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Governor Josh Shapiro says people who track AIPAC could be antisemites, and he says that monitoring AIPAC donors is “dangerous” and a way to “silence certain voices.” “I think what we have seen is a weaponization of that, and that is a danger to our system.” “If you are trying to silence certain voices based on race and faith.”

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Democratic Senator gets put on the hot seat after Bill Maher asks if she would take AIPAC money. MAHER: “Would you take AIPAC money?” ELISSA SLOTKIN: “So, actually, it’s interesting. Long before October 7th, I stopped taking AIPAC money… because they were giving money to people who had been participating in January 6th.” MAHER: “Who was giving money?” SLOTKIN: “AIPAC. They give money to both Democrats and Republicans, and people who had been involved in inciting January 6th… And as someone who barricaded herself in her office on January 6th, I didn’t agree with that.” MAHER: “Convenient for you.” Stephen A. Smith raised doubts and pressed her with further questions:

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The Vigilant Fox 🦊

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Goldman on AIPAC: “I am endorsed by AIPAC, but I'm also endorsed by J Street…. anybody who understands these organizations knows that to be endorsed by both of them you have to be independent and think about it independently.” #NY10

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Jacob N. Kornbluh

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🔥NEW: John Fetterman *TORCHES* Abdul El-Sayed's campaign to The Washington Post🔥 "Every other word was 'AIPAC, AIPAC, AIPAC, AIPAC, AIPAC' — and just made it all about Jewish money!" "And then when you marry that to campaigning around someone that is actually Hamas supporter ... how many Jews in Michigan are gonna vote for an individual that's willing to align himself with that?"

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Jason Cohen 🇺🇸

26,164 views • 27 days ago

Haviv Retting Gur talk about AIPAC: AIPAC is a lobby. It's not the wealthiest. It's not the most influential. It is the one that draws the most attention and you know, that's got a little bit, tiny, forgive me, a tiny bit to do with prejudice. And there's a lot less concern about actual foreign lobbies. Every single dollar AIPAC has ever raised is American Every single member of AIPAC is American. Nobody has the concern about the Qatari lobby and the Saudi lobby and the Chinese lobby in America, which is wealthier and spends more in America than this lobby of Americans saying something that they believe in. A few arguments are made against AIPAC. One argument is that AIPAC always supports the Israeli position. That is not true. AIPAC always supports its membership's position. And here's the problem. Its membership deeply disagrees on Israeli politics. Incidentally, the last time AIPAC criticized the Israeli government was blunt and fierce, and it was about Netanyahu letting Ben-Gvir into the coalition because Ben-Gvir is a racist. And you know why AIPAC could come out with a literal statement coming out against Ben-Gvir entering the government? Because almost the entirety of its membership was horrified. And then AIPAC could speak. Every dollar in Obama's $4 billion, $3.8 billion a year that he gives to Israel has to be spent in the United States. 100% of it. And you know who advocated for increasing the amount that has to be spent back in America to make sure it's an American thing? AIPAC. Iron Dome. AIPAC campaigned for America to help support the building of the Iron Dome technology. And AIPAC itself advocated that, in the actual contract where the Americans send over the money and the Israelis build this technology no American organization knew how to build, that in exchange for the money, America co-owns Iron Dome. Qatar has massive influence campaigns in America, spends hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbying in America, the Attorney General of the United States today was a literal registered lobbyist for Qatar. Nobody makes this campaign, "How dare you accept money from PACs that support the relationship between the Arab world or the Muslim world in America." But it's much deeper than that. Because AIPAC was born in a moment of American Jewish shame. In World War II, American Jews sat silent. By 1943, everybody already knew what was happening. And 400 rabbis—religious rabbis, dressed up in all the getup from Eastern Europe, many of them Yiddish-speaking with bad English, refugee rabbis—came to Washington to meet President Roosevelt and to beg him to do something. And Roosevelt snuck out of the back door of the White House to avoid the meeting. And they went home, horrified, having not even been able to meet the president while Jews are being burned in the gas chambers. And there was a Jewish journalist who accompanied them. That moment was seared into his consciousness. AIPAC was founded by a generation of Jews that said, we will never be silent when other Jews are herded into a gas chamber. And that's treason? The three times that AIPAC literally frontally faced down an American president in Washington? It lost. It is influential because the Pentagon sees handing money to the Israelis in exchange for a technology nobody thought was possible as a workaround of a bloated and unmoving and immovable American defense industry. When AIPAC pushes that, it always, always takes care of the American interest because it's a bunch of Americans. And the demonizing of that is just pure prejudice and bigotry. And AIPAC, by the way, is not going anywhere. Because the very people coming for the Jews are also driving Jews to AIPAC. It's a little bit like Zionism.

