Shows
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 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 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 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 minThe 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 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 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 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
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastRoger Waters: ”The positive impact of artist boycotts targeting Israel and how to educate fans.” 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.
Roger Waters is an English rock musician, singer-songwriter and composer best known for his work with the legendary rock band Pink Floyd. Over the last few years, he has emerged as one of the world’s most prominent advocates for Palestinian human rights and a cultural boycott of Israel.
In June 2009, Waters spoke against the wall Israel built on Palestinian land. Later that year he pledged his support to the Gaza Fr...
2022-06-0900 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastSut Jhally: ”Are US news organizations getting better or worse in their Middle East reporting?” 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.
Sut Jhally is a professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the founder and executive director of the Media Education Foundation. He has won the Distinguished Teacher Award at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where the student newspaper has also voted him "Best Professor." Jhally is the producer of over 40 documentaries on media literacy topics in cultural studies, advertising, media and consumption.
Also the author of six books a...
2022-05-3100 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastRadhika Sainath: ”The Israel lobby’s ongoing attacks on freedom of speech across the U.S. and successful legal challenges.” 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.
Radhika Sainath is a senior staff attorney at Palestine Legal. Her writing has appeared in Jacobin, The Nation and Huffington Post. She's working on her first novel, set in Palestine during the Second Intifada.
She discusses the Israel lobby's ongoing attacks on freedom of speech across the U.S. and successful legal challenges.
Since 2015 the annual IsraelLobbyCon conference series at the National Press Club explores the latest research, innovations a...
2022-05-1441 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastJohn Kiriakou: ”Israel’s negative, disproportionate and widespread influence on the U.S. national security state.” 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.
John Kiriakou is an author, journalist and former CIA officer specializing in the Middle East. He was the first U.S. government official to confirm in December 2007 that waterboarding and other forms of torture were used to interrogate prisoners captured overseas. He was also the first CIA officer to be convicted for passing classified information to a reporter and served a 30 month prison sentence.
He discusses Israel's negative, disproportionate and widespread...
2022-05-0523 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastGideon Levy: ”The nature of democracy and human rights in Israel” 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.
Gideon Levy is a columnist for the Israeli daily Haaretz, which he joined in 1982. He spent four years as the newspaper’s deputy editor and is currently a member of its editorial board. He is widely considered the “dean” of Israeli journalism—as well as “the most hated man in Israel.” As Levy has written, “Treating the Palestinians as victims and the crimes perpetrated against them as crimes is considered treasonous.”
He discusses the...
2022-04-221h 10
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastRev. Don Wagner: ”The widespread influence of Christian Zionism and growing backlash inside American churches.” 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.
Rev. Dr. Don Wagner recently retired as national program director of Friends of Sabeel-North America. Prior to that he was a professor of Middle East studies at North Park University, where he was also the director of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies. During the 1980s he was the national director of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign. An ordained Presbyterian minister, Rev. Wagner has served churches in New Jersey and Evanston, IL. He...
2022-04-1347 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastHuwaida Arraf: ”Why I’m running for the U.S. Congress” - 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.
Longtime Palestinian human rights activist and civil rights attorney Huwaida Arraf explains why she is running for the U.S. Congress.
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.
2022-04-0219 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastEdward Ahmed Mitchell: ”How American groups working for human rights can take measures against joint Israel/lobby espionage and infiltration operations”. 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.
Edward Ahmed Mitchell is an attorney and former journalist who serves as the deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States.
He discusses how CAIR fought back against an infiltration campaign by Steven Emmerson's "Investigative Project on Terrorism" which was also tasked by Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Israel to produce opposition research against Students for Justice in Palestine. ...
2022-03-2544 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastJeanne Trabulsi: ”The fight against an Israeli human rights violator” 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.
Jeanne Trabulsi, coordinator of the Virginia Coalition for Human Rights "eject Energix" committee explains why Energix Renewable Energies Ltd. was listed on the UNHCR list of human rights violators in "category G," how it obtained undue influence in Virginia, and how taxpayers are unwittingly subsidizing Energix.
She concludes by summarizing how Energix is manifesting its worst practices from overseas, and how Virginia communities are fighting back.
Since 2015 the annual I...
2022-03-1812 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastJeanne Trabulsi: ”The fight against Israeli propaganda in Virginia textbooks” 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.
