updated Sun. January 7, 2024
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The New Arab
April 3, 2018
The long read: Despite declining support for the Israel lobby among young Jews and progressives, AIPAC's conference is still the place to be seen and gain .... A more prominent case in 2005 against AIPAC senior employees Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman and Pentagon employee Larry Franklin,Ãâà...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
March 15, 2018
The lack of overwhelming support flies in the face of a claim from Steven Rosen, at the time AIPAC's director of foreign policy, telling journalist Jeffrey Goldberg years ago: “You see this napkin? In 24 hours, we could have the signatures of 70 senators on this napkin.” The failure to add a significant numberÃâà...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
September 11, 2017
Steven Rosen had a reputation for being one of the most effective pro-Israel advocates in Washington. By some accounts, he relished that reputation. According to a New Yorker profile, he once boasted of being able to gather signatures from 70 senators in a 24-hour timeframe. While Rosen's two decadesÃâà...
BuzzFeed News
August 16, 2017
The accusation was included in an indictment that charged two former AIPAC employees, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, and a former Pentagon official, Lawrence Franklin, under the Espionage Act with illegally trafficking in classified information. Satterfield avoided prosecution in the case after topÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
July 30, 2017
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was last confronted by FARA when its predecessor organization the American Zionist Council was pressured by John F. Kennedy's Justice Department in 1962 and 1963. Kennedy's death stopped that effort—and ended White House attempts to holdÃâà...
The American Conservative
July 27, 2017
Once upon a time AIPAC's Steven Rosen boasted to an interviewer, “You see this napkin? In twenty-four hours, we could have the signatures of seventy senators on this napkin.” He meant that congressmen would sign on to anything if they thought it would please Israel. Recently the U.S. Congress hasÃâà...
Antiwar.com
July 17, 2017
These include a 1975 incident in which AIPAC Director Morris Amitay circulated classified information about a proposed US Hawk missile sale to Jordan. AIPAC's FARA file would have had to detail AIPAC staffers Steven Rosen, Douglas Bloomfield and Ester Kurz 1984 receipt of stolen classifiedÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
September 11, 2015
The group hopes to double its budget within five years, and the fight over the deal — even though it ended in a loss — could help AIPAC get there. “This fight has been good for AIPAC in that it brought in a lot of money,” Steven Rosen, who lobbied for the organization until 2005, told Foreign Policy.
Jewish Daily Forward
May 3, 2015
In a compromise on the legal fees, AIPAC ultimately agreed to pay the two men's lawyers more than $4 million. In the most recent lawsuit, involving UANI, Lowell's client, Restis, sought to sue the private advocacy organization, whose declared mission is to block Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
The New Yorker
August 24, 2014
A former AIPAC executive, Steven Rosen, was fond of telling people that he could take out a napkin at any Senate hangout and get signatures of support for one issue or another from scores of senators. AIPAC has more than a hundred thousand members, a network of seventeen regional offices, and a vastÃâà...
CounterPunch
September 16, 2013
“We prefer to stay out of the public eye. We don't want AIPAC to become the issue.” — ROBERT ASHER, Former president and chair of AIPAC board, Oct. 1, 1988, Jerusalem Post. Int. Ed. “A lobby is like a night flower: it thrives in the dark and dies in the sun.” — STEVEN ROSEN, former foreign policyÃâà...
Slate Magazine
May 20, 2013
... official and two policy analysts with AIPAC under the federal espionage statute. The official, Larry Franklin, was charged with leaking classified information. (He pleaded guilty and served a brief sentence.) The two AIPAC analysts, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, were charged simply with receiving it.
Forward
September 14, 2007
Rosen and Weissman, a case in which he and another former Aipac analyst, Steve Rosen, have been accused of handing over top-secret American documents to foreign officials and journalists. Both have pleaded not guilty. The intertwining tales of powerful lobbyists and backroom Washington meetingsÃâà...
