1) many provisions benefitting Jewish interests are inserted into US legislation & procedural guidelines. Holocaust survivors (any Jews alive in Europe 1945) exempt from paying taxes on reparations from Germany-not included in calculation of benefits like Medicaid
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5) money to Palestinian Authority & UN to help refugees in Middle East cut dramatically. 24 states are now requiring statements pledging not to boycott Israel from those citizens and organizations that receive government funding or even seek local government employment.
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6) Two bills in Congress seek to define as anti-Semitism any criticism of Israel. December 12th 2017 Anti-Semitism Awareness Act approved by the House of Representatives with 402 affirmative votes & only two libertarian-leaning congressmen voting “no.”
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8) Grant Smith of IRMEP reports: former Los Alamos National Lab nuclear policy specialist James Doyle was fired for article in International Institute for Strategic Studies journal stating that “Nuclear weapons did not deter…Iraq from attacking Israel during the 1991 Gulf War.”
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9) Doyle’s crime was to break “legislative rule” that no federal government employee can confirm Israel has nuclear weapons: Symington Amendment Sect 101 US Arms Export Control Act 1976 bans foreign aid to any country w nuclear weapons not signing Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
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