{"product_id":"big-israel-how-israels-lobby-moves-america-paperback","title":"Big Israel: How Israel's Lobby Moves America - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGrant F. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Israel lobby exerts incredible power and influence over America. Some identify only one organization, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), as \"the lobby\" citing its influence on Capitol Hill. \u003cb\u003eThis is wrong.\u003c\/b\u003e Many interconnected organizations channel their power and influence through AIPAC in Congress. Hundreds more \"mini-AIPAC's\" coordinate with AIPAC and their own national office to lobby state legislatures to pass model legislation and spending authorizations benefiting Israel-without publicly disclosing most of their lobbying activities. Others operate quietly, policing what is allowed to appear in mainstream news media and channeling \"hush money\" to civil rights organizations to keep them out of grassroots pro-Palestinian movements. Coordinated, effective and highly averse to public scrutiny, the Israel Affinity Organizations that make up the lobby have transformed America. While some informed voters know the U.S. provides more foreign aid to Israel than any other country, the total flow of charitable, tax dollar, military aid, intelligence and \"opportunity cost\" are unknown to those footing the bill-\u003cb\u003eand the lobby is determined to keep it that way.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eYet storm clouds are gathering over Israel's lobby.\u003c\/b\u003e Public opinion polls asking the right questions indicate Americans are nowhere near as approving of unconditional support as many Israel lobbyists insist. Most American Jews have nothing to do with Israel lobbying organizations. More important, \u003cb\u003ebroad and deep societal changes, \u003c\/b\u003e along with the technology-driven rise of alternative and social media, are transforming large numbers of Americans from \u003cb\u003emostly unaware supporters into informed and active dissenters.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eBig Israel\u003c\/b\u003e is a comprehensive, historical, data-driven analysis of how the Israel lobby exerts influence across the United States. Based on a detailed review of more than 4,000 nonprofit organization tax returns, declassified U.S. government files and closely-held internal reports from Israel lobby organizations, Big Israel reveals how staid, respectable and bona fide social welfare organizations transformed themselves into a networked lobby for a foreign country-\u003cb\u003einflicting immense damage on average Americans.\u003c\/b\u003e Big Israel offers many surprising insights into the Israel lobby's strengths and weaknesses so that Americans working for peace and justice in Middle East policymaking can finally turn down the rolling thunder of propaganda and \u003cb\u003etake effective action.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrant F. Smith lives in Washington, DC where he researches and writes about U.S. Middle East policy formulation. Smith is director of the nonprofit Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep). In his thirty-year professional career as a researcher, Smith has investigated financial services and global telecommunications industries, worked in twenty-two countries assessing the impact of regulatory and trade regime changes and managed multi-country research teams. Smith has a BA in International Relations from the University of Minnesota and MIM (Master of International Management) from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. Smith's first research experience examining lobbying took place in the late 1980s as a member of a Minnesota Citizen's League committee investigating public entities that used a significant percentage of their taxpayer-funded allocations to lobby elected officials for ever-larger appropriations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 332\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 05, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48938657612004,"sku":"9780982775714","price":27.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0750\/0850\/8132\/files\/OHpaOTduUkk1NEZQMkJFQWw3WUhoUT09.webp?v=1778903971","url":"https:\/\/triumviratebooks.com\/hr\/products\/big-israel-how-israels-lobby-moves-america-paperback","provider":"Triumvirate Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}