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The “Israel Lobby”: Facts and Myths

Updated: December 2021
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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 Lobby — USA (Investigative documentary, Al Jazeera, 180 min., 2018; more)
  2. Israel and Internet Censorship (Alison Weir, The Ron Unz Review, 2018; video)
  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, First Run Features, 90 min., 2009; Wiki)
  6. Persecution, Privilege, and Power: 30 Articles (Mark Green, editor, 2007; archive)
  7. The Israel Lobby in the US (VPRO Documentary, 50 minutes, 2007; more)
  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. The Culture of Critique (Kevin MacDonald, Praeger Publishers, 1998/2013)
  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. Sheldon Adelson: Top US Political Donor (Whitney Webb, MPN, 2018; more)
  4. “Meet Joe Biden’s whole big Jewish mishpocha” (Times of Israel, 2020; more)
  5. “US Jews contribute half of all donations to the Democratic Party” (JPost, 2016)
  6. “The Jewish billionaire who cost Hillary her presidency” (Haaretz, 2016)
  7. Obama, the Iran Deal, and the Israel Lobby (Tablet Magazine, 2015; more)
  8. Ronald Reagan – A Custom Made President (Wichita Films, 2015; more)
  9. George W. Bush: Who are the Neoconservatives? (Guyénot; VoltaireNet, 2013)
  10. Israeli Assassinations and American Presidents (Weir, AntiWar, 2012; more)
  11. “Israel blackmailed Bill Clinton with Monica Tapes” (New York Post, 1999)
  12. New Tapes Reveal Depth of Nixon’s Anti-Semitism (WaPo, 1999; more; more)

Great Britain

  1. The Lobby in Britain (Investigative documentary, Al Jazeera, 90 minutes, 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)

Media/Hollywood

  1. “Who said Jews run Hollywood?” (Lisa Klug, Times of Israel, 2016)
  2. “Jews Do Control The Media” (Elad Nehorai, The Times of Israel, 2012)
  3. Do Jews run Hollywood? (Joel Stein, Los Angeles Times, 2008)
  4. Do Jews dominate in American Media? (Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, 2008)
  5. Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies, and the American Dream (Jacobovici, 100 min., 1998)
  6. Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan reveals past as Israeli spy (Guardian, 2013; more)
  7. Jewish executives and journalists in US media (Reddit, archived, 2018)
  8. 15 Popular Internet Companies and Their Founders (SML, 2019; Facebook)
  9. Anti-Defamation League, tech firms team to fight online hate (CNet, 2017)
  10. 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. The World’s 50 Richest Jews (parts two, three, four, five; Jerusalem Post, 2010)
  5. The Jewish Story Behind the US Federal Reserve (Lowenstein, Forward, 2015)
  6. “When a Jewish Fed chief was novel” (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 2013; more)
  7. Jewish “Control” of the FED: A Classic Antisemitic Myth (ADL)

Intelligence, Assassinations, Terrorism

  1. Israel and the Assassinations of The Kennedy Brothers (Guyénot, 90 min., 2020; more)
  2. Mossad Assassinations (Ron Unz, book review, The Unz Review, 2020)
  3. Mega Group, Maxwells and Mossad (Whitney Webb, Mint Press, 2019; more)
  4. Israel’s Role in Global Cyber-Election Meddling (Wayne Madsen, MPN, 2018; more)
  5. Solving 9/11 (Christopher Bollyn, presentation, 60 minutes, 2015; book)
  6. The Israeli Connection to 9/11 (Overview, Biblioteca Pleyades, 2010)
  7. The 2001 Anthrax Letter Mystery: Solved (Robert Pate, 2009; more; more)
  8.  The SITE Intelligence Group, ISIS and Al Qaeda (James Tracy, 2014; more)
  9. Israel’s Use of False Flags in Global Terrorism (Michael Piper, AFP, 2013)
  10. The Anti-Defamation League Spy Scandal (Counterpunch, 2013; more)
  11. Israel’s Bomb: A Radioactive Taboo (Pohlmann, Arte, 50 minutes, 2012)
  12. The Jonathan Pollard Spy Case (Jeffrey T. Richelson, NSA/GWU, 2012; more)
  13. USS Liberty: Dead in the Water (BBC Documentary, 70 min., 2002; more)
  14. CIA, Mossad links to German La Belle disco bombing (WSWS, 1998; video)
  15. A lecture by Mossad whistleblower Victor Ostrovsky (C-SPAN, 60 min., 1995)
  16. The 1954 Lavon Affair (Leonard Weiss, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2016)
  17. Operation Opera (1979): Mossad sabotage in France (Haaretz, 2021; video)
  18. The Little Drummer Girl (Film based on novel by John le Carré, 1984; book)

