The Zionist Lobby

The "Israel Lobby" conference is too hot for C-SPAN!  So watch it from your desktop, phone, laptop or tablet! - Begins at 9AM EST - April 10, live from the National Press Club!  Tweet in your questions for speakers to @IsraelLobbyUS or email conference@IsraelLobbyUS.org.  Be a part of this important event!
	The Israel Lobby conference is unprecedented, with the finest speakers on the subject gathered for a day of panels, Q&A and discussions. Israel lobby watchdogs like the ADL were outraged at last year's National Summit. Today C-SPAN refused to broadcast it, choosing instead to show re-runs of innocuous content. So forget C-SPAN!  Watch the entire conference from your favorite YouTube device!  No cable subscription, no gatekeepers!  Then watch the archived video and share it with your friends! Watch the conference from the official website at http://www.IsraelLobbyUS.org, , http://www.wrmea.org orhttp://www.IRmep.org ! If any of those websites get knocked out by hacking, stream it live from Youtube at  https://youtu.be/c1IIrHsO4fw Spread the word through social media using Youtube's sharing buttons!
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	Watch the Israel Lobby conference live from your device! Spread the word! Conference organizers are the American Educational Trust, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy.  THE ISRAEL LOBBY Is It Good for the US? Is It Good for Israel?Washington, DC - April 10, 2015 at the National Press Club - Registration Form (PDF) Download Conference Speakers Program/News Congress/Feds Student/Faculty News Media  Register Watch the conference live beginning 9AM EST on April 10, 2015 This unprecedented gathering will focus on the Israel lobby in America. How big is it? How fast has it grown? How interconnected are the organizations and individuals? How much revenue does it raise and where does the money go? What are the common objectives of the lobby? What laws apply to lobbying to benefit a foreign government and are they vigorously enforced? Do coordinated campaign contributions cause American policymakers to act more on behalf of Israel than the United States? What fallacies underlie the assertions that U.S. and Israeli interests are the same? What are the Israel lobby’s public and private, short-and-medium-term policy objectives? And what can Americans who do not believe pro-Israel slogans, activities and policy objectives do?  How big is the Israel lobby today? Hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals lobby the US government at every level to support Israel unconditionally. Many are active on Capitol Hill, drafting legislation to economically and militarily target Israel's regional rivals and deliver the largest slice of the US foreign aid budget to Israel. Others are community-based, vetting candidates for office, channeling the Prime Ministers policy views into local media and coordinating with national groups. Some target mass media in hopes of preventing unwanted coverage while putting a positive spin on news about Israel.  What does the Israel lobby do? Common tactics include sending politicians and influential people on free trips to Israel; economically and academically entwining U.S. and Israeli institutions and spreading common messages. Active duty and retired military and law enforcement officials are sent for training and meeting counterparts in Israel. Israel activist training programs execute the long-term lobby vision to supplant key diplomats and political appointees with operatives with close connections to and unwavering support for Israel.  Why is there increasing conflict with Israel lobby programs? When polled, six in ten Americans favor cutting aid to Israel, which receives the largest and fasting-growing share of such taxpayer-funded aid. They increasingly question why Israel lobbying organizations are always at the forefront of promoting costly U.S. military actions against Iraq, Iran and Syria. They wonder why the media never discusses Israel's long-standing nuclear weapons arsenal even as they constantly hype the threat of Iran, a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which does not possess nuclear weapons. The Venue: National Press Club Ballroom The Ballroom is located on the 13th floor of the National Press Club. Registration for the conference will begin promptly at 8:00 AM. All attendees must present their ticket and and may be asked to show a valid government-issued ID to enter the Ballroom. Lunch will be served at noon in the Ballroom. We encourage attendees to visit the special author signings hosted by Middle East Books in the foyer. The National Press Club building is located at 529 14th ST NW, Washington DC, 20045. Elevator banks are located at the 14th Street entry. Nearby metro stops within three to four blocks include Metro Center (Blue, Orange and Red lines) McPherson Square (Blue and Orange lines) and Federal Triangle (Blue and Orange lines). Link to Googe Maps   Register Today! The event is open to the public. It will feature leading experts of all ages and backgrounds from academia, government, independent research organizations and alternative news media shut out of public discourse.  Register Today!     Copyright © 2015 WRMEA / IRmep. All Rights Reserved.  For more information contact: conference@IsraelLobbyUS.org   Conference  Organizers