The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! Podcast
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The following is a presentation made at the 2015 Israel Lobby Con held at the National Press Club.
Gareth Porter is an investigative journalist and historian who specializes in U.S. foreign and military policy. He has written five books, including Perils of Dominance, Imbalance of Power and The Road to War in Vietnam.
His most recent book is Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. The book highlights the impact that the United States’ alliance with Israel had on Washington’s turning the International Atomic Energy Agency into a tool of its anti-Iran policy. He writes regularly for Inter Press Service and has also published investigative articles on Salon.com, the Nation, the American Prospect, Truthout and The Raw Story.
His blogs have been published on Huffington Post, Firedoglake, CounterPunch and many other websites. Porter was Saigon bureau chief of Dispatch News Service International in 1971 and later reported on trips to Southeast Asia for The Guardian, Asian Wall Street Journal and Pacific News Service.
In 2012 he was awarded the Martha Gelhorn Prize for Investigative Journalism by the UK-based Gelhorn Trust.
Porter currently publishes Iran policy analysis in Middle East Eye.
The conference is solely sponsored by the American Educational Trust, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep).
Prof. Kirk J. Beattie: How Congress shapes Middle East policy, and how AIPAC shapes Congress.
Dr. Roger Mattson: Did Israel steal U.S. weapons-grade uranium, and did it have help from U.S. citizens?
Grant F. Smith: Ten ways the Israel lobby ‘moves’ America.
Reza Marashi: The Iran Nuclear Deal
Congressman Paul Findley: What I should have done, and what Congress can do today.
Paul Pillar: AIPAC/Netanyahu objectives and the American interest.
Congressman Rick Rahall: How does the Israel lobby influence Congress?
Former AIPAC employee MJ Rosenberg: Is it all about the money?
Gideon Levy: Does unconditional support for Israel endanger Israeli voices?
Miko Peled: How the Lobby enables Israeli policy: Views of an Israeli in America
Ahmad Saadaldin: Overcoming obstacles: Students for Justice in Palestine successes.
Dima Khalidi: Pressures on universities to discipline and punish students and faculty for speech activities.
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh: Daring to speak out on campus.
Dr. Jack Shaheen: The use of cultural stereotypes to shape policy
Dr. Alice Rothchild: Silencing voices that question Israeli actions.
Jeffrey Blankfort: The ADL: Covert action, censure, and courting law-enforcement.
Seth Morrison: From the Jewish National Fund to Jewish Voice for Peace and BDS.
Grant F. Smith: How big is the Lobby and what does it do? An overview of the 501(c) universe.
Roger Waters: ”The positive impact of artist boycotts targeting Israel and how to educate fans.” IsraelLobbyCon 2022
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