Open letter to AIPAC

“There are moments in history when silence is betrayal. This is such a moment.”

To the leadership, members, and heart of AIPAC,

I write to you not as a stranger to your mission, but as a descendant of it.

Larry Weinberg, my father’s first cousin, was one of the men who shaped your very foundation. He believed in your cause with the fire of a generation that understood the cost of silence, the price of appeasement, and the moral imperative of Jewish self-defense. 

He did not build AIPAC to manage optics. He built it to protect the soul and safety of the Jewish people.

Today, I invoke his name — not in nostalgia, but in urgency.

Because once again, the air thickens with betrayal, and I fear your voice has not yet met the gravity of the hour.

France Has Crossed a Line

President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement that France will recognize a Palestinian state this September is not diplomacy — it is a reward for terror.

It comes:

As Israeli hostages remain in Hamas tunnels.

As the architects of October 7 walk freely, unrepentant.

As Jewish communities in France live under threat and humiliation.

As the Jewish nation bleeds — physically, emotionally, morally.

This is not a gesture toward peace.

It is an erasure of Jewish suffering.

It is appeasement in the language of virtue.

And it must not go unanswered.

AIPAC Was Built for This Moment

You are the most respected and effective pro-Israel institution in the United States. You are feared, admired, and listened to — not because of slogans, but because of substance, clarity, and conviction.

Now is the time to use every ounce of that influence.

Not to attack France — but to recenter the moral compass of the West.

I urge you:

To speak loudly and clearly against unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state while terror remains uncondemned and unpunished.

To remind Congress and the American people that Palestinian statehood must never come as a prize for barbarity.

To stand with French Jewry, who deserve to know that their brothers and sisters will not remain quiet while their government embraces their enemies.

This is not politics. This is justice.

A Family Reminder

Larry Weinberg would not hesitate. He would not remain silent.

He would not allow ambiguity to replace action.

And I believe — with respect, with hope, and with full awareness of your immense responsibility — that neither should you.

History is not waiting. And neither should we.

A Final Word

If we speak now, history will remember us as those who stood tall when the world shrank from truth.

If we wait, history will remember only that we knew — and said nothing.

You have the power.

You have the voice.

Use it. Loudly. Honorably. Now.

With respect and urgency,

Ron Agam