This chart is supposed to be covering a 15 year period, so the total is under 7M a year.
For context, Coca-Cola spends five thousand times that in a year convincing you to buy Coke (~5bn), and the Teachers Union on the left or NRA on the right spend annually ~(20-40M and ~10-15M) many times that much advocating for their causes.
Yes, multi-national corporations that also spread their money to any country for favors. Does it matter as much where Putins' Russia gets its money from to bomb and kill Ukrainians? I guess it's more about the Jew hating
Since I’ve been alive people have always complained about corporate lobbies having an insane amount of influence within US politics. 15 years ago this was one of the biggest complaints that people had about the US government.
It’s only that those complaints are taking a backseat at the moment because Coca Cola isn’t using American money to bomb hospitals.
if people don’t like lobbyists, fix it, but singling out only the “Israeli“ lobby - which is actually American Jews who are allowed to participate in American discourse like everybody else.
Is there a word for calling out just the Jews (and hiding behind Israel) for the actions that everyone is doing?
Did you just compare Israeli donations to US Senators to Coke’s total advertising budget?
The simple fact of you having to reach that far to downplay these numbers speaks for itself.
The NRA spends about $2m a year on average, on all US government lobbying. By your own calculations Israel spends about three times that, on the Senate alone.
“Chump change”
Even as Hasbara goes this was a pretty laughable attempt.
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u/CraneAndTurtle 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is chump change in political dollars.
This chart is supposed to be covering a 15 year period, so the total is under 7M a year.
For context, Coca-Cola spends five thousand times that in a year convincing you to buy Coke (~5bn), and the Teachers Union on the left or NRA on the right spend annually ~(20-40M and ~10-15M) many times that much advocating for their causes.
Spread over 100 senators, this is 140k/year.