THE LOBBY
In a remarkable series of eight episodes, four in the the UK and four in the US, Al Jazeera exposes, using an undercover reporter, how the pro-Israel lobby, backed by the Israeli government, penetrates many different levels of British and US democracy, from student oganisations and universities to political parties, lawmakers and government ministers. The shocking revelations were systematically ignored by the UK and US media.
The Lobby (UK), Episode 1: Young Friends of Israel
The Lobby UK Part 1 Al Jazeera. 2017 (25 mins) Al Jazeera employs an undercover journalist, “Robin,” to reveal how pro-Israel groups sponsored by the Israeli government try to influence the politics of British youth and electoral outcomes in student...
The Lobby (UK) Episode 2: The Training Session
The Lobby UK Part 2 Al Jazeera, 2017 (26 mins) Al Jazeera undercover reporter “Robin” joins an Israeli embassy delegation at the Labour Party’s 2016 annual conference. Black Jewish Labour antiracist activist Jackie Walker is clandestinely filmed by pro-Israel...
The Lobby (UK) Episode 3: Anti-Semitic Trope
The Lobby UK Part 3 Al Jazeera, 2017 (26 mins) The undercover reporter at the 2016 Labour Party conference films an exchange between the Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, MP Joan Ryan, and a pro-Palestinian Labour activist. Unaware that the sequence had been filmed,...
The Lobby (UK) Episode 4: The Takedown
The Lobby UK Part 4 Al Jazeera, 2017 (26 mins) A senior political officer at the Israeli embassy in London, Shai Masot, discusses with Al Jazeera undercover reporter “Robin” and the then chief of staff of Conservative MP Robert Halfon a potential plot to “take down”...
The Lobby (USA) Episode 1: The Covert War
The Lobby US Part 1 Al Jazeera, 2018 (48 mins) Undercover reporter Tony Kleinfeld investigates the Israel lobby offensive against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), coordinated by Israel’s ministry of strategic affairs, and provides a case study of...
The Lobby (USA) Episode 2: Managing Elites
The Lobby US Part 2 Al Jazeera, 2018 (49 mins) This episode focuses on the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Congress and, with the help of undercover reporter Tony Kleinfeld, unmasks the lobby’s attempts in 2016 to get the Tennessee...
The Lobby (USA) Episode 3: The Witch Hunt
The Lobby US Part 3 Al Jazeera, 2018 (50 mins) Episode 3 explores shocking coordinated smear campaigns against Palestine solidarity activists, including a University of California-Berkeley undergraduate student and Purdue University professor. It exposes real estate...
The Lobby (USA) Episode 4: Marketing Occupation
The Lobby US Part 4 Al Jazeera, 2018 (49 mins) In this final episode, undercover reporter Tony Kleinfeld gains the total confidence of leading pro-Israel lobbyists, allowing him to film candid footage in which the leadership recognise that they are in danger of losing...