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John Stanley Grauel (December 12, 1917 – September 6, 1986, also nicknamed "John the Priest" after Prester John) was a Methodist minister and American Christian Zionist leader. He was a crew member of the Aliyah Bet ship Exodus 1947 and a secret Haganah operative. Grauel is sometimes credited with being the key individual who persuaded the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine to recommend for the Partition Resolution of November 1947, creating the State of Israel. In a speech to the Jewish Agency, Golda Meir, referred to his testimony as the first appeal by a "priest, a perfectly worthy gentile, a priori, no Jewish witness was to be believed."
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John Stanley Grauel was a Methodist minister and Christian Zionist who served as a secret Haganah operative and crew member of the Exodus 1947, credited with helping persuade the UN's Palestine committee to back partition. In 2010 the opening said "just two short years after the end of World War II and the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish attitudes were a reality that had to be dealt with at the United Nations by the Haganah and the Jewish Agency for Palestine." Today the word does not appear anywhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that the opening once framed his UN advocacy against a backdrop of ongoing postwar antisemitism.
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