The “Israel Lobby”: Facts and Myths

Updated: September 2023
Languages: English / German

High-quality documentaries and reports on the role of the “Israel Lobby” in politics and the media.

Note: This compendium does not advocate anti-Jewish or anti-Israel positions.

General/Politics

1. The Israel Lobby in the United States (IAK, 25 minutes, 2018; more)
2. Israel and Internet Censorship (Alison Weir, IAK, 15 minutes, 2018; more)
3. Netanyahu at US Congress: 23 standing ovations (The Telegraph, 2015; more)
4. The Israel Lobby – A Partial List (The Council For The National Interest, 2012)
5. Defamation: The Movie (Yoav Shamir, Documentary, 90 minutes, 2009; Wiki)
6. Persecution, Privilege, and Power: 30 Articles (Mark Green, Editor, 2007; archive)
7. The Israel Lobby in the United States (VPRO Documentary, 50 minutes, 2007)
8. The Israel Lobby (Professors Mearsheimer & Walt, Treatise, LRB, 2006; Wiki)
9. “Antisemitism: It’s a trick, we always use it.” (Shulamit Aloni, DN, 2002; more)
10. Antisemitism: The IHRA definition controversy (MEE, 2021; more; more)
11. AIPAC and the Foreign Agents Registration Act (Forward, 2018; more)
12. They Dare to Speak Out (Congressman Paul Findley, 1985/2003; archive)

US Presidents

1. Trump as Cyrus (Laurent Guyénot, The Unz Review, 2020; more)
2. Trump and Russia: The Countless Israeli Connections (Haaretz, 2018)
3. Donald Trump’s Ties to the Israel Lobby (KMN, 20 minutes, 2018; more)
4. Sheldon Adelson: Top US Political Donor (Whitney Webb, MPN, 2018; more)
5. “Meet Joe Biden’s whole big Jewish mishpocha” (Times of Israel, 2020; more)
6. “US Jews contribute half of all donations to the Democratic Party” (JPost, 2016)
7. “The Jewish billionaire who cost Hillary her presidency” (Haaretz, 2016)
8. Obama, the Iran Deal, and the Israel Lobby (Tablet Magazine, 2015; more)
9.  Ben Rhodes on the Israel Lobby in the US (Interview, FMEP, 45 min., 2021)
10. Ronald Reagan – A Custom Made President (Wichita Films, 50 min., 2015; more)
11. George W. Bush: Who are the Neoconservatives? (Guyénot; VoltaireNet, 2013)
12. Israeli Assassinations and American Presidents (Weir, AntiWar, 2012; more)
13. “Israel blackmailed Bill Clinton with Monica Tapes” (New York Post, 1999)
14. New Tapes Reveal Depth of Nixon’s Anti-Semitism (WaPo, 1999; more; more)
15. Christian Zionism in the United States (Whitney Webb, Mint Press, 2019)

Great Britain

1. The Israel Lobby in Britain (Documentary, Al Jazeera, 90 min., 2017)
2. Third of British cabinet funded by Israel or pro-Israel lobby groups (DM, 2021)
3. “The Israelis think they control the Foreign Office. And they do!” (DM, 2021)
4. “After Corbyn, Israel Lobby Turns Guns on British Academia” (CN, 2021)
5. “We ‘slaughtered’ Jeremy Corbyn, says Israel lobbyist” (EI, 2020; more)
6. “US pro-Israel groups boosting UK anti-Muslim extremists” (ToI, 2019)
7. UK minister Priti Patel participated in secret Israel meetings (EI, 2017)
8. Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby (Peter Oborne, Channel 4, 50 min., 2009)

France

1. Nicolas Sarkozy accused of being a Mossad agent (Le Figaro, 2007)
2. Manuel Valls: “Eternally tied to Israel” (Jerusalem Post, 2014; more)
3. Emmanuel Macron: A puppet of the CRIF? (YT, 2020; more)
4. Operation Opera: Mossad sabotage in France (Haaretz, 2021)
5. Paris terrorist attacks: The Israel Connection (Panamza, 2022)

Media/Hollywood

1. Jewish executives and journalists in US media (Reddit, 2018; more)
2. “Who said Jews run Hollywood?” (Lisa Klug, Times of Israel, 2016)
3. “Jews Do Control The Media” (Elad Nehorai, The Times of Israel, 2012)
4. Do Jews run Hollywood? (Joel Stein, Los Angeles Times, 2008)
5. Do Jews dominate in American Media? (Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, 2008)
6. Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies, and the American Dream (Jacobovici, 100 min., 1998)
7. Harvey Weinstein Hired ex-Mossad Agents to Track Women (Haaretz, 2017; more)
8. Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan reveals past as Israeli spy (Guardian, 2013; more)
9. 🎥 The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story (Aaron Kunkel, 100 min., 2019)
10. 15 Popular Internet Companies and Their Founders (SML, 2019; Facebook)
11. Anti-Defamation League, tech firms team to fight online hate (CNet, 2017)
12. Alleged Jewish ‘Control’ of the American Motion Picture Industry (ADL, 1999)

