The pro-Israel group’s Super PAC has the most cash on hand since its establishment ahead of the 2022 midterms, and has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars ahead of next week’s New Jersey Democratic primary
By Ben Samuels, Reposted from Haaretz, February 01, 2026
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)’s United Democracy Project Super PAC reported on January 30 having more than $95 million cash on hand ahead of the 2026 midterm primary election cycle, after raising $62 million in the latter half of 2025.
A super PAC is a political action committee that is allowed raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to campaign independently for candidates for federal office.
It is the most cash on hand the Super PAC has had heading into an election cycle since its establishment ahead of the 2022 midterms.
According to federal filings, AIPAC itself contributed $30 million to the Super PAC. Two individual donors gave more than $1 million each.
Republican megadonor Paul Singer, whose contributions to the organization have drawn Democratic ire for several election cycles, donated $2.5 million. Democratic megadonor Haim Saban contributed $1 million.
Saban recently made rare public remarks about the influence of pro-Israel megadonors on the U.S. political system while appearing alongside GOP donor Miriam Adelson at the Israel American Council’s annual conference. “Those who give more have more access, and those who give less have less access – it’s simple math,” he said.
The United Democracy Project AIPAC SuperPAC has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on attack ads in a New Jersey Democratic primary scheduled for next Thursday (February 12), targeting former Rep. Tom Malinowski, a center-left lawmaker who was a leading voice on international human rights during his time in Congress.
Although AIPAC has said the campaign is driven by Malinowski’s critical stance on Israel, the ads make no mention of Israel. Instead, they portray him negatively to Democratic voters by accusing him of supporting Trump’s anti-immigration efforts and that he “cannot be trusted.”
Democrats have become increasingly irate over AIPAC’s Republican-funded attack ads influencing Democratic primaries, with internal critics of the party’s status quo approach often citing AIPAC’s support as potentially disqualifying for candidates.
Liberal pro-Israel group J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami recently decried AIPAC’s “five-year pattern of deploying vast financial resources – primarily raised from Republican donors – to intimidate, punish or defeat Democrats AIPAC deems insufficiently pro-Israel.
“With tens of millions of dollars in the bank, the implicit threat to sitting members of Congress and candidates alike is hard to ignore.”
Ben Samuels is a reporter for Haaretz.
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