The Israel lobby: A List

The pro-Israel special interest group is one of the most significant and pervasive special interest groups in the United States. It consists of numerous institutions and individuals that work to influence Congress, the president, academia, the media, religious institutions, and American public opinion on behalf of Israel. It has been active in the U.S. for many decades.

Below is a partial list, in no particular order, of groups and individuals that publicly support Israel.

Some of these are official lobbying groups whose primary purpose is to lobby governmental officials for pro-Israel policies. Others are groups or individuals that work to influence the media, academia and/or others in a pro-Israel direction. Some do this full-time; others as one portion of a diverse array of activities. While they span the political spectrum and range from hardcore supporters of the Israeli right to liberal critics of some Israeli policies, all support Israel.

We will continue to update and add entities to this very incomplete list as staffing and time allow.

We have been creating this roster for a number of years, so some links below may now be broken, and some information may need to be updated; we are working to fix these.

Below this list are some recommended books and additional resources on the Israel lobby.

https://israelpalestinenews.org/the-israel-lobby-a-list/

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Christian Zionism, was suggested by Israeli government officials. A major backer is hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer. It is a project of two nonprofit organizations: Museum of the Bible and the Philos Project.

• The Jewish Agency for Israel: The name is often shortened to just “The Jewish Agency.” According to its website, founded in 1929, this links “Jews around the world with Israel as the focal point… ” Major activities include Jewish Zionist education and building a global Jewish community. “In addition to extensive programs in Israel, it operates in close to 80 countries on five continents through a network of over 450 emissaries, including hundreds of formal and informal educators. The world Jewish community participates in the Jewish Agency’s decision-making process through the Assembly, its supreme governing body, and its Board of Governors, which is responsible for policy making and oversight.” The Jewish Federations of North American are a fundraising partner, with individual Jewish Federations from numerous American cities listed. (Below is a list of Jewish Federations that work for Israel.)

• Young Judaea: According to its website, the organization was founded in 1909 and is “the oldest Zionist youth movement in the United States.” It brings young people to Israel and also has numerous summer camps in the US that serve to “instill a lifelong love” of Israel. It’s annual budget is approximately $200,000.

• American Friends of Likud: According to its website, AFL “has developed unparalleled relationships with the Likud [a right-wing Israeli political party] Ministers and Members of Knesset as well as other Israeli dignitaries and policy and opinion makers. Our programs feature these individuals as guest speakers, lecturers and educators. Our special relationships with Israel’s leaders, dignitaries, journalists, etc. have been developed over the years and are based on a mutual belief in a right-leaning Likud philosophy.” Based in New York City, it is a has an annual budget of approximately $300,000. AFLis reported to be “one of hundreds of ‘Friends of’ Israel organizations in the US – all 501c3 tax-exempt charities raising funds to send to their parent organizations in Israel.”

• American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) [Jewish Virtual Library]: This nonprofit organization was established in 1993, according to its website, in order to “strengthen the U.S.-Israel relationship.” Its principal publication is Myths & Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict. It also works to fight “the delegitimization of Israel,” producing materials to oppose the BCS campaign and publishing the StopBDS.com website. There seem to be a number of AICE branches. The one in Chevy Chase assets of almost $11 million as of 2013. Its leader is Mitchell Bard. The organization sometimes funds professorson US campuses.

• The Israel Allies Foundation: Its website states: “Pioneered by MK Rabbi Binyamin Elon, the Israel Allies Foundation (IAF) works with Congress and parliaments around the world to mobilize political support for Israel based on Judeo-Christian values.” Officially titled International Israel Allies Caucus Foundation, it coordinates similar caucuses in 35 countries and has approximately $2 million in resources.

• Americans United with Israel: The American branch of the international organization United with Israel, which states that it is “a global community comprised of individuals who are deeply committed to the success and prosperity of Israel. Our primary mission is to build a massive network of pro-Israel activists and to educate and promote unity with the People, Country and Land of Israel.” It is a tax-exempt organization. 2014 revenue was $590,000. It’s head is Kaylene Ladinsky, associate publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times.

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• World Jewish Congress: The World Jewish Congress is an international organization representing Jews in 100 countries. Supporting Israel is one of the key components of its mission. Although its global finances are unknown, its US offices have an annual revenue of $5,521,674.

