Several Congressional Democrats have recently refused campaign contributions from AIPAC, the powerful Israel lobby, according to media reports. “Democrats who once counted AIPAC among their top donors have in recent weeks refused to take the group’s donations”, says a New York Times story titled "Democrats Pull Away From AIPAC, Reflecting a Broader Shift". “AIPAC is becoming an increasingly toxic brand for some Democrats on Capitol Hill," it says. It cites the example of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., the minority leader, who has long been endorsed by the hardline AIPAC, has now chosen to accept the support of J Street, the competing Israel lobby that advocates a two-state solution.
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| Results of Recent Poll of American Jews. Source: Washington Post |
A recent poll conducted by the Washington Post has found that "most (American) Jews (61%) say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39% say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership". American Jews are particularly unhappy with the current right-wing government of Israel. 68% give negative marks to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership of Israel, with 48% it “poor” — a 20-percentage-point jump from a Pew Research Center poll five years ago.
Zohran Mamdani's campaign for the New York City mayor has brought into sharp focus the rapidly falling support for Israel amid the ongoing Gaza Genocide being perpetrated by the Zionist state. Newsweek has reported that Mamdani enjoys a 17-point lead among New York City's Jewish voters. Mamdani's top opponent Andrew Cuomo, former New York State governor, continues to significantly lag Mamdani in the polls in spite of having a huge funding advantage. A CBS News/YouGov poll (September 7–13) put Mamdani at 43% to Cuomo's 28%, a 15-point lead. A Marist survey the same week showed Mamdani ahead 45% to 24%, while Quinnipiac gave him a 22-point lead at 45% to 23%. An Emerson College poll for PIX11 and The Hill had a nearly identical 43% to 28% margin, and a New York Times/Siena poll (September 2–6) showed Mamdani leading 46% to 24%, according to Newsweek.
Mamdani's resounding win in New York City, a city that has the world's second largest Jewish population after Tel Aviv, will be particularly significant. It will send a clear message to American politicians, particularly Democrats, that they don't have to bow to hardline AIPAC to win elections.
Although the rebellion against AIPAC is mainly among Democrats, there's also growing anger among Trump's "America First" base who see the Trump Administration's policies as "Israel First". Prominent among Republican critics of Trump's pro-Israel policies are Republican Representatives Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene, talk show host Tucker Carlsen and former Trump advisor Steve Bannon.
Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of Anti-Defamation League, has blamed the shift in the US public opinion against Israel on popular social app TikTok. “We really have a TikTok problem, a Gen Z problem,” he said in a leaked audio recording. “The same brains that gave us Taglit, the same brains that gave us all of these amazing other innovations, need to put our energy towards this, like fast.”
TikTok is particularly popular among young people. It has carried viral short videos of the Gaza Genocide over the last two years. The pressure from the Israel lobby forced the sale of Chinese-owned TikTok to an American Zionist group led by Oracle's billionaire founder Larry Ellison. Ellison has given tens of millions of dollars to pro-Israel groups. He is reported to be among the six American Zionist billionaires supporting Israel's wartime economy.
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In Chicago have been protesting against my congressional representative even though he had returned $50,000 to AIPAC . They are living in a silo and following herd mentality.
They have been hurting their own cause and were told so by doctor Zaher who heads Med Global also.
Yes, I realize they are hurting based on what is happening in Gaza daily and seen on TV.
Former congresswoman urges limits on PAC donations in US elections
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2594591/amp
Marie Newman defeated Democrat Congressman Dan Lipinski — who frequently voted in support of Israel — and rejected overtures from pro-Israel lobbyists to support their causes
CHICAGO: A former congresswoman who represented one of the largest concentrations of Arab and Muslims voters is urging the adoption of laws to limit how much groups with foreign lobbying interests can contribute to candidates in elections.
Marie Newman, a Democrat who represented the 3rd Congressional District on Chicago’s Southwest Side and suburbs, which was heavily populated by Palestinian American voters, told Arab News she was beaten because of her support for Palestinian, Muslim and Arab causes and by enormous donations made to her rival by pro-Israel political action committees (PACs).
