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Tag Archives: AIPAC
NIAC’s Jamal Abdi: AIPAC-backed resolutions are ‘blank check for war’
Alex Kane talks with Jamal Abdi, policy director for the National Iranian American Council, about the U.S., Israel and Iran.
The counter lobby: Occupy AIPAC to press Congress on war with Iran, US military aid to Israel
Occupy AIPAC plans to meet with members of Congress Tuesday to bring their Palestine solidarity and anti-war messages to the halls of power.
Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
Tagged AIPAC, Code Pink, featured, Occupy AIPAC, Rae Abileah
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Sunlight on the lobby: AIPAC’s push for war exposed in ‘Atlantic’ magazine blog
‘Atlantic’ blogger Robert Wright skewers an AIPAC-backed Senate resolution that moves ‘America further down the path toward war with Iran.’
What was your major? AIPAC!
A report in Colorlines illuminates how AIPAC works.
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics
Tagged AIPAC, Colorlines, Jonathan Kessler, Seth Freed Wessler
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Christian group dedicated to derailing divestment bankrolled by settler-funding philanthropy
Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East markets itself as a liberal group working for peace in Israel/Palestine. But its budget is bankrolled by philanthropy that funds settlements and Islamophobia.
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
Tagged AIPAC, Aish, CAMERA, Center for American Progress, Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East, Dexter Van Zile, divestment, featured, Hebron Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Methodist church, Presybterian church, Ruth Lautt, The David Project
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‘It’s time to stop the bully’: Adbusters editor Kalle Lasn on Occupy Wall Street, the Israel lobby and the New York Times
The editor of Adbusters discusses taking on the neocons, charges of anti-semitism, and the future of Occupy Wall Street.
Bill to investigate flotilla is a ‘tool of intimidation’
Advocates decry a Congressional bill to investigate whether groups behind last summer’s Gaza flotilla should be designated as “terrorist” groups
Posted in Activism, Flotilla, Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics
Tagged AIPAC, Ali Abunimah, Center For Constitutional Rights, featured, Felice Gelman, Furkan Dogan, Gaza blockade, Gus Bilirakis, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Maria LaHood, material support, MJ Rosenberg, US Boat to Gaza
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Why I was willing to risk arrest at the AIPAC annual dinner
Though I’ve been a community organizer for several years, Monday night was the first time I was willing to get arrested for an action. Though unfortunately, we didn’t get the chance to finish performing our dance and sharing our message … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged AIPAC, annual dinner, arrest, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Oakland, Syria, unending war
13 Comments
Because that’s where the power is
The other day I pointed out that the Obama administration was “lobbying the lobby” going to Israel lobbyists like Bill Kristol to get their endorsement of the START treaty as being in Israel’s interest. Well now Senators Chuck Schumer and … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged AIPAC, Carl Levin, Chuck Schumer, Dennis Ross, Israel Lobby, START treaty
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Wait, why is a Republican in Treasury making a policy pledge to a foreign country on behalf of Obama 11 days after the 2008 election?
My chief response to the Wikileaks dox is surprise at the transparency of the Israel lobby in action. The most shocking revelation here is that 11 days after the election in 2008, Under Secretary of the Treasury Stuart Levey rushed … Continue reading
For killing 9 on the flotilla, Israel should apologize to…. Israel!
As many of you know, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is building a museum of “tolerance” on a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem. You can see the construction walls in this picture’s middle ground, amidst the gravestones. Another branch of the LA-based … Continue reading
Why did Saban and other Jewish donors give a man charged with espionage $670,000?
