Rejecting AIPAC: the Israel Lobby and the Democratic Party

Hear from Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, Palestinian journalist Rami G. Khouri, labor leader and political strategist Harris Gruman, and MAPA’s Brian Garvey, about AIPAC and the Democratic Party. We will discuss the history of AIPAC, the funding of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, and the power of AIPAC in the Democratic Party and the US Congress. Ilan Pappé is a professor at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter, having received his BA the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1979 and D. Phil from the University of Oxford in 1984. His research focuses on the modern Middle East and in particular the history of Israel and Palestine. He has also written on multiculturalism, Critical Discourse Analysis and on Power and Knowledge in general. His books include The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006) and Lobbying for Israel on Both Sides of the Atlantic (2024). Rami G. Khouri is a Palestinian-American academic and journalist whose