Brigitte Gabriel

Brigitte Gabriel is a Lebanese-American journalist, author and activist. She is the founder of the American Congress For Truth.

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 her 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.

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.

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 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.

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.She has also accused CAIR of supporting terrorism. 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.

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.