Haviv Retting Gur talk about AIPAC: AIPAC is a lobby. It's not the wealthiest. It's not the most influential. It is the one that draws the most attention and you know, that's got a little bit, tiny, forgive me, a tiny bit to do with prejudice. And there's a lot less concern about actual foreign lobbies. Every single dollar AIPAC has ever raised is American Every single member of AIPAC is American. Nobody has the concern about the Qatari lobby and the Saudi lobby and the Chinese lobby in America, which is wealthier and spends more in America than this lobby of Americans saying something that they believe in. A few arguments are made against AIPAC. One argument is that AIPAC always supports the Israeli position. That is not true. AIPAC always supports its membership's position. And here's the problem. Its membership deeply disagrees on Israeli politics. Incidentally, the last time AIPAC criticized the Israeli government was blunt and fierce, and it was about Netanyahu letting Ben-Gvir into the coalition because Ben-Gvir is a racist. And you know why AIPAC could come out with a literal statement coming out against Ben-Gvir entering the government? Because almost the entirety of its membership was horrified. And then AIPAC could speak. Every dollar in Obama's $4 billion, $3.8 billion a year that he gives to Israel has to be spent in the United States. 100% of it. And you know who advocated for increasing the amount that has to be spent back in America to make sure it's an American thing? AIPAC. Iron Dome. AIPAC campaigned for America to help support the building of the Iron Dome technology. And AIPAC itself advocated that, in the actual contract where the Americans send over the money and the Israelis build this technology no American organization knew how to build, that in exchange for the money, America co-owns Iron Dome. Qatar has massive influence campaigns in America, spends hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbying in America, the Attorney General of the United States today was a literal registered lobbyist for Qatar. Nobody makes this campaign, "How dare you accept money from PACs that support the relationship between the Arab world or the Muslim world in America." But it's much deeper than that. Because AIPAC was born in a moment of American Jewish shame. In World War II, American Jews sat silent. By 1943, everybody already knew what was happening. And 400 rabbis—religious rabbis, dressed up in all the getup from Eastern Europe, many of them Yiddish-speaking with bad English, refugee rabbis—came to Washington to meet President Roosevelt and to beg him to do something. And Roosevelt snuck out of the back door of the White House to avoid the meeting. And they went home, horrified, having not even been able to meet the president while Jews are being burned in the gas chambers. And there was a Jewish journalist who accompanied them. That moment was seared into his consciousness. AIPAC was founded by a generation of Jews that said, we will never be silent when other Jews are herded into a gas chamber. And that's treason? The three times that AIPAC literally frontally faced down an American president in Washington? It lost. It is influential because the Pentagon sees handing money to the Israelis in exchange for a technology nobody thought was possible as a workaround of a bloated and unmoving and immovable American defense industry. When AIPAC pushes that, it always, always takes care of the American interest because it's a bunch of Americans. And the demonizing of that is just pure prejudice and bigotry. And AIPAC, by the way, is not going anywhere. Because the very people coming for the Jews are also driving Jews to AIPAC. It's a little bit like Zionism.

