Israel Lobby (see American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)

Updated 2024-08-26

2024-05-18 Palestine Talks | John Mearsheimer discusses Gaza  Professor John Mearsheimer joins TRT World to discuss the Israeli lobby and provide a realist theoretical perspective on Israel’s assault on Palestine’s Gaza. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqPQ5dUfSTw&list=PLUW304lJeu3Vg_nM0WQfWDZTDyu6h6PlD&index=2&t=298s

2024-02-07 Palestine Talks | Professor David Miller reveals how Zionist lobbies fuel Islamophobia    British professor David Miller explains to TRT World how the Zionist movement is a key pillar in the industry of Islamophobia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AryAIDPbL4k&list=PLUW304lJeu3Vg_nM0WQfWDZTDyu6h6PlD&index=13

2024-02-01 Palestine Talks | British rapper and activist Lowkey unravels the UK’s Israel lobby     British rapper and pro-Palestinian activist Lowkey exposes the extent to which the Israel lobby is integrated within the highest levels of the UK’s political establishment and gives TRT World an insight into how he dealt with Israel lobbyists trying to cancel his music.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGIXd1QmGq4&list=PLUW304lJeu3Vg_nM0WQfWDZTDyu6h6PlD&index=14

2023-11-16 How to Defeat AIPAC and the Israel Lobby (w/ Ralph Nader) Consumer advocate & former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader joins Bad Faith to weigh in on the revolving chairs of the Green Party’s presidential candidates, the strategic value of Cornel West running as an independent, & how to decide between West and Dr. Jill Stein. Briahna also asks him to address recent reporting that he would “help Joe Biden win, how people power can beat AIPAC, and whether he, as perhaps the most prominent Arab-American politician in the US, has been able to connect with Rashida Tlaib since being censured by congress. Nader explains the immense value of his print media publication, Capital Hill Citizen, and why every leftist looking to push left politics forward should pick up a copy.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB-xVXo_Fmw

2018-05-30 The Occupation of the American Mind (original 84-minute version)      Over the past few years, Israel’s ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world — except the United States. The Occupation of the American Mind takes an eye-opening look at this critical exception, zeroing in on pro-Israel public relations efforts within the U.S.

Narrated by Roger Waters and featuring leading observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. media culture, the film explores how the Israeli government, the U.S. government, and the pro-Israel lobby have joined forces, often with very different motives, to shape American media coverage of the conflict in Israel’s favor. From the U.S.-based public relations campaigns that emerged in the 1980s to today, the film provides a sweeping analysis of Israel’s decades-long battle for the hearts, minds, and tax dollars of the American people in the face of widening international condemnation of its increasingly right-wing policies.

Narrated by Roger Waters / Featuring Amira Hass, M.J. Rosenberg, Stephen M. Walt, Noam Chomsky, Rula Jebreal, Henry Siegman, Rashid Khalidi, Rami Khouri, Yousef Munayyer, Norman Finkelstein, Max Blumenthal, Phyllis Bennis, Norman Solomon, Mark Crispin Miller, Peter Hart, and Sut Jhally.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP0-YohJR-g&list=PLcKTcNwy7BrF2fsCRkNDSpVvfpG6_RKiW&index=3

2016-09-07 Congressional Black Caucus: Deep in the Israel Lobby’s Pocket    “[Debbie] Wasser­man Schultz embodied the enormous in­flu­ence that American Jews have within the Democratic Party. A Jew with deep communal involvements who was a key pillar of support for the mainstream pro-Israel lobby in Congress and within the party, Wasser­man was both chair­man of the Demo­cratic National Committee and a mem­ber of Congress sitting on the powerful House Commit­tee on Appropriations — a panel that votes on all major government expenditures.    

This article is not about Debbie Wasserman Schultz but of the influence of who and what she represented as chair of the Democratic National Committee until taken down by Julian Assange, and still represents, in Congress, the interests of Israel, and the power of its domestic supporters over the Black American political establishment as represented by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC).

To be sure, the CBC’s subjugation by what is generally referred to as the pro-Israel Lobby is not unique. Thanks largely to American Jews having long been the Democratic Party’s major source of funds, estimated by reliable sources to be at least 60% in every election cycle, the Israel Lobby has been not only able to shape the party’s’ Middle East agenda but, of equal importance, determine who will be the chairs and the ranking members on the Congressional committees and subcommittees that have an impact on US-Israel relations. (The same thing can be said about the Republicans but there we see more variety among the donors.)   https://blackagendareport.com/cbc_in_israel%27s_pocket 2007-10-29 John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt – The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy        John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt discuss their book “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” at Cambridge Forum. They argue that a group of pro-Israel activists are manipulating U.S. foreign policy.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzXS3tmZrcU

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