+972, March 15, 2017

New tax filings show the country’s largest pro-Israel group gave money to a think tank that played a pivotal role in engineering Trump’s ban on Muslim immigration.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the 2016 AIPAC Police Conference in Washington D.C., March 21, 2016. (Photo courtesy of AIPAC)

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has been noticeably quiet about the Trump administration’s slowness to denounce the spike in anti-Semitic attacks and bomb threats, its nomination of an ambassador to Israel who described J Street as “worse than kapos,” and its ties to ethno-nationalists like White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon and senior adviser Stephen Miller. But AIPAC has done more than just tolerate the U.S. tilt toward extreme and often xenophobic views.

from https://972mag.com/aipac-gave-60k-to-architect-of-trumps-muslim-ban/125880/