Israel/Lobby

Israel/Lobby   (Lobby)
Type	informal
Interest of	Annual Conferences on Israel's Influence, Council for the National Interest, WinterWatch

The Israel lobby is a term sometimes used to describe individuals and groups which seek to influence the foreign policy of the United Kingdom in favour of bilateral ties with Israel, Zionism, Israel, or the policies of the Israeli government. Such individuals and groups, Lawyers for Israel for example, may seek to influence politicians and political parties, the media, the general public or specific groups or sectors.

US

In April 2021, "Architects of Repression: How Israel and Its Lobby Put Racism, Violence and Injustice at the Center of US Middle East Policy" by Walter L. Hixson was published. The book put to rest any doubt as to whether the Israel lobby has played and continues to play the crucial role in enabling aggression, the suppression of Palestinian rights, and the failure to achieve a comprehensive Middle East peace accord.

Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, is the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 and claims:

“A devastating, learned, brilliantly narrated study of how the extremities of US pro-Israeli policy came about and were maintained despite decades of severe Israeli crimes victimising the Palestinian people as a whole in what had been their native country. Essential reading for anyone willing to expose themselves to inconvenient truths that definitively depict one of the darkest chapters in America’s foreign policy.”

UK

On 13 May 2018, The People's Britain published on its Facebook page an investigation by Al Jazeera into the Israel Lobby:

"Al Jazeera goes undercover inside the Israel Lobby in Britain. We expose a campaign to infiltrate and influence youth groups, including the National Union of Students, whose president faces a smear campaign coordinated by her own deputy and supported by the Israeli Embassy."

James Chubb commented:

"Exposed: Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs coordinates Labour Friends of Israel and their campaign of false accusations of antisemitism to counter BDS. Viva BDS!"

On 4 July 2023, Asa Winstanley tweeted:

The reason Labour abstained on the anti-BDS Bill is simple: that’s what they were instructed to do by the Israel lobby: this Labour document I obtained last year proves it. See my full report: "Secret document reveals Israel lobby’s dominance of Labour".

James Purnell former chair of LFI

 

Examples

Page name	Description
Mega Group	A super-secret, by-invitation-only group of powerful American and Canadian "mega-billionaires," who meet behind closed doors twice a year, to set the overall policy for the "official" Israel Lobby in North America
World Jewish Congress

 

A Israel/Lobby victim on Wikispooks

Title	Description
Alison Chabloz	Professional musician harassed and prosecuted in the UK for publishing satirical songs about 'The Holocaust'

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
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

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:A Close Look at the Pro-Israeli Lobbies inside Britain	article	4 October 2010	Ershad Abubacker	Israeli influence in the politics of the UK
Document:A New Left Wing Party in the UK?	blog post	18 September 2024	Craig Murray	Initially any new party needs to be led by Jeremy to establish itself. George should be Deputy Leader. Neither man would wish to serve for an extended period. I would like to see Andrew Feinstein eventually lead, not least because he most definitely would not want to do it.
Document:Being Marco Rubio	Article	12 February 2019	Philip Giraldi	The boyish senator from Florida is owned by the Israel lobby
Document:Corbyn and the Jews	article	15 December 2016	Gilad Atzmon	Commentary on the February 2016 meeting between Jeremy Corbyn and the leadership of the Board of Deputies of British Jews
Document:David Cameron's Jewish roots	article	7 January 2014	Martin Iqbal	David Cameron's 'aristocratic' Jewish ancestry, and the gross over-representation of Jewish influence and finance in British politics. Brings clarity to the question of why the UK Establishment is so excruciatingly biased and subservient to the interests of the Zionist State of Israel.
Document:Guilt by Association	Book	2008	Jeff Gates	A copiously referenced account of the extent to which Zionist Israeli interests have taken effective control of the US state, their methodology and their responsibility for taking America to war in Iraq in 2003
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.
Document:Labour expulsion hearing set for anti-Zionist Jackie Walker	Article	5 February 2019	Asa Winstanley	WitchHunt documentary: “We are determined to get it out whatever the threats,” Jackie Walker vows
Document:Netanyahu Plays Chicken	blog post	21 September 2024	Craig Murray	Netanyahu’s strategy of assassinations and deadly stunts appears to be an attempt to goad Hezbollah out of their own territory into a suicidal advance into Israel. But Nasrullah is not falling for it. It is worth stressing that, contrary to the propaganda, in the last year Israel has hit Lebanon with five missiles for every one sent by Hezbollah.
Document:The Incredible Disappearance of Shai Masot	blog post	2 June 2019	Craig Murray	The open attempt to stifle all criticism of Israel, and in effect to make adherence to zionism a pre-condition for membership of the Labour Party – or indeed acceptance in wider society – is a vicious form of authoritarianism that should have been repudiated robustly from day one.
Document:The Israel lobby	essay	23 March 2006	John Mearsheimer Stephen Walt	A forensic examination of the power of the 'Israel Lobby' in the affairs of the USA, focusing most notably on its influence on US foreign policy and comprising an alliance of Jews, Christian Zionists and Neo-Cons
Document:The Labour Party turns on the Israel Lobby	article	19 August 2015	Francis Carr Begbie	A useful analysis of the paranoia of the Jewish-dominated British Establishment and its media at the prospect of the Labour Party being led by someone who is not 'de-rigeur' subservient to the Israel Lobby
Document:We Are The Bad Guys	blog post	12 August 2024	Craig Murray	In the United Kingdom it falls to the Celtic nations to try to break up the state which is a subordinate but important imperialist engine. The paths of resistance are various, depending where you are. But find one and take one.
Document:Why We Should Be Concerned About Christian Zionism	letter	25 August 2015	Mary Alshomaly	A letter from a Palestinian Christian to the news director and lead anchor of EWTN News

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