Mafia, Organized Crime

  1. The Jewish Mafia (Hervé Ryssen, 2008/2018; interview)
  2. The Judeo-Russian Mafia (Johnson, Barnes Review, 2006)
  3. Mafia Jews: Inside a Genuine Cabal (Jewish Forward, 2006)
  4. The Supermob (Gus Russo, Bloomsbury USA, 2006; archive)
  5. History and origin of Bronfman family wealth (Frank Parlato, 2018)
  6. Trump’s Ties to the Russian-Jewish Mafia (Blackstone, 2019; more)
  7. Ronald Reagan – A Custom Made President (Wichita Films, 2015; 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. The Jews, Communism and the Russian Revolution (Ryssen, 80 min., 2017)
  4. “Stalin’s Jews” (Sever Plocker, YNet News, 2006)
  5. The Jewish Role in the Bolshevik Revolution (Mark Weber, IHR, 1994)
  6. Solzhenitsyn breaks last taboo of the revolution (Guardian, 2003; more)

World Wars (excl. Holocaust revisionism)

  1. The Forgotten Truth about the Balfour Declaration (Kramer, Mosaic, 2017)
  2. “Against Our Better Judgement” (Alison Weir, CNI, 2014; video/lecture)
  3. “The Jewish Hand in the World Wars” (Thomas Dalton, IHR, 2013; part 2)
  4. “The Jewish Declaration of War on Nazi Germany” (Johnson, TBR, 2001)
  5. “Too many Jews at Nuremberg” (Ami Eden, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 2007)
  6. Frankfurt School: The Jewish Intellectuals Who Made the 60’s (ANU, 2019; more)
  7. “The Holocaust Industry” (Norman Finkelstein, Verso Books, 2000; archive)
  8. Holocaust denial: Prosecutions and convictions (Wikipedia)

Migration, Multiculturalism, Nationalism

  1.  “White supremacists and Israeli immigration policy” (Times of Israel, 2021)
  2. “Domestic Extremism Committee Run By ADL and SPLC” (Unz Review, 2021)
  3. “DHS installs new leadership at its intelligence arm” (Politico, 2021; more)
  4. “Critical Race Theory, US Schools, and the Attorney General” (Forbes, 2021)
  5. “US pro-Israel groups boosting UK anti-Muslim extremists” (ToI, 2019)
  6. The ADL in American Society (Ron Unz, The Unz Review, 2018; more)
  7. “The Jews Who Run the ‘Alt-Right’ Media” (National Vanguard, 2018; more)
  8. “The ‘Alt-Right’, Jews, and Israel.” (The Jewish Forward, 2017; more)
  9. Jewish Involvement in Shaping American Immigration Policy (MacDonald, 1998)
  10. “Rabbi Baruch Efrati: Islamization of Europe a good thing” (YNet, 2012)
  11. Barbara Lerner Spectre on European multiculturalism  (IBA News, 2010)
  12. “Sephardi leader Yosef: Non-Jews exist to serve Jews” (JTA, 2010; video)
  13. Advisory Board on Domestic Terrorism & White Supremacy (AJC)

Historical Aspects

  1. Ancient Ashkenaz and the origin of Yiddish (Eran Elhaik, 2019; more)
  2. “The Invention of the Jewish People” (Shlomo Sand, 2009; more)
  3. From Yahweh to Zion (Laurent Guyénot, 2018; more)

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)

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