SUNDAY FUNNIES

‘The Israel Lobby — a List’
• The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC):
• Pro-Israel Political Action Committees (PACs):
• Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CoP):
• The American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF):
• The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP):
• Anti-Defamation League (ADL):
• International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (aka Stand for Israel):
• Central Fund of Israel:
• Christians United for Israel (CUFI):
• Simon Wiesenthal Center:
• The Israel Project:
• Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces (FIDF):
• Hadassah (Women’s Zionist Organization of America):
• America’s Voices in Israel (AVI):
• The Jewish Agency for Israel:
• Young Judaea:
• American Friends of Likud:
• American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) [Jewish Virtual Library]:
• The Israel Allies Foundation:
• Americans United with Israel:
• The Jewish Policy Center:
• The Haym Salomon Center:
• The Foundation for Jewish Camp:
• The Jim Joseph Foundation:
• The Avi Chai Foundation:
• Stand with Us:
• Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI):
• Leona M. and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust:
• AMIT:
• Aaron and Marie Blackman Foundation, Inc:
• Jewish Day Schools:
• Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA):
• Jewish National Fund (JNF):
• Zionist Organization of America (ZOA):
• American Jewish Committee (AJC):
• World Jewish Congress:
• Friends of Aish Hatorah:
• Chabad:
• Republican Jewish Coalition:
• National Jewish Democratic Council:
• Foundation for Defense of Democracies:
• JINSA:
• Saban Center at Brookings:
• Center for Security Policy:
• MEMRI:
• Hillel:
• Birthright Israel:
• David Project:
• Amcha Initiative:
• Young Israel:
• Ateret Cohanim:
• Elad:
• BBYO
• Israeli-American Council:
• America-Israel Chamber of Commerce Chicago:

* PACs: Usually a PAC can only donate $5,000 for a primary and $5,000 for general elections. But with thirty “unaffiliated” PACs marching in lockstep behind AIPAC, this can balloon up to $300,000 for any given candidate. The extent of this influence remains hidden from view. They also use “bundling,” which means taking various individual donations and handing them over en masse to a candidate, so that on the books it shows up as several individual donations, but everyone except the FEC understands who’s really controlling the money.

A 1996 book called Stealth PACs reports that “in 1988, Israel’s lobby had 78 PACs spending more than $5.5 million to bribe Congress to vote more aid for Israel. That was more than total contributions together of the two next largest special interests in the United States—the real estate lobby and the teamsters.”