This is the Forward’s coverage of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby group.
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Fast Forward AIPAC Thanks Congress For Including $3.7B Aid To Israel In Spending Bill
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee thanked Congress for including defense assistance for Israel in its omnibus spending bill. The bill includes $3.1 billion in defense assistance, $600 million in missile defense cooperation programs and $42 million for joint U.S.-Israel ventures in tracking and destroying tunnels, a method of terrorizing Israel that…
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News Jon Ossoff Leans To J Street On Israel
[Jon Ossoff, the Georgia congressional candidate who Democrats are hoping will give President Trump a black eye, may also deliver a victory to the dovish side of the pro-Israel camp. Ossoff is a supporter of the left-leaning lobby J Street and has received $56,000 through the group’s political action committee in the run-up to Tuesday’s…
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News Evangelicals Lead The Call To Cut Palestinian Aid, Despite Israel’s Reservations
A piece of anti-terror legislation in Congress has turned into a test for pro-Israel policy in the Trump era. The Taylor Force Act, a bill named after a U.S. citizen murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Jaffa, would cut all American funding to the Palestinian Authority because of its longstanding practice of providing financial stipends…
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Opinion Is AIPAC A Victim Of Its Own Success?
It was not that long ago that The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) played a leading role in the political drama of the day. AIPAC Policy Conference, the largest annual gathering of pro-Israel advocates and supporters in Washington DC did not skip the presidential campaign season last year. Bernie Sanders made news by not…
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Opinion AIPAC Reflects Heroism Of Jewish Power — And Its Perils
It’s fitting that the AIPAC Policy Conference, which convened this week in Washington, D.C., falls every year at around the same time as the holiday of Purim. Because the two have a lot in common. On Purim, Jews read the Book of Esther, which tells the story of a Jew who unexpectedly gains influence with…
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Fast Forward Nancy Pelosi Pushes Two-State Solution As Partisan Feuding Hits AIPAC
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Democratic and Republican congressional leaders tussled on the AIPAC stage on the final day of its policy conference over which party’s prescriptions were better for Israel. The display of partisanship on Tuesday morning, hours before pro-Israel activists headed to the Capitol to lobby for their issues, was an extraordinary moment for the…
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Israel News Searching For Common Ground Amid Divisions At AIPAC
WASHINGTON (JTA) – This year’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference drew some 18,000 pro-Israel activists for three days of speeches, workshops and lobbying visits to Capitol Hill. Of the dozens of speeches and countless workshops, side meetings and schmooze opportunities, no message was broadcast louder than the need for bipartisan support for Israel. And…
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Fast Forward Leftwing Israeli Lawmaker Slammed For Joining Anti-AIPAC Protests
Leftwing Israeli parliament member Tamar Zandberg is facing blowback in Israel for appearing at a protest against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Zandberg, a lawmaker with the leftwing Meretz party, spoke to If Not Now, the anti-occupation group that organized a large demonstration outside of AIPAC’s annual policy conference in Washington, DC on March…
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