This is the Forward’s coverage of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby group.
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Fast Forward Breitbart Senior Editor Invited To Speak At AIPAC Conference
Corrected 3:21pm Joel Pollak, the senior editor-at-large at Breitbart News, attended his first AIPAC Policy Conference when he was in high school. Since then, he has risen in the ranks of Breitbart News, a website that once prided itself on being “the platform for the ‘alt-right,’” a label the publication is now pushing back against….
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Fast Forward Poll Shows Dropping Democratic Support For Israel. Here’s What You Need To Know.
A new Pew Research Center survey published Tuesday highlighted what Israelis and pro-Israel activists in the U.S. have feared for years — Israel is becoming a partisan issue, and the gap between Democrats’ and Republicans’ opinions of Israel is only growing. According to Pew, the partisan divide on Israel has reached a record level, with…
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Opinion Trump Has Handed The Israel Lobby To Evangelicals. That’s Terrifying.
Vice President Mike Pence’s on again, off again visit to Israel is apparently on again for next week, but the actual timing was never the real thing. Pence and other deeply conservative white Christian evangelicals now driving American policy toward Israel and the Palestinians are playing a very long game that extends far beyond one…
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Israel News Evangelicals Led Drive To Name Jerusalem As Capital, AIPAC Stayed On Sidelines
Updated, 4:35 p.m. Addressing his audience on the daily “700 Club” on the Christian Broadcasting Network, veteran televangelist Pat Robertson celebrated President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Israel as the capital of Israel. “In the Six Day War Jews finally took sovereignty over Jerusalem and its absolutely crucial in terms of biblical prophecy that they…
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Israel News Trump’s Poised To Recognize Jerusalem As Israel’s Capital. Here’s 6 Reasons Why You Should Care.
President Trump is about to fulfill one of his top election promises Wednesday, but the plan may threaten to ignite the entire Middle East. Trump famously pledged to move the United States embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. And while the relocation process, which will kick off on Wednesday, will will not be…
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Fast Forward AIPAC Slaps Down Report That It’s Softening On Iran Deal
The pro-Israel lobby AIPAC issued an unusual statement on Monday afternoon, pushing back against a report a right-wing news website that it had sponsored a briefing featuring a supporter of the Iran nuclear deal. In a report on Monday, the Washington Free Beacon wrote that an off-the-record briefing hosted by AIPAC earlier that day had…
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News Breaking With Script, Adelson Portrays IAC As A Hardline AIPAC Alternative
In blunt remarks Sunday night, Sheldon Adelson erased any doubt about his intentions for the Israeli-American Council, the nationwide group into which he has pumped more than $10 million over the past three years: He’s building a harder-line alternative to AIPAC. Addressing the crowd after dinner at the IAC’s annual convention in Washington, D.C., Adelson…
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News Did AIPAC Secretly Write Your Rabbi’s Sermon?
AIPAC may have secretly written your rabbi’s sermon. Each week, the pro-Israel lobby the American Israel Public Affairs Committee sends out two prewritten sermons to rabbis across the United States, pushing AIPAC’s legislative agenda and its policy goals. And each week, AIPAC reminds rabbis that they shouldn’t tell congregants where they got the pre-written texts….
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