2025-07-08 12:03 <br/> Tags: #people #Lobby ![[image-47.png|252x340]] # Isaiah L. Kenen(1905-1988) - Isaiah Kenen is the founder of the [[AIPAC]]. - Kenen's father opened the Toronto chapter of B'nai Zion in 1911. - B'nai Zion got [[Ze'ev Jabotinsky]] the vice president position at their Palestinian insurance company branch called "Judea" in 1928. - Kenen was involved in lobbying the US government on behalf of the [[Jewish Agency]] during the 1940s for the purpose of a favorable view on the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. - After Israel was declared in 1948 kenen opened the "Israel office of Information" on behalf of the Israeli embassy in DC. - For this he was required to register as a foreign agent. - in 1951, for the purpose of continuing his activities without having to continue registering as a foreign agent, Kenen moved from the Israeli embassy to the [[American Zionist Council (AZC)]]. - At the AZC in 1951, Kenen formed the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs (AZCPA). - In 1954 the IRS threatened the AZC with loss of its tax-exempt status after an investigation of the AZC's lobbying activities. The IRS discovered funding that the AZC received directly from the [[Jewish Agency]] (Israeli gov). - At this time Kenen's AZCPA divests itself from the AZC in order to dodge any reproductions. - This move was a legal slight of hand. The AZC simply transferred its lobbying efforts to Kenen's AZCPA. - The AZCPA changed its name to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee otherwise known as [[AIPAC]] in 1959. - Donors to Kenen's AZCPA/AIPAC include [[Dewey Stone]], [[Abraham Feinberg]], the Jewish mob under Meyer Lansky, etc. - In 1962-63 The JFK administration begins a crack down on the AZC, which is still the parent organization of AIPAC. - During their investigation millions of dollars in laundered money from the [[Jewish Agency]] to the AZC for lobbying purposes are discovered. - Kenen's "Near East Report," a weekly lobbying newsletter sent to every member of Congress, was receiving Jewish Agency money. - In October 1963 RFK demands the AZC register as a foreign agent within 72 hours. - At this time AIPAC fully takes over the activities of the [[American Zionist Council (AZC)]]. - After [[JFK Assassination|JFK is killed]] the AZC is abandoned and the pressure on AIPAC is becomes absent in the LBJ admin. - Kenen kept AIPAC low profile in its early years only focused on lobbying congress, and less on finding and funding candidate's campaigns. The [[Conference of Presidents]] was the Jewish lobby focused on the President. - Kenen used both the [[1967 Six Day War]] and the [[1973 Yom Kippur War]], to lobby congress for stronger support for Israel in the form of weapons and money. - In 1974 Kenen stepped down and was replaced by [[Morris Amitay]]. #RedPill *Jews and Israel supporters will claim AIPAC is not a foreign lobby, merely an American lobby that represents Americans who happen to like Israel. What Isaiah Kenen and the AZC clearly prove is that this is a foreign lobby created and operated by foreign agents who were repeatedly demanded to register under FARA and refused. AIPAC was receiving money directly from Israel, and when discovered they pulled every trick they could to avoid the consequences. AIPAC and the many branches of the Israel lobby work directly for and with the state of Israel. They are by every definition a foreign lobby.* #### Recommended Reading The Israel Lobby - John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt #### References - Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, Inc., _“Isaiah L. Kenen Foreign Agent Registration,”_ [https://www.israellobby.org/Kenen/FARA/default.asp](https://www.israellobby.org/Kenen/FARA/default.asp). - Wikipedia, _“Isaiah L. Kenen,”_ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_L._Kenen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_L._Kenen). - Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, Inc. _“Isaiah L. Kenen: Foreign Agent to Founder of AIPAC.”_ [https://www.israellobby.org/kenen/](https://www.israellobby.org/kenen/). - Mearsheimer, John J., and Stephen M. Walt. _The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy._ New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.