• Friends of Aish Hatorah: Aish Hatora, Hebrew for “fire of the Torah,” is an Orthodox Jewish organization founded in 1974 and headquartered in Jerusalem. The group is known for a number of pro-Israel programs, including The Theodore Herzl Mission, which brings heads of state to Israel for one week each year. They also have a program called the Hasbara Fellowship, where people can come from around the world to learn how to effectively engage in pro-Israel propaganda. The group has also been linked to the distribution of an anti-Islamic propaganda film during the 2008 American presidential campaign. Because Aish Hatora is based in Jerusalem with various global branches, the details of their funding are unknown.

• Chabad: Chabad-Lubavitch, based on an 18th century Hasidic movement, is one of the the largest Jewish organizations in the world. It is a fervent supporter of Israel. One Chabad Rabbi has encouraged Jewish people to kill “Arab men, women, and children.” Chabad sometimes openly teaches that “the soul of the Jew is different than the soul of the non-Jew.” The group has a reported net worth of $1 billion dollars.

• Republican Jewish Coalition: The Republican Jewish Coalition Jewish is a lobbying group whose mission statement includes the “embrace of pro-Israel foreign policy.” The RJC maintains close links to the Likud party of Israel. They also control a Super Pac, which has upward of 2 million dollars in their war chest. Their Annual revenue is $10,067,507. The vast majority of their funding comes from various organizations.

• National Jewish Democratic Council: The National Jewish Democratic Council is a group dedicated to maximising Jewish support for the Democrat party, increasing support for “Jewish domestic and foreign policy priorities,” and “secur[ing] a democratic Jewish state in Israel.” NJDC supports Likud policies and pushes for a hawkish stance against Iran, urging the President of the United States to “stand with Israel.” Its annual income is $1,161,195 and is funded by private individuals.

• Foundation for Defense of Democracies: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies is an international organization whose claimed goal is “fighting terrorism and promoting freedom” and “defend[ing] free nations from their enemies.” It developed from the educational initiative Emet, which was created to “win American sympathy for Israel’s response to the Palestinian intifada.” While its mission may appear neutral, the organization is dedicated to promoting the security of Israel. Among its other projects is the Iran Project, which revolves around “supporting energy sanctions.” It is funded largely by private individuals’ donations. Its annual income is$7,267,839.

JINSA: JINSA is a non-profit organization whose mandate includes promoting a “a strong U.S. military, a robust national security policy, and a strong U.S. security relationship with Israel…” Their total revenue is $3,332,140 from contributions and program services.

• Saban Center at Brookings: The Saban Center for Middle East Policy is part of the Brookings Institute. Its mission statement includes a two-state solution for Israel/ Palestine. “Ardent Zionist” Haim Saban, a former AIPAC official, funds the institute.

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Total: 14,076 employees, 353,337 volunteers, 2012 revenue $3.7 billion, Projected 2020 revenue 6.3 billion

Influential Pro-Israel Individuals

• Daniel Shapiro, past US Ambassador to Israel, gave a speech in which he detailed his extremely close, life-long ties to Israel, concluding: “[A]s a committed Jewish American, with deep roots in the American Jewish community and warm bonds of affection with Israel, I will have an opportunity to draw on those associations to help make the U.S.-Israel relationship, strong as it is, even stronger in the years ahead.” He stated that “ensuring Israel’s future” drives all US policies. See “US Ambassador: Support for Israel drives all US policies”

According to Wikipedia: Shapiro served as a professional staff member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, he was a legislative assistant and senior foreign policy adviser to Senator Dianne Feinstein, he sat on the National Security Council under President Bill Clinton, he was deputy chief of staff (primarily on foreign policy issues) for U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, he was vice president of the Washington, D.C., lobbying firm Timmons & Company, served as an advisor to then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama on Middle East and Jewish community also assisting as strategist and fundraiser, accompanied Obama on his July 2008 trip to Israel; In January 2009, Shapiro was appointed senior director for the Middle East and North Africa of the U.S. National Security Council. Focusing on Israel, he attended every Israel-related meeting, and met with every senior Israeli diplomat and military officer who visited Washington, D.C. Shapiro often accompanied U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George J. Mitchell on his trips to the region, and played a central role in talks regarding the Middle East Peace Process and the strengthening of military cooperation between the U.S. and Israel. He maintained close relations with Benyamin Netanyahu, in spite of tensions between the Israeli prime minister and President Obama.[14] Shapiro took leave of the President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, on January 17, 2017 before holding his final meeting with Netanyahu two days later, which one newspaper described as a “terse farewell.”After concluding his service as ambassador to Israel, Shapiro became a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (Israel) at Tel Aviv University.

