim to the Holy Land.

But Palestinians reject the Pilgrimage Road entirely.

For them, the massive dig is just a fabrication. The Palestinian Authority dismissed it as a “falsification of history and the Judaization of Jerusalem.” Saeb Erekat, a top PLO official, trashed the Pilgrimage Road as “fake.”

"It's a settlement project," Erekat charged. "It's based on a lie that has nothing to do with history."

But history and truth are not on the side of the enemies of Israel. Faced with overwhelming evidence, those who hate Israel have no option but to issue ludicrous denials — to traffic in “big lies” which, if not refuted, will be repeated, gain believers and do real damage.

+  +  Help us tell the truth about Israel!

And that’s why I’m asking you to support Christians in Defense of Israel today. Because of friends like you, we’re on Capitol Hill and we reach out across America to tell the truth about the Jewish state.  Plus, we’re producing energetic young ambassadors for Israel through our allied Covenant Journey ministry.

But to keep on doing all this, I need your help. Your gift now will help CIDI answer and defeat the "big lies" that incite hatred for Israel.

There is a strategic effort to invent a Palestinian past that never existed — and to utterly deny the Jewish people’s deep roots in their ancient homeland. You and I, working together, can help ensure this strategy utterly fails!

Support CIDI today. And as you give, be sure to ask for the fascinating resource, Big Lies: Answers to the Top 10 Slanders, Smears and Libels Against Israel.

Thank you for your friendship and for your love for Israel and the Jewish people!

Together for Israel,

Mathew D. Staver
Founder and Chairman

P.S. Your gift now will make a real difference to expose and defeat the "big lie" strategy that aims to delegitimize and destroy Israel. Please let me hear from you right away!