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Summer Lee is headed to Washington to represent Pennsylvania’s 12th district in the House.

That is an incredible achievement in itself. The story is even more epic when you know that AIPAC spent big money trying to stop Lee, and she beat them twice, at the Democratic primary and the general election. Thanks to our donors, Mondoweiss was there to cover it all!

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What did Lee do to anger AIPAC? While Israel was pummeling Gaza in May 2021, she expressed support for Palestinians under fire and questioned the usual bipartisan rhetoric about Israel “defending itself.”

As the U.S. correspondent at Mondoweiss, I spent a lot of time covering this race and shedding light on the excessive amounts of money the Israel lobby was spending. AIPAC’s Super PAC spent over $26 million on elections this year, mainly in the Democratic primaries.

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Pro-Israel groups have launched a virtual takeover of the Democratic primary process, and this is a legitimate cause of concern, but they are only doing so because they know they are losing the battle for hearts in minds in the United States. Polls show that support for Palestine is growing in the United States, particularly among Democratic voters. Lobbying groups like AIPAC know they can’t defend the destruction of schools, the killing of children, or the murder of journalists. They know the narrative about Israel simply defending itself is slowly falling apart, just as Summer Lee alluded.

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Michael Arria
Michael Arria is the U.S. correspondent for Mondoweiss. Follow him on Twitter at @michaelarria.