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Anti-Israel lobby in the United States

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241:(PAC) money." CNI's website states its objective as "seeking to encourage and promote a U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East that is consistent with American values, protects our national interests, and contributes to a just solution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It is CNI’s goal to restore a political environment in America in which voters and their elected officials are free from the undue influence and pressure of foreign countries and their partisans." 139: 83: 25: 388:"will get hammered and accused of being anti-Israel" by "more conservative pro-Israeli factions." The founder of J Street responded to such criticism of being "anti-Israel" saying that "the most pro-Israel thing any American politician or policy maker can do is help to bring about a two-state solution and a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and her neighbours." 532: 542: 398:, implicitly noted differences within the lobby in his comment that "there is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says, 'unless you adopt an unwavering pro-Likud approach to Israel, that you're anti-Israel,' and that can't be the measure of our friendship with Israel." 376:
for lumping together "the hugely disparate elements" of groups that support Israel and suggest they constitute a "lobby." To make his point, he described a hypothetical "anti-Israel lobby" made up of disparate groups, including such political opposites as Pat Buchanan and
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has not been Israel’s governing party for more than three years—but what Obama clearly meant was that an American politician should not have to express fealty to the most hard-line ideas relating to Israel's security to be considered a supporter of Israel's."
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between 1944 and 1945, who at the time opposed American support for the creation of a Jewish state in the Middle East, stating, "It would seriously prejudice our ability to afford protection to American interests, economic and commercial . . . throughout the
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opinion piece, titled "Anti-Semitism and the Anti-Israel Lobby," wrote that the billions of petrodollars Arab states spend in the U.S. for defense and business contracts have influenced U.S. politicians. He includes
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Caroline Glick wrote that the "anti-Israel Jewish lobby J Street," supported by several other Jewish groups, "supports the White House's hostile positions on Israel as ends unto themselves." She also identifies
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is "Part anarchy, part mob rule" and that "the 'mob' is the vast anti-Israel lobby that haters of our country have managed to pull together." The article focused on the negative reaction to the
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is a term used by some to refer to organizations with the purpose of opposing relations between the United States and Israel.
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Barsky, Yehudit, "The Anti-Israel Lobby Today: An Examination of the Themes and Tactics of an Evolving Propaganda Movement",
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Jewish Polity and American Civil Society: Communal Agencies and Religious Movements in the American Public Sphere
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In 2008, University of Florida political scientist Ken Wald warned that the left leaning pro-Israel lobby group
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as the individual who "first raised the prospect of a Jewish anti-Israel lobby in October 2006."
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Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting's Israeli lobby campaign in Knowledge (XXG)
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as members of the "anti-Israel lobby", as well as "celebrity activists like
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American organizations that oppose relations between the U.S. and Israel
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Jewish Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook
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identified it as "very active" in "anti-Israel political causes."
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Foreign policy political advocacy groups in the United States
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Foreign policy lobbying organizations in the United States
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Opposition in the United States to the Israeli Occupation
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Organizations labeled members of the "anti-Israel lobby"
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ADC Times. 2002. Washington: Vol. 21:7, April 30, 2002.
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Taylor, David; Demetriou, Danielle (11 February 2003).
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Historian Paul Charles Merkley wrote in his 2001 book,
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Individuals labeled members of the "anti-Israel lobby"
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Projects working for peace among Arabs and Israelis
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magazine commented: "It was an odd choice of words—
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Council for the National Interest
Israel and apartheid analogy
Caroline Glick
The Jerusalem Post
American Friends of the Middle East
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Jewish-American
Jerusalem
NGO Monitor
Rafael Medoff
The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
Council for the National Interest
Paul Findley
political action committee
The Jerusalem Post
Knowledge (XXG)
Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting's Israeli lobby campaign in Knowledge (XXG)
George Soros
Foreign Policy
David Rothkopf

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