• Howard Berman, Democratic Congressman from California, acknowledged in a 2008 interview with the Forward, “Even before I was a Democrat, I was a Zionist.” He went on to explain that “an interest in the Jewish state” was one of the main reasons he first sought a seat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, where he is the top Democrat. Berman, who is known as “the Congressman from Hollywood,” also told the Forward, “He is particularly keen on getting the House more involved in Iran-related issues.”

• Martin Indyk, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel (he was naturalized as an American citizen before being nominated for this position); currently Special Envoy for Israeli Palestinian Negotiations. At one point he had his security clearance revoked, the only time this has happened to a U.S. ambassador. See video.

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Prisoner of Conscience Killed in Forced Organ Harvesting–Daughter Escapes to the United States

Ten police cars accompanied a small group of relatives to view Han Jun Qing’s body. No cameras or reporters were allowed on the premises.

But his daughter, Han Yu, needs no photograph or article to help her recount exactly what she saw that day.

In an interview with Han Yu, she said: “My father’s body was extremely thin. There were wounds on his face. There was tissue missing from under his left eye. His face was bruised green and purple.

“I saw a long knife incision, sewn together with black thread, starting at his throat, and going down until it reached his chest, where his clothes covered the rest. I tried to remove his shirt to see where the cut ended, but the police stopped me and forced me out.”

Only two people at a time were allowed to enter the room where Jun Qing’s body lay cold, supervised by two police officers, while uniformed officials surrounded the complex outside.

“Later, my aunt and uncle went in, and forced the buttons of his shirt open. They saw that the incision reached from his neck all the way down to his abdomen—a very obvious knife wound.

“They pressed down on his stomach, and found that the inside of his abdomen had no organs—it was full of ice. So his body took twice the time as normal to cremate compared to the average male body.”

At the time, the world did not yet know that the Chinese Communist Party was secretly practicing forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience—a practice that has continued unabated to the present day.

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https://www.theepochtimes.com/prisoner-of-conscience-killed-in-forced-organ-harvesting-daughter-escapes-to-the-united-states_2801108.html

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Gulf states’ warm, secret embrace of Israel exposed

The Jerusalem Post published two letters in recent weeks directly addressing the crown princes of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The first, published in mid-January, is penned by Meidan Bar, chair of the Israeli Airline Pilots Association.

Bar, who was a pilot in the Israeli air force, invited Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman to visit Israel and send a Saudi delegation to an Israeli aviation conference in May.

The second, written by Joel Rosenberg, a Christian Zionist and US-Israeli dual citizen, invites Abu Dhabi crown prince Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to visit Israel.

In November, Rosenberg led a delegation of Christian evangelicals and pro-Israel American figures to Riyadh to meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.

Whether Abu Dhabi’s Mohamed bin Zayed will take up Rosenberg’s invitation is unclear, but it would not be the first time the crown prince would speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Rift in covert relations

According to a report by Barak Ravid for Israel’s Channel 10, the two leaders spoke by phone several times between 2015 and 2016, following years of covert relations between the two countries.

This includes intelligence collaboration against Iran, arms sales and technology exchanges.

Ravid traces the history of the collaboration back a decade, when the failure of a secret arms deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates led to a two-year rift in covert relations.

In February 2009, Israel lobby stalwart and former US “peace process” diplomat Dennis Ross, UAE ambassador to Washington Yousef Al Otaiba and Israeli ambassador Sallai Meridor met in secret at a Washington hotel, Ravid reported.

Al Otaiba and Meridor wanted to convey their countries’ mutual concern to Ross over the Obama administration’s intention to open dialogue with Iran.

“There was concern, anxiety, and common interests between Israel and the Arab countries regarding Iran,” Meridor told Ravid.

In July that year, two senior Obama administration officials flew to Abu Dhabi to meet bin Zayed, who said he shared Israel’s outlook about Iran.

