Gaza Genocide: Is the Powerful Israel Lobby AIPAC Losing Influence?

[Riaz Haq]

Several Congressional Democrats have recently refused campaign contributions from AIPAC, the powerful Israel lobby, according to media reports. “Democrats who once counted AIPAC among their top donors have in recent weeks refused to take the group’s donations”, says a New York Times story titled  "Democrats Pull Away From AIPAC, Reflecting a Broader Shift".  “AIPAC is becoming an increasingly toxic brand for some Democrats on Capitol Hill," it says.  It cites the example of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., the minority leader, who has long been endorsed by the hardline AIPAC, has now chosen to accept the support of J Street, the competing Israel lobby that advocates a two-state solution. 

Results of Recent Poll of American Jews. Source: Washington Post

A recent poll conducted by the Washington Post has found that  "most (American) Jews (61%) say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39% say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership".  American Jews are particularly unhappy with the current right-wing government of Israel.  68% give negative marks to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership of Israel, with 48% it “poor” — a 20-percentage-point jump from a Pew Research Center poll five years ago. 

Zohran Mamdani's campaign for the New York City mayor has brought into sharp focus the rapidly falling support for Israel amid the ongoing Gaza Genocide being perpetrated by the Zionist state. Newsweek has reported that Mamdani enjoys a 17-point lead among New York City's Jewish voters.  Mamdani's top opponent Andrew Cuomo, former New York State governor, continues to significantly lag Mamdani in the polls in spite of having a huge funding advantage. A CBS News/YouGov poll (September 7–13) put Mamdani at 43% to Cuomo's 28%, a 15-point lead. A Marist survey the same week showed Mamdani ahead 45% to 24%, while Quinnipiac gave him a 22-point lead at 45% to 23%. An Emerson College poll for PIX11 and The Hill had a nearly identical 43% to 28% margin, and a New York Times/Siena poll (September 2–6) showed Mamdani leading 46% to 24%, according to Newsweek. 

Mamdani's resounding win in New York City, a city that has the world's second largest Jewish population after Tel Aviv, will be particularly significant. It will send a clear message to American politicians, particularly Democrats, that they don't have to bow to hardline AIPAC to win elections. 

Although the rebellion against AIPAC is mainly among Democrats, there's also growing anger among Trump's "America First" base who see the Trump Administration's policies as "Israel First". Prominent among Republican critics of Trump's pro-Israel policies are Republican Representatives Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene, talk show host Tucker Carlsen and former Trump advisor Steve Bannon. 

Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of Anti-Defamation League, has blamed the shift in the US public opinion against Israel on popular social app TikTok.  “We really have a TikTok problem, a Gen Z problem,” he said in a leaked audio recording. “The same brains that gave us Taglit, the same brains that gave us all of these amazing other innovations, need to put our energy towards this, like fast.”  

TikTok is particularly popular among young people. It has carried viral short videos of the Gaza Genocide over the last two years. The pressure from the Israel lobby forced the sale of Chinese-owned TikTok to an American Zionist group led by Oracle's billionaire founder Larry Ellison. Ellison has given tens of millions of dollars to pro-Israel groups. He is reported to be among the six American Zionist billionaires supporting Israel's wartime economy. 

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Evan Kilgore 🇺🇸
@EvanAKilgore
BREAKING:

Candace Owens shared a screenshot of a group chat where Charlie Kirk says:

1.) He was abandoning the pro-Israel cause

2.) He lost a $2M per year donor because he refused to cancel Tucker Carlson at his events

3.) He was going to invite Candace back to TPUSA events

https://x.com/EvanAKilgore/status/1975317973243208138

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@zei_squirrel
Larry and Davis Ellison, fanatical Zionist Jew billionaires who are the richest men on earth and fund the Israeli rape-army just bought CBS News and made its editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, a deranged fanatical Zionist propagandist of the lowest order who murdered Refaat Alareer and members of his family including a newborn by putting a kill target on him in an active genocide zone.

They also took over Paramount, TikTok, CNN and countless media entities under that umbrella. And the entire media class treats it as totally normal and fine, CNN's Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, MSNBC, ABC News, AP, Reuters, NYT, they all consider it perfectly normal.

Zionist Jews own the US and West. They own everything in the US and the West, and anyone who denies this truism is deliberately laundering their total hegemony over the US and Western media and political class.

https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1975259504959717849

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Irlandarra
@aldamu_jo
Benjamin Netanyahu in the 80's:

"Israel owns and controls the U.S."

"The U.S. is not a unified block. We own the senate, the congress, and we have a record strong Jewish lobby on our side.We have a strong influence over the general support. America won't force us into anything."

https://x.com/aldamu_jo/status/1975150946876334568

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Yousef Munayyer
@YousefMunayyer
Can't persuade people so you have to brainwash them. Rig ChatGPT, buy TikTok, intimidate universities. Can't image why no one likes this, it all seems so pleasant.

https://x.com/YousefMunayyer/status/1972813052098523553

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Nick Cleveland-Stout
@nick_clevelands
NEW: Israel is paying Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale $6 million to create websites and content designed to train AI models like ChatGPT with pro-Israel messaging (link below)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-chatgpt/

https://x.com/nick_clevelands/status/1972770689565536694

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Nick Cleveland-Stout
@nick_clevelands
As part of the $6 million contract, Parscale will also work to integrate pro-Israel messaging into Salem Media Network channels, which includes shows like the Hugh Hewitt Show, the Charlie Kirk Show, and the Right View with Lara Trump.

https://x.com/nick_clevelands/status/1972771741224321456

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James Smith
@XrealJamesSmith
The point is they all have to be vetted and approved but these people, a very small minority people associated with a tiny insignificant country in the Middle East with a GDP smaller than that of New Jersey, the 4th smallest state in the US.
Why do these tiny minority people from a tiny insignificant country get to decide who is allowed to serve in our government, the US government, the most powerful country on earth, a country that dwarfs Israel and its religion by 99% in every measure imaginable?
Why are these small minority from an insignificant country in charge of our country in every way?
Why are we allowing this?

When I say “we” I mean the people who at this point are obviously the only ones who can do something to stop this insanity

https://x.com/XrealJamesSmith/status/1975095010467938665