Finance/Banking

1. America’s Top 20 Billionaires Who Support Israel (Abra Forman, BIN, 2015)
2. America’s Richest Hedge Fund Managers (Jewish Contributions, 2020)
3. Jews on the Forbes 200 List (Jewish Virtual Library, 2015; more)
4. 18 of the 20 biggest NYC real estate moguls are Jewish (Jewish Insider, 2013)
5. The World’s 50 Richest Jews (parts two, three, four, five; Jerusalem Post, 2010)
6. Bernie Madoff and the Jews (Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 2009; more)
7. Sam Bankman-Fried and the Injustice Democrats (Max Berger, 2023; more)
8. The Jewish Story Behind the US Federal Reserve (Lowenstein, Forward, 2015)
9. “When a Jewish Fed chief was novel” (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 2013; more)
10. Jewish “Control” of the FED: A Classic Antisemitic Myth (ADL)

Intelligence, Assassinations, Terrorism (excl. 9/11)

1. Israel and the Assassinations of The Kennedy Brothers (Guyénot, 90 min., 2020)
2. Did Israel Kill the Kennedys? (Laurent Gueyénot, The Unz Review, 2018)
3. Mossad Assassinations (Ron Unz, book review, The Unz Review, 2020)
4. Jeffrey Epstein and the Mega Group (Whitney Webb, Mint Press, 2019)
5. Jeffrey Epstein: An Israeli Intelligence Operation (PVPG, 20 min., 2021)
6.  The SITE Intelligence Group, ISIS and Al Qaeda (James Tracy, 2014; more)
7. Israel’s Use of False Flags in Global Terrorism (Michael Piper, AFP, 2013)
8. The Anti-Defamation League Spy Scandal (Counterpunch, 2013; more)
9. Israel and the Bomb: A Radioactive Taboo (Pohlmann, Arte, 50 min., 2012)
10. The Jonathan Pollard Spy Case (Jeffrey T. Richelson, NSA/GWU, 2012; more)
11. USS Liberty: Dead in the Water (BBC Documentary, 70 min., 2002; more)
12. CIA, Mossad links to German La Belle disco bombing (WSWS, 1998; video)
13. A lecture by Mossad whistleblower Victor Ostrovsky (C-SPAN, 60 min., 1995)
14. The 1954 Lavon Affair (Leonard Weiss, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2016)
15. Operation Opera (1979): Mossad sabotage in France (Haaretz, 2021; video)
16. The Little Drummer Girl (Film based on novel by John le Carré, 1984; book)

9/11 and Anthrax Letters

1. The Israeli Connection to 9/11 (Overview, WikiSpooks, 2022)
2. 9/11 Was an Israeli Job (Laurent Guyenot, The Unz Review, 2018)
3. 9/11 and Israel’s Great Game (Laurent Guyenot, 120 minutes, 2021)
4. Israel and 9/11 (Christopher Bollyn, presentation, 60 min., 2015; book)
5. High-Fivers and Art Student Spies (Ketcham, CounterPunch, 2007; more)
6. The WTC Israeli “Art Students” Project (Mark Dotzler, 2013; more)
7. 9-11: Made in Israel (Victor Thorn, American Free Press, 2011)
8. The 2001 Anthrax Letter Mystery: Solved (Robert Pate, 2009)
9. Anthrax Attacks: A False Flag Operation (Graeme MacQueen, 2021)
10. The Dancing Israelis (Whitney Webb, Mint Press News, 2019)
11. Fox News on the Dancing Israelis (Fox News, 20 minutes, 2001)
12. September 11 – The New Pearl Harbor (Mazzucco, 30 min., 2013)

Cyber Warfare, Election Interference

1. Israel’s Role in Global Cyber-Election Meddling (MPN, 2018; more, more)
2. How Israel’s Spies Meddle in Elections and Hack Activists (Rubinstein, 2019)
3. 📰 The Israeli Agents of Chaos: Global Deception and Destabilization (Haaretz, 2023)
4. “Team Jorge”: In the heart of a global disinformation machine (FS, 2023; more)
5. Private Mossad for Hire (Entous and Farrow, The New Yorker, 2019; more)
6. Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap the US for the NSA (Wired, 2012)
7. Former Israeli Spies Working at Google, Facebook and Microsoft (MPN, 2022)
8. NSO Group and the Pegasus Spyware (Forbidden Stories, 2021; more)
9. Pegasus: The Spy in Your Phone (Al Jazeera World, 50 minutes, 2021)
10. VPN Services Bought by Israeli Malware Firm (Restore Privacy, 2021)
11. PROMIS: The Maxwell Family and Global Espionage (Webb, 2020)
12. Unit 8200: Israel’s cyber spy agency (Financial Times, 2015)

