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Eli Clifton

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Workers put the finishing touches on the stage at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Conference in Washington in March 2015. (Photo: Pete Marovich/European Pressphoto Agency)

Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick’s book, “Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power,” offers a powerful critique of how the Israel Lobby subverts democracy at home and ensures US support for Israeli aggression, apartheid, and genocide abroad.

It is “uncouth” in mainstream media to say that the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Republican funder Miriam Adelson are devoted to the pro-Israel cause. Even as FDD told the IRS that it was founded to promote Israel’s image in America, and Adelson has begun conducting the “Adelson primary,” in which possible Republican candidates for president show off their love of Israel in order to get campaign funds.