Aipac and the Michigan Senate race: How the Israel lobby became toxic
Aipac and the Michigan Senate race: How the Israel lobby became toxic "A lobby is like a night flower: it thrives in the dark and dies in the sun.” So said Steve Rosen, former foreign policy director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) in a memo to a fellow staffer. Rosen would later be fired amid a major scandal involving espionage in passing classified US information to Israel. Rosen was correct about the danger to a lobbying organisation that publicity poses. But in Dec…