Open Source Intel

27,219 views • 10 months ago

AIPAC is a lobby. It's not the wealthiest. It's not the most influential. It is the one that draws the most attention and you know, that's got a little bit, tiny, forgive me, a tiny bit to do with prejudice. And there's a lot less concern about actual foreign lobbies. Every single dollar AIPAC has ever raised is American Every single member of AIPAC is American. Nobody has the concern about the Qatari lobby and the Saudi lobby and the Chinese lobby in America, which is wealthier and spends more in America than this lobby of Americans saying something that they believe in. A few arguments are made against AIPAC. One argument is that AIPAC always supports the Israeli position. That is not true. AIPAC always supports its membership's position. And here's the problem. Its membership deeply disagrees on Israeli politics. Incidentally, the last time AIPAC criticized the Israeli government was blunt and fierce, and it was about Netanyahu letting Ben-Gvir into the coalition because Ben-Gvir is a racist. And you know why AIPAC could come out with a literal statement coming out against Ben-Gvir entering the government? Because almost the entirety of its membership was horrified. And then AIPAC could speak. Every dollar in Obama's $4 billion, $3.8 billion a year that he gives to Israel has to be spent in the United States. 100% of it. And you know who advocated for increasing the amount that has to be spent back in America to make sure it's an American thing? AIPAC. Iron Dome. AIPAC campaigned for America to help support the building of the Iron Dome technology. And AIPAC itself advocated that, in the actual contract where the Americans send over the money and the Israelis build this technology no American organization knew how to build, that in exchange for the money, America co-owns Iron Dome. Qatar has massive influence campaigns in America, spends hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbying in America, the Attorney General of the United States today was a literal registered lobbyist for Qatar. Nobody makes this campaign, "How dare you accept money from PACs that support the relationship between the Arab world or the Muslim world in America." But it's much deeper than that. Because AIPAC was born in a moment of American Jewish shame. In World War II, American Jews sat silent. By 1943, everybody already knew what was happening. And 400 rabbis—religious rabbis, dressed up in all the getup from Eastern Europe, many of them Yiddish-speaking with bad English, refugee rabbis—came to Washington to meet President Roosevelt and to beg him to do something. And Roosevelt snuck out of the back door of the White House to avoid the meeting. And they went home, horrified, having not even been able to meet the president while Jews are being burned in the gas chambers. And there was a Jewish journalist who accompanied them. That moment was seared into his consciousness. AIPAC was founded by a generation of Jews that said, we will never be silent when other Jews are herded into a gas chamber. And that's treason? The three times that AIPAC literally frontally faced down an American president in Washington? It lost. It is influential because the Pentagon sees handing money to the Israelis in exchange for a technology nobody thought was possible as a workaround of a bloated and unmoving and immovable American defense industry. When AIPAC pushes that, it always, always takes care of the American interest because it's a bunch of Americans. And the demonizing of that is just pure prejudice and bigotry. And AIPAC, by the way, is not going anywhere. Because the very people coming for the Jews are also driving Jews to AIPAC. It's a little bit like Zionism. -- via Haviv Rettig Gur