Wow I missed this angle on the AIPAC scandal. Jeff Stein at the Washington Post didn’t. Neither did Justin Elliott who picked him up, calling it “a story that shows just how committed the nationwide network of pro-Israel donors are … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged AIPAC, Dan Abraham, Eric Breindel, Haim Saban, Israel Lobby, Jeff Stein, neoconservatives, Steve Rosen
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NSFW (unless you work at AIPAC)
The following is a dramatization of Steven J. Rosen’s deposition given on September 22, 2010 as part of his lawsuit against AIPAC. You can read the entire deposition, in a pdf after the jump. Now someone just has to animate … Continue reading
After FBI came to his door in ’04, AIPAC staffer promptly called Israeli embassy
Grant Smith has long argued that AIPAC should have to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Well here is a snippet from Smith’s eyebrow-raising report on depositions in the 2009 lawsuit against AIPAC by former staffer Steve Rosen. You’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged AIPAC, Foreign Agents Registration Act, Grant Smith, Israel Lobby, Steve Rosen
59 Comments
Former AIPAC aide calls J Street fleas and liars
Josh Block used to work at AIPAC (and before that for Edward Kennedy). He just left the organization and, freed from institutional restraint, teed off on J Street, and J Street knocked him back. And now Block has gone back … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine
Tagged AIPAC, feuds, Israel Lobby, J Street, Josh Block, narcissism of small difference
18 Comments
A certain type of namedropping
Dennis Ross, telling an AIPAC gathering about the Obama administration’s foreign policy achievements, in Florida, a week before the midterm elections: As my colleague Stuart Levey from the Treasury Department circles the globe explaining sanctions measures to governments and companies, … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged AIPAC, Dennis Ross, Florida, Iran, Israel Lobby, Obama, Stuart Levey
6 Comments
Dennis Ross strokes AIPAC on delegitimization and 2-states (‘before it is too late’)
Is it election season? Laura Rozen reports that Dennis Ross, the Obama aide at large, and really a representative of the Israel lobby, went to AIPAC in Florida to talk about Iran etc. Read the speech and you will see … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged AIPAC, delegitimization, Dennis Ross, Iran, Israel, Israel Lobby, Obama, Palestine
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Pelosi’s ‘progressive,’ antiwar challenger is also… pro-Israel
Out here in San Francisco, progressives are furious with Nancy Pelosi for enabling the Bush war machine, Obama’s escalation in Afghanistan, and her utter disdain for (our crappy definition of) democracy, as she has refused to debate her libertarian Republican … Continue reading
New Columbia U. Palestine Center gets a shingle and bupkus
Good reporting at the Forward, by Joy Resmovits, on Columbia U. opening a new Center for Palestine Studies. No funding for it, though note the appearance of filmmaker James Schamus, who is Jewish, near the end of the story. I … Continue reading
Rep. Baird: ‘J Street’ threatened to end support for Rep. Edwards over meeting with ‘New Policy’ group
Wow. The fat is in the fire; and the litmus tests of the American Jewish community are being publicly scrutinized. Here is a video on C-Span of Congressman Brian Baird yesterday, criticizing J Street for reportedly assailing Congresswoman Donna Edwards’s … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Lobby, One state/Two states
Tagged AIPAC, brian baird, Donna Edwards, Israel Lobby, J Street, one state solution, two-state solution
22 Comments
Is Sullivan’s witness on Israel/Palestine linked to his moral stance re his own church?
Yesterday I caught some of Andrew Sullivan’s appearance on Charlie Rose from the night before. He said he had stopped attending Catholic mass because the child abuse scandal sickened him, he said the church hierarchy was corrupted by it and … Continue reading
Goldberg’s Goldstone smear
Jeffrey Goldberg’s recent attack on J Street included a swipe at Justice Richard Goldstone. Emphasis mine: J Street helped arrange visits by Judge Richard Goldstone, the South African jurist appointed by the U.N. to investigate the most recent conflict in … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine
Tagged AIPAC, Dershowitz, Gaza, Israel Lobby, Jeffrey Goldberg, Richard Goldstone
23 Comments
Massachusetts State Treasurer candidate has anti-Iran agenda
Steve Grossman, one of the candidates in next Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Massachusetts State Treasurer, is a past national president of AIPAC (The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee). Grossman, former chair of the Democratic National Committee, has been very coy about publicly … Continue reading
