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Fast Forward AIPAC broke spending records this campaign cycle — so why did it stay out of Ilhan Omar’s tight race?
In a year in which AIPAC has lavished tens of millions of dollars on congressional races, a near-defeat in Minnesota upends a number of assumptions about the role of Israel in politics
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News How Andy Levin’s defeat in Michigan was — and wasn’t — all about AIPAC
AIPAC’s super PAC spent $4.2 million to boost Rep. Haley Stevens, who was considered the frontrunner from the start
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Fast Forward AIPAC’s huge investment in primary campaigns is paying off — but at what price down the road?
The outsized spending has the potential to roil a number of longstanding orthodoxies, not just about pro-Israel politics, but elections in general
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Opinion The AIPAC attack on Andy Levin is an attack on the future of peace in Israel
Andy Levin vocally supports a two-state solution. For AIPAC, this makes him ‘insufficiently pro-Israel’
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News ‘AIPAC lost its way’: Bill de Blasio says pro-Israel group has become too partisan
In exit interview, the former mayor and congressional candidate reflects on Israel, the Jewish vote and why he’s given up on electoral politics
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Fast Forward Under attack by AIPAC, Jewish congressman turns to progressive allies
AIPAC’s super PAC, United Democracy Project, has spent $3.3 million against Rep. Andy Levin in recent weeks
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Opinion AIPAC’s new high-risk, low-reward political strategy
In the long run, the pro-Israel lobby's pivot to negative electioneering will fail
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News Bernie Sanders went to ‘war’ with AIPAC. Now the pro-Israel lobby is pushing back.
‘Bernie can‘t accept the fact that a majority of progressive Democrats in America are pro-Israel,’ said Patrick Dorton, a spokesperson for United Democracy Project
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News HIAS cuts 22 staff even as it braces for Trump immigration crackdown
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Fast Forward A synagogue that survived the Palisades fire has become a ‘refuge’ for many who lost their homes
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