AIPAC

AIPAC
Formation	January 3, 1963
Founder	Isaiah Kenen
Headquarters	Washington, D.C., United States
Type	lobby
Subgroups	•  251 Massachusetts Avenue LLC •  American Israel Educational Foundation •  AIPAC-AIEF Israel RA
Slogan	America's Pro-Israel Lobby
Interest of	Dan Halpern, Caitlin Johnstone
A lobby which has somewhere between a lot of influence and "total control" (so Cynthia McKinney) over the US Government.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a lobbying group that advocates for pro-Israel policies to the Congress and Executive Branch of the United States. The current President of the AIPAC is Lee Rosenberg, from Chicago, Illinois. As an independent, not-for-profit entity, AIPAC is funded through contributions from its members.

Describing itself as "America's Pro-Israel Lobby," AIPAC is a mass-membership organization whose members include Democrats, Republicans, and independents. The New York Times calls it "the most important organization affecting America's relationship with Israel." It has been described as one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington. Its fiercest critics regard it as an agent of the Israeli government with a "stranglehold" on the US Congress.

Spying Scandals

In 1984 the FBI investigated after the Israeli Minister of Economics Dan Halpern passed stolen classified US government documents to AIPAC outlining trade secrets of major US industries lobbying against the US-Israel Free Trade Area.

In 2005, a Pentagon analyst^[Who?] pleaded guilty to charges of passing US government secrets to two AIPAC staffers^[Who?] in what is known as the AIPAC espionage scandal. Both staffers were later fired.

Control of US Government

Cynthia McKinney has stated that "AIPAC is in total control of US Government & few Americans know anything about it".

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Document:The Israel lobby	“you can’t have an Israeli policy other than what AIPAC gives you around here.”	Ernest Hollings
Thomas Massie	“"Everybody but me has an AIPAC person. It's like your babysitter, your AIPAC babysitter, who's always talking to you for AIPAC." He added that these "babysitters" tend to be from the representative's district, but they're firmly part of AIPAC.”	Thomas Massie	June 2024
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez	“An unspoken secret in Congress is that much of the reflexive, blind, unconditional vote support for nearly any Israeli gov action isn’t from actual agreement. It’s from fear. Reps are terrified of this. Of AIPAC. So they don’t vote their conscience. They vote their fear”	Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez	2024
Keith Woods	“Organised Jewish power isn't real and it's a good thing”	Keith Woods	10 November 2022

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End
Martin Indyk	Deputy Research Director	1982	1985

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Israel's International Conspiracy	Article	9 February 2016	Philip Giraldi	Wherever one goes – Western Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States – there is a well-organised and funded lobby ready, willing and able to go to war to protect Israel.

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External Sites

• SourceWatch on AIAPC
• Stop AIPAC