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all right. good morning, everyone. i m editor at the washington report on middle east affairs and on behalf of the washington report and the institute for middle eastern policy, i would like to welcome you to today s israel lobby and american policy conference. now in its sixth year, a core goal of this conference is to advance the notion that it is healthy and normal to challenge special interest groups and that no group, including the israel lobby, ought to be exempt from critique. [ applause ] and of course challenging powerful lobbies, helps accountability and policies that promote human rights and the common good rather than special interests. and while this conference will assess the history of the israel lobby, it will also highlight the work of grass roots activists who have worked diligent and often under the radar to challenge the lobby in productive and effective ways. and we hope their words and example inspire our audience to get involved in local and nationa
JerusalemIsrael-general-IsraelQatarAustraliaDimonaHadaromAfghanistanUnited-statesUnited-kingdomWest-bankAkron a palestinian refugee camp entitled they are human too. as well as a novel about palestinian refugees. and you should see this photo book. it looks like gaza today. i mean, nothing has changed. but it s very interesting that it was put out by i a conservative out by a conservative, explicitly conservative ideological publisher. and then there was what priced israel by alfred m. williamthal who i believe is the founder of the american council on judaism which made what was back then the mainstream jewish argument against the idea of a specifically jewish state. on the other hand, we see the same reversal. now, you can see how things have been reversed. but on the west there was another reversal going on. albeit in the opposite direction. in the beginning in 1948, the american left was very much pro-israel. henry wallace made support for israel a major issue in his presidential campaign that year as the candidate of the to of the leftist progressive party which had the fu
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