American Israel Public Affairs Committee

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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee ( AIPAC ; German " American-Israeli Committee for Public Affairs ") is a pro- Israel lobby in the USA with over 100,000 members. It was founded in 1953 by Isaiah L. Kenen as the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs and later renamed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee . In the USA it is considered to be the most important of the pro-Israeli lobbies and one of the most important lobbies in the USA at all. The organization is headquartered in Washington, DC. Depending on the amount of money donated, members are invited to exclusive events.

AIPAC has also been criticized by the Jewish side, including the then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin , for unilaterally supporting the conservative party alliance Likud . Liberal Jews, to whom the position of AIPAC seemed too conservative, founded the lobby organization J Street in 2008 as a vote against AIPAC.

Members

Israeli politicians:

Organizations such as B. the Anti-Defamation League .

See also

Web links

Footnotes

  1. John J. Mearsheimer & Stephen M. Walt : The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy (= HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series. No. 06-011). Harvard Kennedy School, March 13, 2006 ( PDF; 1,201 MB )
  2. Join The Club , accessed March 4, 2015
  3. Walter Laqueur : A Guide for Conspirators. Die Welt, September 8, 2007, accessed March 4, 2015 .