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    6 months ago

    They’re not all paid off, but a lot are, yes. This is why we see AIPAC explicitly targeting the re-election campaigns of progressives like AOC, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee etc.

    This was not the case a few decades ago, people are becoming more awake to how much damage the Israel lobby has been doing to our institutions. There are more people speaking out against Israeli apartheid now than there pretty much ever has been, people need to keep the pressure. The fact that they’re being pushed out into the open, dumping millions in opposition to people who then still win (like Summer Lee) is a sign of a shift. This genocide has been disastorous for Israel and really marks a turning point I think.

    So I personally don’t see things in such a hopeless light, but voters do need to become more saavy about investigating the finances of candidates before they vote for them in the primaries.

    A great tool for this is opensecrets.org where you can look up candudates and identify where their donations are coming from.

    Israel doesn’t need to have dirt on Biden. All they need to do is threaten to throw all their weight behind Trump. This would guarantee a Biden loss, and Biden knows it.

    Not strictly true. The NRA used to be like AIPAC where it tried to play bothsides, eventually the DNC banned its members grom taking NRA money, we can work towards the same fate for AIPAC, the cracks are showing.

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      much damage the Israel lobby has been doing to our institutions

      Lobbies, full stop. Not just Israel lobbies. They’re a pox on our government that we will never be rid of. The 2A lobbies are just as damaging, for instance.

      DNC banned its members grom taking NRA money

      Hmmm. It’s money that needs to be made up, and considering just how awful and out of touch with the majority of the population the RNC has become, it’s one of the reasons why they continue to be successful in the ground, and in e.g. gerrymandering efforts.