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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.

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[–] [email protected] 154 points 3 months ago (6 children)

AIPAC operations need to be made illegal.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Definitely. Blatant foreign interference in US elections.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If it were just this. The encroachment of this organisation is unfathomable

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not just AIPAC, it needs to extend to ANY foreign money.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

Not just any foreign money, it needs to extend to any PAC.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

They should be forced to register as agents of a foreign government.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

But then how will centrist Democrats know what their policies are?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You mean super PAC operations?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Sabotage seems reasonable at this point