Big Israel: How Israel’s Lobby Moves America

506 Pages·2016·2.48 MB·English

by  Grant Smith

BIG ISRAEL
How Israel’s Lobby Moves
America

Grant F. Smith

Copyright © 2016 Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Smith, Grant F., author.
Title: Big Israel : how Israel's lobby moves America / Grant F. Smith.
Description: Washington, D.C. : Institute for Research: Middle Eastern
Policy, Inc., [2016] | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015051291 (print) | LCCN 2016000154 (ebook) | ISBN
9780982775714 ()
Subjects: LCSH: American Israel Public Affairs Committee. | Lobbying--United
States.
Classification: LCC E184.36.P64 S637 2016 (print) | LCC E184.36.P64 (ebook) |
DDC 324/.40973--dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015051291
ISBN 9780982775714

“I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very
easily, move it in the right direction.”

Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking to Jewish West Bank settlers in 2001.

Table of Contents
1 THE ISRAEL LOBBY
2 ISRAEL AFFINITY ORGANIZATIONS
3 FOUR IAO CATEGORIES
4 SUBSIDY
5 FUNDRAISING & LOCAL POLITICAL ACTION
6 ADVOCACY
7 EDUCATION
8 COORDINATION & SUPPRESSION
9 AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION
10 CAPTURE
11 MOVING WHERE?
APPENDICES
A. SUBSIDY IAOS
B. FUNDRAISING & LOCAL POLITICAL ACTION IAOS
C. ADVOCACY IAOS
D. EDUCATION IAOS
E. IAO CATEGORY TOTALS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NOTES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author wishes to acknowledge and thank the many cited sources
quoted throughout this work. Thanks also to Jeffrey Blankfort for
developmental editing, Janet McMahon for copy editing, and Henry
Norr for proofreading and timely suggestions.