AIPAC is a lobby. It's not the wealthiest. It's not the most influential. It is the one that draws the most attention and you know, that's got a little bit, tiny, forgive me, a tiny bit to do with prejudice. And there's a lot less concern about actual foreign lobbies. Every single dollar AIPAC has ever raised is American Every single member of AIPAC is American. Nobody has the concern about the Qatari lobby and the Saudi lobby and the Chinese lobby in America, which is wealthier and spends more in America than this lobby of Americans saying something that they believe in. A few arguments are made against AIPAC. One argument is that AIPAC always supports the Israeli position. That is not true. AIPAC always supports its membership's position. And here's the problem. Its membership deeply disagrees on Israeli politics. Incidentally, the last time AIPAC criticized the Israeli government was blunt and fierce, and it was about Netanyahu letting Ben-Gvir into the coalition because Ben-Gvir is a racist. And you know why AIPAC could come out with a literal statement coming out against Ben-Gvir entering the government? Because almost the entirety of its membership was horrified. And then AIPAC could speak. Every dollar in Obama's $4 billion, $3.8 billion a year that he gives to Israel has to be spent in the United States. 100% of it. And you know who advocated for increasing the amount that has to be spent back in America to make sure it's an American thing? AIPAC. Iron Dome. AIPAC campaigned for America to help support the building of the Iron Dome technology. And AIPAC itself advocated that, in the actual contract where the Americans send over the money and the Israelis build this technology no American organization knew how to build, that in exchange for the money, America co-owns Iron Dome. Qatar has massive influence campaigns in America, spends hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbying in America, the Attorney General of the United States today was a literal registered lobbyist for Qatar. Nobody makes this campaign, "How dare you accept money from PACs that support the relationship between the Arab world or the Muslim world in America." But it's much deeper than that. Because AIPAC was born in a moment of American Jewish shame. In World War II, American Jews sat silent. By 1943, everybody already knew what was happening. And 400 rabbis—religious rabbis, dressed up in all the getup from Eastern Europe, many of them Yiddish-speaking with bad English, refugee rabbis—came to Washington to meet President Roosevelt and to beg him to do something. And Roosevelt snuck out of the back door of the White House to avoid the meeting. And they went home, horrified, having not even been able to meet the president while Jews are being burned in the gas chambers. And there was a Jewish journalist who accompanied them. That moment was seared into his consciousness. AIPAC was founded by a generation of Jews that said, we will never be silent when other Jews are herded into a gas chamber. And that's treason? The three times that AIPAC literally frontally faced down an American president in Washington? It lost. It is influential because the Pentagon sees handing money to the Israelis in exchange for a technology nobody thought was possible as a workaround of a bloated and unmoving and immovable American defense industry. When AIPAC pushes that, it always, always takes care of the American interest because it's a bunch of Americans. And the demonizing of that is just pure prejudice and bigotry. And AIPAC, by the way, is not going anywhere. Because the very people coming for the Jews are also driving Jews to AIPAC. It's a little bit like Zionism. -- via Haviv Rettig Gur

Max 📟

37,674 views • 10 months ago

“Everything about that money has been toxic. It was a mistake... I refuse to be endorsed by AIPAC.” Congresswoman Congresswoman Maxine Dexter explains to Mehdi Hasan the influence of pro-Israel money in her congressional race and why she regrets accepting campaign contributions from AIPAC.

“Everything about that money has been toxic. It was a mistake... I refuse to be endorsed by AIPAC.” Congresswoman Congresswoman Maxine Dexter explains to Mehdi Hasan the influence of pro-Israel money in her congressional race and why she regrets accepting campaign contributions from AIPAC.

Zeteo

120,374 views • 3 months ago

Beto O'Rourke says on it's 'hard to square' supporting a candidate who won't acknowledge the genocide in Gaza and says AIPAC has become 'a toxic force in our democracy' that shouldn't shape US policy. (From LeftReckoning podcast)

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Politics Watch

177,407 views • 5 days ago

Zohran’s unexpected victory in the NYC primaries caused AIPAC to be caught with their pants down. An openly anti-Zionist candidate winning in the stronghold of Pro-Israel groups makes organizations like AIPAC look weak. They likely will try to back a third candidate like Adams or Cuomo if he runs independent. It clear that AIPAC sees Zohran as a threat and is going launch a massive campaign to prevent his election.

Zohran’s unexpected victory in the NYC primaries caused AIPAC to be caught with their pants down. An openly anti-Zionist candidate winning in the stronghold of Pro-Israel groups makes organizations like AIPAC look weak. They likely will try to back a third candidate like Adams or Cuomo if he runs independent. It clear that AIPAC sees Zohran as a threat and is going launch a massive campaign to prevent his election.

