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{{Navbar-Freedom's Watch}}'''Matt Matthew Brooks''' is a board member and executive director serves as Executive Director of both the [[Republican Jewish Coalition]](RJC), "an organization dedicated to enhancing ties between the Jewish community and the [[Republican Party]], and the [[Jewish Policy Center]], a [[think tank|think-tank]] that examines public policy from a Jewish perspective." Brooks acts as RJC's principal spokesman.<refname="RJC">[http://www.washingtonpostrjchq.com/wp-dynorg/content/article/2007/08/22/AR2007082202555Biography.html "Leftasp?formmode=SingleBio&ID=24 Bio: Matt Brooks, Right Proxies Push on Iraq,"] ''Washington Post''Republican Jewish Coalition, accessed August 23, 2007.</ref>

Brooks is one of several prominent [[conservative]]s funding conservatives supporting [[Freedom's Watch]], a new White House [[front group]]<ref>[http://www.lasvegasgleaner.com/las_vegas_gleaner/2007/08/adelson-runs-at.html "Adelson runs attack ads against Porter,"] ''Las Vegas Gleaner'', August 22, 2007.</ref> which began "a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to urge members of [[Congress]] who may be wavering in their support for the [[war in Iraq]] not to 'cut and run'."<ref name>[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/washington/22war-web.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin "Group to Urge War Support,"] ''New York Times'', August 22, 2007.</ref> Brooks served as State Chairman of the Massachusetts College Republicans while an undergraduate at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., and "managed the [[Jack Kemp]] for President campaign in Massachusetts, as well as directed projects in New Hampshire and New England." In 1988, Brooks became RJC Political Director but took a leave of absence to "serve as the National Field Director for Victory '88 Jewish Campaign Committee, designing and implementing campaign strategy on behalf of the [[George H.W. Bush|Bush]]-[[Dan Quayle|Quayle]] '88 campaign." He was appointed Executive Director of the RJC in 1990.<ref name="RJC"/>  ==Likud agenda==Matt Brooks has consistently backed positions which are on the far right of the Israeli political spectrum, and under him the RJC has pushed a Likud-line{{fact}}. In December 2011, Brooks removed Ron Paul from the RJC forum because he questioned the continued unconditional US aid to Israel.<ref>Chris McGreal, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/05/republican-jewish-coalition-bans-ron-paul Ron Paul excluded from Republican Jewish Coalition forum], Guardian, 5 December 2011.</ref>