“I expect groups like AIPAC will not support me in my future elections and frankly, I don’t want their support,” Ryan wrote on social media after the vote. “Hardline stances that refuse to stand up to a corrupt and increasingly dangerous Netanyahu regime have no place in our politics.”

The vote showed how AIPAC’s grip on American politics is slipping, at least among Democrats. The group, which continues to pour tens of millions of dollars into contested primaries with mixed success at best, is fundamentally trying to convince members of Congress to ignore the clear moral judgment of their constituents, while also turning itself into the No. 1 example of political corruption in the country.

“If AIPAC cares about saving the US-Israel relationship, the best thing it could do right now is to disband,” former Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), who lost a Democratic primary this year thanks partly to more than $2 million in spending by an AIPAC affiliate, said in an interview. “It has only toxic influence.”

Malinowski, who served two terms in the House from 2019 to 2023, supports aid to Israel, with conditions. But AIPAC and its affiliates consider conditioning aid to be “not a pro-Israel position” and spent heavily against him ahead of the February Democratic primary, ultimately won by Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-N.J.), a progressive and an Israel critic who’s called its deadly war in Gaza a genocide.

“AIPAC explicitly told me and others that they preferred a ‘squad’ Democrat to win in my race than to have somebody like me who would be making these arguments from a credible, pro-Israel point of view,” Malinowski told HuffPost. “The message to mainstream Democrats was that we will destroy you if you don’t blindly and unconditionally support whatever positions we take, and I think most Democrats, most mainstream Democrats, responded to that by saying, ‘Well, then you can go fuck yourselves.’”

AIPAC’s reputation among rank-and-file Democrats is poisonous, party operatives say, referring to internal campaign surveys. AIPAC’s super PAC routinely tries to disguise its spending by funneling cash through pop-up or unrelated groups so voters don’t know where the cash is coming from. Potential presidential contenders, even moderate ones, are determined to keep the group at arm’s length.

“If someone is receiving a lot of support from AIPAC, it makes it harder to campaign with them,” said an adviser to one 2028 presidential contender, who requested anonymity to speak frankly, pointing to the ultrawealthy conservatives whose $100 million fills the coffers of United Democracy Project, a PAC affiliated with AIPAC. “Base voters in New Hampshire are going to want to know why you helped out a candidate backed by Trump-supporting billionaires.”

AIPAC, for now, remains determined to solve the problem with more campaign spending. It has spent nearly $20 million backing Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Senate race and more than $1.4 million backing Rep. Wesley Bell in Missouri’s 1st District, aiming to hold off progressives in both races. But its spending is only further alienating the Democratic voters it is allegedly trying to win over, who are largely skeptical of money in politics.

“Every dollar they spend makes their long-term problem worse,” said one Democratic pollster, who requested anonymity because key parts of Democratic leadership still support the group. “It reinforces the idea that Democrats who are pro-Israel are only doing it for the money, which makes it hard for voters to believe anyone is doing it for any other reason.”

Even Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor, Democratic lawmaker and White House chief of staff — and a possible 2028 presidential contender — warned Israel this month that its war in Gaza is making it a pariah nation.

“Your government has been complicit in the horrors now being inflicted on innocent families in the West Bank,” Emanuel, long an ardent defender of the country who volunteered in assisting the Israel Defense Forces during the Persian Gulf War, said in a speech at Tel Aviv University.

In a statement, AIPAC said last week’s aid vote “sends a dangerous signal to both our allies and our enemies around the world.”

The amendment, by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), would have cut off the annual $3.3 billion allotment the U.S. has been providing Israel under the terms of a 2016 memorandum of understanding. The amendment failed thanks to every Republican but Massie and 98 Democrats voting against it, but Massie called it a resounding success.

“To get over 100, to get a majority in the Democratic caucus, demonstrates a couple things,” Massie told reporters. “Number one, public opinion is changing. Number two, it’s being reflected here in Washington, D.C., and number three, the AIPAC grip, at least on one party, has been severely diminished.”

>>1524805
This is antisemitic. Have the democraps forgotten about a little thing called the HOLOCAUST?

It doesn't matter because there are literally dozens of other jewish super pacs. They will just shut aipac down at some point and one of the other ones will take its place

>>1524835
That's what they're already doing by laundering their money through other pacs

>>1524805
Meanwhile in reality, the extent of crimes committed by the Modern State of Israel are such that neither Republicans nor Democrats can ever have a legitimate claim to governence on any level ever again, owing to the various schemes and raquets they've complied with at the kikes' direction, using their respective parties as a cover and even in coordination with each other.

Where tf is this even going anymore?

>>1524873
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZuV5L0QL04
Give this man or someone like him the legal authority and that'll change.

>>1524875
Under no circumstances whatsoever.