Pro-Israel prosecutor Wesley Bell defeated incumbent Cori Bush in Missouri’s 1st District primary. He got $9 million worth of help from AIPAC. Source Views: 0
Posts Tagged ‘AIPAC’
AIPAC is spending big to beat Cori Bush
Michael Arria speaks to JVP Action Political Director Beth Miller about Cori Bush’s record in Congress and how much AIPAC is spending to unseat her. Source Views: 0
Bowman’s anti-AIPAC fundraising bump
With help from Shawn Ness BOO$T FOR BOWMAN: AIPAC’s attack ads seem to have been a boon for Rep. Jamaal Bowman — at least when it comes to fundraising, Playbook has learned. The endangered progressive’s May haul was more than $1 million — triple what he raised in April — with $770,000 of the contributions […]
Biden won’t set red lines for Israel so long as AIPAC is ‘top’ Democratic campaign funder
AIPAC has spent $12 million in just two congressional races. Joe Biden notices even if the media doesn’t. Source Views: 0
AIPAC-endorsed Democrat calls for Israeli leadership change
Rep. Mike Levin — one of California’s few vulnerable Democratic House members — called for a change in Israeli leadership on Thursday. “It appears to me that new leaders are needed,” Levin said to a small group of reporters, adding that he thinks the current leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are not “ultimately leading […]
Schumer’s Israel rebuke leaves AIPAC in a delicate position
When Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor on Thursday to issue a sharp rebuke of Israel’s leadership amid that country’s war with Hamas, he broke with longstanding precedent in American foreign policy. But so far, the reaction from the most prominent pro-Israel group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, has been largely […]
US Congressman Slams Pro-Israel AIPAC Lobby
US Representative Mark Pocan, a Democrat from Wisconsin, has vocally criticized the influence of the pro-Israel lobby in American politics. Specifically, Pocan singled out the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in a recent interview, characterizing it as a “front group for conservative policy in the US.” In the interview with US media, Pocan stated, […]
An Actual AIPAC Commercial
This is so in-your-face with how much Israel owns American politics that is almost seems like satire. Source Views: 2
AIPAC tries to distort and damage U.S. foreign policy beyond the Middle East
In the 1980s, AIPAC tried to weaken U.S. policy toward an African dictator. Is the pro-Israel warhorse deploying the same maneuver again today? Source Views: 0
Progressive Vermont Rep. Becca Balint visited Israel on AIPAC trip
Why did progressive Rep. Becca Balint go to Israel on a trip sponsored by AIPAC? “I was on this trip with people who absolutely disagree with me,” she says. And left the trip off social media. Still! Source Views: 0
Blinken address to AIPAC epitomizes the failure of the Biden Administration
Antony Blinken resurrected the two-state zombie in his address to AIPAC on the 56th anniversary of the 1967 War. But the number of true believers in Washington who buy these fantasies is dwindling. Source Views: 0
Leading rabbi says AIPAC-J Street squabble is ‘dangerous for the Jewish people’
A conversation between two leading U.S. rabbis show how strong the red lines still are in the organized Jewish community with regard to Israel. Source Views: 0
Nikki Haley, who once criticized AIPAC for being insufficiently pro-Israel, is running for president
Nikki Haley was the first U.S. governor to sign anti-BDS legislation, and once criticized AIPAC for not being pro-Israel enough. Now, she is preparing to run for president. Source Views: 0
AIPAC is still aiming to take down Summer Lee
AIPAC spent big trying to defeat Summer Lee in her primary by claiming she was a bad Democrat, now they’re spending $1 million on her GOP opponent. Source Views: 0
Rebutting AIPAC’s case for war with Iran
Israel and its proxies in Washington have stepped up their efforts to promote war against Iran. The stepped-up effort comes in response to the increasingly positive outlook for the United States and Iran to agree on conditions for a return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly referred to as the Iran Nuclear […]
Rebutting AIPAC’s case for war with Iran
Israel and its proxies in Washington have stepped up their efforts to promote war against Iran. The stepped-up effort comes in response to the increasingly positive outlook for the United States and Iran to agree on conditions for a return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly referred to as the Iran Nuclear […]