NJ-08: Ali (D) seeks to make AIPAC an issue in campaign
After a huge influx of spending from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee reshaped the Democratic primary in one New Jersey congressional district, an underdog challenger in a neighboring district is trying to make the pro-Israel group into a top campaign issue.
Mussab Ali, who is challenging Rep. Rob Menendez (D-Jersey City) for renomination in his urban North Jersey district, has released several statements in recent weeks calling on Menendez to disavow AIPAC and reject their funding. Ali, a former school board president in Jersey City, told the New Jersey Globe that AIPAC’s past and present support for Menendez should give voters serious pause about supporting him again.
“AIPAC is being funded by billionaire MAGA donors who have made it explicitly clear that their mission is to take down anyone who is even remotely critical of the state of Israel,” Ali said. “The majority of voters do not want someone who is putting the interest of a foreign government ahead of the people of their own state.”
Menendez responded that he has not been afraid to break with pro-Israel groups and criticize Israel when he believes they’re wrong. If AIPAC and its donors want to continue supporting him anyway, he said, that is their choice.
https://newjerseyglobe.com/congress/ali-seeks-to-make-aipac-an-issue-in-nj-8-campaign/
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