AIPAC’s Next Top Target? Rep. Jamaal Bowman
The Israel lobby is expected to start a $20 million ad blitz backing its handpicked candidate against the incumbent Squad member.
The Israel lobby is expected to start a $20 million ad blitz backing its handpicked candidate against the incumbent Squad member.
AIPAC is not done trying to take down the Squad.
AIPAC has become the key force against progressives in Democratic primaries, but a new coalition is seeking to protect the party’s left flank.
The powerful lobbying group is going against a Capitol Police officer who fended off January 6 insurrectionists.
The Israel lobby failed to take down Rep. Summer Lee. They’ve now set their sights on Reps. Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush.
In talking points reviewed by The Intercept, the pro-Israel lobby argues that Israel has “no other option” but to invade Rafah.
By rallying behind process-based critiques, the Democrats are refusing to stand against the war on moral grounds.
Blitzer edited two magazines run by AIPAC’s founder that took hard-line pro-Israel stances like supporting Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.
The pro-Israel group is funneling money through a “pro-science” PAC, according to two members of Congress.
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