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AIPAC is changing the way it participates in American elections. The pro-Israel organization said this week that it will stop issuing candidate endorsements, making direct PAC contributions, and earmarking donations for candidates. Its affiliated super PAC, United Democracy Project, will continue operating, and AIPAC says it will expand organized giving directly from individual members. In […]

Political candidates’ once reflexive support for Israel has increasingly become a liability When the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the most prominent pro-Israel lobby group in the US, announced on Wednesday that it would stop endorsing candidates or make direct contributions to them, its many critics were quick to hail the development as Aipac’s admission of how toxic its brand had become. The announcement marked a significant reversal that underscored just how profoundly US public opinion of Israel has shifted over the latest war in Gaza , and how political candidates’ once reflexive support for Israel has increasingly become a liability . Continue reading...

The growing controversy over AIPAC’s impact on U.S. politics is the subject of a new Zeteo documentary titled Night Flower: Inside AIPAC’s Fight for Influence . The film examines AIPAC’s history and its role in shaping U.S. policy toward Israel, and questions whether its activities warrant further scrutiny under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA . “It says that you have to register under this law if you are acting at the request of a foreign government,” says Dion Nissenbaum, the filmmaker behind Night Flower: Inside AIPAC’s Fight for Influence . “And we talked to numerous people who showed us several examples of how AIPAC is acting at the request of Israel.” Referencing the title of the film, Night Flower , Zeteo editor-in-chief Mehdi Hasan says AIPAC “blossoms in the dark, shrivels in the light. We’re trying to put some sunlight onto AIPAC .”