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Scott Horton Show - Just the InterviewsGrant F. Smith on the ADL’s Influence over the FBIScott is joined by Grant F. Smith to talk about some documents he recently acquired through the Freedom of Information Act that reveal the Anti-Defamation League’s role in teaching FBI agents how to define genocide and civil disobedience. He and Scott discuss the ADL’s history of defining both terms very dishonestly to contemplate what FBI agents are learning. Discussed on the show:
“ADL defines genocide and civil disobedience within the FBI” (IRmep)
“The Anti-Defamation League: Israel’s Attack Dog in the US” (The Nation)
Grant F. Smith is the author of a number of books includ...
2024-02-1226 min
The Corbett ReportIsrael's Nuclear Smuggling with Grant F. Smith (2012)SHOW NOTES: https://www.corbettreport.com/flashback-israelismuggling/
FROM 2012: Grant F. Smith, Research Director for the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy at IRmep.org, joins us to discuss the secret Israeli espionage program that smuggled nuclear materials out of the United States to help start the Israeli nuclear program in the 1960s. We go over the declassified documents tying Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to the smuggling ring, and explore Smith's book, Divert!: NUMEC, Zalman Shapiro and the diversion of US weapons grade uranium into the Israeli nuclear weapons program.
2023-09-3000 min
The Corbett Report - VideosIsrael's Nuclear Smuggling with Grant F. Smith (2012)FROM 2012: Grant F. Smith, Research Director for the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy at IRmep.org, joins us to discuss the secret Israeli espionage program that smuggled nuclear materials out of the United States to help start the Israeli nuclear program in the 1960s. We go over the declassified documents tying Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to the smuggling ring, and explore Smith's book, Divert!: NUMEC, Zalman Shapiro and the diversion of US weapons grade uranium into the Israeli nuclear weapons program.
2023-09-3050 min
The AntedoteTrump vs DeSantis, Changes at CNN (Part 1)Despite the title, we spend most of this episode discussing long term networks of sabotage (come for the analysis, stay for the tangents), focusing on Kim Philby and the events surrounding the 1946 King David Hotel bombing. We end by talking about Ron DeSantis seemingly serving as a direct agent of the hard line elements in Israel, while Donald Trump more represents multi national organized crime interests.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/israel-lobbyist-abraham-feinbergs-fbi-file-released-117526018.html
https://www.irmep.org/MP3/kkfi_200925_093000understandisraelpalestine.mp3
https://www.israellobby.org/feinberg/
https://yplus.ps/wp-content/uploads/2021/01...
2023-06-021h 10
Israel Lobby Damage AssessmentAIPAC’s foreign startup funding60 years ago today, the Senate uncovered $60 million in Israeli and foreign seed money had been laundered into the US to set up AIPAC. What really happened and what has been the impact?
Grant F. Smith gives an overview of the 1963 Senate investigation of Jewish Agency money laundering into the US, why the Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigated Israel front organizations in America, what Israel and the Jewish Agency were trying to accomplish in the US, how the foreign influence node and legitimator network have reconstituted over time, and how that network is presently structured to serve as...
2023-05-2458 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastProf. Kirk J. Beattie: How Congress shapes Middle East policy, and how AIPAC shapes Congress.The following is a presentation made at the 2016 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
Kirk James Beattie is the author of Congress and the Shaping of the Middle East as well as two books on Egyptian politics: Egypt During the Nasser Years and Egypt During the Sadat Years.
Beattie is a professor at Simmons College in the Political Science and International Relations Department, specializing in comparative politics with regional expertise in Middle East and West European politics.
Beattie has taught at Harvard, Wellesley, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and th...
2023-04-1200 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastDr. Roger Mattson: Did Israel steal U.S. weapons-grade uranium, and did it have help from U.S. citizens?The following is a presentation made at the 2016 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
Roger J. Mattson is the author of the recently published book Stealing the Atom Bomb: How Denial and Deception Armed Israel.
Dr. Mattson has experience in engineering and management with Sandia National Laboratory, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Environmental Protection Agency and several nuclear safety and security consultancies.
He was an adviser to the NRC commissioners on policy issues such as safety goals, risk assessment, nuclear safeguards, and Three Mile Island re...
2023-04-0524 min
Israel Lobby Damage AssessmentThe Netanyahu - Milchan nuclear espionage scandal that is tearing Israel apartJames Bamford’s new book Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America’s Counterintelligence devotes nine chapters to the impunity of Israel, its spies and U.S. lobby.
Bamford is best known as America’s premiere chronicler of the ultra-secretive National Security Agency in his books The Puzzle Palace and The Shadow Factory.
Unlike most authors published through mainstream publishing houses, Bamford has not held back on exposing extremely damaging and behind the scenes exploits of Israel and its lobby in this damning look at U.S. counterintelligence.
Grant F. Smith of IRm...
2023-03-3127 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastGrant F. Smith: Ten ways the Israel lobby ‘moves’ America.The following is a presentation made at the 2016 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
Grant F. Smith is the author of Big Israel: How Israel's Lobby Moves America, his eighth book about the Israel lobby.
Smith is the director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep), a nonprofit organization that studies U.S. Middle East policy formulation. In 2014, Smith sued the Department of Defense in federal court and won release of a detailed report, contracted in 1987, on the advanced state of Israel’s nuclear weapons program. In 2015, Smith sued the Centr...
2023-03-2921 min
Israel Lobby Damage AssessmentIsrael and its US Lobby Dealt Major Blow by China Saudi Iran Peace InitiativeOn Friday explosive news broke that China had successfully concluded a secret peace agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia. The plan aims to restore diplomatic relations by reopening embassies within two months. They also agree to restart their April 2001 Security Cooperation. Also back on the front burner is a 1998 General Agreement covering economic, trade, investment, technology, science, culture, sports and youth ties. It is well worth reading the entire statement.
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjdt_665385/2649_665393/202303/t20230311_11039241.html
The move signals Saudi Arabia does not want to be yoked to an Israeli "attack...
2023-03-1330 min
Israel Lobby Damage AssessmentAIPAC Israeli Economic Espionage Against US Hits $366 Billion2024 will mark the fourth decade since AIPAC and the Israeli Minister of Economics stole classified American industry data to aid passage of America’s worst bilateral trade deal.
