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** “Visit your district, not Israel” 65.7 percent of Americans tell Congress
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** IRmep Polls, Telling Hard Truths Since 2014
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IRmep Poll: 41 House Democrats are now visiting Israel during the Congressional recess on a trip funded by a tax-exempt pro-Israel charity linked to the U.S. Israel lobby group AIPAC. Source: IRmep representative poll of 2,000 American adults through Google Surveys ([link removed]) on August 8-10.

Most American adults of voting age believe representatives should visit their congressional districts rather than go to Israel according to a new poll. IRmep Polls ([link removed]) surveyed 2,000 American adults about where they believed congressional reps should go during recess.

Junkets to Israel funded by an entity housed within the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a domestically registered lobby and a small number of other Israel lobby groups account for a third of all privately funded congressional trips with an international destination.

Members of Congress participating in the trips are accompanied by AIPAC employees. According to a leaked briefing booklet ([link removed]) the trips are designed to present Israel as a militarily vulnerable and valuable ally deserving massive U.S. foreign aid. The program does not include any discussion of Israel’s nuclear weapons program, military occupation of Palestinian territories or meaningful visits with Palestinians representative of those displaced by Israel’s creation.
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Grant F. Smith is the director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, DC. For more IRmep polls, visit [link removed] ([link removed]) and [link removed]


* For more information on recent trips to Israel by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, please read What City and State Leaders Got Wrong in Israel this Summer ([link removed]) , by Dale Sprusansky.

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