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In interview with Jonathan Martin, Josh Shapiro on AIPAC spending: “I think it's been used cynically by some to try and silence certain voices, to try and say that certain people participating in politics shouldn't count or should be viewed in a toxic way…. “What you are seeing is...

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Haviv Retting Gur talk about AIPAC: AIPAC is a lobby. It's not the wealthiest. It's not the most influential. It is the one that draws the most attention and you know, that's got a little bit, tiny, forgive me, a tiny bit to do with prejudice. And there's a lot less concern about actual foreign lobbies. Every single dollar AIPAC has ever raised is American Every single member of AIPAC is American. Nobody has the concern about the Qatari lobby and the Saudi lobby and the Chinese lobby in America, which is wealthier and spends more in America than this lobby of Americans saying something that they believe in. A few arguments are made against AIPAC. One argument is that AIPAC always supports the Israeli position. That is not true. AIPAC always supports its membership's position. And here's the problem. Its membership deeply disagrees on Israeli politics. Incidentally, the last time AIPAC criticized the Israeli government was blunt and fierce, and it was about Netanyahu letting Ben-Gvir into the coalition because Ben-Gvir is a racist. And you know why AIPAC could come out with a literal statement coming out against Ben-Gvir entering the government? Because almost the entirety of its membership was horrified. And then AIPAC could speak. Every dollar in Obama's $4 billion, $3.8 billion a year that he gives to Israel has to be spent in the United States. 100% of it. And you know who advocated for increasing the amount that has to be spent back in America to make sure it's an American thing? AIPAC. Iron Dome. AIPAC campaigned for America to help support the building of the Iron Dome technology. And AIPAC itself advocated that, in the actual contract where the Americans send over the money and the Israelis build this technology no American organization knew how to build, that in exchange for the money, America co-owns Iron Dome. Qatar has massive influence campaigns in America, spends hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbying in America, the Attorney General of the United States today was a literal registered lobbyist for Qatar. Nobody makes this campaign, "How dare you accept money from PACs that support the relationship between the Arab world or the Muslim world in America." But it's much deeper than that. Because AIPAC was born in a moment of American Jewish shame. In World War II, American Jews sat silent. By 1943, everybody already knew what was happening. And 400 rabbis—religious rabbis, dressed up in all the getup from Eastern Europe, many of them Yiddish-speaking with bad English, refugee rabbis—came to Washington to meet President Roosevelt and to beg him to do something. And Roosevelt snuck out of the back door of the White House to avoid the meeting. And they went home, horrified, having not even been able to meet the president while Jews are being burned in the gas chambers. And there was a Jewish journalist who accompanied them. That moment was seared into his consciousness. AIPAC was founded by a generation of Jews that said, we will never be silent when other Jews are herded into a gas chamber. And that's treason? The three times that AIPAC literally frontally faced down an American president in Washington? It lost. It is influential because the Pentagon sees handing money to the Israelis in exchange for a technology nobody thought was possible as a workaround of a bloated and unmoving and immovable American defense industry. When AIPAC pushes that, it always, always takes care of the American interest because it's a bunch of Americans. And the demonizing of that is just pure prejudice and bigotry. And AIPAC, by the way, is not going anywhere. Because the very people coming for the Jews are also driving Jews to AIPAC. It's a little bit like Zionism.

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AIPAC is a lobby. It's not the wealthiest. It's not the most influential. It is the one that draws the most attention and you know, that's got a little bit, tiny, forgive me, a tiny bit to do with prejudice. And there's a lot less concern about actual foreign lobbies. Every single dollar AIPAC has ever raised is American Every single member of AIPAC is American. Nobody has the concern about the Qatari lobby and the Saudi lobby and the Chinese lobby in America, which is wealthier and spends more in America than this lobby of Americans saying something that they believe in. A few arguments are made against AIPAC. One argument is that AIPAC always supports the Israeli position. That is not true. AIPAC always supports its membership's position. And here's the problem. Its membership deeply disagrees on Israeli politics. Incidentally, the last time AIPAC criticized the Israeli government was blunt and fierce, and it was about Netanyahu letting Ben-Gvir into the coalition because Ben-Gvir is a racist. And you know why AIPAC could come out with a literal statement coming out against Ben-Gvir entering the government? Because almost the entirety of its membership was horrified. And then AIPAC could speak. Every dollar in Obama's $4 billion, $3.8 billion a year that he gives to Israel has to be spent in the United States. 100% of it. And you know who advocated for increasing the amount that has to be spent back in America to make sure it's an American thing? AIPAC. Iron Dome. AIPAC campaigned for America to help support the building of the Iron Dome technology. And AIPAC itself advocated that, in the actual contract where the Americans send over the money and the Israelis build this technology no American organization knew how to build, that in exchange for the money, America co-owns Iron Dome. Qatar has massive influence campaigns in America, spends hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbying in America, the Attorney General of the United States today was a literal registered lobbyist for Qatar. Nobody makes this campaign, "How dare you accept money from PACs that support the relationship between the Arab world or the Muslim world in America." But it's much deeper than that. Because AIPAC was born in a moment of American Jewish shame. In World War II, American Jews sat silent. By 1943, everybody already knew what was happening. And 400 rabbis—religious rabbis, dressed up in all the getup from Eastern Europe, many of them Yiddish-speaking with bad English, refugee rabbis—came to Washington to meet President Roosevelt and to beg him to do something. And Roosevelt snuck out of the back door of the White House to avoid the meeting. And they went home, horrified, having not even been able to meet the president while Jews are being burned in the gas chambers. And there was a Jewish journalist who accompanied them. That moment was seared into his consciousness. AIPAC was founded by a generation of Jews that said, we will never be silent when other Jews are herded into a gas chamber. And that's treason? The three times that AIPAC literally frontally faced down an American president in Washington? It lost. It is influential because the Pentagon sees handing money to the Israelis in exchange for a technology nobody thought was possible as a workaround of a bloated and unmoving and immovable American defense industry. When AIPAC pushes that, it always, always takes care of the American interest because it's a bunch of Americans. And the demonizing of that is just pure prejudice and bigotry. And AIPAC, by the way, is not going anywhere. Because the very people coming for the Jews are also driving Jews to AIPAC. It's a little bit like Zionism. -- via Haviv Rettig Gur

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Anti-Zionist America PAC founder Michael Rectenwald: "What we're seeing now... is the mask has come off. There was always some [Israeli] influence [in government]... [via] AIPAC and other lobbies, but... under the Trump administration, it's become a full-scale... barrage." This clip of Rectenwald (Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D.) is taken from an interview with Hrvoje Morić (Geopolitics & Empire) posted to the Geopolitics & Empire Rumble channel on September 26, 2025. ---------------Partial transcription of clip--------------- "I think what we're seeing now is the mask has come off. There was always some influence certainly and some control by AIPAC and other lobbies, but I think that under the Trump administration it's become a full scale, you know, mask off barrage. "And never before have I seen the US Government become so blatantly and overtly obsequious to the interests of Israel and the people that promote it. So I, I, I would probably say it's year, you know, decades in the coming, but this particular administration, surprisingly, actually to me, I was a bit stunned actually by the level of sort of servility that this government has sunk to in connection with Israel. "And you're right, if it was China, I would be saying the same thing and I would have found that an anti, an anti cp, you know, Communist, party, pack or something like that, or if it was, you know, say Saudi Arabia would be that. So it isn't specifically because it's Israel, it's because it's happening to our government and it happens to be Zionists that are doing it."

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