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The House of Representatives Building and the East Portico of the US Capitol. Photo: Flickr. Over the last year, much of the political rancor involving the US-Israel relationship was focused on the presidential race. Yet historiographical evidence reveals that Congress plays an extremely important role in the US-Israel relationship. In 1981, an intense lobbying effort on the part of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) helped convince the Reagan administration to abandon an $8.5 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia that included five Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACS) p...

The House of Representatives Building and the East Portico of the US Capitol. Photo: Flickr. Yesterday, a tweet went viral that claimed that the COVID-19 relief bill included $500 million for Israel. It was designed to make people think that aid that could have gone to COVID is instead being directed to Israel. But the appropriation was actually included in a separate 6,000 page budget bill — the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. The antisemitism that followed the tweet — which was written by a self-appointed journalist, who defended it while admitting it was incorrect — was predic...