Jeanne Trabulsi, coordinator of the Virginia Coalition for Human Rights education committee, reveals how Israeli affinity organizations insert Israeli propaganda into textbooks behind the scenes. She outlines the role of the Institute for Curriculum Studies, an entity housed inside an Israeli public relations organization. Finally, she reveals how VCHR has pushed back so that ICS recommendations were not included in textbook updates while outlining strategies other state human rights groups can take to...
2022-03-1516 min
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
Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews1/27/22 Grant F. Smith on Next Month’s Israel Lobby ConferenceScott is joined by Grant F. Smith to discuss the Israel Lobby Conference taking place on March 3rd and 4th. The annual conference is returning to a live venue but will provide remote viewing options as well. Smith and Scott discuss the speakers and agenda for the event.
Discussed on the show:
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Grant F. Smith is the author of a number of books including Big Israel: How Israel’s Lobby Moves America, Divert!, and most recently The Israel Lobby Enters State Government: Rise of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board. He is director of t...
2022-02-0325 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastCan America’s “Special Relationship” with Israel Endure? Dr. Walter HixsonThe distinguished historian and WRMEA columnist Dr. Walter L. Hixson discussed the unique and distinctive aspects of the US-Israel "special relationship." What assumptions underpinning the “special relationship” traditionally fit neatly into America's own history and national identity, such as "manifest destiny," "chosen" peoplehood, vanquishing the "savage" and settler colonialism? How did the rise of the formidable Israel lobby--by far the most powerful lobby representing a foreign nation in American history—exploit that identity to win the tiny nation of Israel more US military assistance and unconditional diplomatic support than any other country in the world? Now that Americans are grappl...
2022-01-211h 07
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 min
The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastSusan Abulhawa "Israeli Apartheid, an Introduction" - 4/17/2021 IsraelApartheidConSusan Abulhawa is a Palestinian American poet and writer, the author of the international bestselling novel, Mornings in Jenin. Her second novel, The Blue Between Sky and Water, was sold in 19 languages before its release. Her latest novel, Against The Loveless World, is a Palestine Book Awards Winner.
Abulhawa is also an activist, and the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, an NGO upholding the right to play for Palestinian children. She recently launched Aida, a private label olive oil from Palestinian farmers, to raise funds to build more playgrounds.
Susan Abulhawa described why Israel is...
2021-04-1821 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! PodcastBest of Delinda Hanley: "Why Talking about the Israel Lobby Matters."This talk is from the 2019 IsraelLobbyCon at the National Press Club
Delinda Hanley is the executive director and news editor at the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Before joining the magazine in 1996, Hanley spent decades in the Middle East, studying in Lebanon, volunteering with the Peace Corps, and later working in Oman and Saudi Arabia.
From 1990 to 1996 Hanley worked as a researcher, editor and writer for Empire Press (now Weider History Group) and Sovereign Media.
Hanley writes for the Washington Report on an array of topics, including Muslim- and Arab-American politics and c...
2021-04-0211 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastBest of Huwaida Arraf: "The situation of Arab citizens of Israel: Views of an Arab citizen of Israel"This talk is from the 2015 IsraelLobbyCon at the National Press Club
Huwaida Arraf is a Palestinian-American lawyer and human rights advocate. As the daughter of an Israeli-born Palestinian, she is also a citizen of Israel. Arraf received her Bachelors degree from the University of Michigan, and her Juris Doctor from the American University Washington College of Law, where she focused on international human rights and humanitarian law. In 2001 Arraf co-founded the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), which has twice been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She is co-editor of the book Peace Under Fire: Israel, Palestine, and...
2021-03-2618 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastBest of John Mearsheimer: "What has changed since publication of 'The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy'"This talk is from the 2017 IsraelLobbyCon at the National Press Club
John Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago. In 2007 Professor Mearsheimer coauthored The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (with Stephen M. Walt), which made the New York Times best seller list and has been translated into 22 languages. Professor Mearsheimer addressed what, if anything, has changed in the decade since The Israel Lobby was published, subsequent findings, foreign policy choices the U.S. makes that it o...
2021-03-1851 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastBest of Clayton Swisher: "Undercover Investigative Journalism about the Israel lobby."This talk is from the 2017 IsraelLobbyCon at the National Press Club.
