THE ISRAEL LOBBY & AMERICAN POLICY CONFERENCE 2019
Susan AbulhawaSpeakers |
Ali Abunimah | Saqib Ali | Kathy Drinkard | Walter Hixson |
Martin McMahon | James Metz | James North | Paul Noursi |
Brad Parker | Grant Smith |
Our 6th annual conference at the
National Press Club will be the most important ever!
How has the Israel lobby further captured key nodes of U.S.
government policymaking? Why is U.S. policy so expensive,
destructive and unrepresentative of the will of the American people?
How are a handful of politicians now successfully running against
previously unquestioned, longstanding Israel lobby platforms? What
rules do reporters follow when they tell the truth about U.S. policy
and the lobby? Why do U.S. presidents sign secret letters promising
not to publicly discuss Israel’s clandestine nuclear weapons
program? Why does the U.S. give more foreign aid to Israel than to
any other country, and how is the makeup of that aid changing? What,
if anything, does the U.S. get out of its so-called “special
relationship” with Israel? How are human rights groups working to
“de-Israelize” state and local governments? What is the Israel lobby
doing to provoke an armed U.S. confrontation with Iran? What else is
the lobby doing to improve Israel’s strategic position in the
region? Why are assertions that Israel and the U.S. have “shared
values” made, and are these assertions accurate?
With so many think tanks and self-designated “public policy”
organizations in Washington, one would think experts would publicly
discuss these topics often. But they don’t!
In reality, these topics are rarely discussed, and never when it
matters most—right before the
Israel lobby’s biggest annual meeting in Washington, DC!
On March 22, 2019, just two days before the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee holds its annual policy conference at the
Washington Convention Center, a polar opposite gathering of top
thinkers, activists, authors, politicians and experts will meet at
an even more prestigious location: The National Press Club.
Qualified experts—most denied mass media platforms in the United
States—will once more convene to critically examine U.S. Middle East
policy and the negative impact of the Israel-centric policies the
lobby demands. Most important, once again Americans interested in
improving Middle East policy can convene and discuss alternatives
for the future!