Among all bilateral “Free Trade Agreements” (NAFTA and CAFTA are multilateral) the 1985 U.S. Israel deal has produced the highest inflation adjusted cumulative merchandise trade deficit—$365.9 billion—since going into effect. In 1984 American companies were steamrolled by corrupt politicians on the take from AIPAC-directed stealth political action committees or PACs. Today, captured U.S. federal and state agencies channel hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars away from American companies into the coff...
2023-02-2325 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastReza Marashi: The Iran Nuclear DealThe following is a presentation made at the 2015 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
Reza Marashi joined the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) in 2010 as the organization’s first research director. He came to NIAC after four years in the State Department’s Office of Iranian Affairs.
Prior to his tenure at the State Department, he was an analyst at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) covering China-Middle East issues, and a Tehran-based private strategic consultant on Iranian political and economic risk.
Marashi is frequently consulted by Wester...
2023-02-1719 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastGareth Porter: The Israel lobby push for war on IranThe following is a presentation made at the 2015 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
Gareth Porter is an investigative journalist and historian who specializes in U.S. foreign and military policy. He has written five books, including Perils of Dominance, Imbalance of Power and The Road to War in Vietnam.
His most recent book is Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. The book highlights the impact that the United States’ alliance with Israel had on Washington’s turning the International Atomic Energy Agency into a tool of its anti-Iran p...
2023-02-1027 min
Israel Lobby Damage AssessmentVirginia communities oppose Energix solar projectsThe Israeli company Energix Renewable Energies has been lavishly subsidized by U.S. solar energy tax credits and the cadmium telluride solar panel manufacturer First Solar.
But Energix has also been listed by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights as a category g human rights violator over its resource theft in the Israeli occupied West Bank and Golan Heights.
Virginia communities have successfully challenged Energix across the commonwealth for over its importation of "worst practices" from its overseas operations.
Sources cited in this episode:
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vchr-virginia-communities-petition-authorities-to-cancel-energix-solar-projects-jeopardizing-the-israels-firm-revenues-301724243...
2023-02-0830 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastCongressman Paul Findley: What I should have done, and what Congress can do today.The following is a presentation made at the 2015 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
Paul Findley served the 20th District of Illinois during 11 terms in Congress, from 1961 to 1983.
Findley wrote the very first book to analyze the pervasive influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on U.S. politics, policy, and institutions from the perspective of Congress. Carefully documented with specific case histories, They Dare To Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby reveals how the Israel Lobby helps to shape important aspects of U.S. fore...
2023-02-0326 min
Parallax Views w/ J.G. MichaelViolence Erupts in Israel/Palestine (Jenin Massacre & E. Jerusalem Shooting) w/ Richard Silverstein/Did Thomas Friedman Run Cover for an Israeli Nuclear Smuggling Operation? w/ Grant F. Smith
On this edition of Parallax Views, Richard Silverstein of the Tikun Olam blog returns to discuss the latest eruptions of violence in Israel/Palestine starting with the massacre in the Palestinian Jenin refugee and then the deadly attack on Israelis outside a Synagogue in East Jerusalem shortly thereafter. In addition to this, we talk about the anti-government protests in Israel against Netanyahu's government and the fears within Israel over Netanyahu's judicial reforms which some are arguing would be a fascistic judicial coup by the Israeli far-right. Moreover, Richard and I discuss President Joe Biden and U.S...
2023-02-011h 06The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastPaul Pillar: AIPAC/Netanyahu objectives and the American interest.The following is a presentation made at the 2015 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
Dr. Paul Pillar is a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Center for Security Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He also is a Nonresident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and an Associate Fellow of the Geneva Center for Security Policy. He retired in 2005 from a 28-year career in the U.S. intelligence community, in which his last position was National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia...
2023-01-2816 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastCongressman Rick Rahall: How does the Israel lobby influence Congress?The following is a presentation made at the 2015 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
Former Congressman Nick Joe Rahall II, a grandson of Lebanese immigrants, represented West Virginia in the U.S. Congress from 1977 to 2015. When he was elected, the 27-year-old became the youngest member of Congress.
Rahall was one of only 8 House members to vote against the Authorization for Use of Military Force against Iraq in 2002 that preceded the Iraq War.
Rahall has repeatedly expressed concern about America’s relationship with Israel, stating, “Israel can’t continue to occupy, humiliate and...
2023-01-2724 min
Israel Lobby Damage AssessmentADL’s penetration of the FBI & negative consequences for human rights activismThe ADL has been trying to liaise with the FBI by offering ADL investigators as informants, offering to exchange files to “avoid duplication of investigation” and “train” FBI and law enforcement personnel since the 1940s.
What have been the negative consequences for human rights activists?
IRmep presents findings from years of Freedom of Information Act filings at a number of relevant Washington, DC locations.
See the report "ADL files FBI “Civil Rights Threat” conflating white nationalists with pro-Palestinian charities" at https://irmep.com/2022/11/adl-files-fbi-civil-rights-threat-conflating-friends-of-sabeel-and-american-muslim-alliance-with-a-white-nationalist-group/
See FOIA documents about ADL and the FBI at https...
2023-01-2011 min
Israel Lobby Damage AssessmentSecretary of Defense Austin dishonored JFK at AIPACSecretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III was the perfect keynote speaker at the January 10, 2023 AIPAC Political Leadership Forum.
Austin prioritizes Israeli over American defense priorities, advocates illegal land grabs that benefit Israel, inserts Israel into places it does not belong, and uses cultish, reverential language.
Most important, he is willing to dishonor JFK's three final bids for justice, rule of law and against Middle East nuclear proliferation.
Video: https://youtu.be/sJAfimzUgBA
Report: https://irmep.com/2023/01/01102023/
2023-01-1218 min
Israel Lobby Damage AssessmentWill Israel and its foreign influence operation AIPAC continue to undermine America in 2023?2022 US Middle East policy review and 2023 forecast.
US Middle East policy continued its downward spiral in 2022. The president and Congress aided and abetted illegal Israeli objectives over better policies preferred by overwhelming majorities of American voters. In poll after poll, Americans have signaled they would like to cut U.S. foreign aid to Israel. Sanction Israel over apartheid practices. Hold it responsible for being the Middle East’s leading state sponsor of nuclear proliferation and not recognize Israeli territorial annexation. Americans also oppose Israel’s U.S. surrogates attempting to curb their 1st Amendment rights to boycott Isra...
