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Sat 24 Feb 2024 5:15 pm - Jerusalem Time

AIPAC blackmails the US Congress and makes it support the genocide in Gaza

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the most powerful Israel lobby in the United States, (among more than 25 Israel lobby organizations) will allocate $100 million this campaign season for the 2024 elections, to help elect pro-Israeli genocide candidates to Congress. American. This makes AIPAC the largest financial spender on a single issue in the primaries: defeating anyone who criticizes Israel.


For AIPAC, priority No. 1 is ousting the most vocal critics of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza. Target No. 1 was Democratic Representative (of Palestinian origin) Rashida Tlaib, the most outspoken advocate in Congress for Palestinian human rights. AIPAC has offered a whopping $20 million each to Hill Harper and Nasser Baydoun (of Lebanese origin) to run in the 2024 Democratic primary against Rashida, a fifth of AIPAC's total electoral support funds.


Both Harper and Beydoun rejected AIPAC's offer and leaked the dollar amount they were offered, apparently to discourage others from taking what they called "blood money." It was harder than AIPAC realized to force a Democrat from Arab Detroit to accept $20 million to support a plausible genocide of Palestinians.


AIPAC has had more success in its attempt to oust New York Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman, one of the few US lawmakers to call for a ceasefire. AIPAC recruited pro-Israel George Latimer to run in the Democratic primary against Bowman, giving Latimer more than $600,000, or about 42% of his entire campaign budget. After AIPAC, Bowman's second-largest contributor was Bradley Tusk, who provided the maximum amount of $6,600.


The Israeli lobby "AIPAC" is also actively seeking to defeat Democratic Representative Cori Bush (from Missouri), which is the main sponsor of the House of Representatives resolution that prompts President Biden to call for a ceasefire. This has been AIPAC's most impressive success story to date. Wesley Bell, AIPAC's handpicked pro-genocide candidate to oust Bush, was leading her by 22% in a Feb. 7-9 poll of 401 likely 2024 Democratic voters.


AIPAC is also trying to oust Representative Summer Lee of Pennsylvania. Bhavini Patel (of Indian origin) appears to have been recruited to this end, although Patel has not publicly acknowledged this. However, in December 2022, Jewish Insider reported that Patel “was initially viewed by some pro-Israel supporters in Pittsburgh as a potential contender for Lee’s next run, according to what Al-Quds reviewed.”


For Patel, AIPAC's money is already paying off, as she recently posted photos on her Instagram account of herself participating in pro-Israel rallies. In February 2024, Patel told her supporters on a fundraising call that she could help take down a "progressive pro-Palestine group" by tapping support from right-wing Hindu and pro-Israel supporters.


The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has long been on the mission of engineering a pro-Israel, pro-apartheid US Congress, and now, embarrassingly, it is trying to engineer a pro-genocide US Congress in Gaza.


In the 2022 midterm elections, for example, AIPAC spent $30 million on candidates to ensure their support with billions each year in unconditional military aid to Israel, even though that meant supporting the 109 members of the US House of Representatives (GOP) who voted To cancel the 2020 elections, and oust Biden.


“AIPAC believes that the end of American democracy represents a price worth paying if it means the continuation of Jewish supremacy in Israel and Palestine,” according to election researcher Zachary Foster.


It is noteworthy that in 2012, AIPAC contributed to the victory of Hakeem Jeffries (New York State) over the defeat of Charles Barron for the Democratic seat in Congress in 2012 with donations of no less than $475,000. AIPAC and Jeffries also accused Barron of anti-Semitism because he described Gaza as a concentration camp.


Today, Hakeem Jeffries is the Democratic minority leader in the House of Representatives and opposes placing any conditions at all on the billions of dollars sent to the Israeli occupation army each year, something he emphasized in an interview on February 4, 2024. “This makes Jeffries directly complicit.” "With the genocide committed by Israel. Actions in Gaza," according to Foster.


“AIPAC’s power and influence over the US Congress means that many of our elected representatives enter politics for the sole reason that they are willing to remain silent about Israeli war crimes,” Foster adds. “The result has been that a small group of people, representing a small minority of US citizens, have been and continue to be "Engineering US Congressional support for plausible genocide."

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