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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is an American lobbying group that advocates for pro-Israel policies to the Congress and Executive Branch of the United States. It has been described as one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington. The current President of the AIPAC is David Victor, from Detroit, Michigan.


Describing itself as "America's Pro-Israel Lobby," AIPAC is a mass-membership organization whose members include Democrats, Republicans, and independents. The New York Times calls it "the most important organization affecting America's relationship with Israel." As an independent, not-for-profit entity, AIPAC is funded entirely through contributions from its members.

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The groups, which have donated millions to illegal settlement building and the fight against BDS (the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement, include officials from AIPAC, Stand Up for Israel (ADL) and the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA). According to a leaked copy of his itinerary, ...
After 2 1/2 days of general sessions filled with incredible speakers as well as breakout sessions, the group successfully lobbied our local congressmen, including Stephanie Murphy, Darren Soto and Valerie Demmings. Thanks to the AIPAC trip offered to congressmen, all three traveled to Israel last summer ...

Upon arrival at the Walter Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., we had little to no idea what AIPAC's annual Policy Conference would look like. We'd been to a previous policy conference, so we understood the number of participants this conference draws each year, but there was ...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ben Cardin, the Democratic senator from Maryland who is among the closest in his party to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, will speak at the annual conference of its liberal rival, J Street. Cardin, who is Jewish, was one of just four Democrats in the Senate who voted in ...
One pleasurable surprise of the AIPAC policy conference in early March — the leading Israel lobby group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — was how much bad press the organization got. It's becoming almost fashionable to criticize the lobby for its enforcement of lockstep political support for ...
Legislation pushed last week by AIPAC has been criticized as a violation of the First Amendment. The American Civil Liberties Union has acknowledged recent tweaks to the legislation that targets the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights. But the ACLU's director Faiz ...

What do you get when you combine 50 high school students and a world-class rabbi? You get the Kushner 2018 AIPAC delegation led by the one and only, Rabbi Richard Kirsch. As a high school freshman, this was my first AIPAC Policy Conference, and I was in for a surprise in so many ways. Our AIPAC ...
AIPAC Executive Director Howard Kohr speaks to the Israel lobby's policy conference in Washington, D.C., March 4. JTA photo courtesy of AIPAC. WASHINGTON—The American Israel Public Affairs Committee opened its arms to progressives, launching its annual policy conference with direct appeals to ...
But that line looked a bit ridiculous this week when well over 10,000 American Jews – the majority of them Conservative and Reform – gave Netanyahu that hero's treatment at AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. If Israel indeed goes to new elections soon, any attempt by the opposition to ...
Leaders from around Washington are set to gather at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) annual policy conference starting Sunday amid new questions over the U.S. push for Mideast peace. AIPAC, the nation's most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group, regularly attracts a number of ...

AIPAC, which runs from Sunday through Tuesday in Washington DC, is an influential political conference that brings pro-Israel lobbyists and US lawmakers together to discuss future US policy on Israel. "Hey hey, ho ho, AIPAC has got to go," the mostly young and energetic protesters shouted while banging ...
AIPAC has finessed Israel's occupation for too long, and refuses to push back against Trump and the GOP's 'America First' nativism. ... Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up as he addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2016 Policy Conference at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. ...
Washington, DC - The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, is holding its 2018 policy conference in Washington, DC, on Sunday, an event meant to underscore its outsized influence inside America's corridors of power by hosting key Congressional leaders; the US vice president; the US ...
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, speaks during the American Israel Public Affairs Committee ( Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference at the Washington Convention Center, March 2, 2015. Bloomberg ...
I hate the American Israel Public Affairs Committee – AIPAC, “the preeminent power in Washington lobbying” today. I hate it with a strong, unadulterated passion that has been burning inside me for decades. Throughout most of these decades, there was no outlet for me to say these words or to do anything ...
The official script of this year's AIPAC Policy Conference did not offer many surprises. CEO Howard Kohr reiterated AIPAC's support of “two states for two peoples… one Jewish with secure and defensible borders, and one Palestinian with its own flag and its own future.” The failure to achieve peace was ...


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