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.
The pro-Israel lobby AIPAC opened its annual conference with an appeal for bipartisanship. “Bipartisanship is essential,” Michael Kassen, the board chairman of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, said Sunday in his opening statement to the conference, which drew a record 14,000 activists. “We must affirm bipartisanship in our own ranks if we want support…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would protect Israel’s “vital interests” during his meeting this week with President Obama. “I am now leaving on an important trip to the US where I will meet with President Barack Obama. We will discuss the Iranian issue and the diplomatic process. I will stand steadfast on the…
Pro-Russian activists rally March 1 in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk / Getty Images The AIPAC conference may be opening at an awkward time for the lobby, as the Forward’s Nathan Guttman writes today. Beyond the fact that it’s still licking its wounds from the Iran sanctions imbroglio and has no clear message to…
It may not the best timing for convening 14,000 supporters of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington. And it’s not just because another snow storm is bearing down on the nation’s capital or because participants will have to make a tough choice between showing their support for Israel and watching their favorite Hollywood stars walking the…
With the AIPAC conference competing with the Oscars, Jewish politicos will have to choose between watching willowy Natalie Portman grace the red carpet and Jacob Lew explain the White House’s policy on Israel. (JTA)— Anti-Semites say that Jews control Hollywood. And they say that Jews control Washington. But can we control both at once? The…
For years, Israeli leaders visiting Washington have been boosted by America’s main pro-Israel lobby, its influence on U.S. Middle East policy long accepted as a matter of conventional wisdom. But when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses an annual convention of Israel’s U.S. supporters next week, he will find the group trying to show it has…
Senator Robert Menendez addresses AIPAC, March 2013 / Getty Images When I wrote last week that Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu had instructed AIPAC to go stick its head in a noose — specifically, to pick another fight with the White House over Iran sanctions legislation, a scant 11 days after its bruised retreat from the…
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will speak at the annual AIPAC conference. A spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee confirmed the administration speakers but did not give the dates of their speeches at next week’s event. Also speaking at the conference, which is expected to draw a…
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