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The Electronic Intifada (blog)
February 17, 2018
As Polak is arguably Britain's top pro-Israel lobbyist, it is hard to believe that he hasn't briefed that state's politicians or diplomats about his Turkish sojourn. It was financed by the Bosphorus Center for Global Affairs, an organization that monitors press coverage unfavorable to Erdogan. The pro-Israel lobbyÃÂ ...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
February 9, 2018
Jeremy Newmark, sitting between disgraced Israeli embassy agent Shai Masot and Israeli ambassador Mark Regev at a private meeting during Labour's 2016 conference. Newmark is seen in undercover Al Jazeera footage giving the ambassador “intelligence.” (Al Jazeera/YouTube). Jeremy Newmark, aÃÂ ...
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
February 4, 2018
Grant Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, asked if Williams has seen pro-Israel lobbyists at work in the U.N. Williams answered that while Jews originally supported the U.N., today candidates for public office who complain or grandstand about a detestable, anti-Israel U.N. earn big donations toÃÂ ...
Mondoweiss
January 31, 2018
A year ago Al Jazeera stunned Britain's political establishment with a four-part series on the Israel lobby, based on months of investigation that entailed planting an undercover reporter in pro-Israel meetings. “How Israel penetrates different levels of British democracy,” Al Jazeera announced the series; andÃÂ ...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
January 26, 2018
Disgraced Presidents Club chairman David Meller has also been a leading Conservative Friends of Israel figure. (The Edge Foundation). Current and former trustees of a “men only” club at the heart of a sexual harassment scandal unfolding in the UK have deep ties to the Israel lobby, The ElectronicÃÂ ...
Jordan Times
January 25, 2018
... the Donald Trump administration is clearly following in the steps of several previous US administrations which, while paying lip-service to justice and peace in Palestine and the Middle East as a whole, are heavily influenced by Israeli pressure and the pressure exercised by the many pro-Israel lobbyistsÃÂ ...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
January 24, 2018
This is according to a new survey by the Brand Israel Group, and it confirms trends that the consortium of pro-Israel lobbyists has found in earlier polls. “In the year since Trump was elected, the situation has only been exacerbated,” Hoffman told a gathering of Israel lobby leaders in New York on Monday,ÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
December 28, 2017
While out on the campaign trail, U.S. presidential candidates often make promises for the benefit of Israel which are motivated by aims to receive funds from one of the most powerful pro-Israel lobbyists in the U.S. – The American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) – to pursue their campaign goalsÃÂ ...
Libyan Express
December 25, 2017
Libyan social media and media outlets have been talking tirelessly since the weekend about the newly surfaced relationship between the commander of the self-proclaimed Libyan Army in east of the country Khalifa Haftar and Ari Ben-Menashe, who is an Israeli lobbyist. Ben-Menashe is an Iranian-bornÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
November 12, 2017
Apparently more than 80% of Conservative MPs at Westminster are members of the CFI lobby group for Israel. This is a powerful, influential, moneyed, political pressure group that holds a lavish dinner every year at the House of Commons for up to 700 guests and arranges trips to Israel (but not to theÃÂ ...
Middle East Eye
November 8, 2017
UK government minister Priti Patel resigned from her post after it was revealed that she held secret meetings with several Israeli politicians during her "family holiday" to Israel in August. But for the Conservative peer who accompanied the international development secretary and helped organise herÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
November 8, 2017
In 2013, Peter Oborne, the Daily Telegraph's chief political commentator called the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), “by far Britain's most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group”. It was estimated then that more than 80% of Conservative MPs were CFI members. The same applies today. CFI's sister lobby inÃÂ ...
The New Arab
July 9, 2017
A celebration of Palestinian heritage and culture was held in London this weekend despite attempts by pro-Israel lobbyists to have the event cancelled. Tags: Palestine, expo, London, Sajid Javid, Friends of al-Aqsa. A celebration of Palestinian heritage and culture attracted thousands in London thisÃÂ ...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
January 14, 2017
The director of the Jewish Labour Movement has been caught on camera expressing a wish for violent revenge against her enemies. “I saw Jackie Walker on Saturday and thought, you know what, I could take her, she's like 5'2 and tiny,” Ella Rose unwittingly told an undercover reporter working for AlÃÂ ...
