“Everyone knows why we lost,” J.D. Vance said after the Republican wipeout in the midterm elections, and among the reasons he cited was Israel. For decades, the Israel lobby worked to keep Zionism’s bigotry off voters’ radar. Those days are over.

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.

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.

Whether it’s Macklemore, Hasan Piker, or your neighborhood activist, this is a fight to make sure billionaires and politicians cannot stop free speech and will have to hear the calls to “Free Palestine” whether they like it or not.

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.

Next week’s Michigan primary between Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens is a referendum on AIPAC’s influence within the Democratic Party.

Chris Rabb’s surprising surge in Philadelphia’s crowded PA-3 House primary has made the race the latest Democratic Party battle between the insurgent pro-Palestine left and the Israel lobby.

In the latest chapter in the Democrats’ civil war over Israel, Ilan Goldenberg, Kamala Harris’s Jewish outreach director, says her campaign was right to question Josh Shapiro about whether he had been an agent for Israel while vetting him for VP. 

Pro-Israel groups are predictably melting down over Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City.

Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York City shows that the Gaza genocide has permanently shifted Israel’s role in U.S. politics.