Theme: Expert speakers addressed the Israel lobby’s agenda, whether the U.S. is supporting an apartheid state, how supporting Israeli violations of international law impacts the U.S., the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, Israel lobby…
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Americans oppose excessive, lobby-driven U.S. aid to Israel
When informed of its relative size, and why it is given, the majority of Americans year after year consistently say that US aid to Israel is too much. For this February survey,…
Will Al Jazeera Air The Lobby Before AIPAC Meets?
Israel’s lobbyists are working to suppress U.S. exposé The Israel lobby has a lot of levers it can push and pull to curry favorable news coverage from media organizations. These range from…
Americans oppose cutting foreign aid to countries that condemn US Jerusalem policy
The Trump administration threatened to end billions of dollars in US foreign aid to countries opposing recent US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. On December 21, 2017 despite US…
Poll: Americans Oppose Cutting Aid to Countries That Condemn US Jerusalem Policy
Foreign countries unlikely to respond like US politicians to Israeli initiatives The Trump administration threatened to end billions of dollars in US foreign aid to countries opposing recent US recognition of Jerusalem as the…
NUMEC & the Israeli nuclear weapons program “off the table” in Washington
IRmep Director Grant F. Smith asks Anthony Cordesman of CSIS, who in 1986 told the LA Times that Israel had diverted US government-owned weapons grade uranium, if the U.S. has now lost moral authority…
The Jerusalem decision: an Israel lobby-authored foreign policy disaster 22 years in the making
Philip Giraldi of the Council for the National Interest, Grant F. Smith of IRmep, and Gregg Roman of the Middle East Forum on President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem and move the…
Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital Harms the US
What comes next will be even worse unless Americans act President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and intent to relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is sure to…
Americans Would Cut Middle East War Spending
When presented with a list of expenditure categories, and polled about which should be the single top priority for budgetary cuts by Congress, “US military actions in the Middle East” was far…
Congressmen Pressed Obama To Pardon Spy Lawrence Franklin
Claimed pardoning spy for Israel in the “best interest of U.S.” On December 14, 2016 two California congressmen, Republican Dana Rohrabacher and Democrat Juan Vargas, secretly pressed President Obama to pardon convicted…
IRmep seeks federal injunction against U.S. foreign aid transfers to nuclear Israel
On November 22 IRmep filed a 40-page brief in the DC federal appeals court seeking an injunction against U.S. foreign aid transfers to Israel. The Appellant Reply Brief details the decades-old system of U.S….
Poll: Americans Oppose the ‘Anti-Semitism Awareness Act’
Americans wouldn’t cut funding to universities critical of Israel The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on November 7 to discuss the “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act.” Proponents of ASAA claim it is a law that…
Poll: Americans Would Cut Middle East War Spending
But “crusaders” backed by foreign interests shape policy On November 3, professor John Mearsheimer made a short and stunning presentation at “U.S. Foreign Policy in the Trump Era: Can Realism and Restraint…
Department of Justice says Americans can’t challenge the legality of U.S. aid to Israel
The U.S. Department of Justice once again insisted that individual citizens do not have standing to sue the U.S. federal government over foreign aid to Israel. Several Americans from Fagan Dickson in 1975 to…
Americans Would Cut Middle East War Spending
When presented with a list of expenditure categories, and polled about which should be the single top priority for budgetary cuts by Congress, “US military actions in the Middle East” was far…
CIA claims public disclosure of secret intelligence aid to Israel would harm U.S. “national security”
The CIA wants the US District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss an IRmep lawsuit filed in 2015 that seeks disclosure of top-line budget numbers for secret U.S. intelligence aid…
Video, audio & slides of “Lawsuit Challenges US Aid to Israel & Nuclear Gag Order” conference call
Audio file: http://irmep.org/MP3/10232017conference.mp3Slides PDF: https://irmep.org/PDF/10232017conference_call.pdf