The Israel Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power by Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick provides an investigative analysis of the dynamics of influence of pro-Israel lobbying networks and their influence on American foreign policy.
The book highlights how these networks are exploited to finance election campaigns to influence decision-makers and silence critical voices, warning of the threat this poses to American democracy.The book, an uncompromising expose of the Israel lobby, shows how its enormous influence works against our national interests and threatens our freedom.
The story of a far-right government in a small Middle Eastern country taking control of US foreign policy is one of the most prominent events in American geopolitics and domestic affairs.Today, the Israel lobby is able to monitor the speech of American politicians, students, and journalists, and to coerce and persuade the White House to support policies that are unpopular, costly, and even threatening to national security. From the Biden administration's reluctance to use American influence to end genocidal violence that has only harmed our security interests, to the Trump administration's role in lifting restrictions on a spy who sold critical government secrets, America's subservience to its supposed client state, Israel, is a stark example.And worrying about the other party's control over the other party.
"The Israel Lobby"* combines investigative journalism and political science to relate the stories of the American and Israeli oligarchy that has dominated policymaking in successive presidential administrations, and the geopolitical, security, and domestic consequences of American foreign policy that has effectively been sold out to the highest bidder.Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick** explain how shifts in world politics, Israel's far-right tilt, and the undermining of US campaign finance laws make the Israel lobby's influence more costly and dangerous today than ever before, why the lobby has launched an anti-Semitic witch hunt to suppress dissidents rather than trying to defend Israel's policies, and how the lobby not only distorts American policy but also contributes to making Israel an "extremist" state.