Clayton E. Swisher is an American journalist and author, who worked as the director of investigative journalism for the Al Jazeera Media Network in Doha, Qatar. Swisher, a former marine reservist and federal criminal investigator, was educated at the University of Pittsburgh and Georgetown University. In 2004 Swisher's first book The Truth About Camp David, was published to favorable reviews in Foreign Affairs and the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
In 2016 Swisher managed the six-month undercover investigation that produced Al Jazeera’s four-part series “The Lobby” about AIPAC’...
2021-03-1038 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastBest of Hanan Ashrawi: The Israel Lobby and the "Peace Process" from a Palestinian PerspectiveHanan Ashrawi addressed the Israel lobby and the “Peace Process” at the 2017 "Israel Lobby & American Policy" conference at the National Press Club
Hanan Ashrawi was the first woman to be elected member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 2009. She 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. In 1993 Dr. Ashrawi founded the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens’ Rights (PICCR) to investigate Israeli and Palestinian human rights violat...
2021-03-011h 00The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastBest of Wajahat Ali: Pro-Israel Organizations, Donors And Islamophobia: Findings From "Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America"This speech, Pro-Israel Organizations, Donors And Islamophobia: Findings From "Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America" is from the 2017 IsraelLobbyCon at the National Press Club.
Wajahat Ali is a journalist, writer, lawyer, an award-winning playwright, a TV host, consultant, and Creative Director of Affinis Labs. He was a National Correspondent, Political Reporter, and Social Media Expert for Al Jazeera America. In 2012, Ali worked with the U.S. Department of State to design and implement the “Generation Change” leadership program to empower young social entrepreneurs.
Ali was the lead author and researcher of “Fear I...
2021-02-1936 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastBest of: Susan Abulhawa "Israel: More than Apartheid."This keynote, "Israel more than Apartheid" is from the 2019 IsraelLobbyCon at the National Press Club.
Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian novelist, poet and essayist. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin (Bloomsbury, 2010), became an instant international bestseller and was translated into 28 languages. Her second novel, The Blue Between Sky and Water (Bloomsbury, 2015), has likewise been translated into 26 languages. Abulhawa’s first poetry collection, My Voice Sought The Wind (Just World Books), was published in 2013, and she has contributed to several anthologies. Her third novel will be published first in German and then in Swedish, in the Spring of 2019. The Engli...
2021-02-0357 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastBest of: Maria LaHood “Concerted attempts to silence criticism of Israel in the U.S.”This talk is from the 2016 IsraelLobbyCon at the National Press Club.
Maria LaHood is a Deputy Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, with expertise in constitutional rights and international human rights. She works to defend the constitutional rights of Palestinian human rights advocates in the United States in cases such as Davis v. Cox, defending Olympia Food Co-op board members for boycotting Israeli goods; Salaita v. Kennedy,representing Steven Salaita, who was terminated from a tenured position for tweets critical of Israel; and CCR v. DOD, seeking U.S. government records under the Freedom of...
2021-01-2718 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastBest of: Andrew Kadi "The Palestinian BDS Campaign: What It Is, How It Is Growing, and Why the Efforts to Stop It Will Fail."This talk is from the 2018 IsraelLobbyCon at the National Press Club.
Andrew Kadi is an organizer and Steering Committee member of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights.
Kadi is a blogger at the Electronic Intifada, a member of Al-Shabaka: the Palestinian Policy Network, and has written for or appeared in The Guardian, USA Today, The Forward, TRT, CityLab, Mondoweiss, the New York Daily News, and the BBC.
He has been active for the past 16 years in support of Palestinian rights, mobilizing at the grassroots level and organizing digital campaigns, challenging mainstream media...
2021-01-1931 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! Podcast"Israel Propaganda in the News Media" - UMass Professor Emeritus Sut JhallyUniversity of Massachusetts Professor Emeritus Sut Jhally presented key findings from, and comments on, select clips shown from his 2016 documentary, "The Occupation of the American Mind," which analyzes pro-Israel public relations efforts within the U.S. Featuring leading observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. media, the film explores how the pro-Israel lobby shapes 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 Am...
2021-01-0654 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastBest of: Dr. Roger Mattson “Did Israel steal U.S. weapons-grade uranium, and did it have help from U.S. citizens?”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 reforms. After leaving government service in 1984, he led two private companies that provided safety and security services for U...
2021-01-0123 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastBest of: Dr. Virginia Tilley "Does the U.S. Support an Apartheid State?"Dr. Virginia Tilley, a professor of political science at Southern Illinois University, is co-author of the report, “Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid,” commissioned by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) of the United Nations. The report, co-authored by Prof. Richard Falk, finds that Israel is imposing an “apartheid regime” on Palestinians.