Antiwar.com
December 31, 1999
Such activities have generated back-page stories claiming that Al Jazeera finally promised the wave of Israel lobbyists it would not air the now somewhat aging The Lobby US edition. The most sensible time to release it would be just before AIPAC convenes in Washington in early March. But many in theÃÂ ...
Standard Speaker
December 31, 1999
He also talked about the nation avoiding negative discussion of Israel “because Israeli lobbyist(s) and U.S. bankers who share Israel's political interests donate large amounts of money to Congress and congressmen.” Donahue makes similar remarks on his Facebook pages. Mike Barley, a spokesman forÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
November 14, 2017
Is it not time for western states to show as much concern about the malign influence of Israel's lobbyists as they do about Russian hackers? Top photo | The lights of the House Chamber are reflected in the railing that surrounds the chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 3, 2015, as Israeli Prime ...
Center for Research on Globalization
November 12, 2017
Apparently more than 80% of Conservative MPs at Westminster are members of the CFI lobby group for Israel. This is a powerful, influential, moneyed, political pressure group that holds a lavish dinner every year at the House of Commons for up to 700 guests and arranges trips to Israel (but not to the ...
Middle East Eye
November 8, 2017
UK government minister Priti Patel resigned from her post after it was revealed that she held secret meetings with several Israeli politicians during her "family holiday" to Israel in August. But for the Conservative peer who accompanied the international development secretary and helped organise her ...
Center for Research on Globalization
November 8, 2017
In 2013, Peter Oborne, the Daily Telegraph's chief political commentator called the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), “by far Britain's most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group”. It was estimated then that more than 80% of Conservative MPs were CFI members. The same applies today. CFI's sister lobby in ...
Little India
November 3, 2017
A former minister said: “What does it say to the rest of the Middle East if a senior Cabinet minister in charge of Britain's huge aid budget disappears… from a family holiday in Israel and is under the wing of a pro-Israeli lobbyist?” Patel's critics have accused her of currying favor with wealthy pro-Israeli ...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 3, 2017
The International Development Secretary held meetings with Yair Lapid, the leader of Israel's centrist Yesh Atid party, while accompanied by a powerful pro-Israeli lobbyist. The BBC said that British diplomats were not made aware of her plans, despite the convention that sees ministers inform the Foreign ...
The New Arab
July 9, 2017
A celebration of Palestinian heritage and culture was held in London this weekend despite attempts by pro-Israel lobbyists to have the event cancelled. Tags: Palestine, expo, London, Sajid Javid, Friends of al-Aqsa. A celebration of Palestinian heritage and culture attracted thousands in London this ...
Daily Nation
December 31, 1999
Britain's International Development Secretary Priti Patel arrives at 10 Downing Street for the weekly meeting of the cabinet in central London on October 31, 2017. Patel asked to resign because the meetings she held in Israel were found to be unauthorised and unofficial. PHOTO | TOLGA AKMEN | AFPÂ ...
NewBostonPost (blog)
September 7, 2017
Larry Franklin, a Pentagon Iran analyst prosecuted for talking to a pro-Israel lobbyist, deserves a pardon. So does Sholom Rubashkin, an IowaÃÂ ...
The Wire
August 23, 2017
The kingdom's detractors, Qatari and Iranian, are happy to highlight the fact that pro-Israel lobbyists are willing to support the lobbying efforts ofÃÂ ...
Times LIVE
August 12, 2017
This article is reserved for Sunday Times subscribers but, for a limited time, is free to read on our newly relaunched website. To access theÃÂ ...
AlterNet
August 4, 2017
Head of a faux-civil rights group and pro-Israel lobbyist Jon Greenblatt sung its praises, as did British imperialist and Henry KissingerÃÂ ...
AlterNet
August 3, 2017
In other words, Lyons shows that reporters covering Israel and Palestine are systematically targeted by Israel lobbyists in an attempt to pressureÃÂ ...
