This is the Forward’s coverage of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby group.
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Fast Forward Why Is AIPAC Suddenly So Silent on Iran?
(Reuters) — As the United States and other powers negotiate down to the wire on a nuclear deal with Iran, one voice has been unusually quiet – the main pro-Israel lobby in Washington. Israel deeply distrusts the attempt to reach a deal at talks in Vienna that would lift harsh international sanctions on Iran in…
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Opinion No, AIPAC Isn’t Anti-Israel
Getty Images Jay Michaelson has it wrong. AIPAC is not, as he argues, anti-Israel. Most of what the lobby does is focused on strengthening the bond between the United States and Israel — various aspects of this relationship, including the U.S.-Israel security cooperation — which is undisputedly pro-Israel. But not only AIPAC. All American Jewish…
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Opinion Why AIPAC Is Anti-Israel
American Jews who support Israel have been fighting one another in an asymmetrical way: Hawks routinely accuse doves of being anti-Israel, but doves do not accuse the hawks. I’m not sure how this pattern has come about — maybe it just feels ironic for pro-peace people to pick a fight — but it needs to…
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Israel News How the Israel Lobby Set Beto O’Rourke Right
It took only one wrong vote to teach a freshman Democrat from Texas how sensitive, and even wrathful, the Jewish community can be when it comes to Israel. But the real story of what happened to Rep. Beto O’Rourke did not stop with the angry reaction he got when he cast one of only eight…
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Opinion Does Israel Buy Influence at U.S. Think Tanks?
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks alongside Saban Forum Chairman Haim Saban / Getty Images The New York Times over the weekend shed some needed sunlight on the close ties between Washington think tanks and foreign governments. Digging into the funding practices of some of the nation’s most respected research institutions, the article outlined an impressive…
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Israel News After Gaza War, Israel Seeks To Isolate Qatar — But U.S. Resists
Labeled recently by Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations as a “Club Med for terrorists,” the tiny Gulf emirate of Qatar is being widely depicted, to the surprise of many, as a new regional villain in the Middle East, thanks to concerted attacks from Jerusalem and a coalition of Arab states whose interests coincide. Yet…
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News Benjamin Netanyahu Gives Declawed AIPAC Little To Fight For
Something was off-kilter in Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 4 appearance before the annual Washington policy conference of AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying powerhouse. After five years of raging that the Obama administration was too hard on Israel and too soft on Iran, the Israeli leader faced a record crowd of 14,000 activists ready to storm the barricades…
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The Schmooze AIPAC’s Case of Scarlett Fever
(JTA) — Scarlett Johansson, fresh out of her SodaStream battles, declined to attend this year’s annual American Israel Political Affairs Committee policy conference. She’s in Paris, picking up an honorary Celeste award and promoting her latest releases,. She kept appearing at the conference though, after a fashion. Johansson featured prominently in AIPAC’s showcase of Israel’s…
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