A group of wealthy pro-Israel political donors in the US have spent the last few days raising hundreds of thousands of dollars, in an eleventh-hour campaign trying to unseat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar in her primary election this week.
Until now, Omar had not faced an Aipac offensive in her primary election this year and has been able to raise triple the amount of funds that her opponent Don Samuels has. Omar has raised $1.6m, compared to Samuels’ $535,000.
But after Bush lost her primary election last week, largely in part to a massive spending campaign by Aipac and its Super PAC, The Intercept obtained access to a WhatsApp group, titled, “Zionists for Don Samuels Against Ilhan Omar”, where a screenshot was posted saying that nearly $100,000 was raised in 24 hours for the campaign against Omar.
Pro-Israel groups have been spending heavily in this year’s election to try and help elect moderate Democrats in favour of progressives who have spoken critically against Israel or pushed for legislation in favour of Palestinian rights.
AIPAC operations need to be made illegal.
Definitely. Blatant foreign interference in US elections.
If it were just this. The encroachment of this organisation is unfathomable
Not just AIPAC, it needs to extend to ANY foreign money.
Not just any foreign money, it needs to extend to any PAC.
They should be forced to register as agents of a foreign government.
But then how will centrist Democrats know what their policies are?
You mean super PAC operations?
Getting Citizens United overturned to stop PAC operations would be a good thing, but I’m specifically speaking of the funneling of money from foreign sources into PACs that are causing this current issue. We shouldn’t be allowing foreign entities to sway our fucking elections.
Sabotage seems reasonable at this point
As a Jew, allow me to say: back the FUCK up off my Ilhan Omar!
Go back to missing the point of the story of Passover, you dense shitasses
This Jew agrees, she’s an amazing representative. She’s genuine, caring, honest, a take-no-shit badass, and an effective lawmaker. Her story is inspirational and should be a model for anyone who wonders if there are any good elected officials left.
Best wishes to Ilhan Omar, she is a strong voice for good in congress.
Minneapolis loves Ilhan. Have fun wasting money lol
Also the fundraising was like 100k when the difference between Omar and Samuel’s war chests is over a million. They’re gonna have to do a lot more than that to even hit parity.
Let them waste it!
I’ll be voting for her in the primary tomorrow.
If that’s true, it’s a waste of money. The primary isn’t even close; there’s a good reason why AIPAC didn’t get involved.
I can’t imagine it doing much. Samuels is a joke, Omar has no serious competition and neither does Klobuchar. It’s unfortunate because despite what you think about these politicians, competition is a good thing to prevent stagnation.
How is this any different than Oligarchy.
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