When informed of its relative size and sponsor, 60 percent of Americans believe that US foreign aid to Israel is either “much too much, or too much”. They respond this way after…
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When informed of its relative size and sponsor, 60 percent of Americans believe that US foreign aid to Israel is either “much too much, or too much”.
They respond this way after they are informed that it has been around 9% of the total U.S. foreign aid budget. This is information that Gallup and the World Affairs Council leave…
68% of Americans Prefer The Israel Lobby Be Regulated As A Foreign Agent – 3/11/2017
Most Americans appear to support a return to stricter enforcement of the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act. Foreign agents active on behalf of a foreign principal must comply with disclosure laws. This…
Americans Disapprove (71%) Of Single-Issue Lobbying For Israel
Some 70.5 percent of the US adult Internet user population oppose single-issue lobbying for Israel. I do not approve of this system 70.5% I approve of this system 22.5% Other…
Americans Are Ambivalent About Anti-BDS Laws – 3/10/2017
Americans are ambivalent about anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) laws that Israel and its US lobby are promoting in the United States. When asked, 62 percent neither oppose nor support such laws,…
Americans Don’t Want A US “No Daylight” Policy With Israel – 3/10/2017
Israel and its US lobby strongly support a “No Daylight Policy.” The characteristics of such a policy are that “the U.S. and Israel can disagree, but not openly” since open disagreement “encourages…
64% of Americans would either renegotiate or cancel the US-Israel Free Trade Agreement – 3/10/2017
64% of Americans would either renegotiate or cancel the US-Israel FTA, which was the grandfather of a series of other trade deals that massively inflated the US trade deficit. However, although it…
52% of Americans Want Congress to Consider Israel’s Nuclear Weapons – 3/10/2017
The US Arms Export Control Act does not allow US foreign aid to clandestine nuclear weapons states, absent special procedures. Most Americans want Congress to consider Israel’s nukes during their legislative efforts…
2018 May Table of Contents
2018 May Table of Contents DIGITAL FLIPBOOK NOW AVAILABLE… The Israel Lobby and American Policy 5 INTRODUCTION 6 Welcoming Remarks—Dale Sprusansky 7 An Overview of the Israel Lobby Agenda—Grant F. Smith 11 PANEL: Israel, the Lobby…
$254 Billion in Unconditional US Aid to Israel Is Unique
New drive to compare it with equally suspect military alliance expenditures fails On February 10, 2017 Professor Hillel Frisch of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies staked a claim. Contrary to many media reports –…
Most Americans Don’t Want US Embassy Moved To Jerusalem
An IRmep poll fielded by Google Consumer Surveys January 27-29 reveals 56.2 percent of the US adult Internet user population prefers the US keep its Israel embassy in Tel Aviv. Only 38.3 percent prefer…
Most Americans Don’t Want US Embassy Moved To Jerusalem
Some 56.5 percent of the US adult Internet user population prefers the US keep its Israel embassy in Tel Aviv. Only 37.8 percent prefer moving it to Jerusalem, while 5.7 percent are…
Lawsuit: Israel Nuclear Gag Order Part Of An Unlawful Foreign Aid Scheme
On January 18 IRmep urged Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan to block unlawful US foreign aid disbursements to Israel. We also further exposed and refuted the Justice Department’s legal campaign to protect an…
US Aid Package to Israel Incentivizes War
..That MOU, like its predecessor, continues to permit lavish subsidies for basic supplies – food and fuel – core to the offensive needs of the IDF, rather than the purely high-tech “defensive”…
Who Wants Obama to Pardon Lawrence Franklin?
Former Defense Department analyst Lawrence A. Franklin was convicted of felonies for passing in 2004 classified military information to two American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobbyists and an Israeli diplomat. Franklin worked for…
Most Americans Believe Obama Administration Did Wrong Abstaining From UN Resolution About Israeli Settlements – 12/28/2016
The Obama administration abstained from a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity, seeing the escalation of settlement building as an increasing threat to regional stability that would implicate the…
Researcher Protests ‘Gag Order’ on Israeli Nukes
WASHINGTON (CN) – With billions in pending aid payments to Israel, the government and a researcher are at loggerheads about a gag order that keeps U.S. officials from releasing any information about…
Is Foreign Aid Solely Up to the President?
According the US Department of Justice, it is the US president’s prerogative alone whether Israel’s nuclear weapons program triggers Arms Export Control Act laws governing US aid to foreign nuclear weapons states….
“The Israel Lobby and American Policy” conference keynoters are Hanan Ashrawi, John Mearsheimer and Ilan Pappé
WASHINGTON, November 30, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The March 24, 2017 conference, “The Israel Lobby and American Policy,” will feature three outstanding keynote speakers: Hanan Ashrawi, John Mearsheimer and Ilan Pappé. “The Israel Lobby and American…