Dr Jacques P Gauthier is an International Human Rights Lawyer from Canada. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the legitimacy of the domicile of the Jewish people in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria in international law. His doctoral thesis, which took 20 years to compile is entitled Sovereignty over the Old City of Jerusalem.

Dr Cynthia Day Wallace received her PhD in International Law at Cambridge University. Dr Wallace was Senior Advisor to the Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva. She is also a Senior Fellow at thinc. and is author of Foundations of the International Legal Rights of the Jewish People and the State of Israel and Israel in the Crosshairs.

Dr Alan Baker is Legal Advisor to the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He was one of Israel’s Chief Negotiators in the Oslo Accords, a former Israeli Ambassador to Canada and co-author of the Levy Report.

Professor Avi Bell is Professor of Law at San Diego University School of Law and at Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Law. Professor Bell received his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Chicago, and his S.J.D. from Harvard.

Professor Eugene Kontorovich is Professor of Law at Northwestern University in Chicago. In 2016 he co-authored Palestine, Uti Possidetis Juris and the Borders of Israel for the Arizona Law Review with Professor Avi Bell.

Dr Gerald Adler, is a former Associate Professor of Law in Canada at Western Ontario University. In Whose Land?, he examines whether or not the White Paper in 1939 was a violation of the terms of the British Mandate.

Andrew Tucker was a Senior Fellow at the Faculty of Law at Melbourne University. He is also the Director-General of The Hague Initiative for International Co-operation (Thinc.). As well as being one of the leading participants in the Whose Land? series, he is one of the main legal advisors for the production. 

Natasha Hausdorff is a barrister and international Lawyer.  She serves as Legal Director for the UK Lawyers for Israel Charitable Trust.  Following the October 7 Massacre 2023, in southern Israel, during the war that followed in Gaza, Natasha gave countless television interviews in Israel’s defence, including on the BBC and Sky, on Israel’s adherence to the Law of Armed Conflict and International Humanitarian Law.

David R. Parsons is an author, attorney, journalist, ordained minister, and Middle East specialist who serves as Vice President and Senior Spokesman for the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem. He was also a co-author of the original draft of the US Embassy Act in 1995, which he talks about in Whose Land?

Professor Zipperstein is an attorney and a lecturer in history at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also a Senior Fellow at the UCLA Center for Middle East Development, and a visiting professor at the Tel Aviv University Law School. He is the author of several books and other publications on the legal status of Palestine and Jerusalem.  In Whose Land?he exposes the fact that Britain’s 1939 White Paper was a violation of international law that trapped millions of Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis.

The Late Howard Grief, International Lawyer and author of “The Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel in International Law” is one of the pioneers in discovering the rights of the Jewish people to the historic Land of Israel in International Law.

Andrew Roberts is one of Britain’s best-known contemporary historians. He is Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Roberts is a Director of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation in New York, a founder member of José Maria Aznar’s Friends of Israel Initiative.

Dr Denis MacEoin is former Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Newcastle University. An expert on Middle East history, he lived in Iran for two years before the Islamic Revolution there and speaks both fluent Arabic and Farsi.

Dr Shaul Sapir has been teaching Historical Geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1975 and at the David Yellin Teachers’ College, Jerusalem, where he headed the Department of Geography for several years. On his sabbaticals he lectured at the University College, London.

Professor Haim Goren is Professor Emeritus of History, Tel Chai College. He has specialised in the influence of both German and British geopolitical aspirations on the modernisation of the Holy Land in the 19th century.

Kelvin Crombie is an Australian author and historian specialising in events from the 18th century that culminated in the rebirth of the nation of Israel in 1948. Among his many publications are Anzacs, Empires and the Restoration of Israel and Gallipoli – the Road to Jerusalem. He was also co-writer and presenter of Hugh Kitson’s film From Exile to Restoration.

The Late Professor Isaiah Friedman was Professor Emeritus in History at the David Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He authored Twice Promised Land? — a study of the geo-politics, including the McMahon-Hussein correspondence and the Sykes-Picot agreement in the lead-up to the Balfour Declaration of 1917.

Shimon Gibson, Ph.D., is a British-born archaeologist who has been working in the Holy Land for the past 40 years. He was appointed in 2017 as Professor of Practice in the History Department at the University of North Carolina.

