AIPAC has summer camps - part of a 30 year plan

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http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4673.shtml


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This year’s AIPAC policy conference’s theme is “Relationships Matter.”

At a luncheon event at the Hyatt Hotel across from the convention center, 193 student government association presidents from colleges and universities across the nation, including a fair number of historically African American universities, were treated to a right-wing message of unbridled U.S. support for Israel. Although AIPAC’s website states that College Democrats of America were invited to the luncheon in addition to the College Republican National Committee, the AIPAC message was clearly conservative in nature. One student, upon leaving the luncheon, said to his colleagues that he was encouraged by the luncheon’s theme of “spreading the conservative message on campus.”

For AIPAC, that message is ensuring that campus student organizations toe a pro-Israel line and that all campus initiatives to disinvest in Israel are defeated.

But it is not just America’s college students who are being subjected to AIPAC’s right-wing propaganda blitzkrieg. This editor overheard a conversation by another AIPAC attendee about continued non-profit funding for a network of summer camps to stress support for Israel and “Jewishness” among the generation following in the footsteps of college students and the generation following that. Clearly understood in the conversation was that the effort was planning for 30 years into the future.

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Also speaking at AIPAC was Representative Jane Harman (D-CA), who was identified by National Security Agency (NSA) “Stellar Wind” wiretaps trying to get an espionage case dropped against former AIPAC officials Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman in exchange for landing the coveted job as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The espionage case against Rosen and Weissman was dropped by the Obama administration prior to the AIPAC conference. Harman is but one of Israel’s and AIPAC’s many water carriers in the U.S. Congress.

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A former top U.S. diplomat recently told this editor that, at a luncheon, Rosen once told him that AIPAC was so powerful that by the end of the afternoon Rosen could have 70 signatures of U.S. senators, with no questions asked, on a napkin he was holding up.
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70 seventy! no questions asked! was he just bragging?

[fascisthunter]

1. political brainwashing camps.... scary

[harun]

2. Bringing fascism to a campus near you!

[bunnies]

3. Sounds like a cult.

Creepy shit, man.

[H2O Man]

4. Interesting.

As with every other ethnic or religious group in the country, there is a wise range of political and social views among Jewish Americans. AIPAC does represent a significant segment of that population. However, even among those, there is a wide range of opinions. I'm not concerned with any activities that are legal, and out in the open. If anything, even if one disagrees with their goals, the ideas of these camps can serve as a model for what others can and should be doing, in terms of organizing and lobbying.

[leveymg]

5. Harman's conversation probably was not intercepted by the NSA Stellar Wind program

Instead, her conversations with "an Israeli official . . . deemed to be an agent of a foreign power" (NYT, 04/23) were captured on an ongoing FISA-authorized wiretap.

Stellar Wind is the code name for (one of) NSA's blanket warrantless intercept programs.