In 2017, Newman defeated Democrat Congressman Dan Lipinski — who frequently voted in support of Israel — and rejected overtures from pro-Israel lobbyists to support their causes, but immediately faced opposition from pro-Israel PACs when she rejected conditions they demanded in exchange for their support.
“AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Council) hated me with every ounce of their being and made it very clear to me. I refused in the early days of the campaign in 2017 when I first ran to take their money and I really wouldn’t talk to them because I had no interest in talking to them,” Newman said.
“I knew that they would give me a set of talking points on how to address Israel, Palestine and the Arab world and I wasn’t interested. They spent a million-and-a-half-dollars to get me out of office representing the constituents of that district.”
Newman details her election fight against the money poured into the race by AIPAC and the Democratic Majority for Israel lobbying groups in her new book, “A Life Made from Scratch,” which was released this past week.
She advocates for non-violence between Israelis and Palestinians and supported the two-state solution. During the Gaza war, after leaving office, she was also very clear in her criticism of the use of violence by Hamas and Israel’s government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“It’s important to make that clear, that it’s a genocide in Gaza and they must be stopped. So, this position we (the Democrats) have had, that we are betrothed to the pro-Israel lobby is wrong,” Newman said, arguing that she was in line with the majority of the American Jewish community nationally and with mainstream Americans in the Illinois region.
“By the way, 60 percent of Jewish people support a ceasefire and de-occupying the region. I have been talking about getting rid of the occupation in Palestine for close to 10 years. Most, over half of American Jewish people, believe that there should not be an occupation. It’s not a radical idea.”
Newman was attacked in mailers, paid for by PAC money, which falsely accused her of being anti-Israel and antisemitic. Ironically, Newman’s husband is Jewish.
She called for all PAC money, whether from a foreign lobby like Israel, or from a domestic group lobbying for corporations and specialty industries, to be eliminated or drastically limited in election campaigns. She said the issue is not just about foreign influence, but also the enormous influence PACs have on important domestic issues.
“The reasons we don’t have healthcare is because of corporate PACs. The reason we don’t have solid relationships everywhere in the world is because of these foreign entity PACs like AIPAC and Democratic Majority for Israel,” Newman said.
“The most egregious corporate players are in health insurance, the pharmaceutical industry, big oil, and the banking industry. Those four industries own Congress. Something over 90 percent of Congress takes corporate PAC money from those entities frequently.”
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Evan Kilgore 🇺🇸
@EvanAKilgore
BREAKING:
Candace Owens shared a screenshot of a group chat where Charlie Kirk says:
1.) He was abandoning the pro-Israel cause
2.) He lost a $2M per year donor because he refused to cancel Tucker Carlson at his events
3.) He was going to invite Candace back to TPUSA events
https://x.com/EvanAKilgore/status/1975317973243208138
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@zei_squirrel
Larry and Davis Ellison, fanatical Zionist Jew billionaires who are the richest men on earth and fund the Israeli rape-army just bought CBS News and made its editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, a deranged fanatical Zionist propagandist of the lowest order who murdered Refaat Alareer and members of his family including a newborn by putting a kill target on him in an active genocide zone.
They also took over Paramount, TikTok, CNN and countless media entities under that umbrella. And the entire media class treats it as totally normal and fine, CNN's Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, MSNBC, ABC News, AP, Reuters, NYT, they all consider it perfectly normal.
Zionist Jews own the US and West. They own everything in the US and the West, and anyone who denies this truism is deliberately laundering their total hegemony over the US and Western media and political class.
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1975259504959717849
Irlandarra
@aldamu_jo
Benjamin Netanyahu in the 80's:
"Israel owns and controls the U.S."