During the past 20 years, Gibson conducted numerous archaeological excavation projects and field surveys in different parts of Israel, including the southern desert region. His principal research interests are landscape archaeology; history of archaeology; history and archaeology of Jerusalem.

In his interview in Whose Land? – which was originally filmed for From Exile to Restoration, directed and produced by Hugh Kitson – Gibson talks about the work of the Palestine Exploration Fund which extensively researched the geography, the archaeology and demographic make-up of the Holy Land in the second half of the 19^th century.

The Late Dr Dore Gold was one of Israel’s prominent diplomats. In the mid-1990s he served as Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his first term in office. From 1997 to 1999 he served as Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations. In 2000 Dr Gold became President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (today known as the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs), a position he held until 2022 – except for a brief period between 2015 and 2016 when he served as Director-General of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

His interview in Whose Land? was originally filmed for the European Coalition for Israel’s Give Peace a Chance, and is included with their permission.

Ambassador Ron Prosor is Israel’s former Ambassador to the United Nations. Prior to that he was Ambassador to the Court of St James in London.

Danny Danon was Israel’s Ambassador at the United Nations from 2015 to 2020.  In ‘Whose Land?’ he recounts howUNSC Resolution 2334 was allowed to pass through the Security Council by  US President Obama. He also worked closely with US Ambassador Nikki Haley in the implementation of the move of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.  Ambassador Danon returned to his former position as Ambassador at the UN in 2024.

Dr Michael Makovsky is the President and CEO of the Jewish Institute for Security Affairs in Washington DC. He is also author of a biography of Winston Churchill entitled Churchill’s Promised Land.

When we filmed the interview with Shlomo Hillel he was the last of the ‘founding fathers’ of the State of Israel who was still alive. He was mastermind of Operation Babylon, which rescued at least 130,000 Jews from Iraq between 1946 and 1951. He served as a Cabinet Minister under Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin and served for four years as Speaker of the Knesset.

Lt. Colonel (res) Dr Mordechai Kedar is a lecturer in Arab Culture at Bar Ilan University, and former IDF Military Intelligence Officer for 25 years.  In Whose Land? he exposes the real intention of the PLO when it entered into the Oslo Accords with Israel: to bring about the delegitimisation of Israel in the international community in order achieve the destruction of the Jewish State, which is the central aim of the PLO Charter.  He will also talk about his idea for peaceful co-existence with the people known as ‘the Palestinians’.

Dr Einat Wilf is a Political Scientist and a former Member of the Knesset. She served as an Advisor to the Foreign Minister Shimon Peres at the time the Oslo Accords were being brokered.

In resent years Dr Wilf is best known for exposing the corruption of UNRWA and its impediment to the achievement peace between Israel and the people known as ‘the Palestinians’.  She co-authored The War of Return with Adi Schwartz.

Itamar Marcus is the Founder and CEO of Palestinian Media Watch, an organisation that monitors incitement to hatred and terrorism in the Palestinian Authority official media and education system. PMW has played a prominent role in exposing the PA’s policy of funding terrorists and their families through foreign aid which is an ongoing issue.

Bassem Eid is a Palestinian Human Rights Activist who pays particular attention to corruption within the Palestinian Authority and their violation of the human rights among their own people. He lived for 30 years in a designated ‘refugee camp’ on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

Dov Chaikin was a Jewish Palestinian volunteer in the British Army and took part in the Battle of El-Alamein in 1942. He has lived in Jerusalem since 1928.

The Late Gershon Salamon was among the first IDF soldiers to reach the Temple Mount during the liberation of the Old City of Jerusalem on 7^th June 1967.  In this interview, which was originally filmed for Hugh Kitson’s film Jerusalem, the Covenant City, he talks about the life-changing experience of liberating and visiting the site of the historic Temple for the first time in his life.

The Late Yossi Harel was commander of the ship Exodus in 1947 which was attacked by the Royal Navy with 4,500 Holocaust survivors on board.  In his interview, which first appeared Hugh Kitson’s production of The Forsaken Promise, he describes the role of this cruel and illegal action by the British government of the time played in the rebirth of the State of Israel.