American Israel Public Affairs Committee

June 8, 2023 | |

Blinken, Saudi Crown Prince Meet in Saudi Arabia

Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia on June 7 to discuss a wide range of bilateral issues, including potential Saudi normalization with...

July 15, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Mideast trip shows Biden choosing pragmatism, rejecting ‘Woke’ policy

'Progressives' dislike Saudi Arabia, Israel because they stand firm against ill-advised US policy on Iran

February 22, 2022 | Shany Mor |

On Amnesty’s car-crash interview in Israel

When the two most senior Amnesty officials presented their new report in Israel they struggled to answer the most basic questions. Their responses, writes Shany Mor, were ‘a mix of exasperation, ignorance, self-contradiction, and conspiratorial magical thinking’.

July 28, 2021 | Mark Dubowitz |

How to Use Antisemitism Against Antisemites

Jewish power in America? When Sapir approached me to contribute an essay to this issue, my first instinct was to decline. I was born in South Africa and raised and educated in Canada. I became a U.S. citizen...

June 9, 2021 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Why the Coming Iranian Elections Will Challenge the Biden Administration

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei seems inclined to promote a candidate who will quash dissent over someone who could work with the West.

December 9, 2020 | Alireza Nader, Tzvi Kahn

Biden Must Prioritize Iran’s Human Rights Abuses In Future Talks

In his new memoir, Barack Obama recalls a moment that shocked the world. In 2009, as protestors swarmed the streets of Iran’s capital, the clerical regime’s Basij militia shot and killed a young...

May 5, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Sanctioned Iran airline flew first cases of coronavirus into Mideast

Mahan Air ignored safety and travel restrictions

March 4, 2020 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer, Svante Cornell, Jonathan Schanzer

The UN’s Selective Outrage on Occupied Territories

Yesterday during remarks at the AIPAC annual conference, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo referred to the recent publication by the UN Human Rights Office of a database of companies that operate in the...

February 26, 2020 | John Hannah |

Democrats Fail the Commander-in-Chief Test

Election 2020 On Tuesday, Democrats held yet another debate. And refreshingly, for once, foreign policy was actually on the agenda. Bernie Sanders came under fire for praising authoritarian leaders, Michael...

December 21, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Report: German gov’t will ban Iran’s ‘terror’ Mahan Air

BILD reported that American politicians and security officials told the German government that American citizens are endangered at airports because of Mahan Air's activities in the Federal Republic.

July 27, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German meddling in U.S. politics and Trump foreign policy triggers sharp rebuke from GOP Senators

German interference in the U.S. political system as means of countering President Trump’s foreign policy agenda has sparked sharp criticism from Republican senators. There has been...

July 2, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Report: Iran seeking illegal missile technology in Germany

The Islamic Republic of Iran sought to obtain illicit goods for its missile program from Germany, the intelligence agency for Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, announce...

June 22, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Exclusive: German Islamic Center Raises Money for Hezbollah

The Al-Mustafa community center in the city-state of Bremen in northern Germany is a major hub for raising funds for the EU and US designated terrorist organization Hezbollah in Lebanon, accordin...

June 21, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

U.S. Ambassador asks Germany: Stop Iranian Airline from use of Airspace

The new US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, requested the German government to block Iran’s Mahan Air from flying within German airspace and deny it landing rights in the country bec...

August 2, 2017 | Mark Dubowitz |

Here’s how Trump could scrap the Iran nuclear deal

Campaigning last year for the presidency, Donald Trump said the Iran nuclear agreement was the “worst deal” he had ever seen. It was never exactly clear, however, what he int...

November 28, 2016 | David Weinberg |

A Tale of Two Trumps

There seem to be at least two Donald Trumps on how to deal with Saudi Arabia, and it's difficult to know which one will trump the other in office. Trump One sai...

March 29, 2016 | John Hannah |

Hillary Clinton, Neocon?

With terror in Brussels swamping the news cycle last week, speeches delivered to AIPAC’s Policy Conference by four leading U.S. presidential candidates,&n...

March 18, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Obama and the daylight between US and Israel

This week’s AIPAC conference will place the fractured Israel-US relationship front and center in the American public’s focus. Of all the promises that the Obama White House h...

February 16, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

German mayor opposes 10,000 euro award to anti-Semitic group Code Pink

The mayor of the German city of Bayreuth, Brigitte Merk-Erbe, said on Thursday that she rejects awarding the city’s tolerance prize to the radical US NGO Code Pink because of its ties with...

February 16, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

German city awards US NGO with ties to Holocaust deniers 10,000 prize

The Bavarian city of Bayreuth is slated to award 10,000 euros in April to a US-based activist group - Code Pink - that supports a boycott of the Jewish state and has participated in a conference...