In May 2008, Christ at the Checkpoint organisers Stephen Sizer and Alex Awad (above) spoke represented the Institute for the Study of Christian Zionism at an anti-Zionist ‘Nakba’ conference in Jakarta; an event which turned out to be rather antisemitic.
Here are some of the other participants in the conference:

Dr Zahra Mostafavi – daughter of Ayatollah Khomeini; wrote a letter to Hassan Nasrallah in praise of Hezbollah, imploring children to become suicide bombers.
Rima Fakhry – only female member of Hezbollah: a terrorist group thatmurders Jews around the world.
Khalid Meshal – chairman of Hamas, whose charter claims that the end of the world will come when the stones and trees will say “O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.”
Mohammed Habib – second highest-ranking official in the Muslim Brotherhood, whose expressed aims include establishing a global Islamic caliphate.
Sayid Abdillah Hosseini – South African Islamic theologian who teaches that Israel will be destroyed in 2022 according to prophecies in the Quran.
Dr Frederick Tobin – Holocaust denier; runs the Adelaide Institute. Big fan of Adolf Hitler. Read his report on the Jakarta conference here. [WARNING: links to far right sites]
Daud Abdullah – prominent Muslim Council of Britain cleric in the headlines recently for advocating attacks on the Royal Navy and for signing this document.
Aharon Cohen and Dovid Weiss – Neturei Karta representatives who havesent congratulations to Hamas and attended a conference on Holocaust denial in Iran. (More on this story here). Cohen thinks that those who died in the Holocaust deserved it.
Dr Jawad Sharbaf – head of the NEDA Institute in Iran who has previously asked Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson for assistance.
Here is Alex Awad’s defence on RPP:
I was invited to a conference where many speakers spoke about different topics. Yes, a Holocaust denier, Fred Tobin, was there. But at that time, I did not know who he was. I never met a Holocaust denier before and I do not plan to meet one in the future. When he started speaking, I left the Hall because I did not agree with what he was saying. Rosh Pina, must not attack a speaker by people who happen to be present at the same conference. At onetime Netanyahu, shook hands with Yasser Arafat. Surely that does not mean that Netanyahu agreed with Yasser Arafat. Rosh Pina is fishing for any criticism of Christ at the Checkpoint Conference. I challenge them to listen to us and pray for us rather than spend their energy in a witch hunt type of pursuit.
Now here’s the thing.
As we read above, there were many extremists at this gig, not just Tobin.
Here is a photo of Alex Awad with Holocaust denier Fred Tobin at the airport, following his speech.
If Awad disliked Tobin so much, why did Alex Awad pose for a photo with him?!
Awad also signed a declaration alongside Tobin, calling for an end to the state of Israel, to be replaced entirely by the nation of Palestine.
As the conference was organised by the Iranian promoters of Holocaust denial Jawad Sharbaf and Zahra Mostafavi – it appears that Alex Awad is without excuse.
These are the kind of extremists, whom CATC organisers are happy to align themselves with, against Israel. You have been warned!


Waiting, still waiting to hear what possible spin that Awad can put on this!
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