The Israeli Lobby

Toward the end of May, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) resoundingly pushed back against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s influence operation in his primary race after picking up over 75% of the vote.  Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) was not so lucky, on the other hand. On June 25, Westchester County Executive George Latimer defeated Bowman by a decisive 58% to 42% margin in the Democratic primary for New York’s 16th congressional district. Bowman is a member of the “Squad,” an informal progressive coalition headed by prominent progressives such as Alexandria OcasioCortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.). He has built a name for himself as an outspoken critic of Israel and an advocate for the rights of Palestinians.  Despite allegations of being antiSemitic for opposing Israel’s punitive military campaign in Gaza, Bowman did receive an endorsement from Jewish organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace Action (JVPA), a group supported financially by George Soros and his organizations. The JVPA was frustrated by Bowman’s loss in his primary race.  WESPAC Foundation—a progressive group working for “social Yes, it’s true:  Nelson Mandela was a terrorist.  Racial and Economic Justice. change” in Westchester County, N.Y, since 1974—President Howard Horowitz donated more than $1,000 to Bowman’s campaign. WESPAC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that operates as the fiscal sponsor for National Students for Justice in Palestine. Felice Gelman, a former Wall Street banker who has a track record of donating to pro-Palestinian causes has also donated roughly $3,700 to Bowman. “Congressman Bowman’s progressive platform—which includes defending Palestinian rights and halting weapons to the Israeli military— is popular among Democratic voters,” declared Beth Miller, JVPA’s political director. “AIPAC had to spend a truly unprecedented amount of money in order to buy NY-16.”  “It is noteworthy that many of AIPAC’s ads did not even mention Israel,” she added. “AIPAC understands that they are losing on the issues, because voters and constituents do not want to fund a genocide.”   AIPAC was reported to have spent close to $15 million on the NY-16 race. Several millions more were dumped into the race by groups and donors connected to the AIPAC network, which brought the total outside group spending to about $25 million.  “The amount of spending on the race should be alarming to everyone who cares about democracy,” stated Sophie Ellman-Golan, director of Strategic Communications at Jews for “Now we know how much it costs to buy an election,” she stated. “That price tag was nearly $25 million.” AIPAC and its bedfellows have plans of spending $100 million in the 2024 presidential election cycle. The Israel lobby’s defeat of Bowman represents the biggest scalp that it has taken in the 2024 elections thus far. The AIPAC network has plans of unseating Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) during her August primary.  United Democracy Project, a super PAC connected to AIPAC, has already spent close to $1.9 million promoting the candidacy of Wesley Bell as part of their efforts to contain anti-Zionist influence in Congress. The harsh reality of American politics that no one wants to talk about is the disproportionate influence Jewish interest groups have on public policy. One can observe this most luridly when it comes to how the U.S. government submits to Israeli interests without fail. Curiously, a similar dynamic takes place even in the ostensibly proPalestinian community. Jewish-dominated pro-Palestinian organizations such as JVPA and similar organizations will often scapegoat whites, especially white evangelicals, for Israel’s outsized influence in American politics while ignoring how Israel’s influence in D.C. is largely the product of Jewish interest groups capturing    Rivonia Unmasked! The South African State’s Case Against Nelson Mandela First published in 1965, this book by Lauritz Strydom was the White South African government’s official version of the famous 1963-1964 “Rivonia Treason Trial,” which saw eight top South African Communist Party (SACP) and African National Congress (ANC) leaders, Nelson Mandela included, sentenced to life imprisonment for a shocking plan to seize power by violence in South Africa and turn it into a Marxist state. Evidence at the trial showed that the Communist parties in the Soviet Union, Algeria, China, Czechoslovakia and East Germany all actively supported the plot, and that the ANC and the SACP planned a physical invasion and revolution akin to that of Vietnam or Cuba. The value of this book is not restricted to now-suppressed revelations on the ANC/SACP axis. It also vividly demonstrates how the Apartheid government was out of touch with reality, believing firmly that the ANC did not represent the majority of Black people and that it was “only” the Communists who were the problem. It was a delusion that would cost White South Africa dearly. The two new appendices focus on the facts that Mandela, despite his many public claims to the contrary, was a high-ranking member of the SACP, and that almost the entire support structure upon which the ANC relied was comprised of Communist Party Jews.

Both major political parties. In their voluminous works, author E. Michael Jones and evolutionary psychologist Kevin MacDonald have spent decades demonstrating how Jewish organizations have insinuated themselves into power in American politics at the expense of middleAmerican interests. Sadly, their works had been overlooked. The game has changed with the advent of the internet. As a 2023 poll by CNN showed, younger generations have largely turned against Israel. Americans in the 35-49 (44%) and 1834 (27%) age ranges were not as energetic about Israel’s military campaign in Gaza that came in response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel compared to their 65 and up (81%) counterparts.  It’s only a matter of time before the American populace shifts in a more hostile direction toward the Jewish state. While AIPAC was able to relieve Bowman of the burden of holding higher office, its victory was pyrrhic, at best.   As AIPAC spends exorbitant amounts of money out in public, it can no longer hide its misdeeds like in previous decades. It doesn’t help that a growing alternative media ecosystem, which gains more credibility and viewership by the year, has continued to unmask the Israel lobby. The days of Zionist supremacy in American politics appear numbered. Now it’s just a matter of more people speaking out and taking these nefarious actors to task both at the polls and in the court of public opinion

By: Leyla Ozyigit

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