2023-01-1113 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastFormer AIPAC employee MJ Rosenberg: Is it all about the money?The following is a presentation made at the 2015 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
M.J. Rosenberg is a writer, primarily on matters relating to Israel. He is a regular contributor to The Nation and Huffington Post, with his writing widely reprinted throughout the world. He has special expertise on the Israel Lobby, having been employed by several pro-Israel organizations between 1973 and 1975 and 1982 and 1986. His last post was as editor of AIPAC’s Near East Report and as senior adviser to then-Executive Director Thomas Dine.
He also worked on Capitol Hill fo...
2022-12-2620 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastGideon Levy: Does unconditional support for Israel endanger Israeli voices?The following is a presentation made at the 2015 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
Gideon Levy is a columnist for the Israeli daily Haaretz and a member of its editorial board.
Levy joined Haaretz in 1982, and spent four years as the newspaper’s deputy editor.
He is the author of the weekly Twilight Zone feature, which covers the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza over the last 25 years, as well as the writer of political editorials for the newspaper.
Levy was the recipient of the Eur...
2022-12-1921 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastMiko Peled: How the Lobby enables Israeli policy: Views of an Israeli in AmericaThe following is a presentation made at the 2015 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
Miko Peled is an Israeli writer and activist living in the U.S. He was born and raised in Jerusalem. Driven by a personal family tragedy to explore Palestine, its people and their narrative, he has written a book about his journey called The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. The book covers Peled’s family history since his grandparents immigrated to Palestine in the early 20th century.
Peled’s maternal grandfather was a signer...
2022-12-1218 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastAhmad Saadaldin: Overcoming obstacles: Students for Justice in Palestine successes.The following is a presentation made at the 2015 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
Ahmad Saadaldin is a filmmaker/producer, creative writer, actor, and grassroots organizer.
He is dedicated to sharing untold stories in order to raise awareness and create positive change. Through grassroots organizing and filmmaking, he does his best to bring attention to deserving topics.
Using Kickstarter, Saadaldin raised $84,000 to produce the historic epic television show “Salahadin.”
He produced and directed the short documentary “Refugees of Kurdistan” for Aljazeera’s English website with filmmaker Nick Armer...
2022-12-0500 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastDima Khalidi: Pressures on universities to discipline and punish students and faculty for speech activities.The following is a presentation made at the 2015 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
Dima Khalidi is the founder and Director of Palestine Solidarity Legal Support (PSLS), and Cooperating Counsel with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). Her work includes providing legal advice to activists, engaging in advocacy to protect their rights to speak out for Palestinian rights, and educating activists and the public about their rights.
Khalidi has a JD from DePaul University College of Law with a concentration in International Law, an MA in Comparative Legal Studies from t...
2022-11-2800 min
Parallax Views w/ J.G. MichaelThe ADL and the FBI w/ Grant F. Smith
On this edition of Parallax Views, Grant F. Smith of the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy returns to discuss his article "ADL files FBI 'Civil Rights Threat' conflating white nationalists with pro-Palestinian charities" as well the broader history of the ADL and its relationship with the FBI. Additionally, Grant gives his thoughts on the FBI probe into the death of Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and briefly summarizes his October 2022 article "Virginia Rejects Israel’s Energix CdTe Solar Farm Panels".
Some of the points we touch on include:
- The AD...
2022-11-2136 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastAmani Al-Khatahtbeh: Daring to speak out on campus.The following is a presentation made at the 2015 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
Amani Alkhatahtbeh is the founding editor-in-chief of MuslimGirl.net, a blog aimed at eliminating stereotypes surrounding Islam and promoting the place of Muslim women in Western societies.
Alkhatahtbeh’s dedication to building bridges across different religious and cultural communities has been recognized in a New Jersey state resolution honoring the top community service pioneers in the state. She was a Lloyd Gardner Fellow and a Women’s Leadership Scholar at Rutgers University, where she conducted multiple inde...
2022-11-2120 minScott Horton Show - Just the InterviewsGrant F. Smith on Netanyahu, AIPAC and the ADL’s Influence on the FBIScott talks with Grant F. Smith about the work he’s doing to track the ways Israel’s government tries to affect American politics. First, they talk about the return of Benjamin Netanyahu and how this could signal a disturbing shift in Israeli politics. They then move on to the fruitful effort by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC, to help pro-Israel candidates win elections last week. Lastly, they talk about some of the research Smith’s organization has done into the Anti-Defamation League’s influence over the FBI.Discussed on the show:
site:irmep.org .pdf...
2022-11-1431 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastDr. Jack Shaheen: The use of cultural stereotypes to shape policyThe following is a presentation made at the 2015 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
Internationally acclaimed author and media critic Dr. Jack G. Shaheen was a committed internationalist and a devoted humanist. His lectures and writings illustrate that damaging racial and ethnic stereotypes of Arabs, blacks, and others injure innocent people. He defines crude caricatures, explains why they persist, and provides workable solutions to help shatter misconceptions.
Dr. Shaheen was a distinguished visiting scholar at New York University (NYU), served as a CBS News Consultant on Middle East Affairs from 1993...
2022-11-1400 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastDr. Alice Rothchild: Silencing voices that question Israeli actions.Since 2015 the annual IsraelLobbyCon conference series at the National Press Club explores the latest research, innovations and tactics for countering the Israel lobby’s damaging policies in the U.S. and around the globe.
Alice Rothchild is a Boston-based physician, author and filmmaker who since 1997 has focused on human rights and social justice in the Israel/Palestine conflict. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in psychology and studied medicine at Boston University, followed by a medical internship at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx, and an obstetrics and gynecology residency at Beth Isr...
2022-11-0700 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastJeffrey Blankfort: The ADL: Covert action, censure, and courting law-enforcement.The following is a presentation made at the 2015 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
Jeffrey Blankfort is a photojournalist and radio host. His articles have appeared in CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, Mondoweiss, Pulse Media, Left Curve, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and the Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
Since the 1960s his photographs have appeared in major publications in the U.S. and around the world. During this past Black History Month, an exhibit of his photos of the Black Panthers from 1968 and Palestinians taken from 1970 to 2004 was on display at...
2022-10-3121 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastSeth Morrison: From the Jewish National Fund to Jewish Voice for Peace and BDS.The following is a presentation made at the 2015 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
Seth Morrison has held leadership posts in various local, regional and national Jewish organizations, starting in college as a youth leader in Young Judea. He is currently active in Jewish Voice for Peace, serving on the DC Metro Chapter Steering Committee and on the national Congressional Outreach Committee.