“I agree with Israeli intelligence about the progress of the Iranian nuclear program. The Israelis are going to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities sooner than you think. Probably this year. The Iranians will react with rocket fire first of all against us,” bin Zayed said, according to a telegram at the time.

The same year, Meir Dagan, the late army general and head of the Mossad under several prime ministers, proposed to newly appointed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that an Israeli company sell drones to the UAE in exchange for collaboration on Iran.

“The Mossad serves as the foreign ministry of Israel in relation to all those countries with which there are no diplomatic relations,” Dov Weisglass, a former senior advisor to the late Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, told Ravid.

It is unclear whether Netanyahu gave the green light before or after the deal was finalized with the Israeli company. Either way, the UAE paid tens of millions of dollars to the company before the Israeli defense ministry learned of the deal, which it vehemently opposed, and canceled.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190215-israel-threatens-to-attack-iran-bases-in-iraq/

Israel threatens to attack Iran bases in Iraq

Israel’s military intelligence has said that “Iran may use Iraq as a launching pad to target Israel, which would call for a response from Tel Aviv”.

“Israeli airstrikes against Iranian forces in Syria may prompt Iranians to build military and missile facilities,” it said in its annual assessment, adding: “This situation will require Israel to intensify its intelligence efforts in Iraq, with the possibility of taking operational steps there if Iranian proliferation becomes a military threat”.

Israel’s Makan website published a summary of a report, which said that Iran was withdrawing its forces in Syria from areas near the occupied Golan Heights, which lies between Syria and Israel.

According to the assessment, Iran may take “provocative steps” in the nuclear field in an attempt to force the international community to lift economic sanctions imposed on it.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and army commanders have recently confirmed that many Iranian military targets were bombed in Syria, pledging to continue airstrikes against Iranian-backed forces in the country.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190215-israel-threatens-to-attack-iran-bases-in-iraq/

California Man Pleads Guilty to Sexually Exploiting Minor He Met While Playing “Clash Of Clans”

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/california-man-pleads-guilty-sexually-exploiting-minor-he-met-while-playing-clash-clans

Former President and Former Chief Legal Officer of Publicly Traded Fortune 200 Technology Services Company Indicted in Connection with Alleged Multi-Million Dollar Foreign Bribery Scheme

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-president-and-former-chief-legal-officer-publicly-traded-fortune-200-technology

Pelosi, Schumer hammer 'unlawful' emergency declaration

The top Democrats on Capitol Hill wasted little time Friday bashing President Trump's decision to declare a national emergency at the southern border, portraying the move as "unlawful" and vowing to take quick action to block it.

Asserting that there is no security crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) warned that Trump's maneuver tramples the Constitution's clear-cut separation of powers while threatening to drain funds from programs more vital to public safety and national security.

“The President’s unlawful declaration over a crisis that does not exist does great violence to our Constitution and makes America less safe, stealing from urgently needed defense funds for the security of our military and our nation," Pelosi and Schumer said in a statement.

"This is plainly a power grab by a disappointed President, who has gone outside the bounds of the law to try to get what he failed to achieve in the constitutional legislative process."

Moments earlier, speaking from the White House Rose Garden, Trump had declared a national emergency at the border in order to sidestep Congress and liberate funds from other programs to launch new construction of the long-promised wall that was central to his 2016 campaign.

“It’s a great thing to do because we have an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people,” Trump said.

The move was highly expected. Just a day earlier, the president had announced that he would reluctantly sign an enormous spending bill to avert a second government shutdown — a package that excluded the billions of dollars he had requested for the wall — but would compensate the difference by declaring a national emergency, thereby charging ahead with the wall construction without explicit approval from Congress.

The strategy has been widely panned by lawmakers of both parties, as even many of Trump's Republican supporters have framed the move as an act of executive overreach — a common GOP criticism of the Obama administration.

Yet Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), wary of Republicans suffering the political fallout of another shutdown, vowed to support the emergency declaration in order to get Trump's signature on the spending package.

The Democratic leaders minced no words in proclaiming the pronouncement unconstitutional. They're eyeing resolutions to block the declaration legislatively, as well as possible legal challenges that could tie Trump's hands for months.

“The President’s actions clearly violate the Congress’s exclusive power of the purse, which our Founders enshrined in the Constitution," Pelosi and Schumer said.

"The Congress will defend our constitutional authorities in the Congress, in the Courts, and in the public, using every remedy available."

