Lobbyists with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee [AIPAC] are pressing Members of Congress to co-sponsor bills that attack the Iran nuclear agreement by imposing new sanctions on Iran [S.722 & H.R.1698] and attack Palestinian self-determination by promoting Israeli settlements in the West Bank [S.720 & H.R.1697]. Urge your reps. to oppose these bills by…
Hillary Clinton will address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s policy conference in Washington March 20-22. Urge Hillary to tell AIPAC that settlements are not Israel by signing our petition at MoveOn: https://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/hillary-tell-AIPAC-settlements-are-not-Israel Just because Hillary is speaking at AIPAC, doesn’t mean that she has to pander to AIPAC. When President Obama’s National Security Advisor…
Let me be perfectly clear, as President Obama might say. I’m not claiming that fast track trade negotiating authority is defeated for now. Unlike some people, I do care what Mama Don’t Allow. But suppose it were true that fast track is defeated for now. Then I would propose that we celebrate a "National Day of Gloating" for the defeat of fast…
Sen. Menendez has lent his pen to AIPAC yet again by drafting a new letter that reintroduces the old zero enrichment demand by calling on President Obama to insist that Iran has no right to enrichment and that any final deal must dismantle Iran’s inaccurately-referred-to “nuclear weapons program.” And if that’s not bad enough: Sen….
It was, without doubt, a world-historical moment last Thursday when AIPAC concededthat its push to sabotage U.S. diplomacy with Iran had been decisively rebuked. As theNew York Times noted, it had been decades since AIPAC lost such a high-profile showdown so decisively. But it seems very unlikely that AIPAC is finished trying to obstruct realistic diplomacy with…
Who knew we’d live to see this glorious day? The New York Times is reporting that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)’s efforts to pass a bill in the Senate to cripple diplomacy with Iran have stalled, and concludes that AIPAC has lost influence in Washington. [1] Hallelujah! Now we have a great opportunity…
2013 was a big year for Just Foreign Policy. Here’s a brief summary of our greatest wins. Preventing a US military strike on Syria. When President Obama announced his intention to bomb Syria, Just Foreign Policy was the first progressive organization to say that Obama should go to Congress to seek authorization. We initiated a…
For the last few weeks, we’ve been presenting some of the success stories of 2013. Today, we want to do something a bit different. Let’s talk about some of this year’s losses—AIPAC’s losses, that is. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee—known popularly by its acronym, AIPAC—has acquired a reputation as an organization that pretty much…
For seven years, we’ve been urging that the U.S. government resolve its differences with Iran through diplomacy. Now that the Obama Administration is finally making progress some in Congress are trying to blow up the peace train. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is planning to ignore the Administration’s request, and–with the assistance of AIPAC, which…
Forget the scary costumes and gory Hollywood movies. If you’re looking for a true fright this Halloween, just take a look at the video of a panel discussion that took place at New York’s Yeshiva University last week in which Sheldon Adelson, a major donor for numerous organizations and political candidates who promote strife, called…