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II. Uluslararası Siyaset, Ekonomi ve İşletme Bilimleri Kongresi, Sinop, Turkey, 2 - 03 December 2025, (Summary Text)
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American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) stands out as one of the most
influential lobbying organizations in the United States, with a significant
impact expected from its activities on domestic political processes and the
formulation of U.S. foreign policy toward the world, particularly in the Middle
East. During the last decades, AIPAC has developed an extremely powerful
network for political advocacy, extending beyond traditional lobbying to employ
community mobilization, strategic communication, and bipartisan engagement to
secure continuous political support for Israel. The following study aims to
explore exactly how the organizational structure, strategies of lobbying, and
framing of policy issues enabled the alignment of Israeli strategic interests
with American political and moral narratives. Based on a qualitative approach
that relies primarily on secondary data analysis, including policy documents,
academic literature, and media sources, this research investigates how
discourse, funding, and political alliances converge to reinforce AIPAC's
position as a shaper of US foreign and internal political agendas. This study
not only examines AIPAC's extraordinary efficiency as an advocacy model but
also offers a critical reflection on the ethical dimensions of its influence,
particularly in those situations where political power has been mobilized to
justify or sustain controversial policies in the Middle East. This piece of
work will contribute to a better understanding of how organized advocacy
networks function in modern international relations as instruments of political
influence, and how similar models might be developed by other actors in ways
that preserve ethical integrity and respect for human dignity.
Keywords: AIPAC, U.S. Foreign Policy, Israel, Advocacy
Networks, Political Influence.