#aipac

Everything Zohran Mamdani said about AIPAC was true and not even a tiny bit antisemitic. Why would progressive Jewish orgs call him out for the truth?

AIPAC is a lobby that represents Israel. Israel is carrying out a genocide. It's monstrous to support that.

It's using hidden avenues to spend money. AIPAC knows it's toxic so it sets up shell organizations to move around money without disclosure.That's literally what dark money is.

Now why don't you explain to the rest of the class why you think all of this is a part of Jewish identity that needs to be "called out" the same way antisemitism on the right gets called out?

This year’s Super Bowl was a weapon of mass distraction. If there’s any justice, future generations will remember the game not for Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, or Taylor Swift but for the US-funded attacks on Palestinian civilians that occurred while so many Americans were glued to their TVs. During the game, watched by well over 100 million people in the United States, Israel launched a bombing raid of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, the most densely populated area on earth. More than 1 million people had fled now-leveled Gaza City to the refugee camps in Rafah and surrounding areas. Palestinians who have survived previous Israeli strikes are now staving off disease, destitution, and fear.

Meanwhile, CBS granted the Israeli government space for an ad about the 130 hostages left in Gaza. This ad, meant to build public support and justify the slaughter of nearly 30,000 civilians in Gaza, spurred 10,000 people to register complaints with the FCC, because the commercial did not disclose that a foreign government had paid for it. Coupled with the Rafah raid, this looks more like military synergy than happenstance. 

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft also spent $7 million on an ad from his organization Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism. It features Clarence Jones, a 93-year-old former speech writer for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Kraft and other pro-war billionaires use the memory of King so much, they should be paying his family indulgences for slandering his name. The ad failed to mention that Kraft has given $1 million to pro-war AIPAC and donated $1 million in 2016 to Donald Trump’s inauguration. Given that Kraft says that the Nazi march in Charlottesville was his motivation to start his foundation (Charlottesville was the one with “good people on both sides,” according to Trump), his hypocrisy is insidious.

Kraft and Israel want the same thing: a blank check to uproot Palestinians from Gaza and build settlements. One can also only imagine if a peace organization tried to buy an ad asking Israel and the United States the question: “How many dead children will be enough?” I suspect it would be denied faster than a public-service announcement about concussions.

AIPAC is an American organization, staffed and funded exclusively by American citizens, both Jewish and not Jewish. It isn't a foreign influence operation. It's a 100% American lobbying group and advocacy group with a political action committee. This is not an opinion, these are verifiable facts which both Fuentes and Hogg know.