Reddit reviews The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt

On the other hand, there are ample examples of academics speaking out against Israeli influence.

Former US Rep. Cynthia McKinney: US Lawmakers FORCED to Support Israel! https://youtu.be/xL6-5xpOimk

I would struggle to get past naming 6 out of the 535 members of Congress who are not controlled by Israel.

The Pro Israel Lobby is the most powerful lobby in America. Sheldon Adelson spent $100m getting Trump elected and another $20m or $30m on the 2018 mid-terms.

There are large numbers of other Israel First Oligarchs who bribe US politicians.

15 or more of the top 20 Oligarch donors to Hillary Clinton in 2016 were Israel Firsters.

This has some of the PACs used & $m's involved http://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2017/07/washington-which-nation-is-really.html

It doesn't include anywhere near all of them. E.G. it doesn't include the 3 Christian Evangelical billionaire Oligarchs who bankrolled Ted Cruz in the 2016 primaries. The Mercers then switched to Trump when he got the nomination.

Yes, it is the network of donors who control the politicians in the UK. Either through donations to individual politicians or to Party HQ or to some sort of Lobbying Group that then supports the MPs who support whatever Special Interest that Lobbying Group is lobbying for.

Whether you say owned or controlled is a question of semantics. When did you hear a member of LFI condemn Israel's bombing of Gaza in 2014, or the recent spate of killing 300+ unarmed Palestinians during the Great Return March held each Friday from March 2018, or the deliberate policy of crippling Palestinians by shooting hundreds of them in the leg at these same protests?

It is not only through money that Israel controls UK politicians, promotes the ones they approve of and seeks to fire those it disapproves of.

Blackmail, intimidation and smears also play a big role see al-Jazeera's the Lobby which came out in 4 parts in 2017 https://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/thelobby/

The UK mainstream media is totally controlled by the Pro Israel lobby and no real criticism is ever allowed - this applies to the BBC as much as it does to Murdoch owned Sky News and all of the mainstream papers.

This is another very powerful tool to control UK politicians.

If a politician ever steps out of line or there is someone the Israel Lobby doesn't like they will be ruthlessly smeared by the BBC, Sky News, Murdoch's Press and the Guardian etc. See the recent treatment of Jeremy Corbyn with 100% false allegations of antisemitism.

If you want to find out about Israel you have to go to alternative media sources such as Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss or If American's knew https://ifamericaknew.org/

Another very useful information source is The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy https://www.amazon.co.uk/Israel-Lobby-US-Foreign-Policy/dp/0141031239.

The contents of the book also apply to the UK with only relatively minor differences.