Speakers Bureau
In addition to a wide aray of workshop and lectures offered by our in-house analysts and exeperts, The David Project maintains a Speakers Bureau, comprised of experts in various fields related to organization’s overall mission. These dynamic speakers travel widely and can address a variety of issues related to the history, politics and culture of Israel and the Middle East, the US-Israel relationship and global anti-Semitism. For more information about any of these speakers, or to arrange a program, please fill the contact form below.
Ilan Berman
Vice President for Policy, American Foreign Policy Council
Lecture Topics:
- Iran
- Russia
- Middle East politics
- Terrorism
- International law
- Proliferation and nuclear weapons
Israel Bonan
Former refugee from
Lecture Topics:
- Jewish refugees from
- Growing up Jewish in a Muslim Society
Shoshana Bryen
Senior Director for Security Policy, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)
Lecture Topics:
- US-Israel security cooperation
- US Defense Policy
- Middle East security issues
- Israeli security policy
Ehud Eiran
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Lecture Topics:
- Israeli Security Policies
- Israeli History and Society
- Influences on Israeli Identity
Frank Gaffney
Founder and President, Center for Security Policy
Lecture Topics:
- National security policy
- Energy policy
- US - Israel strategic coopeartion
- Terrorism
- Middle East security issues
Aryeh Green
Director, MediaCentral
Topics Topics:
- Human Rights & Democracy Promotion
- Israel and the Media
- Israeli Politics
- The New Anti-Semitism
Avi Jorisch
President, Palisades West Incorporated
Lecture Topics:
- Hizbollah
- Terrorist-owned media and terrorist use of propaganda
- Terrorism finance
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- Radical Islam
Fred Lazin
Lynn & Lloyd Hurst Professor of Government, Politics Dept. Ben Gurion University
- Israeli Society and Culture
- US-Israel Relations
- Jews in American Politics
- Israeli Public Policy
- Prospects for Peace?
Gregg Rickman
Senior Fellow at the Institute for Religion and Public Policy in Washington, D.C., and a Visiting Fellow at The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) at Yale University and a Research Scholar at the Initiative on Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism of the Institute for Jewish & Community Research in San Francisco.
Topics include:
- “Rescuing Jews of
- “Global Anti-Semitism.”
Asaf Romirowsky
Middle East Analyst and Adjunct Fellow, Middle East Forum
Lecture Topics:
- The new anti-Semitism
- Middle East Studies on college campuses
- UNRWA and the Palestinian refugee problem
- Israeli-Palestinian relations
- American Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Tamara Ruben
Lecture Topics:Jonathan Schanzer
Deputy 
Director, Jewish Policy Center
Lecture Topics:
- Palestinian civil war and the Hamas/Fatah split
- Terrorism financing
- Palestinian terrorism
- Radical Islam
- Arab-Israeli conflict
Charles Asher Small
Director of YIISA: The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism
Lecture topics:
- Antisemitism & Racism
- Global Antisemitism
- Middle East & European Antisemitism
- Iran & Radical Islam
- Hamas
- The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Joseph Wahed
Former chief economist of Wells Fargo Bank and co-founder of JIMENA: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa – www.jimena.org
Lecture Topics:
- Jewish refugees from
- Growing up Jewish in a Muslim Society
Gina Waldman
Chair, Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa (JIMENA)
Lecture Topics:
- Life of women in Islamic lands
- Jewish refugees from the Middle East
- Growing up Jewish in a Muslim Society
- A Libyan Jewish woman's message to the Arab world
Justus Reid Weiner
Senior Research Fellow, Global Law Forum and
Scholar in Residence Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA)
Lecture Topics:
- Religious freedom in the Middle East
- International law and the Fighting in the Gaza Strip
- International law analysis of Israel’s security fence
- Hummanitarian law in the Middle East