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Chris Menahan 🇺🇸@infolibnews · Sep 18, 2025

House Speaker Mike Johnson held a "private meeting" with AIPAC and Jewish leaders on Wednesday on Capitol Hill wherein…

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House Speaker Mike Johnson met privately with AIPAC and Jewish leaders, pledging to screen out "isolationist" anti-Israel GOP candidates from the party. The meeting details remain largely undisclosed, with only Jewish Insider reporting limited information, sparking debate over foreign influence and representation on Middle East policy.

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    House Speaker Mike Johnson held a "private meeting" with AIPAC and Jewish leaders on Wednesday on Capitol Hill wherein he reportedly pledged to screen out "isolationist" (see: anti-Israel) GOP candidates "to prevent that wing of the party from growing larger in the House." Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), who was also part of the meeting, revealed "he’d been texting recently with Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt about the proliferation of antisemitic conspiracy theories about the killing of influencer Charlie Kirk," Jewish Insider reported. Though nearly all the participants remained mum on what went down, Rep. David Kustoff (R-TN) tweeted out an image of the room and you can make out many of the participants, including several Jewish Insider declined to name. 🧵

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    CUFI's Sandra Hagee Parker is on the left in yellow, and to her left is Rabbi Levi Shemtov. Above Shemtov is Mort Klein from the Zionist Organization of America (who is helping the Trump admin w/ their anti-Semitism crackdown). RJC's Norm Coleman can be seen on the far right.

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    Sandra Hagee Parker put out a vague statement on Instagram (along with the attached picture) about the meeting which said that Speaker Johnson will go down in history for having "ensured that America's greatest friend and ally had the resources she needed, in her darkest hour, to fight our collective enemies." "And to those who think we cannot 'afford' to help Israel, I assure you, the Bible teaches us the opposite is true," she added. You can clearly make out Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) in the picture, as well as Rep. Tim Walberg on the right.

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    The American people should have a right to know the full contents of this meeting but the only outlet reporting on it is Jewish Insider (behind a login wall), and all we know is the limited information they've chosen to give us. That said, based off what they told us, it's clear Johnson is aggressively working to screen out anti-Israel candidates from the GOP to suppress the will of the American people—and deny them the representation they're due—on behalf of a foreign power.

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    ✍️ FULL STORY: Mike Johnson Holds 'Private Meeting' With Jewish Leaders, Pledges to Screen Out Anti-Israel GOP Candidates informationliberation.com/?id=65038