when was aipac founded
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee was founded in 1951 by Isaiah L. Si Kenen. Kenen originally ran the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs as a lobbying division of the American Zionist Council.ichael Oren writes in his book, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present, Though founded in 1953, AIPAC had only now in the mid-70s, achieved the financial and political clout necessary to sway congressional opinion.