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‘Morally bankrupt’: outrage after pro-Israel group backs insurrectionist Republicans

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‘Morally bankrupt’: outrage after pro-Israel group backs insurrectionist Republicans

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3.23.22
The US’s most powerful pro-Israel lobby group has been accused of putting support for Israel before American democracy after it declared its backing for the election campaigns of three dozen Republican members of Congress who tried to block President Biden’s presidential victory. In December, Aipac launched a political action committee that enables it for the first time to spend money directly supporting congressional candidates in this year’s midterm elections. Earlier this month the committee released a list of 120 political endorsements that includes 37 Republicans who voted against certifying Biden’s victory following the January 6 2021 storming of the Capitol. Among them are two members of Congress, Jim Jordan and Scott Perry, who plotted with Trump’s White House to overturn the election result. Perry has also publicly promoted racist “white replacement” conspiracy theories. The lobby group’s move has been met by a storm of criticism, including from other pro-Israel organizations.

“Aipac’s support for these candidates endangers American democracy and undermines the true interests and values of millions of American Jews and pro-Israel Americans who they often claim to represent,” said the more moderate but less influential pro-Israel lobby group, J Street. “Whatever their views on Israel, elected officials who threaten the very future of our country should be completely beyond the pale.” Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, described the endorsement of politicians who “undermine democracy” as “morally bankrupt and short-sighted”. In the face of the growing criticism, Aipac’s leaders last week sent a letter to the group’s members defending the endorsements. “This is no moment for the pro-Israel movement to become selective about its friends,” said the letter, obtained by the Jewish Insider.


AIPAC is endorsing GOP extremists such as Jim Jordan and Rick Scott, it seems the State of Israel is embracing Vladimir Putin.

There are no bystanders. When a democracy such as Ukraine is threatened by an authoritarian regime, you either stand by democracy or you have sided with totalitarianism.
 
‘Morally bankrupt’: outrage after pro-Israel group backs insurrectionist Republicans

iu




AIPAC is endorsing GOP extremists such as Jim Jordan and Rick Scott, it seems the State of Israel is embracing Vladimir Putin.

There are no bystanders. When a democracy such as Ukraine is threatened by an authoritarian regime, you either stand by democracy or you have sided with totalitarianism.
The GOP has become such a strange party. Conservative jews and Nazis under the same umbrella.
 
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