AIPAC
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| Formation | January 3, 1963 |
| Founder | Isaiah Kenen |
| Headquarters | Washington DC, United States |
| Type | lobby |
| Subgroups | 251 Massachusetts Avenue LLC, American Israel Educational Foundation, AIPAC-AIEF Israel RA |
| Staff | 376 |
| Slogan | America's Pro-Israel Lobby |
| A lobby which has somewhere between a lot of influence and "total control" over the US Government. | |
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a lobbying group that advocates for pro-Israel policies to the Congress and Executive Branch of the United States.[1] Describing itself as "America's Pro-Israel Lobby," AIPAC is a mass-membership organization whose members include Democrats, Republicans, and independents. The New York Times calls it "the most important organisation affecting America's relationship with Israel." [2] It has been described as one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington. Its fiercest critics regard it as an agent of the Israeli government with a "stranglehold" on the US Congress.[3]
Spying Scandals
In 1984 the FBI investigated after the Israeli Minister of Economics Dan Halpern passed stolen classified US government documents to AIPAC outlining trade secrets of major US industries lobbying against the US-Israel Free Trade Area.[4]
In 2005, a Pentagon analyst pleaded guilty to charges of passing US government secrets to two AIPAC staffers in what is known as the AIPAC espionage scandal. Both staffers were later fired.[5]
Capitol Hill minders
In mid-2024, Thomas Massie related how AIPAC has designated advisors assigned to each Republican member of Congress, to ensure these lawmakers vote for bills Israel supports.[6][7]
Protest
Cynthia McKinney has stated that "AIPAC is in total control of US Government & few Americans know anything about it".[8] An anti-AIPAC protest, referred to as AIPACalypse, was organised in 2017 to protest the influence of AIPAC.[9]
Funding
As an independent, not-for-profit entity, AIPAC is funded through contributions from its members, with many millionaires and billionaires. In the years before his death in 2026, porn magnate Leonid Radvinsky was the biggest donor.
References
- ↑ "AIPAC Main Website". Accessed February 1st, 2009.
- ↑ "Learn about AIPAC"
- ↑ "Fighting AIPAC: We don't plan to fail, we fail to plan"
- ↑ "FBI Investigates AIPAC" Israel Lobby Archive. 11/05/10
- ↑ "Guilty plea entered in Pentagon Spy Case" Ynet News. 10/06/05
- ↑ https://mronline.org/2024/06/15/house-republican-claims-every-gop-colleague-has-an-aipac-babysitter-pressuring-them-to-cast-pro-israel-votes/
- ↑ https://thehill.com/video/thomas-massie-tells-tucker-carlson-that-every-republican-congressman-%E2%80%98has-an-aipac-person%E2%80%99/9771157/
- ↑ "Cynthia Mckinney: AIPAC is in total control of US Government & few Americans know anything about it"
- ↑ http://www.newnationalist.net/2017/02/25/aipacalypse-protest-march-26-28/