OUR MISSiON
“Building Peace Through Youth, Education, and Understanding.”
The Global Muslim-Jewish Youth Unity Project (GMJYUP) exists to foster understanding, tolerance, and cooperation between Muslim and Jewish youth worldwide. Our mission is to empower the next generation through education, media, and humanitarian action — creating spaces where young people can engage, learn, and grow together beyond the boundaries of religion or nationality.
We reject extremism, ignorance, and hate in all forms. Instead, we choose dialogue over division, empathy over enmity, and action over apathy. Through virtual exchanges, interfaith programs, youth mentorship, and community service, we strive to nurture global citizens who will lead with wisdom, courage, and compassion.
At GMJYUP, we stand firmly in our fight against antisemitism, believing that changing one mind can change generations — and that peace, when planted in the hearts of youth, can transform the world.About Us
Mansoor Hussain Laghari
Mansoor Hussain Laghari is a U.S. Army veteran, human rights activist, and film producer whose life’s work bridges storytelling and social justice. Born in Pakistan into a politically persecuted family, Mansoor inherited a legacy of courage and resistance from his father, Ghulam Mohammad Laghari, who spent 27 years in prison for defending the oppressed. Today, Mansoor channels that same conviction into global advocacy, interfaith unity, and youth empowerment.
As the Founder and President of the Global Muslim-Jewish Youth Unity Project (GMJYUP), Mansoor leads an international movement to counter extremism, combat antisemitism, and build bridges of understanding between Muslim and Jewish youth across continents. Through education, dialogue, and small acts of humanity, he believes in transforming prejudice into partnership — one young mind at a time.
From the deserts of Sindh to the cities of America, Mansoor’s journey reflects an unshakable belief that peace begins when we dare to listen, learn, and love across divides. His leadership continues to inspire activists, educators, and young changemakers to stand against hatred and build a future founded on compassion, truth, and unity.
Soraya M Deen
Soraya M Deen is an award winning Muslim feminist and international activist. She is a lawyer, interfaith advocate, community organizer and public speaker.
Soraya is also the Co- chair of the Womens Working Group of the International Religious Freedom Roundtable in DC and Chairs the International Religious Freedom Roundtable in Srilanka.( where she is a native of)
Soraya is the Co – founder of the Interfaith Solidarity Network, one of the largest interfaith organizations in Los Angeles and the founder of the Muslim Women Speakers Movement. The women work in the areas of addressing Religious extremism, #Antisemitism, Hate, Gender Equality & Public Leadership.
Her work prioritizes organizing women and youth for public leadership. She conducts extensive workshops & presentations in the United Stares, SriLanka, Bangladesh and several West African countries that include Nigeria, Togo, Kenya and Uganda, on building Leadership and POWER.
She is currently building the Nigerian Women Lead~ a grassroots movement of women, taking action on promoting life and liberty.
Soraya is the receipient of the prestigious Paul Carus Award for grassroots activism by The Worlds Premier Interfaith Convening Organization – The Parliament of the World’s Religions.
She authored the books
SERVE: A call to Muslims and
PEACE MATTERS: Raising peace conscious children.
Soraya is an Executive Board Member and a coalition partner of AMMWEC – American Muslim Multi-faith Women’s Empowerment Council- the first Muslim American Civic Leadership Organization.
Soraya is currently reading for her Public Leadership Credentials (PLC) at Harvard
Robert Ancill
Robert Ancill is an internationally recognized restaurant consultant, brand strategist, author, and design innovator based in Los Angeles. Over a 25-year career, he has created and launched more than 89 brands and overseen over 500 restaurant and café openings across 24 countries. His expertise spans franchising, international development, and strategic planning, offering deep insight into global hospitality trends, growth opportunities, and operational challenges.
As CEO of The Next Idea Group, Robert leads a global consulting, design & architecture firm serving a broad range of small and large clients. He also heads Heritage Restaurant Consultants, advises Atmosfy.io, and provides high-level strategic consulting to hospitality corporations. In addition to his consulting work, he is the author of The Ultimate Guide to Restaurants trilogy (published 2025).
Robert’s commitment extends beyond the hospitality industry. He has worked extensively with Autism organizations, served as a corporate partner with the Somaly Mam Foundation, and raised substantial funds for Norwood UK, a village supporting individuals with disabilities. He has been a consultant to The New Israel Fund, a lender on Kiva, the social micro-lending nonprofit bank, and sponsors several children in developing countries.
Yisrael Ne’eman
Yisrael Ne’eman is an historian. He received a BA in history from Rutgers University and completed an MA in Modern Jewish History at the University of Haifa. In 2016 he published Hamas Jihad: Antisemitism, Islamic World Conquest and the Manipulation of Palestinian Nationalism. In 2024 Yisrael and his wife Susan established the Ne’eman Academy for online study about World Jihad, the Middle East, Israel, the Jewish People and the scourge of Antisemitism.
Since the Oct 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and the ensuing Hamas-Israel War, Yisrael has given numerous Zoom classes and frontal presentations on the topics of Hamas/Jihad and the war itself to participants in Israel and around the world. He emphasizes the fact that Hamas is a Jihadi Muslim Brotherhood organization bent on world conquest and through its full brutal behavior has become similar to the Islamic State Caliphate (ISIS/ISIL).
Yisrael was a lecturer at the University of Haifa International School from 1991 – 2023 and at the Technion International School from 2012 to the present teaching courses about Israel, Middle East nationalism and terrorism Jihad related topics.
Over the years Yisrael has lectured at home and abroad (including in the Peoples Republic of China) and as a nationally licensed guide (since 1992) has led academic tours throughout Israel, often assembling full courses for university credit.
Yisrael made aliyah from New Jersey in 1977 and served in the IDF as a combat medic from 1978 to 1980 and as a reservist he saw six tours of duty in the First Lebanon War in the 1980s where he was the senior NCO of a battalion medical evacuation station. He ceased being on active reserve in 2001.
In civilian life he worked at Kibbutz Elrom in the Golan Heights from 1977 until he was drafted. After his discharge he became a stainless-steel craftsman in Jerusalem and moved with his family to the Galilee in 1984 where taught newly arrived Ethiopian teenagers metal work and English as a second language.
From 1989-2012 he partnered with Elliot Chodoff in Hamartzim Educational Services in guiding and lecturing both in Israel and abroad.
Yisrael’s social activism commenced when his family joined the Eshchar community village in the Misgav Regional Council in early 1988 where the mixed “religious/secular and everyone in between” ideology of multi-faceted Jewish understandings and culture dominates daily life. Over the years Yisrael has served on the Eshchar local council for fourteen years, twelve of them as chairman and helping the community grow from less than 20 families to 250. No less important, he worked with the “unrecognized” Bedouin village of Arab Al-Na’im to establish agreed upon municipal borders, cross-community cooperation and “good neighborly relations” to ensure development for both societies sharing this Galilee hilltop.
Yisrael continues building educational programs thru the Ne’eman Academy and in partnership with other organizations in particular to defend democratic values and combat Antisemitism.
