Most Americans would oppose any Trump Administration support for an International Criminal Court investigation into Israel’s use of lethal force against Palestinian protesters on May 14. This is because they either never…
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Israel Uses Intelligence Cutouts To Target the US
From JCPOA to FTA – cutouts can cost the US billions An Israeli intelligence entity called “Black Cube” targeted Obama administration officials such as former foreign policy advisor Ben Rhodes and outside experts, such…
IRmep lawsuit challenging unlawful U.S. foreign aid to Israel
IRmep filed a lawsuit in 2016 against the White House and key federal agencies after incurring tens of thousands of dollars in unnecessary costs and years of delays in its public interest…
Why Gallup Overstates American Sympathy for Israel
False claims and outdated methodologies fuel policy disastersby Grant Smith Posted onApril 18, 2018 Pollster Gallup has claimed since the year 2001 that the majority of Americans (averaging 59% between 2001-2018) hold much greater…
Americans are not as sympathetic to Israel as Gallup claims
Pollster Gallup has claimed since the year 2001 that the majority of Americans (on average 59%) hold much greater sympathy for Israelis than for Palestinians (18%) “in the Middle East situation.” Gallup…
Israel advocacy groups demand questionable changes to Virginia textbooks
A consortium of state and national Israel advocacy groups has sent a detailed set of requested changes to textbooks and teaching guides used in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Requested changes include: 1….
IRmep lawsuit challenges secret gag order on the Israeli nuclear weapons program
Classification bulletin WNP-136, which took effect on September 6, 2012, forbids covered persons from making any comment on U.S. government information or information in the public domain about Israel’s nuclear weapons program….
In 1974 CIA Claimed Israeli Nuclear Missiles Could Hit Neighbors
Newly released details link Israel’s highly enriched uranium to Pennsylvania plant The Central Intelligence Agency believed that by 1974 Israel could strike all of its bordering countries with nuclear-tipped two-stage Jericho missiles….
Author of acclaimed “Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan” Scott Horton Lectures in Washington on March 4
Veteran radio broadcaster and podcaster Scott Horton will present key topics drawn from his widely acclaimed new book Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan at two public appearances in Washington on March 4.In…
The Israel Lobby & American Policy 2018
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…
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…