NY-16: The Most Endangered Democrat in America Jamaal Bowman might lose his job over Israel.
The work is daunting. Bowman, less than two months from the June 25 primary, is one of the most endangered Democratic incumbents in America. This is in spite of — or because of — his charisma and budding celebrity, his ability to slash through the noise of 435 House members and command attention on a scale only one or two levels removed from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. A former public-school principal and self-described hip-hop head, Bowman marries her online savvy with a deft working-class touch. Burly and boisterous, with a knack for whipping up crowds, it is not hard to imagine him as a future presidential candidate, storming through South Carolina with a pack of reporters hanging on his every word.
But first he needs to win. And Latimer, the sitting Westchester County executive, has outraised him in the primary, thanks in part to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) — the conservative, ardently pro-Israel political powerhouse that is seeking to crush the pro-Palestinian movement and the left itself. “They do not want any critique, they do not want any accountability, and so what it looks like to people in my district and around the country is that Israel can do whatever it wants even though, to people on the outside looking in, it looks completely wrong and horrible,” Bowman says of AIPAC. “One, it doesn’t represent all the Jews. It doesn’t represent all the Jews in Israel!”
“If Israel represents all the Jews,” Bowman continues, revving up now, “and if Israel is doing bad things without accountability, some idiot in the street just makes the connection that, Oh, Jews must be bad because Israel is bad. That’s fucking — excuse my language — that’s effing scary, man, and dangerous. And as we fight antisemitism, that has to include accountability for Israel.”
There was a time, not very long ago, when no member of Congress would speak this way. The Israeli government’s response that has starved out Gaza and killed thousands of civilians has catalyzed a new era though. Mass protests have flooded the streets and rocked college campuses, including two, Columbia and City College, that are only a short drive from Westchester. Bowman has been an AIPAC target for his support of conditioning military aid to Israel and his willingness to label the military campaign in Gaza a “genocide,” among other criticism lodged at the Jewish state. “AIPAC is one of the most powerful lobbies in America. Well you know what we have got to say to AIPAC? Bring it on,” he said at his campaign kickoff earlier this year. “AIPAC, bring it on. We are not scared of none of that. I’m from the streets of New York.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/jamaal-bowman-george-latimer-primary-israel.html
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and dumped in millions to get them elected is not a good look IMHO.
When I see MAGA and RW billionaires getting involved with our primaries, my suspicions go up, and AIPAC places fealty to the ultra RW fascist, racist, homophobic Netanyahu coalition government above American democracy by their very actions in American politics.
In 2022, AIPAC endorsed 109 Rethug traitors who refused to certify Biden, almost of whom still push the Big Lie Including
the christofash Speaker of the House Mike Johnson
Gym Jordan
ultra MAGAt Elise Stefanik
Kevin McCarthy
the crazed gunhumper Greg Steube
Ronny 'Trump's drunk Dr Feelgood' Jackson
Joe 'you lie!' Wilson
John 'I am a racist, climate change denying MAGAt, but look!, Henry Cuellar campaigns and fundraises for me so it's all good' Carter, Troy Nehls,
etc etc
much more here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218940616#post6
He's already been under attack for promoting the 9/11 ones.
the Primary! A Pres Biden 
Trust me. I live in this district - and while it's liberal, it ain't leftist.
Methinks Bowman is going to learn the hard way that this area is NOT a northern suburban version of AOC's district.
A liberal community and a leftist community are NOT the same thing.
United Democracy Project backing Sarah Elfreth, even with Harry Dunn, former US capitol officer, as fellow Democrat in House race
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/pro-israel-pac-funding-maryland-primary-sarah-elfreth
A pro-Israel lobby group has dropped millions into a Maryland congressional race as tensions remain high over the war in Gaza. The primary race in the third congressional district, which will be held on Tuesday, has attracted national interest thanks to the candidacy of one Democrat in particular: Harry Dunn.
A former US Capitol police officer, Dunn and his colleagues won praise for their actions defending lawmakers against a violent mob of Donald Trump’s supporters on January 6. In his New York Times bestselling memoir, Standing My Ground, Dunn recounted how the insurrectionists repeatedly used the N-word as they attacked him and other Black officers.
Dunn announced his bid to replace retiring Democratic congressman John Sarbanes on the third anniversary of January 6, marking his first formal foray into electoral politics. Despite Dunn’s high name recognition, the group United Democracy Project, a Super Pac affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), has thrown its support behind another primary candidate.
According to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission, UDP has spent over $4.2m supporting state senator Sarah Elfreth. UDP’s investment comes after the group spent $4.6m on its failed effort to block the Democratic congressional candidate Dave Min from advancing to the general election in California’s 47th district.
Building on a successful playbook from 2022, AIPAC and other aligned groups are picking their targets — many more of them this time.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/aipac-israel-spending-democratic-primaries-00144552
A California Democrat running for Rep. Katie Porter’s seat suddenly became the target of an unexpected barrage of negative ads from the nation’s premier pro-Israel group this year. So he emailed a former Michigan representative, Andy Levin, for advice. Levin was ousted from his House seat in 2022, after the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spent $4 million against him. Levin was one of a handful of Democrats targeted by AIPAC last cycle, when the group went after a range of progressive candidates in mostly open House primaries over their criticism of Israel.
He told Dave Min, who has not called for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza but has privately criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to reach out to progressive Jewish groups for help. That’s what Levin had done. But, he acknowledged, “we were simply swamped” by outside spending in his own primary, and Dave Min might face a similar fate. “Most” candidates won’t be able to survive that spending barrage, Levin said in an interview with POLITICO, and “I’m afraid that they can be quite successful in wiping them out.”
This cycle, they are going even bigger. AIPAC is expected to spend $100 million across its political entities in 2024, taking aim at candidates they deem insufficiently supportive of Israel, according to three people with direct knowledge of the figure, who were granted anonymity to discuss private meetings. The strategy has taken on new urgency this election season from donors animated by the Israel-Hamas war.
AIPAC’s biggest targets are members of the so-called Squad of progressive House Democrats who have been openly pressuring the administration to call for a cease-fire. But AIPAC’s ambitions are broader. United Democracy Project, the group’s super PAC, is monitoring 15 to 20 House races and polling in many of those districts, according to a person directly familiar with UDP’s strategy and granted anonymity to discuss the approach. “They’ll have so much money, wherever there’s an opportunity, they will take it,” said one Democratic donor adviser who is involved in the effort and was granted anonymity to speak candidly about the organization’s plans.
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Very dramatic! 
to take this seat.
And I say this as a resident of the 16th district.
Geore Latimer for Congress.. A Pres Biden Dem!