"The U.S. is not a unified block. We own the senate, the congress, and we have a record strong Jewish lobby on our side.We have a strong influence over the general support. America won't force us into anything."
https://x.com/aldamu_jo/status/1975150946876334568
Yousef Munayyer
@YousefMunayyer
Can't persuade people so you have to brainwash them. Rig ChatGPT, buy TikTok, intimidate universities. Can't image why no one likes this, it all seems so pleasant.
https://x.com/YousefMunayyer/status/1972813052098523553
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Nick Cleveland-Stout
@nick_clevelands
NEW: Israel is paying Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale $6 million to create websites and content designed to train AI models like ChatGPT with pro-Israel messaging (link below)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-chatgpt/
https://x.com/nick_clevelands/status/1972770689565536694
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Nick Cleveland-Stout
@nick_clevelands
As part of the $6 million contract, Parscale will also work to integrate pro-Israel messaging into Salem Media Network channels, which includes shows like the Hugh Hewitt Show, the Charlie Kirk Show, and the Right View with Lara Trump.
https://x.com/nick_clevelands/status/1972771741224321456
James Smith
@XrealJamesSmith
The point is they all have to be vetted and approved but these people, a very small minority people associated with a tiny insignificant country in the Middle East with a GDP smaller than that of New Jersey, the 4th smallest state in the US.
Why do these tiny minority people from a tiny insignificant country get to decide who is allowed to serve in our government, the US government, the most powerful country on earth, a country that dwarfs Israel and its religion by 99% in every measure imaginable?
Why are these small minority from an insignificant country in charge of our country in every way?
Why are we allowing this?
When I say “we” I mean the people who at this point are obviously the only ones who can do something to stop this insanity
https://x.com/XrealJamesSmith/status/1975095010467938665
After Two Years of War, Israel Is Stronger—and More Isolated—Than Ever - The Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/after-two-years-of-war-israel-is-strongerand-more-isolatedthan-ever-dc500e33?st=dmfwhF&reflink=article_copyURL_share
Israel is emerging from the carnage as the regional hegemon with a string of military victories. But the country’s fight against Palestinian militant group Hamas also has left it increasingly politically isolated and at risk of losing long-term Western support that has been vital to its survival.
The deaths of more than 67,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to local authorities, have revived global calls for Palestinian statehood and put Israel at odds with a solidifying international consensus.
Once recovered from the initial shock of the Hamas breakthrough and murderous spree on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel’s military has delivered a succession of crippling blows to the entire constellation of its strategic foes.
Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah have been decapitated, the Assad regime in Syria has collapsed, and Iran’s military leadership, missile and nuclear programs have been badly damaged.
“Regionally, Israel is under less threat than it was two years ago,” said Shalom Lipner, a fellow at the Atlantic Council who served as an adviser to several Israeli prime ministers. “But internationally, it’s between a rock and a hard place, and the long-term trends are not working in its favor.”
Anger at Israel has spread from the Muslim world to Europe and increasingly the U.S., where large parts of the Democratic Party and a growing part of the MAGA movement have now turned against American assistance to Israel.
While President Trump has remained supportive, Israel’s new isolation has given him unusual leverage—a power that he has already exercised to block plans for annexing the West Bank, to make Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologize for a strike on Qatar, and to make Israel acquiesce to the latest Gaza cease-fire plan.
This alienation of Israel’s erstwhile friends around the world stands to erode, in a potentially lasting way, not only the standing of Netanyahu and his successors but also the long-term viability of Israel’s founding project.
From American university campuses to European high schools, solidarity with the Palestinian cause—and hostility to Zionism—have become the political markers of a new generation.
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Saudi Arabia’s recent security pact with nuclear-armed Pakistan, as well as tighter cooperation between Arab nations and Turkey are all part of that regional response to the Israeli military strength, said retired British Air Marshal Martin Sampson, who heads the Middle East office of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and served as the U.K. government defense adviser to the Middle East.
“You see the development of beginnings of relationships with Iran and of sympathy for Iran over Israel,” he said. “The region never wanted a single dominant power in the region. They always thought it was going to be Iran, and now they’ve got one and it’s Israel. And Israel is a regional dominant power that freely exercises its hard-power capabilities.”
