Israel lobby groups have given Trump over $230 million, part of the lobby’s pervasive influence in shaping American policy in favor of Israel
Trump’s bellicose rhetoric to ‘clean out’ Gaza tied to deep pockets of Zionist lobby
Tags: AIPAC
The Myth of Israel as ‘US Aircraft Carrier’ in Middle East
Israel is a chronic liability that squanders billions of American dollars, drags the US into wars and whose genocidal treatment of the Palestinians is destroying America’s moral pretensions in most of the world. Once this is understood, support for Israel will collapse, and voters may apply enough pressure to reorient U.S. policy in line with genuine national interests.
Flashback: The Israel Lobby by Mearsheimer and Walt
Why has the US been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of another state?
In defense of CAIR against Israel’s attack and threat
Israeli Minister of Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli attacked and threatened the American nonprofit organization, which has defended Americans of all faiths.
Israel and the United States: Who Rules the Roost?
Documenting how Israel and its lobby have driven US policies from Truman through Biden
How Does AIPAC Shape Washington? We Tracked Every Dollar.
The Intercept tracked how AIPAC’s massive political spending is changing the balance of power in Congress – AIPAC has spent money on more than 80% of the 469 seats up for reelection this year…
FLASHBACK 2014: U.S. Senators Are Nearly All Stooges for Israel
The Israel lobby was buying politicians and policy in 2014, and it is still doing so today. (Top of the list of recipients: Joe Biden.)
When a phone flashlight is as important to a doctor as her stethoscope – Day 322
Fuel shortage plunges hospital into darkness; Deir al Balah, last “intact” city, faces mass evacuation; Israeli soldiers film themselves destroying mosque, burning Qurans; displacement leads to missing food aid distribution; little chance of polio vaccinations without ceasefire; Israeli forces use Palestinian as human shield; DNC banned speech – in full; Squad warns of AIPAC’s power; more
As Gazans starve, Israeli rhetoric grows more and more radically anti-Palestinian – Day 306
In Gaza, airstrikes continue, food rations drop, polio threat grows; in Israel, calls to punish not rapists, but the one who filmed them, to make rape of prisoners official policy, to make Nablus in West Bank “look like Rafah,” to legalize Israeli settlement in Gaza, to end US sanctions on violent settlers; Biden admin ok’s more war after prisoner swap (risking ceasefire deal), condemns not AIPAC’s purchase of congressional candidates, but Cori Bush’s warnings against AIPAC; Kamala Harris indicates no tolerance for pro-Palestinian protesters’ message; Walz’s track record on Palestine is not nearly as moral as Dems painted it…
Israel prevents entry of 1M life-saving polio vaccines into Gaza – Day 305
Polio threat looms large over Gaza – but not over Israel; condemnation of Israeli soldiers’ sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners and Smotrich’s call to starve Gazans reverberate worldwide; another World Central Kitchen staffer killed in airstrike; Israeli detentions of West Bank Palestinians surpasses 10,000; AIPAC money talks as another Squad member is defeated in primaries; American politicians’ full-throated support for Israel’s genocide; BDS victory in UK; more.