AIPAC spent millions to attack progressive women of color [View all]

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Spent 100,000 pushing Irwin and 2 million lying about Summer Lee - claiming she’s not a Democrat. Lee still won and will be the first black women to rep Pa in congress. Same with Jessica Sisneros race - 1.4 million for Cueller but mainly using the money to attack Sisneros. Same with Muslin Nida Allam - 3.4 million PAC money spent attacking her. “ As Common Dreams reported last week, Sanders criticized AIPAC for bankrolling super PACs like UDP and Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) "to buy elections and control this democracy."

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AIPAC super PAC funnels millions in dark money to attack progressive candidates in Democratic races

Intent on keeping the influence of the growing pro-Palestinian rights movement in the U.S. to a minimum in Congress, the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee is pulling out all the stops to defeat progressive candidates including state Rep. Summer Lee in Pennsylvania's 12th District, where voters are going to the polls Tuesday.

As The Intercept reported late Monday, a super PAC started last year by AIPAC called the United Democracy Project (UDP) has spent more than $2.3 million on the district's Democratic primary race.

About $100,000 from the group has gone to support attorney Steve Irwin while a majority of the ads UDP has paid for have attacked Lee as someone who only "calls herself a Democrat" due to her criticism of President Joe Biden during the 2020 primary race.

According to liberal pro-Israel group J Street, UDP has attempted to conceal its connection to AIPAC by attacking Lee's positions on issues unrelated to Palestinian rights, such as her support for Medicare for All.

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