Megatron
@Megatron_ron
NEW:
🇺🇲🇮🇱 FBI Director Kash Patel says he cut ties with the Jewish organisation ADL
He says ADL lobbyists called in a panic when they found out the FBI was cutting ties with them.
"When word got out that I was about to kick the ADL out, do you know who called this building?"
"The lobbyists for ADL, begging for a phone call. And I said, 'No.' That's how I knew they were in the wrong the entire time, and we proved it."
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt publicly stated that every FBI cadet has been through the ADL brainwashing.
https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1975508432686903564
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Shadow of Ezra
@ShadowofEzra
Turning Point USA has now admitted that the text messages released by Candace Owens about Charlie Kirk’s alleged blackmail with Israeli donors are authentic.
They also confirmed that Kirk wrote a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu, warning him he was losing the public battle.
Andrew Kolvet added that Charlie Kirk was not someone who could be controlled.
https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1975605232068424007
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Al Jazeera English
@AJEnglish
The Anti-Defamation League has become the target of a sustained right-wing backlash after the Jewish advocacy group included an organisation founded by slain right-wing figure Charlie Kirk in its online database on extremism.
Here's all you need to know http://aje.io/v9tew5
https://x.com/AJEnglish/status/1974894856607813673
Henry Fjord
Miriam Adelson’s late husband, Sheldon, made it very clear who they are loyal to.
“The uniform that I wore in the military was unfortunately not an Israeli uniform… All we care about is being good Zionists, being good citizens of Israel… Israel is in my heart.”
https://x.com/henri_fjord/status/1978009308400116142?s=61&t=mgTxrmITUbpo9NntN5677Q
Prof. John Mearsheimer: "Israel is in DESPERATE STRAITS"
Israel has lost the public discourse.
Buying TikTok, CBS, Paramount isn’t going to change it.
https://youtu.be/La7dSCZCGmo?si=FgNNs0-uMZ85PGCo
Middle East Eye
@MiddleEastEye
"Six decades on, a young politician stands in a mosque in New York and speaks words Malcolm X would have recognised: 'I will not change who I am. I will not change how I eat. I will not change the faith that I am proud to belong to. But there is one thing I will change: I will no longer look for myself in the shadows'"
✍️ Opinion by Soumaya Ghannoushi
https://middleeasteye.pulse.ly/9kervudjjc
https://x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1984047681392501247
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Trita Parsi
@tparsi
It's difficult to fully fathom how terrible Hillary is on foreign policy.
But there is something else going on here as well.
For decades, the US foreign policy elite served as a filter - it decided what information and what analysis on foreign affairs would reach the American public. They called this filter "education."
All the ills of social media notwithstanding, it has nevertheless allowed Americans to bypass this filter and see the world uncensored and form their own opinions.
To Hillary and the establishment, that is terrible.
"We have done a miserable job teaching young people history," she says.
What she really means is that the establishment has done a miserable job forcing young Americans to only view the world through that filter - and slavishly reject all other versions of reality.
Because the education she talks about is still there. It's just that young Americans are no longer satisfied with being spoon-fed establishment information but want to find out for themselves.
And when the establishment lie that Israel is only defending itself is confronted with images of Israel committing genocide, the establishment narrative falls apart.
And it terrifies Hillary that Americans are finding out not only about this lie - but all the foreign policy lies they have been told.
Many of them by Hillary herself.
https://x.com/tparsi/status/1985198422110945300
Peter Beinart
@PeterBeinart
The attacks on Mamdani show that Jewish leaders will sacrifice almost anything to preserve Israeli impunity. They'll support a sexual harasser + an anti-Muslim bigot. They care more about preserving Jewish supremacy in Israel than defending legal equality in the US https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/what-will-establishment-jewish-leaders
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Peter Beinart
@PeterBeinart
I wonder if the folks attacking Mamdani for singling out Israel have noticed that Hindu nationalists loathe him too. Why? Because his opposition to religious, ethnic + racial supremacy is NOT confined to Israel. He's a principled opponent of ethnonationalism, including in India
https://x.com/PeterBeinart/status/1985365021229191501
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