In 2011, Morrison resigned from the Washington, DC Board of the Jewish National Fund in protest over Israel’s repeated evictions of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem.
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2022-10-2400 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastGrant F. Smith: How big is the Lobby and what does it do? An overview of the 501(c) universe.The following is a presentation made at the 2015 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
Grant F. Smith is the director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) in Washington, DC. He is the author of two unofficial histories about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee–America’s Defense Line: The Justice Department’s Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government and Foreign Agents: AIPAC from the 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal. Smith is also the author of the books Divert!, Spy Trade, Deadly Dogma and Visa Den...
2022-10-1723 min
How Israel Made AIPACEpisode 14 Conclusion: Foreign Influence OperationA declassified 1961 Senate Foreign Relations Committee memo finally reveals the original reason for ever investigating the Israel lobby. In 1954, Israel launched the Operation Susannah false flag terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in Egypt aimed at scuttling the return of the Suez Canal to Eqypt. But the Israeli terrorists were caught and prosecuted, leading to a diplomatic crisis with the U.S.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee feared that Israel and its U.S. operatives could launch future violent attacks to influence American policy. Pinhas Lavon, the Israeli Minister of Defense blamed for the failed terror operation...
2022-09-2622 min
How Israel Made AIPACEpisode 13: Above the LawAIPAC learns the more entangled and influential its funders become in elite political circles, the less likely its operatives will be prosecuted for electoral fraud and joint espionage operations with Israel's government.
Foreign Agents Registration Act enforcement gradually becomes a cudgel to wield exclusively against out-of-favor foreign governments as elite law firms and associates of high officials such as Marion Javits and Billy Carter are paid to lobby for Iran and Libya. Courts rule that attorney-client privilege can shield key communications between foreign principals and their U.S. agents, further eroding FARA.
The anti-Zionist American C...
2022-09-191h 05
How Israel Made AIPACEpisode 12: Secret DealJFK's initiative to inspect the Israeli nuclear weapons production facility at Dimona and keep the Israelis from going nuclear dies in Dallas. AIPAC strives mightily, promoting legacy media reports, to convince Americans that Dimona will never produce nuclear weapons. Barrons charges the State Department "once more placed itself in a ridiculous posture by accusing Israel of conspiring to build atomic weapons."
AIPAC's umbrella group switches to an offensive posture against registering as a foreign agent. FARA section staffers criticize capitulation on the registration issue and ask soon-to-be Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach to hold firm. AIPAC's umbrella...
2022-09-1253 min
How Israel Made AIPACEpisode 11: Fighting JusticeThe Department of Justice orders AIPAC's umbrella organization to begin registering as an Israeli foreign agent on November 21, 1962. JFK friend Simon H. Rifkind is hired to help the lobby wriggle out of the order, claiming they would stop laundering Jewish Agency funding into the United States for Israel lobbying and propaganda. Rifkind argues that registering as a foreign agent would "choke the very life" out of the Zionist movement. The anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism celebrates news of the order, as the New York Times scrambles to get inside information.
Justice Department lawyer Nathan Lenvin w...
2022-09-051h 10
How Israel Made AIPACEpisode 10: Senate InvestigationAIPAC founder Isaiah L. Kenen flees for Iran as the Justice Department moves closer to registering the Israel lobby as a foreign agent because of its overseas funding. The American Council for Judaism fights the Zionist takeover of comunal fundraising entities in the US. Senate Foreign relations Committee investigators uncover massive Jewish Agency/Israeli government funding flows into U.S. lobbying and public relations via seized documents. Jewish Agency lawyers whither under Senator J.W. Fulbright's interrogations as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's foreign-funded political activities are exposed. Fulbright questions by AIPAC's founder is registered as a domestic...
2022-08-2946 min
How Israel Made AIPACEpisode 9: Near East ReportHow did AIPAC founder Isaiah Kenen use the Near East Report to keep score of Congress member votes that impacted Israel? Why did Kenen constantly call out the American Council for Judaism and Senator J. W. Fulbright in the Near East Report? What kinds of cartoons did the Near East Report run and how did they frame the plight of Palestinian refugees and Arabs? What role did Kenen play inserting Israel into "planks" of both major political parties? How did Kenen frame Israel's false flag terror attacks (Operation Susannah) against American targets in Egypt and subsequent Lavon Affair fallout? H...
2022-08-2226 min
How Israel Made AIPACEpisode 8: American Zionist CouncilHow did Harry Truman resist Isaiah Kenen's Israel lobby public relations issue framing? What were David Ben-Gurion's directives to the American Zionist Council where AIPAC functioned as the lobbying and PR division? According to Kenen, how were Israel's core interests served by forming AIPAC? How much was Kenen paid by Israel's government to lobby American politicians in a delegation to Israel after a $65 million aid package passed through the U.S. Congress?
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2022-08-1538 min
How Israel Made AIPACEpisode 7: Israel Office of InformationWhat was the Israel Office of Information and AIPAC founder Isaiah L. Kenen's role at IOI? How long did Kenen remain as an employee of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs at IOI? What propaganda information did IOI omit in its FARA filings? How did Kenen, chafing under FARA, maintain an active lobbying campaign in the U.S. Congress for foreign aid while still operating as an employee of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs? Why did the Justice Department tell Kenen to keep registering as an Israeli foreign agent even after he left IOI?
Podcast...
2022-08-0829 min
How Israel Made AIPACEpisode 6: Arms SmugglingWhich Israeli pre-state terrorist and arms smuggling entities freely operated in the U.S.? How and why did they penetrate the U.S. Department of Treasury? How and when did the Secretary of Treasury threaten President Franklin D. Roosevelt's State Department with charges of anti-Semitism if the administration refused to support Zionist aims? Who was Vladimir Jabotinsky?" What was the "Transfer Agreement?" How did U.S. war surplus arms and equipment become a target for Jewish Agency and Haganah arms smugglers? What was the division of labor for smuggling front operations like the Sonneborn Institute, Materials and Manpower for...
2022-08-0133 min
How Israel Made AIPACEpisode 5: Foreign Agents ActWhy did the U.S. enact the Foreign Agents Registration Act? When and why did enforcement move from the State Department to the Department of Justice? What were the key provisions of FARA and how did they change over time? What was the Jewish Agency for Israel and why did it have to register under FARA? Which U.S. individuals and organizations were prosecuted for violating FARA?
