Plunge in DOD contracts incentivizes more war, jeopardizes Greensville County The manufacture and sale of “transparent armor” to the Department of Defense to protect personnel operating military vehicles has long been a mature…
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Confronting the “Deal of the Century” from a US perspective
IRmep presentation at the Palestine Center’s annual conference. It covered how the Gallup Organization’s misleading polls about U.S. “sympathy” for Israel would have been deployed to falsely claim Americans support the Trump-Kushner-Friedman-Greenblatt…
Are Israeli Settlers Secretly Installing Solar Panels at Virginia Public Schools?
GRANT F. SMITH 2019 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER POSTED ON OCTOBER 29, 2019 Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November/December 2019, pp. 28-31, 49 Special Report By Grant F. Smith AN ISRAELI REAL ESTATE and solar energy giant…
New Book! The Israel Lobby Enters State Government: Rise of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board
This book chronicles the formation, rise and secret activities of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board (VIAB). While other books have focused on the Israel lobby’s influence over the federal government and U.S….
US Should Support Israeli Land Grabs Say AIPAC Think-Tankers – American cash for weapons and Israeli settler relocation
…If the delivery vehicle of Be Strong and of Good Courage is a collection of enticing founding father bios, what is the payload? It appears in the final chapter. As to be expected, it…
US Should Support Israeli Land Grabs Say AIPAC Think-Tankers
American cash for weapons and Israeli settler relocation It is always worthwhile to monitor – before it’s too late – policy recommendations emerging from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC ecosystem….
Something’s Fishy About AquaMaof’s “Project Jonah” in Virginia
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, October 2019, pp. 14-16 Special Report By Grant F. Smith IF YOU DRIVE JUST SOUTHWEST of Richlands, VA across the Clinch River, and toward the municipal wastewater treatment…
Americans Oppose Israel Lobby Junkets
But longstanding capture of the IRS perpetuates conduits like AIEF Seventy members of the U.S. Congress (16% of the total membership) are visiting Israel during recess. Most of the private funding for…
“Visit your district, not Israel” 65.7 percent of Americans tell Congress
IRmep Polls, Telling Hard Truths Since 2014 IRmep Poll: 41 House Democrats are now visiting Israel during the Congressional recess on a trip funded by a tax-exempt pro-Israel charity linked to the U.S….
The IRS supports illegal settlements, but doesn’t want to talk about it.
Grant F. Smith, director of research at IRmep, exposes the IRS’s long history of aiding and abetting billions of dollars of U.S. charitable contributions flowing through tax-exempt charities into illegal West Bank…
Sixty-Eight Percent of Americans Would Reject Trump’s Mideast “Deal of the Century”
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August/September 2019, p. 10 IRmep Polls, Telling Hard Truths Since 2014 By Grant F. Smith ON JUNE 25-26 JARED KUSHNER orchestrated the “Peace to Prosperity” economic workshop in Bahrain….
Only 5.7% of Americans Say Israel Is the Top Meddler in US Elections
Skepticism about lobbying for foreign government “relationships” Mainstream news coverage of foreign government influence on U.S. elections has been extensive since allegations first surfaced about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race….
Did Israel pull the U.S. out of compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
IRmep Director Grant F. Smith asks Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association if the long documented history of unpunished illegal diversions of U.S. nuclear weapons material, technology and know-how…
Did Israel pull the U.S. out of compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
IRmep Director Grant F. Smith asks Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association if the long documented history of unpunished illegal diversions of U.S. nuclear weapons material, technology and know-how…
U.S. Israel Free Trade Agreement damage assessment
Why has the Israel Free Trade Area Agreement (ILFTA) been so bad for America? Will Israel and its lobby advance even worse U.S.-Israel initiatives? On this day 35 years ago following bitter complaints…
U.S. Israel Free Trade Agreement damage assessment
Why has the Israel Free Trade Area Agreement (ILFTA) been so bad for America? Will Israel and its lobby advance even worse U.S.-Israel initiatives? On this day 35 years ago following bitter complaints…
“Transcending the Israel Lobby at Home and Abroad” Conference, May 29, 2020, Washington, DC
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — This annual conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC explores the latest research, innovations and tactics for countering the Israel lobby’s damaging policies in the U.S. and around the globe. This…
Lesson From FBI’s ‘Niger Uranium Forgeries’ File
There will be no consequences for twisting intelligence to attack Iran An analysis of 640 pages of FBI investigatory records obtained by IRmep under the Freedom of Information Act reveals how the FBI Director…
Lesson from FBI’s ‘Niger uranium forgeries’ file:There will be no consequences for twisting intelligence to attack Iran
An analysis of 640 pages of FBI investigatory records obtained by IRmep under the Freedom of Information Act reveals how the FBI Director limited Senator John D. Rockefeller’s urgent 2003 written demand…