Highlighting the influence of Jewish lobby groups over American or European politics is usually a very sensitive issue – and anyone who does so can expect to be subjected to smear campaigns and accusations of anti-Semitism.
On Wednesday, however, Swedish state television chose, unusually and to the surprise of many, to draw attention to the lobby groups’ enormous power over American politics, and SVT’s foreign correspondent, Stefan Åsberg, stated that these interests are in practice powerful enough to decide who will be the next president of the United States.
– These are well-organized groups with vast resources that sometimes more or less determine the outcome of presidential elections, he said, adding:
– It is also important for members of Congress to forge close ties with these lobby groups, whose task is to influence US politics and ensure that, if possible, leaders who favor relations between Israel and the US are elected.
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”Välorganiserade judiska grupper bestämmer vem som blir president i USA” pic.twitter.com/2wQaWdRK0Y— Zeke Wolfenstein (@ZekeWolfenstein) May 21, 2025
The US has long been Israel’s most important ally and has a long history of economic and military cooperation, including supplying weapons and military technology worth billions of dollars every year.
However, according to Åsberg, the relationship between Trump and Netanyahu seems to have weakened somewhat, due to the large-scale war crimes in Gaza.
– There is a red line even for the US and Donald Trump. The US is affected by the enormous death toll in Gaza, not least all the children whose lives have been lost in the Gaza Strip. He is definitely losing patience with Israel.
All Republicans have personal Israel lobbyists
Although the Jewish lobby’s influence over the US is often a sensitive topic, it is also well documented. As recently as after the last election, groups such as AIPAC openly boasted about how virtually all of the candidates they financed won their primaries – and how they also “defeated 11 anti-Israel candidates”.
AIPAC endorsed 362 candidates and won in every primary we had a candidate on the ballot!
We helped our friends win and defeated 11 anti-Israel candidates.
Being pro-Israel is good policy and good politics! pic.twitter.com/XEHPYWN3L2
— AIPAC ️ (@AIPAC) November 6, 2024
According to estimates, AIPAC spent around $100 million ahead of the last election – partly on smearing and opposing candidates perceived as pro-Palestinian or critical of Israel.
Libertarian Congressman Thomas Massie also caused a stir when he revealed in an interview with Tucker Carlson that all Republicans in Congress have a personal Israel lobbyist from AIPAC with whom they are in close contact and who tells them how to vote on various issues.
When Tucker Carlson said that this sounded “absolutely insane” and wondered why this was not common knowledge, Massie explained that none of the parties involved would benefit from these close ties becoming public knowledge.
– It doesn’t benefit anybody. Why would they want to tell their constituents that they’ve basically got a buddy system with somebody who’s representing a foreign country? It doesn’t benefit the congressman for people to know that. So they’re not going to tell you that.
