By Grant F. Smith On the surface the Justice Department’s (DOJ) recent criminal complaint against associates of the nonprofit Kashmiri American Council (KAC) seems like a legitimate application of the 1938 Foreign…
Author: IRmep
Complaint against Congressional trips to Israel organized by the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF)
The American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), which organizes the aforementioned Congressional delegations to Israel, is not a separate entity from the lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). The groups share…
Does AIPAC Have Only Two Major Donors?
Mystery unfolds as members of Congress head to Israel A large congressional delegation is heading for Israel. During three weeks of recess, 55 Republicans and 26 Democrats will enjoy “educational” trips funded by the American…
IRmep wins Interagency Security Classification Panel appeal
On July 22, 2011 the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy won a major victory toward public release of a classified document illegally obtained by the Israeli government and passed to the…
How to Lobby for a Foreign Government (and not get arrested)
…There is another way, which is to use institutional subterfuges and the sheer clout of the lobby itself to escape prosecution under the FARA. The Israel lobby has managed to do this….
How AIPAC’s Stealth Political Action Committees Undermine US Elections
Janet McMahon, Managing Editor – Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of “stealth PACs.” Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs…
AIPAC issue is not simple
Two recent letters to the editor raise the question of whether AIPAC is a political action committee donating to U.S. political candidates. This is not a simple question. It is well documented that in the…
AIPAC Pushes Hard for War With Iran
Former AIPAC staffer Keith Weissman, indicted in 2005 under the Espionage Act alongside colleague Steven J. Rosen and Defense Department employee Col. Lawrence Franklin, is desperately worried. In a lengthy, rambling monologue delivered to independent reporter…
$6.64 billion damages sought over Israeli gov’t/AIPAC use of stolen classified US trade data
Washington, DC. Today the Section 301 Committee of the US Trade Representative formally received a petition demanding $6.64 billion in compensation for US exporters. In 1984 US exporters were urged to submit…
Two Views on Israel
Book reviews of Start-Up Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer (Hachette Book Group, 2009) and Spy Trade by Grant F. Smith (Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, 2011). In this must…
Obama vs. Reagan on AIPAC
Documents reveal Ronald Reagan’s response to Israel lobby invitation Politico reports that President Barack Obama may attend the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) gathering in Washington, D.C. According to documents released last week by…
Former AIPAC Executive Loses Defamation Appeal
Shapiro told the appellate judges that AIPAC fired Rosen and invoked “standards” “to get the DOJ off AIPAC’s back.” But AIPAC had in fact “lauded” Rosen “for the same behavior in the…
Washington Showdown with AIPAC
Prohibited activities again catching up with lobby When former AIPAC director Steven J. Rosen interpreted the contents of stolen classified US national defense information to Washington Post reporter Glenn Kessler in 2004, he peddled…
Today the Israel Lobby Archive releases two declassified documents detailing sensitive Senate-IRS correspondence about Israel lobby tax exemptions and violations. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee recommended an Israel (and other foreign lobby) investigation to…
Podcast- AIPAC: The Next Enron?
Sibel Edmonds, Peter B. Collins, and Grant F. Smith discuss a range of illegal Israel lobbying and espionage activities, the dangerous recommendations in the book Start-Up Nation by Senor and Singer, and…
US Treasury Dept.: Tax-exempt US donation laundering into West Bank settlements “okay”
The US Department of Treasury has no program to combat massive flows of US tax-exempt charitable contributions into illegal settlement building. Despite ongoing public revelations of wrongdoing, the Office of Foreign Assets…
Author Discusses Espionage, Politics, Secrecy, Myths and the US-Israel Free Trade Area
Author Grant F. Smith will discuss his 2009 book Spy Trade about myths and realities of U.S.-Israel economic relations. The April 6 presentation begins at 5:15 PM, room 1101, Dewey Hall, on…
The US-Israel Free Trade Area: AIPAC, Espionage and Analysis
The year 2010 marked the 25th anniversary of the U.S.-Israel Free Trade Area (USIFTA). Documents newly declassified in 2009 reveal a stunning 1984-1987 FBI investigation of Israeli embassy and American Israel Public…