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In a debate with Rep. Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed stated "Every definition of a Jewish state ends up in some articulation of illiberal values, every single one,” he told CNN. Asked if support for Israel could ever be about more than money, he responded, “Not if you’re a Democrat and you believe in human rights.”

Stevens criticized Netanyahu but has refused to call Gaza a genocide or vote to end US aid to Israel.

Right now the cool thing to do is to attack any candidate for taking any money from American Jews.

There's an Arab politician running in Michigan who's entire platform is seemingly about Israel. In the Michigan Reddit thread, I posted something akin to, "I suppose none of you have a problem with dark money from governments like Qatar though" and it was flagged as hate speech, it was deleted, and I was given a warning.

Not sure why you can't criticize candidates who are completely obsessed with bringing down Israel, who are being supported by even less transparent, more dangerous orgs than AIPAC (which isn't foreign BTW). Qatar has vastly outspent any Israel affiliated group to influence younger voters, and it's working. I also cannot, for the life of me, understand why any Progressive thinks they have anything in common with Islamists or a theocratic monarchy that is diametrically opposed to everything the supposedly believe. Qatar isn't even particularly subtle about what they want.

I don't like AIPAC, and I think they continually hurt themselves by backing terrible candidates while attacking candidates they could have courted by just being more calm and strategic. But this treating AIPAC like it's the tobacco lobby is insane. 2026 is feeling like the year Democrats definitively break from Israel and actually act on it by canceling all aid and weapons sales. Israel desperately needs new leadership and cannot continue a government led by genuinely awful people. But ignoring the pathologies and massive societal problems in the Arab world strikes me as both deeply racist and antisemitic. We should be treating any politician accepting Qatari money as harshly or more so than anyone taking AIPAC money.

Garcia, a centrist, was endorsed by progressives such as Greg Casar and AOC after his opponent, Maureen Galindo, pledged to send Zionists to internment camps. 80-90% of American Jews are Zionists.

The candidate has the endorsement of the anti-Zionist group "track AIPAC".