YourFavoriteGuy

46,820 views • 1 year ago

Radical socialist Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is already laying the groundwork to claim Michigan’s Senate race was rigged against him if he loses. Jake Tapper pressed him on his recent “stolen” comments. TAPPER: “Are you saying that if you don’t win this election, it will be because it was stolen?” EL-SAYED: “I believe in the rigor of the democratic process, Jake. But I also believe that the corruption of billionaire money, AIPAC money to the tune of $50 million being spent is anti-democratic on its own terms.” “If you were to take all the outside spending in this race out, this would not be a close election. But it speaks to the way that, unfortunately, money from DTE, our local utility, money from Blue Cross Blue Shield, money from AIPAC, has come in to try to tilt this election in favor of somebody who they know is going to do their business instead of the people’s.” “And I think that’s anti-democratic on its own terms. It’s why I’m running on getting money out of politics so that we can put money back in people’s pockets and pass Medicare for all.”

Radical socialist Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is already laying the groundwork to claim Michigan’s Senate race was rigged against him if he loses. Jake Tapper pressed him on his recent “stolen” comments. TAPPER: “Are you saying that if you don’t win this election, it will be because it was stolen?” EL-SAYED: “I believe in the rigor of the democratic process, Jake. But I also believe that the corruption of billionaire money, AIPAC money to the tune of $50 million being spent is anti-democratic on its own terms.” “If you were to take all the outside spending in this race out, this would not be a close election. But it speaks to the way that, unfortunately, money from DTE, our local utility, money from Blue Cross Blue Shield, money from AIPAC, has come in to try to tilt this election in favor of somebody who they know is going to do their business instead of the people’s.” “And I think that’s anti-democratic on its own terms. It’s why I’m running on getting money out of politics so that we can put money back in people’s pockets and pass Medicare for all.”

Overton

35,710 views • 1 month ago

Anti-Zionist America PAC founder Michael Rectenwald: "What we're seeing now... is the mask has come off. There was always some [Israeli] influence [in government]... [via] AIPAC and other lobbies, but... under the Trump administration, it's become a full-scale... barrage." This clip of Rectenwald (Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D.) is taken from an interview with Hrvoje Morić (Geopolitics & Empire) posted to the Geopolitics & Empire Rumble channel on September 26, 2025. ---------------Partial transcription of clip--------------- "I think what we're seeing now is the mask has come off. There was always some influence certainly and some control by AIPAC and other lobbies, but I think that under the Trump administration it's become a full scale, you know, mask off barrage. "And never before have I seen the US Government become so blatantly and overtly obsequious to the interests of Israel and the people that promote it. So I, I, I would probably say it's year, you know, decades in the coming, but this particular administration, surprisingly, actually to me, I was a bit stunned actually by the level of sort of servility that this government has sunk to in connection with Israel. "And you're right, if it was China, I would be saying the same thing and I would have found that an anti, an anti cp, you know, Communist, party, pack or something like that, or if it was, you know, say Saudi Arabia would be that. So it isn't specifically because it's Israel, it's because it's happening to our government and it happens to be Zionists that are doing it."

Anti-Zionist America PAC founder Michael Rectenwald: "What we're seeing now... is the mask has come off. There was always some [Israeli] influence [in government]... [via] AIPAC and other lobbies, but... under the Trump administration, it's become a full-scale... barrage." This clip of Rectenwald (Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D.) is taken from an interview with Hrvoje Morić (Geopolitics & Empire) posted to the Geopolitics & Empire Rumble channel on September 26, 2025. ---------------Partial transcription of clip--------------- "I think what we're seeing now is the mask has come off. There was always some influence certainly and some control by AIPAC and other lobbies, but I think that under the Trump administration it's become a full scale, you know, mask off barrage. "And never before have I seen the US Government become so blatantly and overtly obsequious to the interests of Israel and the people that promote it. So I, I, I would probably say it's year, you know, decades in the coming, but this particular administration, surprisingly, actually to me, I was a bit stunned actually by the level of sort of servility that this government has sunk to in connection with Israel. "And you're right, if it was China, I would be saying the same thing and I would have found that an anti, an anti cp, you know, Communist, party, pack or something like that, or if it was, you know, say Saudi Arabia would be that. So it isn't specifically because it's Israel, it's because it's happening to our government and it happens to be Zionists that are doing it."