Mafia, Organized Crime

1. One Nation Under Blackmail (Whitney Webb, 2022)
2. The Jewish Mafia (Hervé Ryssen, 2008/2018; interview)
3. The Judeo-Russian Mafia (Johnson, Barnes Review, 2006)
4. Mafia Jews: Inside a Genuine Cabal (Jewish Forward, 2006)
5. The Supermob (Gus Russo, Bloomsbury USA, 2006; archive)
6. History and origin of Bronfman family wealth (Frank Parlato, 2018)
7. Trump’s Ties to the Russian-Jewish Mafia (Blackstone, 2019)
8. Ronald Reagan – A Custom Made President (Wichita Films, 2015)
9. Mesira: The Jewish code of silence (Jewish Press, 2021; more)

Russia, USSR, Communism

1. Russia bows to the ‘rule of the seven bankers’ (Irish Times, 1998; more)
2. The Russians Called Them ‘The Oligarch Yids’ (Haaretz, 2002; more)
3. From Rags to Riches: Jewish Oligarchs in Russia (Goldman, EEJA, 2000)
4. Was the Russian Revolution Jewish? (Jerusalem Post, 2017; more)
5. The Jews, Communism and the Russian Revolution (Ryssen, 80 min., 2017)
6. “Stalin’s Jews” (Sever Plocker, YNet News, 2006)
7. The Jewish Role in the Bolshevik Revolution (Mark Weber, IHR, 1994)
8. Solzhenitsyn breaks last taboo of the revolution (Guardian, 2003; more)

World Wars

1. The Forgotten Truth about the Balfour Declaration (Kramer, Mosaic, 2017)
2. Balfour at 100: Interview with Lord Rothschild (Weizmann Institute, 2017)
3. Churchill and the Jews (Ofer Aderet, Haaretz, 2016; more; more; more)
4. “Against Our Better Judgement” (Alison Weir, CNI, 2014; video/lecture)
5. “The Jewish Hand in the World Wars” (Dalton, Unz Review, 2013; part 2)
6. “The Jewish Declaration of War on Nazi Germany” (Johnson, TBR, 2001)
7. “Too many Jews at Nuremberg” (Ami Eden, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 2007)
8. Frankfurt School: The Jewish Intellectuals Who Made the 60’s (ANU, 2019; more)

Holocaust Revisionism (18+)

The following books and documentaries review and question official Holocaust historiography. As this may be illegal in some European countries, these items will not be linked to. Assertions that there was no organized genocide of Jews during World War II are demonstrably false.

1. The Six Million: Fact or Fiction? (Peter Winter, seventh edition, 2018)
2. Debating the Holocaust: A New Look at Both Sides (Thomas Dalton, 2020)
3. “The Holocaust Industry” (Norman Finkelstein, Verso Books, 2000)
4. Holocaust Controversies (Website on Holocaust controversies)
5. Holocaust denial: Prosecutions and convictions (Wikipedia)

Jewish Supremacism

1. “Israelis: Do you see non-Jews as equal to you?” (The Ask Project, 2020)
2. Jeffrey Epstein and Jewish Supremacism (Maria Farmer, 2020; more)
3. God’s Chosen People (Documentary, Adam Green, 150 minutes, 2018)
4. The Jewish fear of intermarriage (Erica Chernofsky, BBC, 2014; more)
5. Sephardi leader Yosef: Non-Jews exist to serve Jews (JTA, 2010)
6. Domestic Terrorism & White Supremacy (American Jewish Congress)

Migration and Multiculturalism

1. White supremacists and Israeli immigration policy (Times of Israel, 2021)
2. Domestic Extremism Committee Run By ADL and SPLC (Unz Review, 2021)
3. Jewish Leadership at the Department of Homeland Security (Politico, 2021)
4. The ADL in American Society (Ron Unz, The Unz Review, 2018; more)
5. “The Jews Who Run the ‘Alt-Right’ Media” (Jon Swinn, NV, 2018; more)
6. The “Alt-Right”, Jews, and Israel (The Jewish Forward, 2017; more)
7. Fox News: Rupert Murdoch, Marc Rich, Marvin Davis (THR, 2013; more)
8. Rabbi Baruch Efrati: Islamization of Europe a good thing (YNet, 2012)
9. Barbara Lerner Spectre on European multiculturalism  (IBA News, 2010)
10. Jewish Involvement in American Immigration Policy (MacDonald, 1998)

Historical Aspects

1. The origins of Ashkenazi Jews and Yiddish (Eran Elhaik, 2019; more)
2. “The Invention of the Jewish People” (Shlomo Sand, 2009; more)
3. The Culture of Critique (Kevin MacDonald, Praeger, 1998/2013)
4. Essays on Jewish Power (Laurent Guyénot, 2020; more)
5. Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry (Wikipedia)

Science and Culture

1.  Jewish Contributions (JewishContributions.com)
2. Jewish Nobel Prize Laureates (Jewish Virtual Library; more)
3. The Super Achievers (Ronald Gerstl, 2020; more)
4. The Golden Age of Jewish Achievement (Steven Pease, 2009; more)
5. The Jewish Century (Yuri Slezkine, Princeton University Press, 2006)
6. The erasure of Jews from American life (Jacob Savage, 2023)
7. The Myth of American Meritocracy (Ron Unz, 2012; more)

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