Activists are calling for a ballot protest at Michigan’s February 27 primary, in an effort to push President Joe Biden to support a ceasefire and end the administration’s support for Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza.

So far, the mainstream media is almost totally quiet about AIPAC’s interference in the NY 10 primary race between corporate Democrat Dan Goldman and progressive Yuh-Line Niou. But AIPAC’s dark-money intervention is likely to energize thousands of voters who ordinarily don’t pay much attention to Israel/Palestine.

A recent J Street critique of AIPAC encapsulates the moral bankruptcy of liberal Zionism.

Some viewed AIPAC’s role in the Michigan Democratic Party primaries as a proxy war over the issue of Israel within the Democratic party, but the reality is a little more complicated.

Political action committees linked to pro-Israel lobby groups are spending more in Democratic primary elections than ever before. But what are the results?

Some viewed the Stevens/Levin race as a proxy war over the issue of Israel within the Democratic party, but the reality is a little more complicated.

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.

Tonight’s Michigan primary is historic. The war between two branches of the Israel lobby, AIPAC and J Street, will break out in the sunlight in the race between Andy Levin and Haley Stevens for a Congressional seat. And it looks like the rightwing Israel lobby will win the battle, not the war. Hillary Clinton endorsed Stevens over Levin in Michigan because she knows that AIPAC’s money is key to the Democratic Party. But Rashida Tlaib has supported Levin because the Democratic Party rank and file want aid to Israel conditioned over its human rights abuses.

AIPAC’s all-out assault on Andy Levin and Donna Edwards reflects their ongoing effort to shift the boundaries of acceptable politics on Israel.