Mondoweiss
August 1, 2017
In other words, Lyons shows that reporters covering Israel and Palestine are systematically targeted by Israel lobbyists in an attempt to pressureÃÂ ...
The Peninsula Qatar
July 25, 2017
Marashi said he has noticed "a willingness" from pro-Israel lobbyists and groups to teach SAPRAC how to lobby, "particularly since KingÃÂ ...
The New Arab
July 9, 2017
A celebration of Palestinian heritage and culture was held in London this weekend despite attempts by pro-Israel lobbyists to have the eventÃÂ ...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
January 14, 2017
The director of the Jewish Labour Movement has been caught on camera expressing a wish for violent revenge against her enemies.
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
December 18, 2015
Israel-aligned organizations are attempting to crush boycott organizing in the US. (Stephen Melkisethian/Flickr). It's always a bad sign when aÃÂ ...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
December 10, 2015
A pro-Israel lobbyist is playing a direct role in organizing some of the European Parliament's key activities on the Middle East. Nuno WahnonÃÂ ...
NPR
September 17, 2015
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference in Washington on MarchÃÂ ...
International Middle East Media Center
December 31, 1999
The statement notes a media report indicating that the policy shift has the support of pro-Israel lobbyists within the party. Manson said, “MostÃÂ ...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
December 31, 1999
The existing Jewish Labour Movement is a group run by an Israel lobbyist, which works closely with the Israeli embassy in London. It was at theÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy Journal
March 24, 2017
The fact that every country employs lobbyists and that the lobbyists don't always register as foreign agents, such as Israel's lobbyists, or if news reports at the time were correct, neocon Richard Perle who represented Turkey in Washington. Democrats ...
Middle East Eye
March 24, 2017
In the past he has called for the US embassy to be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,; supported and financed the settler movement, and denounced progressive pro-Israel lobbyists as "worse than kapos" - a reference to Jews who served the Nazis in theÃÂ ...
Modern Diplomacy
March 14, 2017
As one of first foreign "dignitaries", Trump welcomed criminal PM Netanyahu at White House who speaks American English fluently facility that the Palestinians leaders badly lack.
Modern Diplomacy
March 14, 2017
As one of first foreign "dignitaries", Trump welcomed criminal PM Netanyahu at White House who speaks American English fluently facility that the Palestinians leaders badly lack.
The Statesman
March 12, 2017
It was to an audience of British lobbyists for Israel a couple of months ago that she expressed her "pride" in a century-old declaration which created millions of refugees.
LabourList
February 24, 2017
angell (another israel lobbyist in new labour | al jazeera investigative documentary) is being disingenuous.. the plot was to have up to 6 resignations, these 2 stoke and copeland were meant to create a crisis for corbyn with the new labour foghorns ...
Huffington Post Canada
February 23, 2017
One prominent pro-Israel lobbyist wrote in the Hill Times that anti-Semitism simply "cloaks itself in unwarranted criticisms against Israel.
Middle East Eye
February 16, 2017
The committee began confirmation hearings on Thursday for Friedman, a Trump lawyer who has called for the US embassy to be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and denounced progressive pro-Israel lobbyists as "worse than kapos" - a reference to JewsÃÂ ...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
February 15, 2017
In recent months, Esack has been a guest professor at the Academy of World Religions in Hamburg University. Pro-Israel lobbyists have attacked the university for hiring Esack and slandered him personally. The accusations against him were first ...
Palestine News Network
February 14, 2017
Free Speech on Israel, a Jewish-led organisation, on Monday condemned the decision of the London Assembly on Feb 8 to adopt a position on antisemitism, saying it is a charter for censors, that threatens to make effective campaigning for justice forÃÂ ...
Al-Jazeerah.info
February 12, 2017
... about meetings between Gould, Liam Fox and Fox's strange friend Adam Werritty. Werritty was referred to as Fox's adviser but according to reports he was backed financially by Israel lobbyists and had no security clearance and therefore no ...
Redress Information & Analysis
February 11, 2017
... about meetings between Gould, Liam Fox and Fox's strange friend Adam Werritty. Werritty was referred to as Fox's adviser but according to reports he was backed financially by Israel lobbyists and had no security clearance and therefore no ...