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2022-08-0132 min
How Israel Made AIPACEpisode 4: Lobbying for a CountryIn what ways was the creation of Israel like a business startup? What did the nascent Israel lobby want from President Harry Truman and how did they approach and lobby him? Why did the U.S. State and War Departments oppose U.S. recognition of Israel? Why was the American Council for Judaism also opposed? How was Isaiah L. Kenen involved in official UN missions traveling to Palestine on behalf of the Jewish Agency? What secret documents did the Zionist movement leak to taint the Arab cause? Why did Truman resent such Zionist pressure campaigns? How did The Nation...
2022-08-011h 08
How Israel Made AIPACEpisode 3: AIPAC’s FounderWho was AIPAC's founder Isaiah L. Kennen? Where was Kenen from and how did he get his start? How did his father's disastrous wartime dealings supporting Russia's Tsar impact the family? How did Kenen's journalism morph from lobbying for labor rights, to U.S. entry into WWII and finally the formation and U.S. subsidization of Israel? Which major U.S. Zionist leaders did Kenen work with, and why was Theodore Herzl's plan for a Jewish state so important to Kenen?
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2022-08-0125 min
How Israel Made AIPACEpisode 2: Why this MattersWhy is the history of the intense battle between the U.S. Department of Justice, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kennedy administration and AIPAC so important, but so little known? Why is AIPAC circumspect about its origin story? How has AIPAC largely written its founder, Isaiah L. Kenen, out of that history? What three developments concerning the formation of Israel have had an enormous impact on Americans?
Podcast: How Israel Made AIPAC
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2022-08-0108 min
How Israel Made AIPACEpisode 1: This SeriesIsrael's lobby the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is knocking out American politicians it thinks won't be deferential enough to the Israeli government. But what is AIPAC and where does it come from? When was a key chapter of AIPAC's secret history finally declassified and released by the U.S. Department of Justice? How to subscribe to this podcast and support IRmep.
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2022-08-0102 min
The AntedoteDeep Ukraine #13 Putin's People Part 6 (Malofeev Dugin)We continue reading from Chapter 14 of Putin's People by Catherine Belton, with further details of Russian funding of and cultivating of weaponized dissident parties and movements throughout Europe and the western world.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166154/2022-cpac-conference-budapest-hungary-orban
https://www.irmep.org/policy_briefs/3_27_2003_clean_break_or_dirty_war.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Harvey
https://www.timesofisrael.com/white-house-fires-top-intelligence-adviser-who-reportedly-leaked-intel/
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/84478067434733568?s=20&t=oYyvyhl5ApnnoLVn7s-Ykg
https://thegrayzoneproject.wordpress.com/2020/01/13/ben-norton-deleted-tweets-archive/
https://alhamra.medium.com/benjamin-norton-sheds-positions-and-causes-like-a-snake-sheds-skin-1c23d0b76612
2022-05-031h 39The AntedoteDeep Ukraine #14- Putin's People Part 8We finish chapter 14 of "Putin's People" by Catherine Belton centered around the "Orthodox Taliban," and we read from the beginning of chapter 15 which deals with Donald Trump's relationship with Russian organized crime and details related to his numerous financial bailouts over the years.
https://www.newsweek.com/former-trump-adviser-steve-bannon-backs-anti-woke-vladimir-putin-1682122
https://www.irmep.org/policy_briefs/3_27_2003_clean_break_or_dirty_war.html
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/world-congress-families
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Yakunin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Gerasimov
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/05/im-sorry-for-creating-the-gerasimov-doctrine/
2022-05-032h 03
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastPaul Noursi: The victorious battle for the First Amendment against Virginia’s anti-boycott bill (HB 1161) - IsraelLobbyCon 2022The following is a presentation made at the 2022 Transcending the Israel lobby at Home & Abroad conference held on March 4 at the National Press Club.
Paul Noursi, co-President of the Virginia Coalition for Human Rights, discusses the recent win against anti-BDS legislation in the commonwealth of Virginia.
Since 2015 the annual IsraelLobbyCon conference series at the National Press Club explores the latest research, innovations and tactics for countering the Israel lobby’s damaging policies in the U.S. and around the globe. See https://www.IsraelLobbyCon.org for more information.
IsraelLobbyCon is solely sponsored by th...
2022-03-1219 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastKeynote Dr. Hanan Ashrawi: ”What, if any, policies have changed since the Trump administration, and new hope for Palestine’s future.” IsraelLobbyCon 2022The following is a presentation made at the 2022 Transcending the Israel lobby at Home & Abroad conference held on March 4 at the National Press Club.
Since 2015 the annual IsraelLobbyCon conference series at the National Press Club explores the latest research, innovations and tactics for countering the Israel lobby’s damaging policies in the U.S. and around the globe. See https://www.IsraelLobbyCon.org for more information.
IsraelLobbyCon is solely sponsored by the American Educational Trust, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep).
2022-03-0949 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastWalter L. Hixson: ”What’s so important about the lobby?” IsraelLobbyCon 2022The following is a presentation made at the 2022 Transcending the Israel lobby at Home & Abroad conference held on March 4 at the National Press Club
Since 2015 the annual IsraelLobbyCon conference series at the National Press Club explores the latest research, innovations and tactics for countering the Israel lobby’s damaging policies in the U.S. and around the globe. See https://www.IsraelLobbyCon.org for more information.
IsraelLobbyCon is solely sponsored by the American Educational Trust, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep).
2022-03-0720 min
Parallax Views w/ J.G. MichaelThe Palestinian Struggle and Human Rights w/ Dr. Hanan Ashrawi/The 2022 Israel Lobby Con w/ Grant F. Smith
On this edition of Parallax Views, later on in the program we'll be talking to one of the most prominent leaders in the Palestinian liberation movement, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi. Dr. Ashrawi was the first woman to be elected a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 2009, served as the official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East peace process from 1991-1993, and participated in the 1991-1992 Madrid peace conference as a member of the Palestinian Leadership Committee delegation. Hanan will join me to discuss the Palestinian struggle, human rights, and...
2022-02-251h 22
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastAIPAC’s New Political Action Committees PACs: Implications for America - Walter Hixson, Janet McMahon and Grant F. SmithExpert analysis of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) interaction with political action committees (PACs). We also explored what factors may be driving AIPAC to be more interested in tightly coordinating campaign spending. We also discussed what impact this may have on Americans and took questions from participants.
