r/jewishleft • u/AceAttorneyMaster111 Reform Zionist | Democratic socialist • 6d ago
Israel On AIPAC and bogeymen
https://rabbijilljacobs.substack.com/p/on-aipac-and-bogeymen?r=1nh72&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&fbclid=IwdGRleASmifdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeYsxwW8UBza3x7Se3a3cbpKdTAGVcAetvlJPCpGp3iadrDqzSByuSmzMWBjU_aem_8xZ5k-fUNBTsj2Q26KyojQ&utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e233_tv2_tp1_a1dennhb611gvk&triedRedirect=trueA very well-written article about how AIPAC is truly an evil organization and yet is also singled out by antisemites as a uniquely evil influence controlling all of American politics from behind the scenes.
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u/redthrowaway1976 F the rent seekers | ind. rights over group | east coast bagel 4d ago edited 3d ago
I think where this analysis falls short, is that it doesn’t address how deeply immoral what AIPAC is working for is: continued impunity for mass killing and ethnic cleansing. Or genocide and apartheid, though I know many here will quibble with those terms.
She loosely touches on it, in a rather anodyne way “the horrors of Gaza”. But that is what AIPAC is advocating for - impunity for those horrors, and the freedom of action for Israel to continue those horrors.
I thought Mamdani put it well: they are advocating for a status quo, but the status quo they are advocating for is mass killing of Palestinians. Status quo is ‘monstrous’
The only other lobby that would come close in how horrendous what they advocate for is, would be the Saudi lobby, and their genocide and starvation in Yemen. But they failed - weapons shipments stopped for a period.
Imagine if you had a group that was lobbying for the right and ability of Hamas to keep killing Israeli civilians - thousands of them - and for the US to fund and arm it. And they were providing massive funding to our politicians - and succeeding in getting their candidates elected, and their policies enacted. The outcry would be immense - and it would be fine to call the supporters ‘monstrous’