Professor Tilley holds an MA and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MA from the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown. She specializes in the comparative and international politics of ethnic a...
2020-12-2826 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastBest of: Ian Williams "The Israel Lobby and the U.N."Ian Williams, U.N. correspondent for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, is the author of the book UNtold: The Real Story of the United Nations in Peace and War. Mr. Williams is a senior analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus, he was a columnist for The Nation, the Guardian-American online and an editor for the World Policy Journal. Williams has won many awards for his exposés of U.N. malfeasance, as well as supporting and defending the U.N. He has personally known four secretaries general, and innumerable diplomats and officials worldwide.
Williams has c...
2020-12-2420 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! Podcast"American Jews and Israel: A Faltering Relationship" with Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb and Allan BrownfeldRabbi Lynn Gottlieb, an organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace, described Jewish Zionism as a failing ideology for many younger American Jews who reject Israel’s oppressive occupation policies and bellicose actions toward Iran, as well as the relationship between U.S. and Israeli militarism. But how will this impact their future as activists in electoral politics? Will they remain mostly captive to the Democratic Party, voicing opposition while accepting candidates captured and mentored by AIPAC?
Allan C. Brownfeld, American Council for Judaism, discussed the growing disillusionment of American Jews, and some Israelis, with the Jewish state an...
2020-12-221h 00The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastBest of: Richard Falk "How Pro-Israel NGOs Weaken and Discredit the UN"Richard Anderson Falk is professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University. He is the author or co-author of 20 books and the editor or co-editor of another 20 volumes, including Achieving Human Rights, Israel-Palestine on Record: How the New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East with Howard Friel, and The Costs of War: International Law, the UN, and World Order after Iraq.
In 2001 Falk served on a United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Inquiry Commission for the Palestinian territories with John Dugard, a South African professor of international law based in Leiden University in the Net...
2020-12-2022 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! PodcastBest of: Gideon Levy "What I would tell a visiting congressional delegation."Gideon Levy is a journalist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, and is widely considered the “dean” of Israeli journalism.
His columns about politics, money, how Israel's military occupation is changing Israeli society and about U.S.-Israel relations are widely read and discussed around the world.
Video of Levy’s presentation at last year’s (2015) conference has gone viral and received over 200,000 views.
Levy will outline what politicians, members of Congress and media elites visiting Israel should know about the situation on the ground—as opposed to what they are told on hundreds of junkets or...
2020-12-1652 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! Podcast"Coercing Arab Nations to Establish Relations with Israel" - As'ad AbuKhalilAs'ad AbuKhalil professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus describes the downsides of the US coercing Arab countries to normalize relations with Israel.
The Israel lobby and U.S. mainstream media both hail the recent "normalization" between Israel, the UAE, Bahrain and Sudan as major accomplishments. Not so, says Professor AbuKhalil. Sudan, "long a battleground for Cold War intrigues," agreed to recognize Israel in return for Washington lifting debilitating sanctions. Key regional powers, such as Saudi Arabia with its 2002 peace plan, long demanded that Israel withdraw from Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem in r...
2020-12-091h 21The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! Podcast"Christian Zionism and Settler Colonialism" Reverend Don WagnerRev. Donald E. Wagner, is the author of “Zionism and the Quest for Justice in the Holy Land.” Until recently, historical and political accounts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have ignored or understated the influence of Christian Zionism in British and U.S. policy in the Middle East. Reverend Wagner examined Christian Zionism in relation to Britain’s 1917 Balfour Declaration during the British Empire and how “Manifest Destiny” and settler colonialism have influenced attitudes about Middle East policy in the United States.
Christians United for Israel (CUFI) has proclaimed itself the largest pro-Israel lobby in the United States. With its i...
2020-11-2554 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! Podcast"Settler Colonialism from America to Palestine" Distinguished Professor Walter HixsonWalter Hixson is the author of a half-dozen books on the history of U.S. foreign relations. He has taught history for 36 years and is currently distinguished professor of history at the University of Akron. His most recent books are "American Settler Colonialism: A History" (2013) and "Israel's Armor: The Israel Lobby and the First Generation of the Palestine Conflict." (2019).
Hixson answered 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, u...
2020-11-2457 minThe Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! Podcast“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...
2020-11-1900 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...
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