Janet McMahon, former Founding Managing Editor at the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Dr. Walter L. Hixson, Distinguished Historian, Author, and Columnist, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and author of the new book Architects of Repression: How Israel and Its Lobby Put Racism, Violence...
2021-12-231h 21
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! Podcast”AIPAC in Command?” Interview with distinguished historian and author Walter L. HixsonExtended interview with distinguished historian and author Walter L. Hixson focusing on Chapter 7, "AIPAC in Command" of his book "Architects of Repression: How Israel and Its Lobby Put Racism, Violence and Injustice at the Center of US Middle East Policy."
Grant F. Smith of IRmep asks Hixson about his research background, when he started looking into the Israel lobby and books published by elite academic publishers.
They then turn to a single chapter from the book to explore the role and function of the Israel lobby in the United States.
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2021-10-051h 33
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastBest of: Col. Lawrence Wilkerson "Israeli influence on U.S. foreign policy"The following is the full March 18, 2016 presentation given by Col. Lawrence Wilkerson. His last positions in government were as Secretary of State Colin Powell's Chief of Staff (2002-05), Associate Director of the State Department's Policy Planning staff under the directorship of Ambassador Richard N. Haass, and member of that staff responsible for East Asia and the Pacific, political-military and legislative affairs (2001-02).
Before serving at the State Department, Wilkerson served 31 years in the U.S. Army. During that time, he was a member of the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College (1987-1989), Special Assistant to...
2021-08-2122 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastBest of: Ilan Pappé "Decolonizing Israel"The following is the full March 24, 2017 presentation given by Ilan Pappé at IsraelLobbyCon at the National Press Club. Pappe is a Professor of History and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK
Best of: Ilan Pappé "Decolonizing Israel"
The following is the full March 24, 2017 presentation given by Ilan Pappé at IsraelLobbyCon at the National Press Club.
Ilan Pappé is Professor of History and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK. His research focuses on the moder...
2021-08-0957 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastResisting Israel’s Lobby on Campus and in the Community - Robin D.G. KelleyOn April 24, 2021 Robin D.G. Kelley discussed the current state of resisting Israel and its lobby’s efforts on campus. He gave an overview of the parallels between South Africa and the movement toward Palestinian liberation, and addressed the questions: How are Black Lives Matter and the Palestinian grassroots movements working together, and are they natural allies? Was the much-vaunted Black-Jewish civil rights alliance ever based on anything more than oppression? What is the basis of a Black-Palestinian alliance? What lessons are there for today’s activists?
Robin D.G. Kelley's research has explored, among other topics, the h...
2021-07-2238 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastFrom an Israel-Centric to a Rights-Based Approach - Zaha HassanZaha Hassan outlines how the Biden administration can break the Middle East peace impasse by adopting a rights-based—rather than an Israel and its lobby based—approach as the center of its strategy. Why has the current one-sided approach favoring Israel produced only serial failures? How would a rights-based approach transcend violence, dispossession, discrimination and occupation? What are the policy options? Why is a rights-based approach a far better look for the United States?
Zaha Hassan is a human rights lawyer and visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research focus is on Palestine-Israel peac...
2021-07-1243 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastPalestinians Confronting the Giant of Christian Zionism - Alex AwadRev. Alex Awad describes the efforts of Palestinian Evangelicals and other church leaders to confront the “Goliath” of Christian Zionism. What are they doing to stop the spread of Christian Zionism in many U.S. churches? How is Christian Zionism impacting Christians actually living under Israel’s apartheid regime? Rev. Awad describes the work of PCAP, Sabeel and other Christian organizations, and their efforts to halt Israeli actions endorsed by Zionist Christians, such as the confiscation of Palestinian land, the demolition of homes and the construction of segregated Jewish settlements.
Rev. Dr. Alex Awad is a retired United...
2021-06-3040 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastIdeological Underpinnings of the War on Terrorism - Scott HortonAs detailed in his new book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism, Israel and its U.S. lobby were key proponents of the disastrous 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, as well as providing the ideological underpinnings of a "global war on terror." Today they are virtually alone in advocating a U.S. war on Iran. How likely is it that the Biden administration will attack Iran? What would be the consequences?
Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los...
2021-06-1747 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastThe Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism - Tom SuárezTom Suárez discussed the recently issued Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA): Does the JDA intend to replace the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition that pro-Israel interests have pushed on institutions and governments, or instead consider itself “a tool for interpreting” IHRA? Why do 11 of the JDA’s 15 “Guidelines'' involve Israel? What does “hostility to Israel” have to do with a definition of antisemitism? Why does the JDA consider the question of how much influence the Israeli state exerts beyond its still-undefined borders irrelevant, except when that alleged influence is said to be synonymous with “the Jews”? Why can every other n...
2021-06-0324 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastHow the Israel Lobby Intervenes in Progressive Party Politics - Asa WinstanleyWhat are the similarities and differences between Labour Friends of Israel in the UK and Democratic Majority for Israel in the U.S.? What purpose do they serve? Did the recent sabotage and purge of major progressive leaders like Jeremy Corbyn who are progressive on Israel-Palestine come from within or outside their party? What connections were revealed in Al Jazeera's undercover investigative documentary The Lobby between Israel's UK embassy and Labour Party leaders in the UK, and what has been the long-term impact? Is the false charge that politicians "tolerate anti-Semitism" now effective enough to stifle debate on Israeli...
2021-05-2632 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastJ Street and the Limitations of Liberal Zionism - Philip WeissPhilip Weiss is an American journalist who founded and co-edits Mondoweiss.
Mondoweiss is "a news website devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective," with journalist Adam Horowitz.
Weiss describes himself as an anti-Zionist and rejects the label "post-Zionist."
Philip Weiss presented a J Street roundup: "Key reflections about liberal Zionism's most significant annual policy conference."
IsraelApartheidCon is solely sponsored by the American Educational Trust, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep...
2021-05-1834 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastHow the U.S. Shields Israel From U.N. Accountability - Ian WilliamsIan Williams provides a brief history of both Republican and Democratic administrations’ sycophantic relations with Israel and how this relationship affects U.S. policies toward the U.N. and international law. Will Washington continue to discredit and deflect all U.N. criticism of apartheid Israel with charges of bias and anti-Semitism? Will President Biden work for a rule-based world order, or will he shamelessly insist those rules do not apply to Israel or the U.S.? Does his appointment of career diplomat Linda Thomas-Greenfield as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. mean Biden is actually serious about human ri...
