AIPAC will no longer issue endorsements or make direct contributions to candidates. A clear sign that it’s grown deeply unpopular with U.S. voters.
AIPAC recently spent $100,000 on mailers targeting Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Senate race. Is it too little, too late?
Four Times reporters, 53 paragraphs, and no mention of AIPAC’s new stealth strategy: hiding Israel and running ads on unrelated issues in primaries.
Eli Clifton speaks to Mondoweiss about the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, the shifting landscape of AIPAC, and his new book, Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power.
AIPAC was poised to spend millions supporting Michigan’s GOP Senate nominee, Mike Rogers, but even he doesn’t want their help.
Abdul El-Sayed overcame the largest single-race investment in AIPAC’s history, but pro-Israel centrists are straining to downplay his victory in Michigan.
Abdul El-Sayed overcame a record $30 million in AIPAC spending to defeat pro-Israel candidate Haley Stevens in Michigan. The race was widely viewed as a referendum on the political influence of the Israel lobby.
Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick’s book, “Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power,” offers a powerful critique of how the Israel Lobby subverts democracy at home and ensures US support for Israeli aggression, apartheid, and genocide abroad.
Michigan polls show Abdul El-Sayed leading Haley Stevens in the latest battle between the Democratic Party establishment and the insurgent left, as voters reject corporate and lobby money, including from AIPAC, that aims to maintain the status quo.