I would also like to add that Rapkin, a Canadian Jew comments about the state of affairs of Jewish people living in Iran and how they were being left alone to peacefully practice their faith. The Iranians and their government are able to differentiate between Zionism ( which they are intolerant of ) and the people of the Jewish faith who want nothing to do with Israel.
This sounds a bit like propaganda itself.
After the humiliating loss of the 1948 Arab League of Nations war on a newly formed Israel approximately 1 million Jews were expelled from the member nations. 350,000 from ~1948 - 51 and the rest over ~15 year period.
The factual point is that in those 5 nations Jewish populations are for all intents non-existent.
And all Zionism is, is the end of Jewish tribalism and the realization it kept them divided and micro-territorial, and came together as a single nation.
And Israel collecting information and pushing their cause in U.S. political circles doesn't surprise me in the least. We still spy and influence our closest allies.