On AIPAC, Lobbying, and Double Standards |
So far during my time as an undergraduate at the University of Missouri, I have noticed a certain growing obsession with the state of Israel. The contexts for these expressions have been as ideologically diverse as conspiratorial slop such as “Israel did 9/11,” to outright blood libels such as accusing Israel of being a “genocidal, apartheid, settler-colonial project.” Now, this twisted fad-driven set of grievances seems to be focused on the American Jewish lobby, AIPAC, particularly with the notion that their influence completely controls the American government.
Basically, it’s a regurgitation of the classic antisemitic trope about powerful foreign Jews secretly controlling the world, only now it’s applied to the American political system.
Just like every other iteration of this conspiracy theory, it’s all nonsense.
The American Israel Public Affair Committee is a bipartisan membership PAC composed of only Americans so it does not qualify as a foreign lobbyist group as defined by the Foreign Agent Registration Act.
Assertions that Jews and Israel run American politics easily collapse........