The Israel lobby built its strength on the fact that its opposition was politically weak. Kamala Harris’s choice of Tim Walz over Josh Shapiro and the massive cost it took to defeat Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush show this is no longer the case.
Promising signs that Palestine advocacy is building political power in Washington
In sum, Gaza Solidarity Encampments across the colony have exposed our corrupt, wage-theft-riddled, million-dollar-VC-run universities as the hypocritical institutions they are. Our universities are institutions run by corrupt, overpaid, incompetent racists, that stand on stolen land and are dependent on unethical investments and an underpaid and overworked workforce.
The Business: Lobbying for Israel can be lucrative.
As the European Union’s only directly elected institution, the European Parliament serves as democratic figleaf to a system which is generally opaque and unaccountable. Remove the figleaf and you will see that many lawmakers are beholden to pressure groups.
Source: Time for outrage over Israel’s meddling in European affairs | The Electronic Intifada
AIPAC is an unregistered foreign agent influencing American Democracy
Pro-Israel donors threw nearly $220,000 behind a Portland, Oregon, congressional candidate in a single day this week — the latest indication that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, is working to block her opponent who has called for a ceasefire in Gaza and for conditions to be placed on U.S. aid to Israel.
The fundraiser adds to a $580,000 haul Maxine Dexter reported raising in just the month of April, after her entire campaign previously had raised only $340,000 since December. Beyond her own money, Dexter is on track to be boosted by upward of $3 million in dark-money spending, which similarly has ties to pro-Israel donors.
The ads against Jayapal funded by “Voters for Responsive Government” are brutal, and pin Portland’s homelessness crisis on her as a former member of the Multnomah County Commission. They even accuse her of “starving and abusing cats and dogs.” There is no reference in any of the ads to Israel or Gaza, where Israel is currently starving 2 million people.
Source: AIPAC and GOP Donors Raise Big Money Against Susheela Jayapal
$26 B Israel aid, $14.5 B Military $11.5 B free to do as they want Vs Gaza and Bidn threatening nonsense
The blanket suspension of student protesters casts “serious doubt on the University’s respect for the rule-of-law values that we teach,” 54 law professors wrote.
Source: Columbia Law School Faculty Condemn Administration for Mass Arrests
Max Blumenthal discussed the crisis within the Democratic Party as the party grassroots revolts against President Joe Biden’s vehement support for Israel’s rampage in the besieged Gaza Strip, where at least 30,000 have been killed to date – mostly women and children.
Blumenthal points the finger at the Democratic Party establishment for crushing any and all iterations of antiwar politics, and illustrates how its most prominent figures have been bought off by the Israel lobby.
‘The Genocide Democrats’ — Max Blumenthal Speaks at Woman’s National Democratic Club – ScheerPost
The question that needs to be asked is AIPAC their focus
Source: FBI Warns Gaza War Will Stoke Domestic Radicalization “For Years to Come” – The Intercept
The European Leadership Network’s goal is to make lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic equally beholden to Israel. Its website notes that while 80 percent of US Congress members have visited Israel, “only 10 percent of European counterparts have done so.”
To rectify that imbalance, the group regularly organizes junkets to the Middle East. Since 7 October, it has hosted 12 “solidarity missions” for politicians who approve of the genocidal war against Gaza.
Source: Bloodthirst of Israel lobby can’t be quenched | The Electronic Intifada
Israel says “Jump ” Biden says “How High?” This is a case of the “Tail Wagging the Dog” Or is simply “A Tale Wagging the Dog?” The LOBBY & AIPAC certainly are!
Biden cut aid on the advice of ISRAEL?
In December, UNRWA announced that Israel’s onslaught against Gaza had killed 142 employees of the organization.
The State Department paused additional funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) after the Israeli government accused 12 UNRWA workers of being involved in the October 7 Hamas attack.
The Lobby at Work. Foreign interference is decried if by Russia. Celebrated if by Israel. Almost war if by China. But a legitimate tool if secretly applied by America to your country and it has been globally for years
Is Alan Dershowitz untouchable? His relationship with Jeffrey Epstein declared a misidentification 137 times, His plagiarism a misunderstanding, An Israeli Lobby operative, falsely accused
However
The push to oust Liz Magill began when the university hosted a festival celebrating Palestinian literature.
“It was just so eye-opening to me that something as simple as a literature festival could be so threatening to pro-Israel supporters,” said Marie Kelly, a board member for Palestine Writes. The festival was a historic celebration and affirmation of Palestinian culture, Kelly said. “That’s not anything that any pro-Israel academic, millionaire, or politician can take away.”
Source: Pro-Israel Effort to Smear Penn President Started Well Before Oct. 7
The LOBBY is in full action along with its donees and donors does anyone imagine Palestinians can generate that kind of organized power and influence? Israel pretends to be merely the tip of the iceberg when it’s the full-blown bottom.
Israel is mounting a full-court press to prevent an ICJ finding that it’s committing genocide in Gaza. On January 4, the Israeli Foreign Ministry instructed its embassies to pressure politicians and diplomats in their host countries to make statements opposing South Africa’s case at the ICJ.
Source: Israel Is Terrified the World Court Will Decide It’s Committing Genocide | The Smirking Chimp
Al Jazeera even admitted to planting an undercover reporter inside U.S. pro-Israel lobby groups in 2017, but the channel never broadcast the final product.
The Israeli and American flags are screened on the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, on May 13, 2018, ahead of the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. (Yontan Sindel/Flash90)The Israeli and American flags are screened on the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, on May 13, 2018, ahead of the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. (Yontan Sindel/Flash90)
Director and founder of Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit, Clayton Swisher, has detailed the political reasons for this decision: a combination of Qatari government capitulation, pro-Israel lobbyists in Washington threatening to convince Congress to register the network as “foreign agents,” and false accusations of anti-Semitism against the producers of the documentary. A source told me that U.S. President Donald Trump’s first Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, had even lobbied the Qataris not to screen the film. Whatever exactly Israeli, American, and pro-Zionist lobbyists did, it worked, though clips of the film started leaking in the last months. The full film can’t be far behind.
The leaks prove that the Israeli embassy, often working with pro-Israel groups, spies on pro-Palestinian students and attempts to disrupt the growth of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement across the U.S. Other Zionist lobbyists want students who support Palestinian rights to be criminally prosecuted. Fake Facebook accounts are created by Israel lobby groups that only occasionally mention Israel, because the Israel brand has become so toxic. The notorious Canary Mission website, used by the Israel government to target pro-Palestinian supporters on arrival in its country, is exposed as being funded by major pro-Israel donors in the U.S.
via New Al Jazeera film uncovers ‘rotting foundation’ of U.S. Israel lobby
While the full documentary has been censored for now, those who have seen the entire documentary during a private viewing have concluded that details uncovered by the Aljazeera journalist show examples of possible illegal Israeli spying on US citizens and the lobby’s fear of a changing political mood.
via Aljazeera Documentary: Israel Lobbies Staging Fake Rallies, Spying on Americans
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