Israel/Lobby

Israel/Lobby   (Lobby)
Type	informal
Interest of	Hilary Aked, Annual Conferences on Israel's Influence, Council for the National Interest, Powerbase, Ella Rose, Spinwatch, Asa Winstanley, WinterWatch

The Israel lobby is a term sometimes used to describe individuals and groups which seek to influence the internal and foreign policies of other nations (UK, US, Canada, etc.) in favour of bilateral ties with Israel, Zionism, Israel, or the policies of the Israeli government. Such individuals and groups, AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) or Lawyers for Israel for example, may seek to influence politicians, political parties, the corporate media, the general public, and/or specific groups or sectors.

US

"I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby.
The Americans do not see this.
They are getting decadent.
Zionists will use this to destroy them."
~ Gadaffi, 1986

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!"

James Purnell former chair of LFI.

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".

 

Examples

Page name	Description
American Jewish Committee	Zionist lobby and political action group
Israeli-American Council
JNF UK	"the UK’s leading humanitarian and environmental Israel charity"
Jewish Institute for National Security of America	Israeli "conservative" influence operation close to the military-industrial complex, sending US police and military leaders to be trained in Israel.
Mega Group	A super-secret, by-invitation-only group of powerful American and Canadian "mega-billionaires" who set the overall policy for the "official" Israel Lobby in North America.
Transatlantic Institute	Israel lobby group angled mostly at European politicians.
Voted YES to the Antisemitism Awareness Act
World Jewish Congress

 

Israel/Lobby victims on Wikispooks

Title	Description
Alison Chabloz	Professional musician harassed and prosecuted in the UK for publishing satirical songs about 'The Holocaust'
Jeremy Corbyn	On Labour's left wing, but on the right side of history!

 

Related Quotations

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
Kees van der Pijl	“After my remark on Zionist responsibility for 9/11, the "Israel lobby" is no longer an empty term for me. Yet we have to put an end to the murderous "War on Terror" (© Netanyahu 1986) that now has Iran in its sights. electronicintifada.net/content/watch-...]”	Kees van der Pijl	6 November 2018

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:700+ media figures and programme-makers condemn BBC’s Gaza documentary censorship	Article	27 February 2025	Editor	"A broadcaster cannot allow bad-faith attacks to dictate its editorial decisions. "Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone" is an important, well-executed documentary that licence-fee payers have the right to watch. The BBC should stand by it with confidence."
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:Don't Deify Jimmy Carter	blog post	30 December 2024	Chris Hedges	Carter had a decency most politicians lack, but his moral crusades, which came once he was out of power, seem like a form of penance. His record as president is bloody and dismal, although not as bloody and dismal as the presidents who followed. That’s the best we can say of him.
Document:Faiza Shaheen dropped by Labour for liking pro-BDS, Corbyn and Green Party posts	Article	30 May 2024	Peter Oborne	Left-wing Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen is deselected for 15 social media posts between 2014 and 2024 on issues from Islamophobia to Israeli lobbying, MEE has been informed.
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 Stooges Freak Out over Baroness Jenny's Remarks - Again	Article	3 November 2018	Stuart Littlewood	Baroness Jenny Tonge: "The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting was an absolutely appalling and a criminal act, but does it ever occur to Bibi and the present Israeli government that its actions against Palestinians may be reigniting anti-Semitism? I suppose someone will say that it is anti-Semitic to say so?"
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:Jewish Community Smears Carter With Charges of Anti-Semitism	Article	16 April 2023	Allan C. Brownfeld	President Carter himself lamented that whenever an issue arose between the US and Israel, “American Jewish leaders would always side with the Israeli leaders and condemn us for being even-handed in our concern for both Palestinian rights and Israeli security.”
Document:LAZIR condemns persecution of prospective Member of Parliament by Israel lobby groups	Article	3 June 2019	Nureddin Sabir	LAZIR described the attacks on Lisa Forbes by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Jewish Leadership Council, and the Israeli secret service-linked Community Security Trust as “outrageous”.
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:New BBC documentary ‘The Road to 7th October’ is an utter travesty	blog post	9 March 2025	Jonathan Cook	BBC's documentary "Israel and the Palestinians: The Road to 7th October" breathes life back into a racist western narrative – one that made the genocide in Gaza possible, and justifies Israel’s return this month to using mass starvation as a weapon of war against the Palestinian people.
Document:Police escalate the British state's war on independent journalism	blog post	17 October 2024	Jonathan Cook	"This isn't about terrorism, except by the British state. Even the name of the 'counter-terrorism' raid is performative: 'Operation Incessantness'. The message the state wants to send is that it will not rest till it has us all behind bars."
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:The witchfinders are now ready to burn Corbyn	Blog post	28 February 2019	Jonathan Cook	Jeremy Corbyn’s allies are being picked off one by one, from grassroots activists like Jackie Walker and Marc Wadsworth to higher-placed supporters like Chris Williamson and Seumas Milne. Soon Corbyn will stand alone, exposed before the inquisition that has been prepared for him.
Document:UK police raid home, seize devices of EI’s Asa Winstanley	Article	17 October 2024	Ali Abunimah	"On 17 October 2024, British counterterrorism police raided the home and seized several electronic devices belonging to The Electronic Intifada’s associate editor Asa Winstanley. The letter handed to Winstanley by police refers to the raid on his home as being part of 'Operation Incessantness', perhaps indicative of a broad and ongoing crackdown against critics of Israel’s British-backed crimes."
Document:Under Trump, the Israel lobby is a Hydra with many heads	Article	30 May 2018	Jonathan Cook	Since Trump took office, the Israel lobby has mobilised four other powerful lobbies: Christian evangelicals, the alt-right, the military-industrial complex and Saudi Arabia
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:What is UK Lawyers for Israel’s relationship to the Israeli government	Article	12 March 2019	Hilary Aked	Israeli diplomat Shai Masot – who worked for the anti-BDS Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs in London – was recorded in Al Jazeera’s 2017 undercover documentary The Lobby saying of groups such as UKLFI: "It’s good to leave those organisations independent. But we help them, actually."
Document:Who Are the Terrorists?	blog post	18 October 2024	Craig Murray	"In 1985 the official position of the British state was that the ANC were terrorists and apartheid South Africa were the good guys. In 2024 the official position of the British state is that Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorists and apartheid Israel are the good guys. The state can be wrong."
Document:Why Starmer picked a controversial pro-Israel lobbyist for a safe seat	Article	4 June 2024	Peter Oborne Imran Mulla	The self-proclaimed Zionist activist Luke Akehurst has called the UN 'antisemitic' and backs Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank
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
File:Britain's Israeli Lobby.pdf	booklet	13 November 2009	Peter Oborne James Jones	A hard look at the influence of Israel in the politics of the UK

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