2021-05-1130 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastA Lawmaker Who Stood Up for Justice - Brian BairdBrian Baird describes how Israel and its U.S. lobby assert authority over Congress. He reflects on his visits to Gaza, especially his shock at seeing the American International School in Gaza flattened by Israel using American-made bombs. He describes his efforts to investigate the murder of his constituent Rachel Corrie, as well as his vote on the Goldstone report, denounced by House colleagues who never read the report or visited Gaza. Baird then recommends critical actions voters should take to help elect leaders who will study this issue in a fair and open-minded way.
Brian Baird...
2021-05-0621 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastThe Israel Lobby: What Everyone Needs to Know - Walter HixsonWalter L. Hixson since 2019 serves as columnist and contributing editor at the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. This is his second book on the Israel lobby following Israel’s Armor: The Israel Lobby and the First Generation of the Palestine Conflict. (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
He is the author of several books focused on the history of US foreign relations, including American Foreign Relations: A New Diplomatic History (Routledge, 2015), American Settler Colonialism: A History (2013, Palgrave-Macmillan), The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and U.S. Foreign Policy (Yale University Press, 2008). The new book by distinguished historian Walter L...
2021-04-2931 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastElaborating on the B’Tselem Apartheid Report - Richard FalkRichard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law, Princeton University, currently Chair of Global Law, Law Faculty, Queen Mary University London. Falk served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine (2008-2014), and served as Chair of the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, 2005-2012.
He wrote (Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance(2014), which proposes a value-oriented assessment of world order and future trends. His most recent books are Power Shift(2016); Revisiting the Vietnam War(2017); On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament(2019). Since 2009 Falk has been annually nominated for the Nobel Peace...
2021-04-2526 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastHolding South Africa, But Not Israel, Accountable - John DugardJohn Dugard discussed what accounts for the international community's disparity in its treatment of South Africa and Israel for applying substantially similar policies. How effective have Israel and its foreign lobbies been in claiming that opposition to Israel's behavior is due to anti-Semitism? Why did South Africa's Jewish community go from opposing apartheid in their own country to vilifying Jewish South African Judge Richard Goldstone for his report on Israel's 2009 attack on Gaza known as Operation Cast Lead? What are the prospects and best approaches for ending Israeli apartheid?
John Dugard is a South African professor of...
2021-04-2235 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastAbout the April 17 & 24 2021 IsraelApartheidCon online conference!Experts will speak and take questions at the only annual national conference challenging the Israel lobby's repressive agenda while proposing better alternatives for America.
IsraelApartheidCon is solely sponsored by the American Educational Trust, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep).
Celebrated Palestinian author Susan Abulhawa reveals how U.S. taxpayers and readers are beginning to understand that their tax dollars are supporting ethnic cleansing and apartheid.
Palestinian writer and analyst Sumaya Awad warns of the danger of Facebook's effort to suppress criticisms of Zionism...
2021-04-1407 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! Podcast“Censorship, Entanglement & Corruption: The Israel Lobby 2021 Agenda" Grant F. Smith, IRmepGrant F. Smith is the author of seven books about the Israel lobby, and research director of IRmep. His most recent books are "Big Israel: How Israel's Lobby Moves America" (2016) and "The Israel Lobby Enters State Government: Rise of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board" (2019).
Continuing an election year tradition, Smith presented his most recent research findings about Israel affinity organization legislative, executive agency and state government lobbying initiatives. He discussed in depth the trajectory, roles and relative importance of Jewish establishment lobbying (such as AIPAC and the Zionist Organization of America) vs. relatively more recent Christian Zionist...
2020-11-191h 40
Israel Lobby Damage Assessment“Palestine, Propaganda and the President” - Ali AbunimahAmerican journalist Ali Abunimah is co-founder of the Electronic Intifada and author of "One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israel-Palestine Impasse'' and "The Battle for Justice in Palestine." He discussed post-election administration policy on key issues. Will the administration demand any pause to illegal Israeli settlements? Will Israel be successful in continuing to use the coercive power of the U.S. State Department and other key agencies to demand Arab nations establish formal ties with Israel? Will the drive to label human rights organizations as "anti-Semitic” prevail?
Abunimah also discussed growing social media censorship of Pa...
2020-11-181h 10Israel Lobby Damage AssessmentThe Virginia Israel Advisory Board - VIABGrant F. Smith is the author of seven books about the Israel lobby, and research director of IRmep. His most recent books are "Big Israel: How Israel's Lobby Moves America" (2016) and "The Israel Lobby Enters State Government: Rise of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board" (2019). Continuing an election year tradition, Smith presented his most recent research findings about Israel affinity organization legislative, executive agency and state government lobbying initiatives. He discussed in depth the trajectory, roles and relative importance of Jewish establishment lobbying (such as AIPAC and the Zionist Organization of America) vs. relatively more recent Christian Zionist lobbying. Smith...
2020-10-291h 40Israel Lobby Damage AssessmentProfessor Walter L. Hixson and Settler ColonialismHistorian and author Walter Hixson answers cross disciplinary questions about foreign policy, the Israel lobby and settler colonialism. What are the core objectives of settler colonialism? Why must the population targeted for removal be the object of hatred and portrayed as primitive, uncivilized and "savage?" Massacres can exist without genocide, but can genocide exist without massacres? Are indigenes ever allowed to avail themselves of the colonizer's means of communications and justice system to argue their case? What Is perpetrator trauma?
