10 June 2008
US political satirist Jon Steward has taken on America's leading pro-Israel lobby, poking fun at the shameless pandering to it by the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. American political satirist Jon Stewart has taken on the leading US pro-Israel lobby, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
In a five-minute comedy sketch broadcast on Comedy Central's Daily Show on 6 June 2008, he poked fun at the shameless pandering of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain to AIPAC (see video below).
Would this have happened had it not been for the courage of
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt? The secret is out! Now everyone can make fun of the Israel lobby.
Stewart, himself a Jew, calls AIPAC the "elders of Zion" and therefore can expect to be smeared as a "self-hating Jew" by the Zionist-controlled US media.