Israel's Lobby

America in the Grip of a Foreign Power

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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An unflinching exposé of Israel's Lobby, showing how its outsized influence works against our national interests and threatens our freedom.The greatest story in geopolitics and in American domestic affairs is how the far-right government of a small Middle Eastern country came to hold a controlling interest in United States foreign policy. Israel’s lobby is now in a position to police the speech of American politicians, college students and journalists, and coerce and persuade the White House to back unpopular, costly, and ultimately national security-threatening policies. From the Biden administration’s unwillingness to bring American leverage to bear an end to genocidal violence that only harmed our national security interests, to the Trump administration’s role in lifting the parole restrictions on a spy who had sold vital government secrets, American subservience to its putative client state, Israel, is a vivid and vexing example of the tail wagging the dog. Israel’s Lobby combines investigative journalism and political science to tie together the stories of American and Israeli oligarchs capturing the policymaking process in successive presidential administrations and the geopolitical, national security and domestic consequences of American foreign policy effectively sold to the highest bidder. Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick explain how shifts in global politics, Israel’s lurch to the extreme right, and the evisceration of American campaign finance laws make the influence of Israel’s lobby more costly and more dangerous today than it ever was before, why the lobby launched an antisemitism witch hunt to suppress opponents rather than attempt to defend Israel's policies, and how the Lobby not only distorts American policy but helps make Israel a “crazy” state. Israel’s Lobby follows the money and lifts the veil on a seemingly unassailable feature of American politics, importantly detailing how we can unite around traditional American values and the importance of substantive debate to resist Israel-first vigilantism.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-12-03
Mått:234 x 34 x 156 mm
Vikt:465 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Simon & Schuster
ISBN:9781668210840

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Eli Clifton is an investigative journalist who focuses on money in politics and US foreign policy. He is a cofounder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft where he serves as a senior adviser. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, The Intercept, The South China Morning Post, LobeLog, Salon, HuffPost, The Daily Beast, Slate, Gawker, Foreign Policy, and Responsible Statecraft.Ian S. Lustick is the Bess W. Heyman Chair, Emeritus, in the Political Science Department of the University of Pennsylvania. He served in the Carter administration as the State Department’s expert on Israel-Palestine affairs and subsequently became a regular consultant with American administrations on US foreign policy and national security affairs. He is a founder and past President of the Association for Israel Studies and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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“A kind of spiritual sequel to Mearsheimer and Walt’s study. . . . Lustick and Clifton, have helped demystify how the Israel lobby works in the United States.”–Daniel Levy, The Nation “A tour de force. . . . Clifton and Lustick embed their critique in a broader critique of growing American inequality and how this is reflected in politics.”—Abel Bisrat, The Cosmonaut “Important … Among some of the many eye-popping anecdotes and statistics that make Israel’s Lobby a compelling read are the ways in which the Lobby discusses its power so blatantly, and, in at least one case, unselfconsciously leans heavily on antisemitic and conspiratorial tropes.… Clifton and Lustick have done the hard work so you don’t have to to understand what the Israel Lobby aims to achieve and the methods through which they seek to achieve it. . . . As [they] make clear throughout the book, this is not your father’s AIPAC.”—Josh Ruebner, Mondoweiss “This alarming exposé from journalist Clifton and political scientist Lustick spotlights the significant influence of the pro-Israel lobby on American foreign and domestic policy.… Clifton and Lustick trenchantly warn that the U.S. is risking its own standing to “serve the ambitions of what has become a rogue state.” It’s a serious wake-up call.”—Publishers Weekly “A politically charged history of a ‘special relationship’ [between the US and Israel]. A closely reasoned argument in favor of a more balanced U.S. approach to Middle East affairs.”—Kirkus Reviews