Groups Taking Qatari, Chinese Funding Slam AIPAC As Pushing Foreign Interests

AIPAC consists in its entirety of US citizens supportive of a robust alliance with the Jewish state.

Washington, August 23 – Think tanks, commentators, academics, and activists whose activities enjoy financial support from undemocratic overseas governments, corporations, and institutions again criticized a grassroots US organization dedicated to maintaining and strengthening the relationship between the US and Israel, for promoting policies that they claim serve a foreign country.

Representatives whose groups depend on money from repressive dictatorships opposed to American interests such as Qatar, Iran, China, and Russia accused the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee and its new campaign-contribution arm of subordinating American policy to “what’s good for Israel.” AIPAC consists in its entirety of US citizens supportive of a robust alliance with the Jewish state, and its funding comes entirely from those citizens. Support for the robust alliance dovetails with the position of the vast majority of their fellow citizens.

“Dark money from foreign interests, that’s what they represent,” charged Motin Yorei of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “Just look at the candidates they support. Not a single one calls for dismantling the Zionist enterprise, and they’ve blinded the American public for too long. I’m not allowed to say anything that they’ll jump on me for as antisemitic, so I’m going to stop now. As you can see, they have a chilling effect on free political expression in this country.” CAIR receives much of its funding from Qatari and, allegedly, Iranian, sources, states that jail people for expressing wrong opinions, instead of letting others merely criticize those opinions.

“I won’t be the one to invoke the antisemitic ‘dual loyalty’ trope,” acknowledged Duwazai Sei of the Brookings Institution, also a Qatari grantee. “That will get us nowhere. Especially since AIPAC also has support from non-Jews. So it must be that Jewish money has corrupted those non-Jews into thinking that support for Zionism is good. Is that an acceptable trope?”

Progressive groups with support from Russian sources aiming to sow Western chaos concurred with Sei’s assessment. “We see things like that all the time,” lamented Russ Kischill of Amnesty International. “All that outside money exercising undue influence on American affairs – it’s antidemocratic. It undermines public trust in democracy and in the integrity of the democratic process. You can’t have overseas money distorting the outcomes of free and fair elections through fake news, sowing discord, and all that.”

China-funded Confucius Institute scholars on US academic campuses sounded an ominous note. “It’s a problem for America, all this foreign influence,” stated Bri Berry, a Confucius Institute scholar at Oberlin University. “AIPAC must be stopped.”

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