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WASHINGTON (JTA) â For years, the annual AIPAC conference has culminated with thousands of Israel supporters knocking on their congressional representativesâ doors here to deliver three policy requests.
Last year, the conference in early March ended with anxiety about whether COVID-19 had spread after some of the countryâs first cases were detected among attendees. And this year, thereâs no throng and no door-knocking at all. Due to the pandemic, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee announced in May that it would not hold an in-person conference in 2021 for the first time in decades.
But the pro-Israel lobby says itâs still engaging a broad swath of Americans â through a series of online events that spanned the course of the year rather than being packed into a five-day conference. And although both staffers and lawmakers say Zoom lobbying has drawbacks, AIPAC remains optimistic about its plan to present a three-pronged policy agenda to lawmake
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on a video from Israel to the 2019 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference, at Washington Convention Center, in Washington, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
WASHINGTON (JTA) For years, the annual AIPAC conference has culminated with thousands of Israel supporters knocking on their congressional representatives’ doors in Washington to deliver three policy requests.
Last year, the conference in early March ended with anxiety about whether COVID-19 had spread after some of the country’s first cases were detected among attendees. And this year, there’s no throng and no door-knocking at all. Due to the pandemic, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee announced in May that it would not hold an in-person conference in 2021 for the first time in decades.
By Dave Gahary
In the shadow of the more than 500,000 Americans who are homeless on any one night, Congress is poised to give the Zionist state of Israel $38 billion over the next decade more than half of all direct military aid the U.S. provides worldwide forcing many Americans to ask who really controls the levers of power in this once-great nation.
One of those Americans, former Rep. Cynthia Ann McKinney (D-Ga.) currently an educator, as well as an anti-war and human rights activist knows more than most who’s in charge, and for those who still think it’s their president, senators, or representative, it’s time to smell the coffee.