BREAKING: AIPAC BACKFIRES, Pro-Palestine Progressive WINS House Race!
February 7, 2026
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as posted by the channelA Pro-Israel Group’s Move Backfires as Gaza Tensions Flare in Midterms
A surprising twist in a New Jersey primary race showed how questions about Israel continue to roil American politics in unpredictable ways.
The country’s most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group threw its financial might against a moderate Democratic House candidate in New Jersey who is a longtime supporter of the Jewish state but has said that U.S. military aid should not be unconditional.
The move appeared to backfire.
Instead, the group, the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee, may have helped a pro-Palestinian progressive win the primary.
The group’s allied super PAC spent at least $2.3 million against former Representative Tom Malinowski, who has said that he “would not deny anything Israel needs to defend itself” but left open the possibility of placing limits on aid.
It ran negative ads against him, sending a message that it was willing to punish Democrats seen as insufficiently supportive of Israel. And with the race still uncalled on Friday, Mr. Malinowski was indeed trailing narrowly. But the candidate leading him was not one of the other moderates in the race, but an outspoken critic of Israel: Analilia Mejia, a left-leaning political organizer who has said she believed the country committed genocide in Gaza.
The outcome appeared to be a misfire by AIPAC’s super PAC, the United Democracy Project, which was flush with nearly $96 million at the start of the year, making it one of the best-funded outside groups in the country.
Many Democrats were furious at AIPAC’s intervention in the primary. Matt Bennett, the executive vice president at Third Way, a centrist Democratic think tank, called the group’s advertisements targeting Mr. Malinowski “dumb and irresponsible” and suggested that the group had lost the trust of Democrats.
“I think it is going to be hard for them to recover,” he said.
Ms. Mejia’s surge in the 11-candidate primary race was an indication of how much the Democratic base has shifted away from support for Israel. It also suggested the waning influence of AIPAC, once a firmly bipartisan organization, within the Democratic Party. The group’s intervention in New Jersey, which appeared to be intended as a warning to moderates not to place conditions on support for Israel, may instead embolden critics of the country.
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