Check out other IRmep content at https://IRmep.org
2020-09-2758 minIsrael Lobby Damage AssessmentThe Israel Lobby - KKFI Jeremy Rothe-Kushel - Understanding Israel-PalestineInterview with Jeremy Rothe-Kushel of the program "Understanding Israel-Palestine" on the rise of the Israel lobby in America, prominent figures, Israeli nuclear weapons espionage and related topics. Check out other IRmep content at https://IRmep.org
2020-09-2530 minIsrael Lobby Damage AssessmentCountering harmful Israel lobby initiatives at the state levelA conversation with the Virginia Coalition for Human Rights. Fighting questionable edits to VA textbooks, the case against VIAB, and the expansion of Israeli human rights violator Energix in Virginia. Check out other IRmep content at https://IRmep.org
2020-06-171h 00Israel Lobby Damage AssessmentThe Israel Lobby Enters State Government: Rise Of The Virginia Israel Advisory BoardDavid Swanson, host of Talk Nation Radio, interviews Grant F. Smith to discuss his latest and ninth book about the Israel lobby called The Israel Lobby Enters State Government: Rise Of The Virginia Israel Advisory Board. Find the paperback at Middle East Books & More. Check out other IRmep content at https://IRmep.org
2020-05-0429 minIsrael Lobby Damage AssessmentVIAB: The Israel lobby corruption scandal nobody knows aboutGrant F. Smith of the Institute for Research for Research: Middle Eastern Policy discusses the findings of his new book, The Israel Lobby Enters State Government: Rise of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board at Middle East Books and More. Check out other IRmep content at https://IRmep.org
2020-02-291h 21Israel Lobby Damage AssessmentThe Abraham Scam - Palestine CenterIRmep presentation at the Palestine Center’s annual conference. It covered the how the Gallup Organization’s misleading polls about U.S. "sympathy" for Israel would have been deployed to falsely claim Americans support the Kushner-Friedman-Greenblatt Middle East "Deal of the Century," much like they have been used by the Congressional Research Service to insinuate Americans support massive U.S. foreign assistance to Israel. How Gallup was confronted until it finally admitted its bellwether poll was biased. What most Americans really think about the principle of the economic "Deal of the Century." How Virginians view their own mini "Deal of t...
2019-11-0919 minIsrael Lobby Damage AssessmentLessons from FBI’s ‘Niger Uranium Forgeries’Grant Smith elaborates on his May 20th article, “”Lesson from FBI’s ‘Niger Uranium Forgeries’ File: There will be no consequences for twisting intelligence to attack Iran.” It was based on his obtaining, through FOIA, and analyzing the 640 pages of FBI records In which he describes then FBI director, Robert Mueller stifled efforts to investigate possible Washington (obviously neocon) links to the forgery of documents ostensibly from Niger purporting to have offered to sell and ship 500 tons of yellow cake uranium that could only have been used in the production of nuclear weapons.
Check out other IRmep c...
2019-08-0135 minIsrael Lobby Damage AssessmentThe IRS ”Taxpayer Advocate” and US charitable funding for illegal settlementsGrant F. Smith, director of research at IRmep, exposes the IRS's long history of aiding and abetting billions of dollars of U.S. charitable contributions flowing through tax-exempt charities into illegal West Bank settlements during a live broadcast with the IRS Taxpayer Advocate.
Check out other IRmep content at https://IRmep.org
2019-08-0119 minIsrael Lobby Damage AssessmentThe FBI’s ‘Niger Uranium Forgeries’ investigation - Stymied by Robert Mueller - Takes on the WorldGrant Smith elaborates on his May 20th article, “”Lesson from FBI’s ‘Niger Uranium Forgeries’ File: There will be no consequences for twisting intelligence to attack Iran.” It was based on his obtaining, through FOIA, and analyzing the 640 pages of FBI records In which he describes how then FBI director, Robert Mueller stifled efforts to investigate possible Washington links to the forgery of documents ostensibly from Niger purporting to have offered to sell and ship 500 tons of yellow cake uranium that could only have been used in the production of nuclear weapons.
2019-06-2735 minIsrael Lobby Damage AssessmentA Brief History of unprosecuted Israeli foreign agent, smuggling and espionage casesGrant F. Smith presentation at the National Summit to Reassess the U.S.-Israel "Special Relationship".
2014-03-2313 min
Corbett Report RadioCorbett Report Radio 214 - Israel's Nuclear Smuggling with Grant F. SmithGrant F. Smith, Research Director for the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy at IRmep.org, joins us to discuss the secret Israeli espionage program that smuggled nuclear materials out of the United States to help start the Israeli nuclear program in the 1960s. We go over the declassified documents tying Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to the smuggling ring, and explore Smith's book, Divert!: NUMEC, Zalman Shapiro and the diversion of US weapons grade uranium into the Israeli nuclear weapons program.
2012-09-0845 minIsrael Lobby Damage AssessmentAIPAC spies will never be prosecutedGrant Smith discusses with INN host Leonard Charles the factors weighing against the AIPAC espionage case making it to trial in April of 2008.
2008-01-0413 minIsrael Lobby Damage AssessmentUN Ceasefire Resolution 1701Grant Smith appeared on WWRL Radio with Dr. Ron Daniels to discuss the UN Ceasefire resolution and new information revealing the attacks on Lebanon as a "dry run" for future attacks on Iran.
Check out other IRmep content at https://IRmep.org
2006-08-1414 minIsrael Lobby Damage AssessmentNeocon Clean Break plan Update - LinkTVGrant Smith appeared on the LinkTV show Viewpoint to discuss IRmep's book "Neocon Middle East Policy: the 'Clean Break' Plan Damage Assessment." Other topics included legal violations of key neoconservative policymakers, flaws in core policy, and how rejection of international law has also diminished respect for domestic US law.
2006-08-1115 minIsrael Lobby Damage AssessmentUS Charitable Contributions, Illegal Settlements, and Suicide TerrorismLaw enforcement briefing at the Russell Senate Office Building "US Charitable Contributions, Illegal Settlements, and Suicide Terrorism."
2005-11-2127 minIsrael Lobby Damage AssessmentThe Gaza Withdrawal and Mythologies of the 1967 Arab Israeli War - Armstrong WilliamsWas the 1967 Arab Israeli war inevitable? What is the true refugee
status of Palestinians? What do the data say about how to
really confront suicide terrorism? Grant Smith clears up common misconceptions in a debate with Armstrong Williams.
2005-11-1000 minIsrael Lobby Damage AssessmentNeocon Clean Break plan or Beirut Declaration? - Jim Greenfield ShowOn November 10, Grant Smith appeared on the Jim Greenfield show to discuss IRmep's book "Neocon Middle East Policy: the 'Clean Break' Plan Damage Assessment." (Available at http://www.irmep.org/cbda.htm) Other topics included tackling the real causes vs the hype factor and rhetoric in the news media's discussion of suicide terrorism, and the Beirut Declaration. Plus all the news, notes, and political nonsense of the week.
2005-11-0538 min