Author: IRmep
2022 US Middle East policy review and 2023 forecast
At the close of 2022, the United States continues to push for the illegal annexation and recognition of 105,709 square miles of territory on Israel’s behalf. This is over ten times the amount of territory that Russia illegally annexed in 2022.
Omnibus bill stuffed with illegal aid to Israel as pundits falsely claim Ukraine gets more
US aid to nuclear Israel is illegal. That didn’t keep members of the U.S. Congress from stuffing aid into the Omnibus spending bill.
The FBI & DOJ Routinely Ignore Misuse of Classified Documents for Israel
VOA claims it is “routine” for the FBI and DOJ to prosecute misuse of classified documents. But there is a big exception.
Can the FBI investigate the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh?
With the FBI now investigating Israel’s killing of US citizen and al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, it is useful to review how well the bureau has done on other Israeli criminal…
The ADL and the FBI
On this edition of Parallax Views, Grant F. Smith of the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy returns to discuss his article “ADL files FBI ‘Civil Rights Threat’ conflating white nationalists with pro-Palestinian…
Grant F. Smith on Netanyahu, AIPAC and the ADL’s Influence on the FBI
Scott talks with Grant F. Smith about the work he’s doing to track the ways Israel’s government tries to affect American politics. First, they talk about the return of Benjamin Netanyahu and…
ADL files FBI “Civil Rights Threat” conflating white nationalists with pro-Palestinian charities
On October 24, 2022 IRmep received a trove of FBI files requested in 2019 under the Freedom of Information Act. One of the files was an internal report on the Anti-Defamation League’s…
Virginia Rejects Israel’s Energix CdTe Solar Farm Panels
Is First Solar the next Solyndra? The 2011 bankruptcy of thin film solar energy manufacturer Solyndra two years after former Vice President Joe Biden announced $535 million in loans in 2009 plagued the Obama…
Virginia Rejects Israel’s Energix CdTe Solar Farm Panels
U.S. gov’t subsidized, foreign manufacturer FirstSolar & Israel’s Energix Renewable Energies want to install CdTe solar panels made from toxic mining waste (representing only 5% of global production) on America’s prime agriculture land.
Virginia is saying “no thanks.”
Final Episode of the “How Israel Made AIPAC” podcast series!
Final Episode of the “How Israel Made AIPAC” podcast series!
How Israel Made AIPAC: The Most Harmful Foreign Influence Operation in America
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has recently established its own political action committees (PACs). AIPAC is using tens of millions of dollars of PAC money to knock off candidates for…
How can Americans get information and accountability over Israel’s nukes?
Since the US National Archives won’t release the information and Congress violates U.S. law by giving aid to Israel, how will Americans ever get information on Israel’s nuclear weapons, absent non-traditional release?…
Parallax Views
On this edition of Parallax Views, the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy’s Grant F. Smith returns to discuss his new podcast documentary series How Israel Made AIPAC. Grant takes through the…
Why learn AIPAC history now?
Grant F. Smith interview with Kris Welch on KPFA’s “Talkies” radio show about the new podcast series “How Israel Made AIPAC.”
Podcast Series
How Israel Made AIPAC How Israel Made AIPAC Institute for Public Accuracy – 8/2/2022 Grant F. Smith is director of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy which has just released a podcast…
Isaiah Kenen and how the Israeli Government formed AIPAC
Scott talked with author Grant F. Smith about his new podcast detailing the founding of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC. They also discuss how AIPAC has recently been getting…
How Israel made AIPAC
Institute for Public Accuracy The Intercept reports on the American Israel Public Affairs Committee: “AIPAC Defeats Andy Levin, Most Progressive Jewish Representative.” Last month, The American Prospect reported: “AIPAC Has Taken Over the Democratic…
How Israel Made AIPAC podcast
How Israel and its cutout the Jewish Agency set up AIPAC in the 1940s-60s and the horrific consequences for Palestinians and America.