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In reply to the discussion: Attack on Aipac president's home in LA investigated as hate crime - reports [View all]womanofthehills
(9,767 posts)20. AIPAC (UDP) - messed big with Summer Lee
AIPAC's Super PAC Spends Millions to Defeat Summer Lee, Other Progressives (Luckily she won - this is from 2022)
As The Interceptreported late Monday, a super PAC started last year by AIPAC called the United Democracy Project (UDP) has spent more than $2.3 million on the district's Democratic primary race.
About $100,000 from the group has gone to support attorney Steve Irwin while a majority of the ads UDP has paid for have attacked Lee as someone who only "calls herself a Democrat" due to her criticism of President Joe Biden during the 2020 primary race.
According to liberal pro-Israel group J Street, UDP has attempted to conceal its connection to AIPAC by attacking Lee's positions on issues unrelated to Palestinian rights, such as her support for Medicare for All.
"The United Democracy Project sounds innocuous and the advertising that they're running in these districts is about healthcare and reproductive rights and things that have nothing to do with Israel," Logan Bayroff, a spokesperson for J Street, told The Guardian Tuesday. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/17/aipacs-super-pac-spends-millions-defeat-summer-lee-other-progressives
As The Interceptreported late Monday, a super PAC started last year by AIPAC called the United Democracy Project (UDP) has spent more than $2.3 million on the district's Democratic primary race.
About $100,000 from the group has gone to support attorney Steve Irwin while a majority of the ads UDP has paid for have attacked Lee as someone who only "calls herself a Democrat" due to her criticism of President Joe Biden during the 2020 primary race.
According to liberal pro-Israel group J Street, UDP has attempted to conceal its connection to AIPAC by attacking Lee's positions on issues unrelated to Palestinian rights, such as her support for Medicare for All.
"The United Democracy Project sounds innocuous and the advertising that they're running in these districts is about healthcare and reproductive rights and things that have nothing to do with Israel," Logan Bayroff, a spokesperson for J Street, told The Guardian Tuesday. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/17/aipacs-super-pac-spends-millions-defeat-summer-lee-other-progressives
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Attack on Aipac president's home in LA investigated as hate crime - reports [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Nov 2023
OP
While I do not condone violent protest in general nor in this case, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac)
Ford_Prefect
Nov 2023
#1
ActBlue is the largest PAC in the US, raising 4 times more in 2022 than AIPAC.
Beastly Boy
Nov 2023
#11
Thankyou for removing any contextual difference between AARP and the NRA. I cannot believe I never saw that before...
Ford_Prefect
Nov 2023
#36
I removed the structural differences between the two. Actually , this applies equally to SwingLeft,
Beastly Boy
Nov 2023
#37
I think the AIPAC has way too much influence, and it is not for the good of the US
tornado34jh
Nov 2023
#2
I still stand by the fact that the AIPAC has too much influence in the policy of the US
tornado34jh
Nov 2023
#10
Or what? You don't think they are a big reason for trying to silence criticism of Israel?
tornado34jh
Nov 2023
#27
None of what you said there provides any evidence that the U.S. is being held hostage by AIPAC.
yardwork
Nov 2023
#28
Why pro-Israel lobby group Aipac is backing election deniers and extremist Republicans
womanofthehills
Nov 2023
#22
Why pro-Israel lobby group Aipac is backing election deniers and extremist Republicans
womanofthehills
Nov 2023
#23