Jewish Institute for National Security of America
The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), formerly named the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs,[1] is a Washington, D.C.-based, neoconservative Israel lobby group and think tank, working to influence American police and military leaders with junkets and "training" in Israel[2][3]
Contents
Activities
While traditional lobbying groups like the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee focus on influencing congressional figures' votes on legislation critical to U.S. support of Israel, JINSA works on developing military-to-military ties between the countries and pays special attention to weapons issues - —especially missile defense - while maintaining close ties to the military-industrial complex.[4]
The journalist Jason Vest wrote: "Just as the right-wing defense intellectuals made CPD a cornerstone of a shadow defense establishment during the Carter administration, so, too, did the right during the Clinton years, in part through two organizations: the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) and the Center for Security Policy (CSP)...Industrious and persistent, they've managed to weave a number of issues—support for national missile defense, opposition to arms control treaties, championing of wasteful weapons systems, arms aid to Turkey, and American unilateralism in general—into a hard line, with support for the Israeli right at its core."[5]
Programs
Military officers
JINSA organizes trips of U.S. military officers, retired U.S. military flag and general officers, and students at U.S. military academies to Israel.[6] In February 2023, a JINSA-organized delegation of 30 U.S. military officers visited Israel Aerospace Industries, one of Israel's largest technology employers.[7] According to The Nation,[8] "JINSA facilitates meetings between Israeli officials and the still-influential US flag officers, who, upon their return to the States, happily write op-eds and sign letters and advertisements championing the Likudnik line."
More than 200 retired admirals and generals, including shock and awe theorist Adm. Leon "Bud" Edney, USN, Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, USA, Maj. Gen. David L. Grange, USA, Maj. Gen. Jarvis Lynch, USMC, Maj. Gen. Sidney Shachnow, USA, Adm. Leighton "Snuffy" Smith, USN, Adm. Carlisle Trost, USN and Brig. Gen. Thomas E. White, USA, have participated in the trips over the last 21 years. Participation in the program makes no requirements of the invitees to make statements, form opinions or maintain any further relationship with JINSA, yet many trip alums have participated more than once, and 50 past participants co-authored a statement on violence in the Palestinian-controlled territories that appeared in The New York Times in October 2000.
The program also includes activities designed to introduce the cadets and midshipmen to the many cultures that make up Israeli society, and organize visits to historic and religious sites.[9]
Training US police
In 2002 JINSA initiated a program called LEEP (Law Enforcement Exchange Program) aimed at exchanging "counter-terrorism" experience and tactics between U.S. law enforcement agencies and their counterparts in the Israeli National Police.[10] The stated primary focus of the program is to bring U.S. law enforcement executives (police chiefs, sheriffs, etc.) to Israel for an intensive program aimed at educating U.S. officials on techniques for countering "domestic terrorism" in the United States.[11]
From 2002 to 2020 over 200 U.S. federal, state, county and municipal law enforcement executives have been enrolled in the program, involving visits to Israel, together with thousands of US security personnel attending conferences where visiting Israeli experts have spoken.[12] According to Max Blumenthal in his book The Management of Savagery, JINSA has claimed that it has overseen the training of over 9,000 US police officials by Israeli-led experts.[13] Blumenthal cited one US enforcement superintendent in 2004 these exchanges changed the way Homeland Security was being organized in New Jersey.[13] The US-Israeli anthropologist, Jeff Halper co-founder of ICAHD and supporter of the BDS movement, in an article for Mondoweiss criticized these programmes, as based on military techniques developed to control the Palestinians in the Israeli occupied territories, as threatening to lead to an 'Israelization' of American police forces and a concomitant 'Palestinization' of the American people.[10]
Awards
Each fall, JINSA presents an annual Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson Distinguished Service Award,[14] named in honor of the neoconservative late-Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson to U.S. government leaders (generally a senior U.S. Government or Armed Forces official, a Senator or two Members of the United States House of Representatives) for their career dedication to U.S. national security.
Recipients is a choice selection of mostly "conservative" pro-Israel and military-industrial complex Congressmen and senior military officers.
