Posts Tagged: AIPAC
AIPAC Remains Silent on Stalled Anti-Assad Bill
JNS.org -- Major Jewish organizations have expressed widespread support for bipartisan legislation that would penalize the Syrian regime, with the singular exception of the American Israel Public...
Report: Obama Administration Refusing to Give Congress Info on Updated Treasury Guidelines That Eased Iran Sanctions
The Obama administration is refusing to give Congress information about updated Treasury Department guidelines issued earlier this month that allow greater Iranian access to the...
How Can AIPAC Give a Platform to ‘Breaking the Silence’?
It is appalling that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) organized and conducted a panel discussion event for visiting rabbis in Jerusalem last month...
Conference Hosted By Billionaire Koch Brothers Gives Platform to Notorious ‘Foes of Israel’ Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer
A prominent Washington think-tank backed the billionaire Koch brothers hosted two of the most “virulent foes of Israel” at a Wednesday conference, a Bloomberg View columnist reported....
Deconstructing Nathan Lean’s ‘Islamophobia Industry’
"Islamophobia...is sort of like the ocean. It is working, it is churning, it is ebbing, it is flowing, even when we are asleep. There are...
Anti-BDS Conference Is a Comment on the Sad State of Our Times
JNS.org - A few days after returning to Israel from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, I attended another conference in Jerusalem. But unlike...
After AIPAC, Assessing Presidential Candidates’ Views Towards Israel
JNS.org - At the recent American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, each of the remaining United States presidential candidates — except for Democratic contender Sen....
A View From the AIPAC Press Box
JNS.org - The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference is the largest gathering of people who wish to strengthen the US-Israel relationship. I went...
Using the Story of Purim to Judge the Presidential Candidates
Thousands of words have been written about this year’s AIPAC Policy Conference in publications across the world. It seems that everyone wanted to weigh in...
AIPAC Policy Conference: Israel Targeted by Hate Group for Being Pro-Gay Rights
On Sunday afternoon, as participants at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference made their way to the Verizon Center in Washington, DC, anti-LGBTQ...
A ‘Dangerous Moment for America, Allies’: Major Jewish Groups Uneasy as US Lifts Economic Sanctions Against Iran (VIDEO)
US and international Jewish organizations responded with trepidation to the US's instantaneous lifting of banking, steel, shipping and other sanctions on Iran on Saturday that came with...
Major Jewish Group Commends Congressional Letter Urging Push-back Against New EU Labeling Guidelines of Israeli Goods
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee applauded a letter by a bipartisan group of senators and representatives urging US trade representative Ambassador Michael Froman to push back...
Prominent New York Rabbi Calls on Congregation to Lobby Congresswoman Over Iran Deal
Prominent New York Orthodox Rabbi Haskel Lookstein has told his community members they would be "doing a mitzvah" by lobbying Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) to vote no on the Iran...
Crown Heights Synagogues Mobilize in Grassroots Campaign to Swing Rep Clarke Against Iran Deal
Grassroots Jewish activists in Brooklyn have launched an extensive campaign to pressure local Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) to come out in opposition to the Iran nuclear deal,...
