After pro-Israel Rep. Haley Stevens beat fellow House member Andy Levin in Michigan’s 11th district this week, with almost $5 million worth of help from AIPAC’s superpac, the Israel lobby group declared that Stevens’s win “reflects mainstream Democratic views and demonstrates that being pro-Israel is both good policy and good politics!” But new polling shows that Democrats support BDS targeting Israel by 33-10; and a third of Dems say their Congressperson leans more toward Israel than they do — while only 3 percent say they lean too much toward Palestine.
Rep. Haley Stevens has reportedly prevailed over fellow House member Andy Levin in the Democratic primary for Michigan’s 11th district. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) spent more than $4 million in support of Stevens through its United Democracy Project (UDP) Super PAC.
In a letter to UN Human Rights Council President Nazhat Khan, UN official Navi Pillay defends her colleague Miloon Kothari against accusations of antisemitism from pro-Israel groups, Israeli lawmakers, and U.S. officials following his interview with Mondoweiss, saying his comments “seem to have deliberately been taken out of context.”
The attacks on Kothari appear to be part of a concerted effort to undermine the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which the United States and Israel have opposed since it was created in 2021.
Two new legislative efforts to force the Biden administration to investigate the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh were announced this week.
We’ve seen a new Democratic narrative about AIPAC take shape in recent months, but it doesn’t really add up.
Family members of slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to reiterate their calls for an independent investigation into her death.
Democracy for the Arab World Now is calling on the U.S. government to investigate four lobbyists connected to the NSO Group for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Pro-Israel candidate Glenn Ivey defeated ex-congresswoman Donna Edwards in the Democratic primary of Maryland’s 4th district thanks to $6 million from AIPAC. The primary drew the attention of pro-Israel groups and was perceived by many as a proxy battle over the issue within the Democratic Party.