Eli Clifton

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Did AIPAC help fund an Islamophobic group’s attack-ad on J Street?

If an AIPAC spinoff did, in fact, help fund an attack on J Street it suggests the powerful lobby feels increasingly threatened by the upstart progressive Jewish group. By Eli Clifton The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is going to have a challenging time at its annual policy conference this weekend persuading attendees and…

By +972 Magazine March 23, 2017

Hillary Clinton addresses the Saban Forum at the Brookings Institute, December 6, 2015. (Brookings Flickr) We now know what she decided not to say about Palestinian rights that day.

Clinton speech was scrubbed of Palestinian rights, emails show

Hacked emails show Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair urging speechwriters to tone down language on Palestine, and reveal what language was removed from the candidate’s speech to the Saban Forum last December. By Eli Clifton WikiLeaks released a hacked email this week from Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta in which he urged Clinton’s speechwriters to tone…

By +972 Magazine October 26, 2016