Summary Since Israel’s creation in 1948, the United States has supported Israel’s occupation of historic Palestine by providing more than $158 billion in non-inflation-adjusted assistance, beginning with a $100 million loan/grant in 1949 for Israel’s economic stabilization. U.S. assistance and weapons sales to Israel were first codified in the 1952 Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement Act…

Download & Read The Report Israel has mistreated U.S. citizens for decades, killing and severely injuring human rights defenders and Palestinian Americans, young and old, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. In addition, Israel has systematically discriminated against U.S. citizens based on ethnicity, religion, and political viewpoint by denying them entry to Occupied Palestinian Territory—a fact the…

Summary Protests drawing more than 100,000 people have taken place across Israel for five consecutive weeks against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed overhaul of the judicial system. The proposed “reforms” include giving the Knesset (Israel's parliament) the power to override Supreme Court decisions with a simple majority, changing how judges are appointed to give the…

Introduction As part of our "Palestine Policy Memos", we released our preliminary report "Rightwing Zionist Money & Its Influence on U.S. Elections" back in November. Our FINAL report is finally out. During the 2022 mid-term elections, right-wing Zionist groups spent more than $70 million dollars to crush dissent and solidify an extremist pro-Israel agenda in…

INTRODUCTION The report is the latest issue of our ‘Palestine Policy Memos’, which explores different aspects of U.S. policy engagement on the Palestinian struggle for freedom. This is our first in-depth dive into election spending by right-wing Zionist groups, what that spending achieved, and more crucially what it failed to achieve in the face of…