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Parent topics
- Interest group [r]: An organization that seeks to represent its members' interests, usually by seeking to influence political and/or public policy outcomes. [e]
- Zionism [r]: The ideology that Jews should form a Jewish state in what is traced as the Biblical area of Palestine; there are many interpretations, including the boundaries of such a state and its criteria for citizenship [e]
- Jewish American [r]: A term for United States citizens of Jewish, by birth or conversion, or who identify with Jewish culture or ethnicity whether or not they are religiously Jewish; may or may not support Zionism [e]
Subtopics
Leadership
- Amy Friedkin [r]: Chairman of the board and president emeritus, American Israel Public Affairs Committee; President of the board of directors, Israel21c [e]
- Russ Holdstein [r]: Angel investor; Lecturer on Entrepreneurship, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley; Member of the board of directors, Israel21c; Chairman of the Executive Committee and national board member, American Israel Public Affairs Committee [e]
Former staff
- Mitchell Bard [r]: Executive Director, American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE); head of the Jewish Virtual Library; columnist, Frontpage Magazine; past editor Near East Report of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee; senior analyst in the polling division of the 1988 Bush campaign. expert list, Middle East Forum [e]
- Tom Dine [r]: Member of U.S. Advisory Council of the Israel Policy Forum; Vice-Chair, Freedom House; past chief executive officer of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco; president of Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty in Prague; Assistant Administrator, Agency for International Development; Executive director of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (1980-1993} [e]
- Martin Indyk [r]: acting vice president, director of Foreign Policy, and Director of the Saban Institute for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution; board of directors, Lowy Institute for International Policy; past director of research for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee; U.S. ambassador to Israel and Assistant Secretary for Near East Affairs in the Clinton Administration; supports a two-state settlement [e]
- David Sirota [r]: Add brief definition or description
Spinoffs
- Washington Institute for Near East Policy [r]: A think tank on the Middle East, founded with American Israel Public Affairs Committee sponsorship, although considered reasonably objective until the neoconservative push toward U.S. military intervention; still remained more fact-oriented than some more ideologically based groups [e]
- Antisemitism [r]: In basic usage, hostility against, or persecution of, Jews, rather than ethnically Semitic people in general, or non-Semitic Jews [e]
- Identity politics [r]: Definition of political action not based on ideology, but on shared ethnicity, religion, or other grouping that often is perceived to reflect a common experience of oppression [e]
- Brit Tzedek v'Shalom [r]: A liberal grass-roots Zionist U.S. organization, merging with J Street, which strongly opposes Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories and supports a two-state solution [e]
- Israel21c [r]: A U.S. group that intends to use marketing of information beyond the Arab-Israeli and Israel-Palestine Conflicts to improve Israel's relations with the world [e]
- The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy [r]: A controversial book by two American academics, suggesting that the relationship between the United States and Israel is dysfunctional, but affected by a loose but politically powerful set of interest groups in both countries [e]
- Likud [r]: Headed by Prime Minister and ruling coalition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, a center-right political party of the State of Israel [e]
- UN Human Rights Council [r]: A multinational body, supported by but separate from the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, created by the United Nations General Assembly in 2006 [e]
- Mary Robinson [r]: First female President of Ireland (1990 – 1997) and a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997 – 2002); recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom, controversial about views and conference direction about Israel-Palestine Conflict [e]
- J Street [r]: A U.S. lobbying organization, formed in 2008, positioned as an advocate of a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli and Israel-Palestine Conflicts, more liberal than many other U.S. Zionist organizations and the government of the State of Israel [e]
- Americans for Peace Now [r]: U.S. organization supporting solutions to Middle East conflict, not necessarily supporting the positions of the government of the State of Israel; self-identified as an alternative to right-wing groups [e]
- Jewish Voice for Peace [r]: An American Jewish group focused on the Israel-Palestine Conflict, which is not explicitly anti-Zionist but also does not require a two-state solution; considered far to the left of other U.S. organizations [e]
- Zionist Organization of America [r]: The oldest Zionist organization in the United States, who supports a one-state solution based on a historic and Biblical right of the Jewish people to have a state on both sides of the Jordan River; they regard a Palestinian state as dangerous [e]
- Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs [r]: Add brief definition or description