The Israel Lobby Is Out of Control

Interview bySeth Ackerman

In a year of record-breaking campaign spending by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and widespread popular revulsion at Donald Trump’s war on Iran, a deeply researched study of the Israel lobby couldn’t be timelier. Jacobin’s Seth Ackerman spoke with investigative journalist Eli Clifton and veteran scholar Ian Lustick about their new book Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power, which reveals how the lobby has not only warped Washington politics but accelerated Israel’s own ideological radicalization — and now threatens Americans’ civil liberties at home.