Eli Clifton
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Senior Adviser at QuincyInst.org. Investigative Journalist at Large at ResponsibleStatecraft.org. Send tips to my secure email: eliclifton @protonmail.com https://eliclifton.com/
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Russia's Useful Idiot Who is Destroying the FBI Will Go to Moscow in October As a Guest of Putin's Murderous FSB | Russia's Penetration of U.S. Industrial Innovation, Science and Hi Tech | Is the DSA
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Two of Trump and the GOP's biggest donors - Paul Singer and Jan Koum - are the LARGEST individual donors to the super PAC backing Haley Stevens over Abdul El-Sayed in the in the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan. responsiblestatecraft.org/aipac-stevens/
Pro-Israel GOP donors fueling Rep. Stevens' Dem primary in Michigan
AIPAC and United Democracy Project are getting millions from Republican billionaires and out-of-state donors to beat back challenger Abdul El-Sayed
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Pro-Israel PACs and super PACs have now raised over $160 MILLION to spend on midterm political races. More live updated data here: israelslobby.com
Israel’s Lobby Tracker
Track pro-Israel PACs, Super PACs, donors, candidates, races, and outside spending in the 2026 federal election cycle.
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Today, at the newspaper owned by Trump’s biggest donor, Miriam Adelson.
"Anyone who wants to know why US Middle East policy remains dysfunctional should start by reading this book," says @stephenwalt.bsky.social about my forthcoming book w/ Ian Lustick, “Israel's Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power.” AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER : t.co/J3CEXtwNo3
Pro-Israel PACs and Super-PACS have reported $79.8M in spending and $149.8M raised for the 2026 federal cycle. Get LIVE updates on how Israel's Lobby is influencing campaigns across the country with this new data journalism tool. israelslobby.com
I’m excited to announce that my forthcoming book, coauthored with Ian Lustick, is now available for preorder! "Israel's Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power" exposes the networks of US and Israeli oligarchs capturing the policymaking process. bookshop.org/p/books/isra...
Trump's decision to go to war can't be understood by looking at US interests. The best explanation is to examine Israel's desire to drag the US into this war and the control that pro-Israel donors hold over US foreign policy. We are in the grip of a foreign power. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
How the Israeli Tail Wags the American Dog
The US attack on Iran may be less about American security than about the priorities of Israel’s government.
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Having laid the groundwork for the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran that is currently resulting in civilian deaths in Iran and putting US service members in harm’s way, Jared Kushner took to the town to celebrate Rupert Murdoch’s birthday! They’re not like us.
Reminder: The White House says it’s “fake news” to suggest Iran’s nuclear facilities weren’t “obliterated” in June.
Former deputy national security advisor Jon Finer revealed in a Truth in Testimony disclosure that he has gone into the weapons business, taking a role at Anduril. This appears to be the first acknowledgement of his new job. docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/...
“Footage shows Mr. Pretti was holding a phone, not a gun, when the agents took him to the ground and shot him.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis
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"A male voice — it is not clear whose — can be heard uttering two expletives: 'Fucking bitch.'” www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
The ICE agent’s cellphone video: Five key moments
Cellphone footage shows what happened in the moments before and after an ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.
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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the lobby group ostensibly responsible for maintaining U.S.-taxpayer funded aid to Israel as it wages a genocide in Gaza, is now lecturing about what “good and moral Americans” should do.
Van Jones brought his A-game to audition for the anchor seat at the new Bari Weiss approved CBS Evening News 🔥🔥🔥
Eli Clifton@eliclifton.com · 10mo agoVan Jones repeats “dead Gaza baby” as a punch line. New York Times columnistThomas Friedman laughs along.
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman laughing at Van Jones’ “dead Gaza baby” joke.
Eli Clifton@eliclifton.com · 10mo agoVan Jones repeats “dead Gaza baby” as a punch line. New York Times columnistThomas Friedman laughs along.
Van Jones repeats “dead Gaza baby” as a punch line. New York Times columnistThomas Friedman laughs along.
Execs at Oracle, the likely new owner of TikTok, are VERY outspoken in Israeli media about the company's "mission to support the State of Israel" & "unequivocal support for Israel." Insufficiently pro-Israel Oracle staff receive mental health counseling. responsiblestatecraft.org/oracle-tikto...
Oracle execs: Love Israel or maybe this isn't the job for you
Employees who disagreed were reportedly referred to company mental health services
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New TikTok coming soon.
Eli Clifton@eliclifton.com · 10mo agoLeaked email reveals communication between company leading the TikTok purchase and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. “We believe that we have to embed the love and respect for Israel in the American culture,” wrote then-Oracle CEO Safra Catz. responsiblestatecraft.org/oracle-tikto...
Leaked email reveals communication between company leading the TikTok purchase and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. “We believe that we have to embed the love and respect for Israel in the American culture,” wrote then-Oracle CEO Safra Catz. responsiblestatecraft.org/oracle-tikto...
TikTok investor: 'Embed the love and respect for Israel' in the US
In a 2015 email, Oracle CEO Safra Catz said 'we have to fight the battle' before kids get to college. She might get her wish now.
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How much are social media influencers being paid by Israel? @nickclevelandstout.bsky.social found receipts showing influencers receiving between $6,143 to $7,372 per post to promote Israel's preferred talking points to U.S. audiences. responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influ...
Israel is paying influencers $7,000 per post
Netanyahu referred this week to a 'community' pushing out preferred messaging in US media — and boy are they making a princely sum
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“Four US citizens, including three children, were among five people killed Sunday by an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese government.” www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/m...
Four US citizens killed, including three children, in Israeli strike on Lebanon, says Lebanese government | CNN
Four US citizens, including three children, were among five people killed Sunday by an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese government.
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UN: Israel is committing genocide. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds
GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...
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New CBS News ombudsman Kenneth Weinstein formerly ran a think tank that took massive funding from foreign governments and weapons firms. The think tank then produced reports that were beneficial to those countries/companies and didn't disclose the potential conflict of interest.
CBS's new ethics chief led arms industry, foreign gov't funded think tank
Under Kenneth Weinstein's leadership, the Hudson Institute published reports calling for more military spending without disclosing potential conflicts of interest
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When the International Association of Genocide Scholars says Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, maybe Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, leading scholars’ association says
Israel’s foreign ministry called the resolution “disgraceful,” but it added to a growing chorus from rights groups concluding that Israel is committing genocide.
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Germany, Italy, Japan, South Africa, the USSR, and Iran have all undergone regime change. Why not Israel too? foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/i...
The Question of Israel’s Right to Exist is a Red Herring
Israel’s critics should be talking instead about regime change.
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The Center for American Progress, which previously received funding from foreign govts and major weapons firms, is no longer disclosing their funders. CAP joins the ranks of dark-money think tanks like American Enterprise Institute and Foundation for Defense of Democracies
