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...So why
can’t we talk about the Benjamins? American taxpayers
provide Israel with more than $3.8 billion annually in
military aid. You’ll be hearing more on that later from
our conference co-organizer, IRmep’s Grant Smith.
When IRmep fielded Gallup’s poll through the highly accurate Google survey platform between March 5 and 8, IRmep found that only 22.2 percent of Americans said they sympathize more with the Israelis, while 52.5 percent claimed they held no opinion. Americans have long been told they are highly sympathetic to Israel and support giving most of the U.S. aid budget to Israel—when in fact they aren’t, and don’t. See more at WRMEA.
Pollster Gallup admitted on March 28 that three
decades of polling data contain fundamental flaws "well
beyond what we would attribute to normal sampling
error."
Gallup’s admission
centers on its high-stakes question of whether Americans
have greater sympathy for Israelis or for Palestinians.
Gallup loudly trumpeted that Americans "increasingly
sympathized with Israel in recent years." U.S. based
Israel affinity organizations and the Congressional
Research Service long used Gallup sympathy polls to
claim that most Americans support giving most of the US
foreign aid budget to Israel.
Gallup attributes its
sudden admission of error to "an analysis of [Gallup]
World Affairs surveys and other surveys conducted at
about the same time indicate this is not the case."
Gallup’s reevaluation
may have been triggered by more than its own polling and
cited polling done by CNN and Pew Research. In both 2018
and 2019 IRmep paid to field Gallup’s precisely worded
polling question through the highly accurate Google
Surveys representative polling service. The analysis of
results, published at Antiwar.com on March 13, 2019 and
April 29, 2018, found that contrary to Gallup results
the majority of Americans do not sympathize more with
Israelis "in the Middle East situation."
On March 6 Gallup
claimed 59% of Americans
sympathized more with
the Israelis and only
21% sympathized more
with the Palestinians.
The poll was part of a
multi-question survey
fielded by telephone.
Gallup’s question was,
"In the Middle East
situation, are your
sympathies more with the
Israelis or more with
the Palestinians?"
Source: IRmep representative poll of 1,003 American adults through Google Surveys on March 6-8.
A majority of Americans,
52.5%, far from
expressing overwhelming
– but declining –
sympathy for Israel,
claim that they hold "No
opinion" on the matter.
Only 22.2% of Americans
said they sympathized
more with the Israelis.
This amount is less than
the total number (25.3%)
of Americans answering
"Neither" "Both" and
"Palestinians. The
"Palestinians" response
was 6.8%.
The real reason Congress is targeting Ilhan Omar - (Hint: it's about the Israel lobby) 03/07/2019
One of every three
members of Congress
boarding a jetliner on a
privately-funded
all-expense paid trip
overseas has Israel as
their final destination.
Only one out of a
hundred ever visits
Palestinian territories
as a final destination.
The vast majority of Israel trips are funded by the American Israel Education Foundation which raises tax-exempt contributions from pro-Israel donors and Jewish federations. They typically last eight days and cost $10,000. AEIF is a corporation created in 1988 by the domestically-registered lobbying group AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. In 2009 66% of AEIF’s board was comprised of AIPAC directors. Since AIEF is merely a lobbying funding conduit with no employees, whenever members of Congress travel to Israel, they are accompanied instead by staffers from AIPAC. In 2017 AIEF reported raising $60 million in revenue and expending $57 million. Another sole-purpose entity set up by AIPAC in 1984 is the Washington Institute for Near East Policy which works to portray policies favored by the Israeli government as being in the American interest. Full report at Antiwar.com
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
“The Israel Lobby & American Policy 2019 Conference”
takes place all day on March 22 at the National Press
Club in Washington, DC, and will feature the following
speakers:
Susan Abulhawa
is a Palestinian novelist, poet, essayist and founder of
Playgrounds for
Palestine. Her keynote speech topic is
“Israel: More than just Apartheid.”
Ali Abunimah
is a journalist and the co-founder and executive
director of the widely acclaimed
The Electronic
Intifada. He will discuss “What does a
censored undercover news investigation reveal about the
Israel lobby in America?”
Saqib Ali served as a
Democratic Party member of the Maryland House of
Delegates and will address “Why I’m suing Maryland to
protect my constitutional right to boycott Israel.”
