Tag: USA: Zionist Lobby

NOVANEWS The May 2018 issue of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs will soon arrive in subscribers’ mailboxes and local bookstores! This issue is devoted to proceedings from an extraordinary conference held at the National Press Club on March 2, 2018: “The Israel Lobby and American Policy.” May 2018 Cover. Once again this year—and just two days before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) held its annual policy conference—the Washington Report and the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) gathered expert speakers to analyze the enormous impact Israel’s lobby has on Congress, the United Nations, federal government agencies, mainstream media, academia, evangelical churches and other major institutions. Hurricane-f...

NOVANEWS Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Capitol Hill with (l-r) Sens. John Barrasso (R-WY), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and John McCain (R-AZ), Feb. 15, 2017. (ZACH GIBSON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Special Report By James J. Zogby IT IS FASCINATING to watch some U.S. senators tripping over themselves as they attempt to defend their support for or opposition to proposed legislation that would make it a federal crime to support the international campaign to Boycott, Divest, or Sanction (BDS) Israel for its continued occupation of Palestinian lands. What ties these officials up in knots are their efforts to square the circle of their “love of Israel,” their opposition to BDS, th...