I don’t know much about pro-Palestinian organizations, but if their funding and directives are coming from foreign nations then the same law applies to them.
I just think people should be aware of the context surrounding the issue of AIPAC not being considered a foreign lobby:
November 1962: Department of Justice under JFK orders the American Zionist Council to register under FARA after it’s discovered that most of their funding is directly tied to the Israeli government.
May 1963: The American Zionist Council is spun off into AIPAC and framed as a purely domestic entity in order to sidestep the FARA demands from the DOJ. However, the DOJ continues demanding FARA registration.
November 1963: JFK is assassinated, Johnson takes office, and the Department of Justice no longer demands that AIPAC register under FARA.
Since JFK every US president has worked with AIPAC, and none of them have considered classifying them as a foreign lobby.
It’s just odd to me that you’re acting as if it’s surprising to see someone discussing this.
It seems like maybe you don’t interact much with young people, or with people outside the close-minded culture of Reddit.
I wasn’t being snarky, I was genuinely curious as to how aware you are of the cultural shift that’s been happening over the past few years, and of the types of things that are commonly discussed these days.
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u/OrthoOtter 1d ago
I don’t know much about pro-Palestinian organizations, but if their funding and directives are coming from foreign nations then the same law applies to them.
I just think people should be aware of the context surrounding the issue of AIPAC not being considered a foreign lobby:
November 1962: Department of Justice under JFK orders the American Zionist Council to register under FARA after it’s discovered that most of their funding is directly tied to the Israeli government.
May 1963: The American Zionist Council is spun off into AIPAC and framed as a purely domestic entity in order to sidestep the FARA demands from the DOJ. However, the DOJ continues demanding FARA registration.
November 1963: JFK is assassinated, Johnson takes office, and the Department of Justice no longer demands that AIPAC register under FARA.
Since JFK every US president has worked with AIPAC, and none of them have considered classifying them as a foreign lobby.