{"id":34513,"date":"2024-06-24T11:14:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T18:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=34513"},"modified":"2024-06-24T11:14:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T18:14:41","slug":"bowman-calls-for-primary-voters-to-reject-aipac-money-at-rally-with-sanders-aoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/24\/bowman-calls-for-primary-voters-to-reject-aipac-money-at-rally-with-sanders-aoc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowman Calls for Primary Voters to Reject AIPAC Money at Rally With Sanders, AOC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) waves to supporters as Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) speaks during a rally on June 21, 2024 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo: Joy Malone\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flanked by progressive heavyweights, Rep. Jamaal Bowman called for “the many” to defeat “the money” of AIPAC, which has set funding records in its effort to help defeat the pro-Palestine Congressman.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

EDWARD CARVER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jun 22, 2024 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congressman Jamaal Bowman<\/a>, a prominent critic of Israel’s war on Gaza<\/a>, called on Saturday for voters to defeat the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee<\/a>, which has poured millions of dollars into defeating him, as he made his final campaign push before the Democratic primary in New York’s 16th Congressional District on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The contest has seen one of the largest influxes<\/a> of money of any U.S. House of Representatives primary race in history, mainly because of AIPAC’s super PAC, the United Democracy Project (UDP), which has spent more than any interest group has ever spent on a House race\u2014more than $14 million, according to T<\/em>he New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“AIPAC<\/a> is scared to death,” Bowman (D-N.Y.) said at an animated rally<\/a> in the Bronx in which Sen. Bernie Sander (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> (D-N.Y.) also spoke. “They are afraid they have already lost,” he said, citing public opposition to AIPAC’s agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“They are in this race because we called for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza,” Bowman said of AIPAC. “And we\u2019re going to keep calling for a permanent cease-fire.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Progressive standard-bearers Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez came to the rally, where placards read “for the many, not the money,” to help stave off a possible Bowman defeat to challenger George Latimer, a pro-Israel Democrat who leads in the polls. An Emerson College poll<\/a> from early June showed Latimer up 17 points, 48% to 31%. The race has been seen as a bellwether for the fate of other pro-Palestine progressives such as Rep. Cori Bush<\/a> (D-Mo.), who faces a primary challenge in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is TWO million degrees but we are happy to be alive folks @JamaalBowmanNY<\/a> @AOC<\/a> @BernieSanders<\/a> take The Bronx pic.twitter.com\/Q0KArxNOWm<\/a><\/p>— Anna Bahr (@anna_bahr) June 22, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>