3 outspoken Israel critics won NY primaries. The main super PAC tied to AIPAC, United Democracy Project, has spent just a fraction of what’s to come. It started the year with over $96 million, one of the best-funded PACs in the country. The next Dem primaries to revolve around Israel will come in August in Minnesota, Michigan, etc.
New York civil liberties groups celebrated Mamdani’s orders as a step to protect the First Amendment right to criticize Israel. Israel didn’t see it that way.
The American Jewish community is in open crisis over its support for Israel after two years of genocide in Gaza. A key issue in this crisis is a topic once considered too taboo to criticize: the Israel lobby.
Israel keeps killing in Gaza, West Bank; ecocide; more Israeli settlements coming up; Mamdani, Israel, and the ADL; more.