Marisa Kabas: there are going to be a lot of takes saying it’s antisemitic to blame AIPAC for latimer’s win and i just want to say no it is not

there are going to be a lot of takes saying it’s antisemitic to blame AIPAC for latimer’s win and i just want to say no it is not

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AIPAC has spent nearly 15 MILLION DOLLARS to beat jamaal bowman. this is not how democracy should work!!!

AIPAC Unleashes a Record $14.5 Million Bid to Defeat a Critic of Israelwww.nytimes.com The deluge in outside spending, which also includes another $1 million from another pro-Israel group, threatens to sink Representative Jamaal Bowman.

They took out a Zionist, former president of his synagogue, Jewish Democrat from Detroit in 2022 for being insufficiently pro-Israel in their opinion.

In Michigan, a pro-Israel group works to beat a Jewish Democratwapo.st Rep. Andy Levin finds himself fighting for his political life against a fellow Democrat, Rep. Haley Stevens.

(gifted btw)

Andy was a great rep. Haley Stevens only seems to represent her abhorrent donors.

AIPAC has a lot more love for the JudenReinpublican Party than they do for any Jewish Democrat who dares to criticize Netanyahu

Not that the gentile they supported here was a Republican. Just saying, in general

Are we talking about pro-Israel or pro-Likud?

Your reporting was awesome and I think this very dirty and shameful “victory” isn’t the win people think it is in the long run

Replacing the NRA in evil power “got you by the balls” lobby

It is antisemitic to let Benjamin Netanyahu to speak in front of Congress

I read something some boneheaded take a while ago (The Nation?) labeling Bowman antisemitic for calling out AIPAC's spending, presenting him as using the shadowy cabal trope to justify AIPAC's reaction spending. It was backwards, self-justifying logic.

It’s quite a convenient trope for AIPAC, really.

I feel like at this point AIPAC is just yet another conservative lobbyist?

... at this point?

They are pretty laser focused on the one issue they care about, and it's not conservatism.

I'm just wondering what's AIPAC's historical record of follow through post primaries - or do all those "pro-Israel" Republican mega-donors mysteriously leave their cheque books at home once they've bagged their quota of progressives and Democrats of colour who forgot their place?

There is not a high risk of a Republican winning most of these seats

Remember when Satan was going to pee ice cubes before George Santos flipped NY-3 and three other NY house districts that were, on paper, deep navy blue flipped in line? Perhaps cynically, I never underestimate the ability of the Democratic Party to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

NY-3 in its current form did not exist until 2013. Santos was the literal second House member to be elected there.

They spent all that money do they not want the credit?

How many starving Palestinian refugees could be fed with $15M?

That would require acknowledging them as both people and refugees, something a state that is actively engaged in their genocide cannot do.

Rude

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It’s literally what occurred!

You're antisemitic if you say something i vaguely disagree with. I used to follow South African politics and in the Zuma era every time a politician was caught with their hand in the till they would scream 'racism' and claim all journalists were pro-Apartheid.

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