As the politics around Israel shift, many Democrats are seeking distance from AIPAC

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(CNN) First Daniel Biss wants to win his primary for an open US House seat in the north Chicago suburbs on Tuesday. Then he has the makings of a plan: Tell as many other Democratic candidates as he can that they could beat AIPAC too.

The grandson of Holocaust survivors who moved to Israel, who grew up with dual citizenship and briefly studied there while an undergraduate, who has a cousin who was called up to the reserves after the October 7, 2023, attacks, Biss is running on a wide array of progressive stances. But the Evanston mayor said he believes the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, other PACs it is funding and connected donors together are dumping millions into his race because of the specific threat he presents.

“It’s obvious that I care about the well-being of the Jewish people and the problem of antisemitism,” Biss told CNN. “They can’t dismiss my positions that are for justice, for dignity and self-determination for the Palestinian people as somehow illegitimate or being pushed forward by someone who doesn’t know.”

“This,” Biss argued, “is a very important race for that reason.”

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/15/politics/democrats-primaries-aipac-israel

[Lonestarblue]

1. People are tired of paying for Israel's military being used to murder Palestinians.

And Iranians, and Lebanese, and Syrians. Israel is just as much a terrorist state as Iran is. AIPAC was once a decent organization, but once they started raising money to sway elections for the benefit of Israel, and mostly not for the benefit if the US, they became just another PAC focused on narrow self-interest.

[gab13by13]

2. Are they distancing themselves from AIPAC's money?

[mopinko]

5. there's another candidate in this race who got a lot of it.

funneled through a phony pro-woman pac.
she’s being left in the dust.

[Orrex]

3. The right time to distance themselvles from AIPAC was decades ago.

[WmChris]

4. Netanyahu

I think that the position should be no AIPAC until Netanyahu’s gone. I don't believe the Israeli people are bad they are suffering as we are from extremely incompetent leadership.

[mopinko]

6. it bothers me

that of all the dark money out there aipac is being singled out as the worst of the worst.
but…

[WmChris]

8. Not the worst

But until Netanyahu is gone it seems to smell tainted by his policies. First the extermination of innocent Palestinians claiming to only targeting Hamas. Then conning our orange fool into a no win situation in Iran.

[mopinko]

9. iran def changes the calculous.

but if mango musolinni wasnt compromised, we wouldnt b here.

[dalton99a]

7. AIPAC money is becoming as popular as NRA money