Israel lobby

Israel lobby may refer to:

Israel lobby in the United States

Israel lobby in the United Kingdom

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, a book by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt

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Why Jewish giving to Israel is losing ground

The Columbus Telegram 15 Aug 2018

In researching this organized philanthropy, I’ve observed that the proportion of Jewish institutional giving to Israeli causes has fallen since 2009. I believe that several factors, including demographic and social changes, a diminishing perception of Israel as being in need and concerns over the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have probably been driving this decline for years....

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BBC Bows to Pressure from Israel and Changes Gaza Headline

Information Clearing House 11 Aug 2018

Others pointed to the influence of the Israeli lobby in the UK citing the Al Jazeera documentary “The Lobby,” which exposed how the Israeli embassy was providing covert assistance to supposedly independent groups within the Labour Party, and led a campaign to remove not just Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan, but also Crispin Blunt MP, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee for their strong views on Israel....

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Bernie Sanders Surrogate Danny DeVito Rips Into Hillary on Israel and Goldman Sachs

The Daily Beast 11 Aug 2018

... high civilian death toll, and closing with a message to the Israeli prime minister ... “I thought last night, in New York City, where the Israeli lobby is big and everybody is talking about Israel, Bernie really stood up for the Palestinians,” says DeVito. “Just say that you think there was excessive force the last time the Israelis attacked Gaza! No....

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Israel Is The Real Problem

Information Clearing House 10 Aug 2018

Unsurprisingly, then, the Israeli lobby have been trawling through Corbyn's life, trying to find past incidents they can highlight as 'support' for the ludicrous and cynical claim that he is 'soft' on antisemitism or even himself antisemitic ... By sticking within this narrative framework set up by the powerful Israeli lobby, a twisted framework that ......

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No Attack on Iran, Yet

CounterPunch 10 Aug 2018

There is an Iranian-American lobby, led by people too articulate and thoughtful to make much difference in a political culture dominated by mind-numbing cable networks and Twitter ... Netanyahu has the vaunted Israel lobby, a mélange of officially “domestic” interest groups that take their marching orders from the Israeli government, at his disposal ... Neither they nor the Israelis want to talk about it, but the fact remains....

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Foreign Power Meddling In American Democracy? Guess Which One?

Information Clearing House 09 Aug 2018

Always in Israeli sights because it is totally disrespectful of European ... And Trump, like every single president before him, has not only embraced every fictional foundation story to cover injustice, but unlike previous hypocrites who did it only for the money provided by the Israeli lobby, he probably believes it and thus may be even more dangerous....

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Open Orthodoxy’s Superstar Clergyman and His Long Trail of Destruction

Yated Ne'eman 08 Aug 2018

Yanklowitz has attacked the Israeli Chief Rabbinate in the secular press as well, seeking to curb its quality control mechanisms and free Israeli society from the Rabbanut’s halachic regulation. There is no doubt that anti-Orthodox lobbying groups will use these attacks as “Orthodox” backing for their efforts to disempower the Rabbanut and strip Israeli society of Rabbanut-controlled halachic personal status requirements....

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5 Things You Should Know About the Judge Overseeing the First Trial of the Russia Probe

Alternet 08 Aug 2018

He was well-known in Virginia’s legal community long before the Manafort trial. At 78, Judge T.S. Ellis III is now presiding over one of the most high-profile cases of his career ... Here are five interesting facts about Judge Ellis’ background. 1 ... Merhige, Jr. in Virginia ... The U.S ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... Franklin was accused of sharing defense information with an Israeli diplomat and the pro-Israel lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)....

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Cory Booker Claims He Didn’t Know He Held a Pro-Palestine Sign. New Details Cast Doubt on His Denial

The Intercept 07 Aug 2018

Although he has a long history of strident pro-Israel advocacy, this year, Booker declined from speaking publicly at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, America’s prominent pro-Israeli government lobbying group — although an AIPAC official told The Intercept that conference attendees met with him at his Capitol Hill offices following the event....

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Leaked Labour papers reveal scale of challenge to tackle antisemitism

The Observer 07 Aug 2018

Leaked Labour disciplinary papers have laid bare the scale of the challenge the party’s governing body faces in tackling antisemitism ... Around 70 cases are believed to be pending ... A member claiming the Israeli lobby had manufactured the party’s antisemitism crisis ... Another shared posts suggesting Islamic State had used weapons manufactured in Israel and said the Israeli lobby had “manufactured the UK Labour antisemitism crisis” ... ....

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Trump’s Grand Strategy from Quebec to Singapore

Dissident Voice 05 Aug 2018

Its goal appears to be to annex the occupied territories unilaterally, set up a Quisling Palestinian Authority to police what’s left of the West Bank, under Israeli control ... Making peace with Iran would require Trump (and Congress) to ignore the lobbying and propaganda emanating from the Israeli and Saudi lobbies ... Nor are the ‘good’ Jews in the US, energized by Israeli atrocities, silent anymore....

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Euan McColm: Corbyn part of the disease, not the cure

Scotsman 04 Aug 2018

Whether hosting an event on Holocaust Memorial Day during which Israeli Jews were compared to Nazis or sitting silently during a meeting of Labour's National Executive Committee while an ally insisted allegations the party had an anti-Semitism ... Old tropes about bankers, and globalists, and the “Israeli lobby” are the very definition of anti-Semitism....

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Alan Dershowitz blasts ‘bigot’ Noam Chomsky for saying Israeli lobbying is worse than Russian meddling

Raw Story 03 Aug 2018

Trump-defending attorney Alan Dershowitz is not happy with iconic left-wing linguist Noam Chomsky over his recent remarks comparing Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election to lobbying done on behalf of the Israeli government ... The post Alan Dershowitz blasts ‘bigot’ Noam Chomsky for saying Israeli lobbying is worse than Russian meddling appeared first on Raw Story ... ....

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