Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby group.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby group.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby group.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby group.
Congress is heading into the last days of its lame duck session and the agenda is packed with major legislation to deal with — but there’s always time to slip in a pro-Israel resolution before legislators leave the city. The resolution, H. Res-1734, which passed Wednesday without a vote, is a response to what Israel…
The Obama administration is still in full-court-press mode on the ratification of the New START treaty, still hoping to get a vote during the lame duck congressional session. The treaty has broadbased support in the U.S. and abroad, and passage is a top priority for President Obama, but a conservative minority opposing it is digging…
Jewish billionaire and philanthropist George Soros tends to cast his lot with controversial political causes, like the ongoing AIPAC-JStreet battle royale or, more recently, California’s unsuccessful Proposition 19. But the Hungarian-born hedge-fund manager is still a businessman. Soros Fund Management revealed some new investments last week, including a rather curious 5.1 percent — 1.3 million…
American Israel Public Affairs Committee spokesman Josh Block is stepping down from his post at the pro-Israel lobby and setting up shop as a consultant for Democrats. Block, who has been AIPAC’s spokesman for the past 9 years, will be starting a new Washington media consulting firm with former Clinton White House aide Lanny Davis….
As election season shifts into fever pitch, Carly Fiorina returned from Israel last week. And her trip was … personal? That’s what her aide told the L.A. Times before she left. But unless you’re, say, Madonna, personal trips generally don’t involve meetings with VIPs like Tzipi Livni, Shimon Peres, and Benjamin Netanyahu, right? Fiorina, the…
Congressman Joe Sestak’s signature on what is now known as the Gaza-54 letter has been at the center of attacks launched against him by Republicans and right-wing groups as he campaigns now for the Senate in Pennsylvania. The letter, signed by 54 Democratic members of Congress, called for an easing of Israel’s blockade of the…
It happens even to a powerful media-savvy organization. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee got punked. Reporters covering the pro-Israel lobby’s Washington policy conference and many other news outlets received an e-mail early Monday morning listed as coming from AIPAC spokesman Josh Block. The surprising news in the emailed press release, with AIPAC’s authoritative letterhead…
New Yorker editor David Remnick put his finger on an important aspect of the current U.S.-Israel relationship, overlooked by most observers, that contributes to the current tensions between the two governments. In his Comment piece in the magazine’s current issue, Remnick writes that for all the pride Israeli leaders take in their grasp of American…
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