This is the Forward’s coverage of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby group.
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News Sheldon Adelson leaves behind a Jewish philanthropic empire. What’s next?
Love him or hate him, Sheldon Adelson’s impact on the Jewish nonprofit world cannot be overstated. Adelson, the casino magnate who died Tuesday at 87 of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, is best known as the top political contributor in the country, donating more than $218 million to Republican campaigns in the 2020 election cycle alone. But he…
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Fast Forward AIPAC’s biggest Democratic allies break ranks to publicly oppose Israeli annexation
Top congressional Democrats have issued multiple public statements Thursday and Friday expressing their opposition to Israel’s plan to annex part of the West Bank. The pro-Israel organization AIPAC has publicly expressed its opposition to such statements, but some of the signatories include the lobby’s most prominent and longstanding Democratic allies. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer…
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News AIPAC finally makes public statement on George Floyd after days of anger from members
Updated June 8 The American Israel Public Affairs Committee released a public statement about the killing of George Floyd on Sunday, after more than a week of internal and then public outrage from volunteers and current and former employees over its silence on the issue up to that point. “On the eve of George Floyd’s…
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Fast Forward AIPAC cancels next year’s policy conference due to COVID
(JTA) — AIPAC has canceled its 2021 policy conference, citing the “continued uncertainties created by the COVID-19 pandemic.” Betsy Korn, the president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, made the announcement in a letter sent to the organization’s membership on Sunday. The annual conference had been scheduled for March 7-9 in Washington, D.C. One…
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News Could the same man have brought coronavirus to both CPAC and AIPAC conferences?
The tens of thousands of devotees who attended last week’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference and the Conservative Political Action Conference at the end of February have all gone back home, bringing with them new ideas about U.S.-Israel relations and strategies for Republican victories in the 2020 election, respectively. Some have also brought…
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Fast Forward AIPAC alerts participants that some were in contact with coronavirus patient
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee alerted the thousands of activists who attended its conference this week that a New York group in attendance had been in contact with someone who has the virus. “To our knowledge, no one who attended the conference has tested positive for coronavirus at this time,” said…
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Fast Forward Sanders, Trump skip AIPAC, but take center stage anyway
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joe Biden made an appearance via video and Mike Bloomberg turned up in person. So did Mike Pence. Even the coronavirus got a shoutout. Despite threats of a boycott by Democrats and anxieties about communicable diseases, this year’s annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was a busy, bustling…
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Fast Forward Mike Pence calls for 4 more years of Trump at AIPAC
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Vice President Mike Pence called for the re-election of President Donald Trump, earning cheers from a crowd of 18,000 Israel activists on hand Monday at AIPAC’s annual policy conference. “The most pro-Israel president in history must not be replaced by one who would be the most anti-Israel president in the history of…
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