AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Action Committees
Channel: If Americans Knew
Date: 21/06/2020

Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of pro-Israel "stealth PACs." She discusses: Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't they be consolidated to have reduced total contribution limits like other PACs? How has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee secretly coordinated stealth PACs, and what has been done about it?

For more information on the topic see: "Stealth Pacs: How Israel's American Lobby Seeks to Control U.S. Middle East Policy" available at https://www.amazon.com/Stealth-Pacs-Israels-American-Control/dp/0937165034

McMahon was part of a panel organized by Alison Weir of If Americans Knew. Because of Weir's advocacy for this panel, it was included in the conference “Move Over AIPAC: Building a New US Middle East Policy" in May 2011. The other speakers on Weir's panel were journalist Jeffrey Blankfort and author Grant Smith, founder of Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRMEP).

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs has been publishing excellent articles about Israel-Palestine now for almost 40 years. Yet, because its coverage has included reports on the Israel lobby, gatekeepers in the Palestine solidarity movement have managed to keep it largely unknown to many of today's activists. To see the magazine's current and past reports go to https://www.wrmea.org/

McMahon's fellow panelists, longtime Palestine activist Jeffrey Blankfort, who has been exposing the Israel lobby since the 1980s, and IrMEP founder Grant Smith, had also largely been excluded. 

For more information on the event and the panel see https://www.counterpunch.org/2011/05/30/move-over-aipac/

See another video of McMahon at https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/summit-videos.html#mcmahon