Meet the U.S. Donors Funding ELNET, the AIPAC of Europe (The Intercept, 2025-12-15)
Meet the U.S. Donors Funding ELNET, the AIPAC of Europe (The Intercept, 2025-12-15)
Meet the U.S. Donors Funding ELNET, the AIPAC of Europe (The Intercept, 2025-12-15)
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/15/elnet-aipac-israel-lobby-europe/———
The European Leadership Network, or #ELNET, takes elected officials on networking trips to Israel, hosts events with members of European parliaments, and lobbies on foreign policy issues ... Its co-founder, Raanan Eliaz, is a former #AIPAC consultant and alumnus of the Israeli prime minister’s office. The group credits itself for key pro-Israel foreign policy decisions, including getting #Germany to approve a $3.5 billion deal to purchase Israeli drones and rockets, the largest in Israel’s history…
...While the U.S. gives more financial and military support to Israel …, the European Union is Israel’s biggest trading partner — and holds critical sway over whether global political consensus stays on Israel’s side. Amid public outcry and cracks in European support over Israel’s genocide in #Gaza, ELNET sees its work as more essential than ever...