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>But the campaign draws renewed attention to a glaring contradiction that continues to damage the moral standing of the CBC in challenging the renewed rule of apartheid in American politics: its passive support for the apartheid state of Israel. Israel’s US lobbying arm, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), has helped finance Republican lawmakers hostile to Black voting power even as it has contributed to the campaign coffers of CBC leaders. Since January 2024, AIPAC has contributed at least $5,788,171 to 75 of the 80 Republican House representatives across the eight states the Out of Bounds campaign targets. Within that same timeframe, AIPAC also dispersed at least $265,355 to 13 of the 18 CBC House members representing those same Southern states. AIPAC’s expenditures are bipartisan, conditioned on the recipient’s proven fealty to AIPAC’s Israel-first agenda.

>For years, the NAACP and the CBC have sat idle and silent as AIPAC has laid siege to progressive Black political representation. Israel’s super PAC has funneled millions of dollars into congressional races to oust Black politicians who oppose Israel’s political agenda—while simultaneously financing and endorsing Republicans with anti-Black views who are also ardently pro-Israel.

>How can the NAACP and the CBC ask Black youth to risk their dreams and future financial gains in the name of protecting Black political representation, when their political elders refuse to do the same when it comes to taking a stand against AIPAC? Asking an uncompensated or newly compensated teenager to weaponize their livelihood in a boycott for voting rights while receiving AIPAC money to vote for legislation against boycotts targeting Israel badly damages the integrity of the Out of Bounds campaign.