Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-MO) said on August 6, “AIPAC, I’m coming to tear your kingdom down! All they did was radicalize me, so now they need to be afraid,” according to London’s The Guardian. Bush views her loss in the Tuesday Aug. 6 Democratic primary to an AIPAC-financed opponent as an opportunity to focus on the AIPAC threat to the democratic process. After pouring $10.7 million into unseating Bush, and $15 million to defeat Congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) on June 25, AIPAC boasted of its ability to put fear into the entire Congress, and tweeting that, “Being pro-Israel is good policy and good politics.”
A coalition of progressive Jewish organizations, “Jews for Cori,” pointed out that AIPAC is losing public support in America for the continued genocidal war in Gaza. AIPAC’s only tools are their extreme tactics of smear campaigns, fear, and intimidation. These aggressive tactics have exposed AIPAC’s lack of broad-based support and its complete dependence on a few isolated mega-donors. AIPAC did not have the political muscle to defeat all of Israel’s critics in Congress, but had to target only the weakest candidates where districts were changed or campaigns were short on cash.
