This week we continue our examination of the Israeli Lobby which, for decades has distorted both the Israeli and Palestinian narrative to advance Israelâs colonization of Palestine. Its enormous power was manifested this past week when it pressured Facebook, Zoom and ultimately YouTube to deny their platforms to broadcast a pro Palestinian forum at San Francisco University. Backed by millions of dollars of funding, the Israeli Lobby has established a stranglehold on US Institutions of government, which historically have helped establish and continue to fund Israelâs colonial project and their creation of a discriminatory, Apartheid society on Palestinian land.
Today we feature Akron University professor Walter Hixson, who has studied and written about the Lobby over the past couple of decades putting the issue in context at the Palestine Center in Washington, DC. It begins with the introduction of Walter Hixson by the Center's executive director, Mohammed Mohammed.
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This Week in Palestine 10-4-2020
Walter Hixson on the history and structure of the Israeli lobby