Kathy Drinkard
is a retired teacher and elementary
school counselor, and pro-Palestine activist who will
address “How the Virginia Coalition for Human Rights
(VCHR) is preventing Israel affinity organizations from
politicizing K-12 textbooks.”
Walter Hixson is a
distinguished professor of history at the University of
Akron. He will discuss key findings from his forthcoming
book, Israel’s Armor: The Israel Lobby and the First
Generation of the Palestine Conflict.
Martin F. McMahon
is the plaintiffs’ attorney in the
landmark legal action against Israeli settlers and their
American financiers. He explains what follows his
Palestinian and American plaintiffs’ recent legal
victory in the DC Court of Appeals.
James Metz co-founded
Richmonders for Peace in Israel-Palestine and will speak
about “Why VCHR is taking on the Virginia Israel
Advisory Board.”
James North
is a contributing editor at Mondoweiss
and will examine “How The New York Times rigs
news on Israel Palestine.”
Paul Noursi
is co-director of the Virginia
Coalition for Human Rights (VCHR) and will discuss “What
is the VCHR?”
Brad Parker is senior
adviser, policy and advocacy, at Defense for Children
International and will cover “What lessons can activists
take away from the Promoting Human Rights by Ending
Israeli Military Detention of Palestinian Children Act?”
Grant Smith is research
director at IRmep and will speak about “U.S. foreign aid
and the Israeli nuclear weapons program.”
Register online
at
https://IsraelLobbyandAmericanPolicy.org
or
https://israellobbycon.eventbrite.com
Students may
apply for free tickets and stipends at
https://israellobbyandamericanpolicy.org/Students_Stipends/
News media may
apply for press credentials at
https://israellobbyandamericanpolicy.org/Press_credentials/
Ticketholders
can attend the main program, ideas fair, receive a box
lunch and an invitation to the post-conference
reception!
IsraelLobbyCon
is solely sponsored by the American Educational Trust,
publisher of the
Washington Report
on Middle East Affairs, and the
Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep).
IRmep Poll: 41% want members of the U.S Congress to visit Palestinian territories - 02/26/2019 When asked, 41.2% of American adults recently polled said members making visits to Israel should also visit “territories where Palestinians expelled during Israel’s creation live.” Question: Should members of the US Congress taking educational trips to Israel also visit the territories where Palestinians expelled during Israel's creation live?
Source: IRmep representative poll of 1,014 American adults through Google Surveys on February 19-23 with a root mean square of 4.7%. Though not as statistically relevant as the overall poll results, demographic filtering reveals younger and older adults are generally more supportive of Palestinian territory visits. In the 18-24 category, 45.7% favored such visits while in the 25-34 age group 46% were supportive of Congress members visiting Palestine. 55-64 year-olds and 65+ category also had higher favorability to the idea. Other IRmep Polls
New legislation passed
in the Senate seeks to
legalize the right of
individual state
governments to force
American companies to
certify they won’t
engage in economic
boycotts of Israel as a
condition for receiving
government contracts.
Full report at Antiwar.com Polling data IRmep poll page
Flashpoints host Dennis Bernstein and IRmep's Grant F. Smith discuss the Twitter and media frenzy unleashed by Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar's brief tweet about the Israel lobby and money. How did AIPAC reconstitute after the Department of Justice ordered it to register as an Israeli foreign agent? How does AIPAC wield power and influence? Why does establishment media do such a poor job reporting on Israel Palestine and the lobby? What cracks are starting to appear?
IRmep Lawsuit: US nuclear "policy substitution" for Israel undermines NPT, AECA and bilks US taxpayers - 1/25/2019
On January 17, IRmep
filed a 59-page brief (PDF
HTML) in a lawsuit
demanding release of a
series of secret
presidential letters
promising not to force
Israel to sign the
Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons (NPT) or
publicly discuss
Israel's nuclear weapons
program.
The NSC and NARA are
attempting to dismiss a
lawsuit seeking release
of the letters by
claiming the very fact
of the existence (or
nonexistence) of such
letters would inherently
be classified – and that
therefore no search for
responsive documents
need be performed. Since
FOIA courts readily
defer to agency
affidavits asserting
irreparable harm to
national security –
provided such affidavits
are specific enough –
the NSC also provided a
written justification. |
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