Sense Receptor

10,484 views • 11 months ago

#BREAKING: Jake Tapper: “…steal this election a pretty stark term. I haven’t really heard it used since 2024. To be clear, this is a close race. Congresswoman Haley Stevens is a four-term congresswoman endorsed by outgoing Senator Gary Peters. Are you saying that if you don’t win this election, it will be because it was stolen?” Abdul El-Sayed: “I believe in the rigor of the democratic process, Jake, but I also believe that the corruption of billionaire money, AIPAC money, to the tune of $50 million being spent, is anti-democratic on its own terms. If you were to take all the outside spending in this race out, this would not be a close election, but it speaks to the way that unfortunately money from DTE, our local utility, money from Blue Cross Blue Shield, money from AIPAC has come in to try to track this election in favor of somebody who they know is going to do their business instead of the people’s, and I think that’s anti-democratic on its own terms. It’s why I’m running on getting money out of politics so we can put money back in people’s pockets and pass Medicare for all.”

#BREAKING: Jake Tapper: “…steal this election a pretty stark term. I haven’t really heard it used since 2024. To be clear, this is a close race. Congresswoman Haley Stevens is a four-term congresswoman endorsed by outgoing Senator Gary Peters. Are you saying that if you don’t win this election, it will be because it was stolen?” Abdul El-Sayed: “I believe in the rigor of the democratic process, Jake, but I also believe that the corruption of billionaire money, AIPAC money, to the tune of $50 million being spent, is anti-democratic on its own terms. If you were to take all the outside spending in this race out, this would not be a close election, but it speaks to the way that unfortunately money from DTE, our local utility, money from Blue Cross Blue Shield, money from AIPAC has come in to try to track this election in favor of somebody who they know is going to do their business instead of the people’s, and I think that’s anti-democratic on its own terms. It’s why I’m running on getting money out of politics so we can put money back in people’s pockets and pass Medicare for all.”

Emoluments Clause

163,761 views • 1 month ago

Special interests, like war profiteers and Big Pharma, will always back the politicians who they know will give them a return on their investment. That’s why my opponent takes money from AIPAC, ICE contractors, and the utility companies that are driving up our costs here in St. Louis. I’m running a people-powered campaign that will deliver for US, not the billionaires or MAGA Republicans who are spending big to try to stop our movement.

Special interests, like war profiteers and Big Pharma, will always back the politicians who they know will give them a return on their investment. That’s why my opponent takes money from AIPAC, ICE contractors, and the utility companies that are driving up our costs here in St. Louis. I’m running a people-powered campaign that will deliver for US, not the billionaires or MAGA Republicans who are spending big to try to stop our movement.

Cori Bush

12,376 views • 4 months ago

Reporter: Some members of the Jewish community, including Democratic Congressman Josh Gottheimer, were alarmed by the language you used at the rally last week, calling AIPAC monsters who move dark money. Mamdani: I want to be very clear. We’re talking about a status quo where children are being killed on a daily basis. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military since the so-called ceasefire. Even an Al Jazeera journalist, Ahmed Wishah, was killed this past Saturday by an Israeli strike. And when I am speaking about AIPAC, I’m speaking about an organization that has been supportive of the status quo, that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people not just in Palestine but, frankly, throughout much of the region. And it is a status quo of immorality. It is one that I will not accept. And when it comes to the way in which they defend the status quo, oftentimes they defend it through direct contributions, as we are seeing right now in New York 13. Oftentimes they also support the status quo through dark money, by funneling money that would have previously come directly from AIPAC through other organizations whose contributors’ identities are only made clear after an election. And I think it is important that when we ask ourselves how such death and destruction is happening overseas, we also name those who allow it to take place.

