Tag Archives: AIPAC

Can you be “Pro-Israel” yet not agree with most Israelis ?

AMERICAN THINKER Chicago Liberal Needs Safe Space at AIPAC by Richard Baehr September 21, 2015 One of the most diehard Obama loyalists in Chicago, Steve Sheffey, is unhappy that AIPAC chose to oppose the president’s Iran deal. Sheffey argues that since … Continue reading

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Will AIPAC support incumbents who got behind #IranDeal ?

TOWN HALL What Will AIPAC Do Now? by Bruce Bialosky September 20, 2015 …An official from AIPAC is quoted in the Times of Israel: “Netanyahu’s speech in Congress made the Iranian issue a partisan one,” the AIPAC official told Israel’s … Continue reading

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Sheffey: AIPAC shouldn’t have opposed #IranDeal, they’ve become too Republican

THE HILL Should I renew my AIPAC membership? by Steve Sheffey September 18, 2015 …In the past few years, the atmosphere at AIPAC meetings has become increasingly partisan. Democratic speakers get polite applause, if any, while Republican speakers get thunderous … Continue reading

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Democrats feared White House more than they feared AIPAC

BLOOMBERG How Obama Out-Muscled AIPAC by Eli Lake and Josh Rogin September 17, 2015 The pro-Israel lobby based its power on bipartisan influence. That didn’t work well in the deeply partisan fight over Iran. Senator Richard Durbin is on a … Continue reading

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Iran deal’s DC opponents down but not out

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Rebecca Shimoni Stoil September 3, 2015 AIPAC urges activists to continue to lobby Congress against deal as legislators consider other ways to sanction Tehran Although Senator Barbara Mikulski’s announcement that she intends to throw her support … Continue reading

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Meet the Iran Lobby

TABLET MAG by Lee Smith September 1, 2015 In the fight over sanctions and the nuclear deal, how did the supposedly all-powerful pro-Israel lobby lose to the slick operatives of the National Iranian American Council? Trita Parsi, the Iranian-born émigré … Continue reading

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Fake pro-Israel Democrats

ISRAEL HAYOM by Richard Baehr August 25, 2015 …On the Iran deal, there is near universal opposition across Israel’s fractured ‎political system. In the United States, large and small Jewish federations across the ‎country, and nonpartisan groups such as the … Continue reading

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The Little Think Tank That Could

John B. Judis, the author of this Slate article, was profiled last year in The Tower by Joshua Muravchik in connection with Judis’ Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict. According to Muravchik, Judis thinks Zionism was “inherently … Continue reading

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It’s Time to Evict J Street From the Jewish Communal Tent

ALGEMEINER by Charles Jacobs and Elliott Hamilton July 27, 2015 The recent announcement of the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran has sparked deep concern and even outrage in the Jewish community. In an almost unprecedented moment for American Jewry, the … Continue reading

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A postscript to yesterday’s article telling you to defund Jewish establishment organizations

I posted a Daniel Greenfield story yesterday on how establishment Jewish organizations (including AIPAC, more on that below) have capitulated to the Obama administration, doing little more than “expressing concern” about the Iran Deal. Before I hit the “post” button, I … Continue reading

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