- 1982: Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson
- 1984: Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
- 1985: Congressman Jack Kemp
- 1986: Senator Rudy Boschwitz
- 1987: Ambassador Max Kampelman
- 1988: Admiral William J. Crowe Jr., USN, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- 1989: Professor Eugene V. Rostow
- 1990: Senator Connie Mack
- 1991: Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense
- 1992: Congressman Les Aspin
- 1993: Congressman John P. Murtha
- 1994: Senator Daniel K. Inouye
- 1995: Senator Ted Stevens
- 1996: Congressman Duncan Hunter and Congressman Norm Dicks
- 1997: Senator Joe Lieberman
- 1998: Senator John Warner
- 1999: Congressman Ike Skelton and Congressman Curt Weldon
- 2000: Senator Max Cleland
- 2001: Gordon England, Secretary of the Navy, Dr. James Roche, Secretary of the Air Force, Thomas E. White, Secretary of the Army
- 2002: Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense
- 2003: Congresswoman Jane Harman and Congressman Jim Saxton
- 2004: Senator Evan Bayh
- 2005: General Peter Pace, USMC, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- 2006: Senator John McCain
- 2007: Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense
- 2008: Admiral Michael Mullen, USN, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- 2009: Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., Army chief of staff; Marine Corps Gen. James T. Conway, Marine Corps commandant; Navy Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations; Coast Guard Adm. Thad W. Allen, Coast Guard commandant; Air Force Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, Air Force chief of staff; and Navy Adm. Eric T. Olson, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command.
- 2010: Senator Jon Kyl
- 2011: NATO Supreme Allied Commander Admiral James G. Stavridis
- 2012: Senator Lindsey Graham
- 2013: Senator Mark Kirk
- 2014: Congressman Mac Thornberry
- 2015: Congressman Ed Royce
People
Board members, "advisors", etc, as of 2024.[15] Also includes some former members (Shoshana Bryen,James Woolsey, Michael Ledeen, and Richard Perle[4])
Known members
13 of the 182 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Elliott Abrams | A deep politician heavily involved in the Iran-Contra affair, given a pardon by George H. W. Bush |
| Philip Breedlove | Supreme Allied Commander Europe |
| Eric Cantor | US politician, multiple WEF meetings |
| Eric Edelman | US diplomat/politician whom Sibel Edmonds named as a corrupt individual of interest. |
| John Hannah | Neocon senior aide on "national security" to Dick Cheney |
| Michael Ledeen | "Washington's neoconservative guru", Bilderberg, Le Cercle... |
| Scooter Libby | |
| Joe Lieberman | Lawyer-Senator whom Sibel Edmonds named in 2006 as one of her "Dirty Dozen". |
| David McCurdy | |
| Joseph Morris | Canadian Anti-communist trade union leader who attended Bilderberg/1975 |
| Richard Perle | "widely considered a core representative of the neoconservative political faction" |
| James Stavridis | Retired US Navy admiral who was Supreme Allied Commander Europe. |
| James Woolsey | Ex CIA director still (per 2020) very active in deep state networks. |
References
- ↑ https://www.legistorm.com/organization/summary/35641/Jewish_Institute_for_National_Security_of_America.html
- ↑ John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, Penguin Books 2007 pp.117,130-1,176
- ↑ Dan Fleshler, Transforming America's Israel Lobby: The Limits of Its Power and the Potential for Change, Potomac Books 2011 Template:Isbn p.142
- ↑ a b https://militarist-monitor.org/profile/Jewish_Institute_for_National_Security_Affairs/
- ↑ http://www.thenation.com/article/men-jinsa-and-csp
- ↑ https://jewishjournal.com/news/united-states/100929/
- ↑ https://www.jns.org/us-military-officials-shown-next-gen-warfare-tech-in-israel/
- ↑ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/men-jinsa-and-csp
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160301161715/http://www.jinsa.org/programs/military-academies-program/military-academies-program-israel/about-military-academies-progr
- ↑ a b https://mondoweiss.net/2020/06/israelizing-the-american-police-palestinianizing-the-american-people/
- ↑ 'JINSA Launches Law Enforcement Exchange,' JINSA September 6, 2002
- ↑ Steven L. Pomerantz, 'I am the architect of the U.S.-Israel police exchange,' The Jewish Chronicle July 1, 2020.
- ↑ a b Max Blumenthal The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump, Verso Books, 2019 Template:Isbn p.118.
- ↑ History of the Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson Distinguished Service Award; Jinsa website
- ↑ https://jinsa.org/about/
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