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/430216-pelosi-schumer-hammer-unlawful-emergency-declaration

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There's many videos of IsraelAid being one of the main NGO's bringing the refugees into Europe also

Even for Washington, the Fight Over Online Gambling Has Been Unusually Shady

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., talked to U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein “several times” about changing the Justice Department’s interpretation of a law that banned interstate betting, he told The Intercept. A 2011 Justice Department analysis of that law effectively legalized online gambling; last month, the department reversed that opinion.

“I’ve been pushing this from the day it came out under the Obama administration,” Graham said. “Sen. [Dianne] Feinstein and myself have been asking for them to change this absurd interpretation because it leads to the Wild Wild West.” Asked whether he’d spoken to then-Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, who had recused himself from the issue, about it, Graham, in a brief interview in the Capitol, said, “I don’t know.” (On Thursday, the Senate confirmed William Barr as attorney general, replacing Whitaker.)

In 2011, the Department of Justice issued a legal opinion clarifying that the Wire Act, a federal law passed in 1961 to stop interstate betting, applied only to sports betting and not other forms of gambling. This announcement opened the doors for states to begin legalizing online gambling — now an industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Last week, The Intercept reported on the Justice Department’s recent reversal of its 2011 stance, a long-sought cause of Sheldon Adelson, the Republican billionaire casino mogul. The new Justice Department interpretation was released in the middle of the government shutdown, on January 14, the night before U.S. Attorney General nominee William Barr’s confirmation hearing.

Graham himself has been the Senate sponsor for the Restoration of America’s Wire Act, or RAWA, legislation that would effectively ban all forms of online gambling, since 2014. His advocacy on the issue coincided with an increase in political contributions from Adelson. In 2015, when Graham announced that he would run for president, it was widely understood that Adelson’s largess would be key to his campaign strategy.

In 2017, Graham and Feinstein, a California Democrat who had previously co-sponsored Graham’s RAWA legislation, wrote to Rosenstein urging him to overturn the Justice Department’s 2011 opinion.

As The Intercept previously reported, the deputy attorney general had wanted little to do with the gambling brouhaha, according to people close to him. “We’ve checked in over the last two years with Rod Rosenstein, and he’s consistently said he has no interest in this issue, that there’s more important issues going on,” said one gaming industry executive who opposes the ban. The Justice Department did not return a request for comment on Rosenstein’s involvement.

https://theintercept.com/2019/02/15/online-gambling-justice-department-wire-act/

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Lots of projection shows they are nervous

While Pompeo Pouts In Poland, Putin Pushes Peace In Syria

In the end, the Neocons in D.C. and Tel Aviv are showing real desperation in summoning everyone to Poland while having almost no support for the intended policy, war with Iran.

f there was ever a Valentine’s Day which highlight the stark differences to diplomacy between the U.S. and Russia it is this one.

In Warsaw, the U.S. cajoled some sixty countries, many of them Arab, to send representatives only to be scolded like schoolchildren by Vice President Mike Pence for undermining the drive for war with Iran.

Mike Pompeo, for his part, showed no signs of shame or remorse after his public rebuke by Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto.

Szijjarto retorted to Pompeo’s lecturing that “the world is not going to be a better place if some countries spend their time intervening in the internal political affairs of other countries.” He insisted that Budapest can have transparent relations with Moscow and Beijing and the West, and said it was an “enormous hypocrisy” that Hungary is singled out for its ties with Moscow.

He then went to Poland with the intention of whipping up support for a war with Iran. But not to actually call it that. Until Benjamin Netanyahu arrived with fever dreams on his lips.

As Moon of Alabama pointed out, this was a huge slap for Pompeo, whose staff kept trying to downplay the anti-Iran nature of the Poland fiasco to make it more palatable for media consumption.

By claiming that the conference is about waging war on Iran Netanyahoo is not only embarrassing the State Department and Secretary Mike Pompeo. He also makes it extremely difficult for other attendees to justify their presence. The Arabs will be especially furious that they are shown in such an open alliance with Israel and its hostility against Iran. Scheming with Israel in the dark is fine. But being publicly associated with a war mongering Israel is difficult to sell to their people. It would be unsurprising to see some of them leave.

http://theduran.com/while-pompeo-pouts-in-poland-putin-pushes-peace-in-syria/

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