A Democratic National Committee member is proposing a symbolic resolution for consideration at a DNC meeting next month to reject the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s massive spending on Congressional races.

The measure, sponsored by a young DNC member from Florida, could put party leaders on the spot about the pro-Israel lobbying group’s outsized role in Democratic primaries.

A lobbying behemoth that for decades courted lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, AIPAC has become an increasingly toxic brand in the Democratic Party.

In recent years, Israeli leaders and their backers in Washington have become more closely aligned with Republican politicians. At the same time, however, AIPAC’s super PAC has focused tens of millions in spending on Democratic primary races.

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    I feel like politicians are completely unaware of the fact they can take money from everyone and still ignore them and vote the way they were elected to.

    Like, lobbying is basically a targeted advertisement to politicians.

    They act like advertisement is some kind of law they have to follow.

    So their either morons or their deliberately corrupt. Either way, it ain’t being good at their job. Any other job they’d be fired.

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    Why Kat Abughazaleh lost her race due to APIC spending in that primary. The person who got the nom took a ton of their money.

    And it isn’t going away. This is how our elected officials funnel our taxpayers money int their pockets. Why do you think they vote to give Israeli billions of dollars each year.

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      Daniel Biss says he didn’t take any AIPAC money but was also not willing to denounce aid to Israel on the same level as Kat did. I haven’t looked enough into whether or not he accepted shadow money from AIPAC, but its very telling that AIPAC celebrated his win over Kat even though their opebly funded candidate Laura Fine lost.

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        Laura Fine took a ton of AIPAC money to split the vote from Kat. They were also paying influencers $1500 a post to disparage Kat. She’s Palestinian, so they threw millions against her in the final days of the race to ensure democracy didn’t function.

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        but its very telling that AIPAC celebrated his win over Kat

        He’s not their friend, but she was openly their enemy. And they want to take credit for it, to maintain the sense that they call the shots.

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          They campaigned against Biss and I think he said he wants conditions on aid to Israel (which is currently unconditional).

          This is not a win in any way for AIPAC, but the loss would have been bigger if Kat had won, which she nearly did, so I guess that’s something?

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      I didn’t realize they already had their primary. That’s disappointing. I wanted to kick some money her way before the election. Too late now.

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    Yep, cut them all off. Any relationship with the Genocidal Israeli Government is a drag on votes, and Dems cant afford to squander a single vote by defending Genocide.

    Right now, MAGA has the biggest Israel problem, by far. It’s a good opportunity to widen that important gap between the parties, not close it.

    They won’t lose any votes. Many American Jews do not support Israel’s genocidal behavior, and those that do were going to vote MAGA anyway.

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      Not allowing transparent front organizations representing racist political parties from foreign countries? Where might that end?

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        We might actually end up with a presidential administration that serves the needs of AMERICAN CITIZENS for a change.

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    NOT allowing Israel to Control your Countries finances? That’s ANTI SEMETIC!

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      It’s actually anti-semitic for Israel to meddle in other nation’s politics because ironically enough it affirms nazi propaganda about the world being run by a secret jewish cabal… add in the Epstein honeypot and one might be tempted to say it was true all along…

      It’s a fucking torment nexus.

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        it affirms nazi propaganda about the world being run by a secret jewish cabal

        Except that Israeli manipulation of Western countries’ politics is not at all secret. Netanyahu even brags about it.

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          It was secret for a time. Maybe an unspoken, open secret, but a secret you weren’t supposed to talk about (remember when Ilhan Omar caught flack for calling it out?).

          The Epstein honeypot and its israeli connection was a secret, until it wasn’t…

          And Netanyahu is an anti-semite, for the pure fact that he turns himmlerian propaganda into a self-fulfilling prophecy, and tries the attach the evil that the state of israel is committing to Jewish identity as a whole. That’s literally anti-semitism.

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    DNC “You could say AIPAC’s arguments moved me to a BIGGER HOUSE……. I said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet. Oh, dear.”

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    Let’s strip away all the context here. No Israel. No U.S. no Democrats/Republicans.

    Imagine I told you a fictional country, the United Grapes of Dumberica was formed.

    Now imagine I told you that the government of this country had people from foreign governments both friendly and hostile giving them money.

    In what logical universe would would that be legal?

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    Timing this a week AFTER Palestinian-American progressive badass Kat Abughazaleh lost her primary by just four thousand votes.

    A primary where both the eventual winner and the third placed establishment favorite were supported by millions of dollars worth of AIPAC ad campaigns.

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    As they should. AIPAC funding is going to be the most toxic thing to any Democratic Party candidate’s campaign this election cycle…

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    Not taking money from AIPAC is not enough. They will just create shell PACs with random names like Chicago Women in Congress or whatever. What’s needed is to elect the politicians who talk about the Hannibal Directive. Though not even Bernie will clear that bar.