Reporter: Some members of the Jewish community, including Democratic Congressman Josh Gottheimer, were alarmed by the language you used at the rally last week, calling AIPAC monsters who move dark money. Mamdani: I want to be very clear. We’re talking about a status quo where children are being killed on a daily basis. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military since the so-called ceasefire. Even an Al Jazeera journalist, Ahmed Wishah, was killed this past Saturday by an Israeli strike. And when I am speaking about AIPAC, I’m speaking about an organization that has been supportive of the status quo, that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people not just in Palestine but, frankly, throughout much of the region. And it is a status quo of immorality. It is one that I will not accept. And when it comes to the way in which they defend the status quo, oftentimes they defend it through direct contributions, as we are seeing right now in New York 13. Oftentimes they also support the status quo through dark money, by funneling money that would have previously come directly from AIPAC through other organizations whose contributors’ identities are only made clear after an election. And I think it is important that when we ask ourselves how such death and destruction is happening overseas, we also name those who allow it to take place.

Acyn

3,257,820 views • 2 months ago

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𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐙𝐖

49,605 views • 7 months ago

Hasan Piker assures two Gaza doctors that the 2028 Democratic Presidential Nominee will not accept AIPAC money "I don't know– I think there's a chance that the democratic nominee in 2028 may be running on a 'I'm not taking AIPAC money' platform." "Oh that's a guarantee." "I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about that. I never thought that that was possible." Dr. Thaer Ahmad and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa are both physicians who volunteered in Gaza and are featured in the 2026 documentary 'American Doctor'

Hasan Piker assures two Gaza doctors that the 2028 Democratic Presidential Nominee will not accept AIPAC money "I don't know– I think there's a chance that the democratic nominee in 2028 may be running on a 'I'm not taking AIPAC money' platform." "Oh that's a guarantee." "I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about that. I never thought that that was possible." Dr. Thaer Ahmad and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa are both physicians who volunteered in Gaza and are featured in the 2026 documentary 'American Doctor'

Popstonox

143,160 views • 16 days ago

Normal people think AIPAC 🇺🇸🇮🇱 fumbled by not intervening in NJ-12 and instead spending heavily on NJ-11 earlier this year in a bet that ultimately backfired for them. If Drop Site's Ryan Grim is out there defending a strategic choice AIPAC made, you can rest assured knowing that the group definitely fucked up. But here's the bottom line: Like all other issue groups, when AIPAC spends money on elections—or when it chooses not to spend in races where it could or should intervene—it sometimes makes mistakes. It is not some omniscient, invincible juggernaut controlling every lever of political power in America. And it is not a foreign lobby. It is just a collection of Americans from different backgrounds willing to cough up a few bucks because they believe it's in our country's interest to maintain a strong relationship with the Jewish Wakanda building wild technologies and superweapons in the psychotic but strategically important Middle East. Spoke about this with Tim Pool on Tim PoolNews the other night.

Normal people think AIPAC 🇺🇸🇮🇱 fumbled by not intervening in NJ-12 and instead spending heavily on NJ-11 earlier this year in a bet that ultimately backfired for them. If Drop Site's Ryan Grim is out there defending a strategic choice AIPAC made, you can rest assured knowing that the group definitely fucked up. But here's the bottom line: Like all other issue groups, when AIPAC spends money on elections—or when it chooses not to spend in races where it could or should intervene—it sometimes makes mistakes. It is not some omniscient, invincible juggernaut controlling every lever of political power in America. And it is not a foreign lobby. It is just a collection of Americans from different backgrounds willing to cough up a few bucks because they believe it's in our country's interest to maintain a strong relationship with the Jewish Wakanda building wild technologies and superweapons in the psychotic but strategically important Middle East. Spoke about this with Tim Pool on Tim PoolNews the other night.

Jesse Arm

59,008 views • 3 months ago