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AIPAC has closed the donor portal for 15 democrats after their vote to end all military and humanitarian aid to Israel AIPAC is an unregistered foreign agent used to exert influence over our politicians with money, lobbying is legal bribery

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Anonymous 9w

This is misleading. Firstly, aipac is Americans who want positive relations with Israel not Israelis. There’s actually quite a lot of these lobbies like the Armenian American or the Cuban American, Ukrainian American etc, it doesn’t have to register as a foreign entity because it’s straight up not.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

Secondly, aipac isn’t that big of a lobby by basically any metric. I’m all for being against lobbies but ironically both sides of politics have turned aipac into the boogeyman when it’s not that powerful or exceptional.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

Have you seriously lost your mind? Do you honestly believe this? https://www.trackaipac.com

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

I agree we should just get rid of PACs, citizens united is mid. Yes they are around 20th in spending, maybe higher if you consider their shell PACs like “elect Chicago women” The issue is AIPAC operates as a domestic lobby and yet its interests solely serve a foreign nation. It should be registered as a foreign agent and it should have zero involvement with US lawmakers. Read my other comment I go in depth

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

and if it’s really not that big then it seems fairly easy to refuse money from them 🤔

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

"AIPAC is Americans" -

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 9w

Trackaipac has got to be the most intentionally misleading organization. They use different methodologies for different candidates based on how much they like them to make them look bad. Like I said there’s a lot of pacs that do this this is not some new concept. Of X ethnic group American lobby.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

"x ethnic group american lobby" this is a whole separate ass country that we're arming and defending and providing necessities to, not some people who are in dire straits and need help

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 9w

Lots of American groups advocate aid, sanctions, arms sales, or security commitments involving other countries. The legal question is whether they act under a foreign government’s direction, not whether their preferred policy benefits a foreign country.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

any groups do it to the extent that aipac does? any country remotely on the level that israel is? or are we making false equivalences

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

Have we, as a country, discussed integrating our military with any other country’s like what’s being proposed in the NDAA?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

Aipac is run by Americans. It can and has disagreed with the Israeli government on several occasions most recently with the incorporation of Benny gvir into the coalition. I’m all for reducing foreign influence on American politics namely China Qatar and the Saudis, but youve still yet to provide any evidence that it’s not run by Americans. You can disagree with then you can hate them. You can think it’s the devil spawn but it doesn’t meet the metric of a foreign agent.

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