Jewish-Led NYC Rally Targets AIPAC, Dem Allies Who Oppose Gaza Cease-Fire

Jewish-led demonstrators hold a banner reading, “AIPAC Funds Genocide” near the lobby group’s New York office on February 22, 2024.  (Photo: Jewish Voice for Peace/X) “AIPAC uses money and racist bullying to ensure congressional complicity in the genocide of Gaza,” said Jewish Voice for Peace. BRETT WILKINS Feb 22, 2024… Continue reading

Hakeem Jeffries Bucks AIPAC, Endorses Squad Member Summer Lee

19 January 24 (rsn.org) Akela Lacy/The Intercept Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., arrives to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 12, 2024. (photo: AFP ) The House Democratic leadership, normally staunch allies of AIPAC, bucked the Israel lobby in favor of incumbent progressive Summer Lee. Bucking pro-Israel lobby groups, the top three… Continue reading

The dark roots of AIPAC, ‘America’s Pro-Israel Lobby’

The group was formed to spin positive PR after Israeli atrocities. Perspective by Doug RossinowDoug Rossinow teaches history at Metropolitan State University, and is currently writing a history of American Zionism from 1948 to 1995. March 6, 2018 at 6:00 a.m. EST (washingtonpost.com) AIPAC, the swaggering and influential American Israel Public… Continue reading

Sanders Blasts AIPAC After Group Thanks Him for Not Demanding Cease-Fire in Gaza

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks outside of the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 17, 2023.  (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) The senator—under progressive pressure to change his position on Israel’s war—noted that AIPAC “has supported dozens of GOP extremists who are undermining our democracy” and is… Continue reading

As AIPAC Boosts Israel Military Aid Package, AOC Says Group Is ‘No Friend to American Democracy’

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks during a July 26, 2023 House Oversight Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.  (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) “It is past time for us to recognize how toxic of a presence AIPAC has been in our political system,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. JULIA… Continue reading

AIPAC TARGETS BLACK DEMOCRATS — WHILE THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS STAYS SILENT

BECOMEA MEMBER Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speak outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14, 2023. Photo: Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP AIPAC has given at least $3.6 million to the CBC’s old guard since last year, while members of the Squad draw the… Continue reading

HOW PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS WERE RAILROADED IN THE PRIMARIES BY AIPAC AND ALLIED GROUPS

BECOME A MEMBER People applaud at the 2019 American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., on March 26, 2019. Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP A people-powered insurgency threatened to reshape the Democratic Party. Then came the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and its allied super… Continue reading