Support for Israel is collapsing in U.S. politics. The Iran war has fractured the MAGA base, military aid has become a Democratic litmus test, and AIPAC is losing primaries.
A Democratic National Committee resolution on rejecting AIPAC spending is largely symbolic, but it will put Democrats on the record regarding a lobbying group that is already a hot-button issue among presidential hopefuls.
AIPAC is taking a victory lap after 2 of the 4 candidates it backed in the Illinois primaries won their races. But is it really a resounding win if you have to spend $22 million to still lose 2 races?
A war powers resolution intended to rein in the Trump administration’s war on Iran failed in the Senate. Groups are already promising to primary any Democrat who supports the war.
Israel is emerging as a central theme in the upcoming midterms, with one of the clearest examples being Illinois’s 9th district Democratic primary.
The Trump administration is in damage control mode after Mike Huckabee claimed Israel has the biblically mandated right to stretch from the Nile River in Egypt to the Euphrates River in Iraq.
AIPAC spent millions in New Jersey’s 11th district to take out Tom Malinowski in the Democratic primary after he hinted at conditioning aid to Israel. They sank his campaign, but they helped Analilia Mejia, a candidate much further to the left, win.
In New Jersey, AIPAC is targeting former ally Tom Malinowski for saying that military aid to Israel should be conditioned.