Is AIPAC’s political standing declining in the US?
Republican Mike Rogers and his allies have reportedly asked the pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) not to run a campaign on his behalf ahead of the November midterm elections in the United States. Rogers, who is a Republican Senate candidate from Michigan — home to one of the country’s largest Arab-American populations — fears that open AIPAC support might backfire.
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Key Facts
- Fact 1: It was established in 1954, originally known as the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs.
- Fact 2: After the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, its focus widened to military aid, advocating before US Congress members for military aid and joint defence cooperation for Israel.
- Fact 3: AIPAC itself gave nothing to electoral candidates until the early 1980s, when it began using a network of separately incorporated pro-Israel political action committees (PACs), private groups that pool contributions from people and donate them to political campaigns.
- Fact 4: That funding has been bipartisan, with AIPAC wielding significant influence in both parties; that was until a split emerged among Democrats, with progressives such as Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar entering Congress around 2018 and pushing to condition military aid on human rights compliance.
Republican Mike Rogers and his allies have reportedly asked the pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) not to run a campaign on his behalf ahead of the November midterm elections in the United States. Rogers, who is a Republican Senate candidate from Michigan — home to one of the country’s largest Arab-American populations — fears that open AIPAC support might backfire.
How is the pro-Israel lobby influencing US elections? Israel, Turkiye and the post-Abrahamic Middle East Why is Israel building new illegal settlements? According to US media reports, the request to the pro-Israel lobby came after Rogers met the AIPAC chair, Michael Tuchin, in Los Angeles last week.
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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