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The AIPAC Narrative Reexamined: Empire, the Lobby, the Left, and the Limits of Blame w/ Yasha Levine
In this provocative and deeply analytical conversation, journalist and author Yasha Levine joins Parallax Views to challenge a dominant narrative on both the left and right: that the Israel Lobby singularly controls U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Drawing from his background covering Cold War geopolitics and U.S. information warfare, Levine argues that this viewpoint dangerously simplifies the role of American imperialism—and obscures how nationalism, including Zionism, has historically been instrumentalized by empire.
We explore how the U.S. used nationalist movements as tools of…
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