High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Committee for Justice and Peace in the Holy Land, was an organization founded in February, 1948 by Virginia Gildersleeve and Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. for the purpose of lobbying the Truman administration to oppose the creation of the state of Israel and lobbying the United Nations to "reconsider its disastrous decision" to divide the land west of the Jordan River into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. Barnard College Dean Emeritus Virginia Gildersleeve was Chairman, the Former President of the Union Theological Seminary Henry Sloane Coffin was Vice Chairman, and Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, was the Committee's Executive Director. The Committee was later folded into the American Friends of the Middle East.