�…Last year we galvanised the Palestine crowd but no one else seemed very interested,� says 24-year-old student Sasha Gelzin, one of the coordinators of Occupy AIPAC. �This year you’ve had the Arab uprisings and Occupy, you’ve had the thousands of activists making connections between domestic policy and foreign policy…�
“…AIPAC has long been understood to have had a great deal of unelected influence over US foreign policy and “de facto immunity” from investigation, as author Grant F Smith put it in a speech to the conference. The shadow of past, present and future wars in the Middle East has hung over the Occupy movement from the start, and activists are quite clear what they are here for: to prevent another war.” More