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Democrats’ new AIPAC obsession shows exactly why it’s needed
California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer says the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, “is a dark money organization that should have no place in our politics.”
In other words, Steyer believes supporters of the Israel-United States alliance, which includes many Jewish Americans, should be barred from participating in electoral politics like everyone else in America.
Steyer, who spent $345 million on his failed presidential campaign in 2020 and has already dropped $38 million on his gubernatorial race, is a longtime major funder of leftist “dark money” groups himself.
Yet the billionaire doesn’t believe Americans less fortunate than him should be permitted to pool their money and fight for issues important to them.
The Democrats’ new AIPAC obsession is just a convenient way to tap into some ugly conspiracies and fearmongering about Jewish money and its alleged control over our politics.
Democrats are increasingly, as The New York Times might put it, “J-pilled.”
There are, of course, wholly legitimate criticisms to make of American foreign policy.
But Jew-baiting progressives such as Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) don’t merely argue that AIPAC sits on the wrong side of a foreign-policy issue, but that it wants to steal constituents’ health care and child care to enrich war profiteers and genocidal maniacs.
Our aid to Israel, incidentally, constitutes somewhere in the vicinity of 0.06% of the federal budget.
Meanwhile, Israeli tech and commercial interests operating within the United........