AIPAC vs. AOC & The Squad: Pro-Israel Lobby Group to Spend $100M to Target Progressive Lawmakers
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As we begin a pivotal election year in the United States, we look at the powerful U.S. lobby group AIPAC, which is set to spend more than $100 million to defeat progressives who are critical of Israeli human rights violations in Palestine. That includes Michigan's Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American member of Congress. AIPAC's outsize influence in national campaigns comes with "an implicit threat," says The Intercept's Ryan Grim, whose new book, _The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution_, was published last month. "That money will still be spent, but it will be spent against you instead," he says about politicians who dare to turn down the pro-Israel lobby's deep pockets. "That really, to a shocking degree, constrained what Democratic candidates were willing to say when it came to criticizing Israel."
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Here's a link for Ryan Grim's new book, "The Squad" - us.macmillan.com/books/9781250869074/thesquad
It is 2024. It is time to stop pretending "the squad" is opposition to the major projects of the elites which threaten the human species. They are not like opposition. They are a facade of opposition intended to deceive progressives. It's sad to see Democracy Now taken in by the hoax known as "the squad". We are supposed to watch this kabuki theatre put on by "the squad" while the environment is destroyed, while genocide unfolds, and while the threat of nuclear war enlarges. I think I'll pass.
@@Will_Moffett I think that you have been misinformed.
@@lovely-mk4rt I've watched AOC and the squad carefully over the years. I've been following the ideological and group dynamics of the congress for years. I've considered what critics and supporters of the squad have said. I was initially extremely optimistic about AOC. I could probably write a far better book that Grim on this topic. My final analysis is that no one in congress has the interests of any majority, either from their district or the nation, as a priority. "The Squad" is no exception, not even close or even debatable. "The Squad" being primaried will have absolutely no impact on anything. I don't think they will lose more than one member. Their keeping their seats will be depicted as some kind of triumph and validation of the fairness of the system. But, again, nothing is going to change and nothing "The Squad" will ever do will have any impact other than to support the agenda of concentrated capital.
any fool can see that AOC's sole function is to stand in the way of a revolution and lead the left into a cul de sac
Thanks I just ordered his book.
Kick AIPAC OUT of our country.
I agree 💯
Free USA from izrl zionst ideology
how can you kick out the people who run the country?
They know that Congress is a bunch of greedy traitors to US they sold their soul to the devil long time ago 😢
Not possible
It's just utterly disgusting and despicable how a lobby group registered as a foreign agent can shape the outcome of both the domestic and foreign policies of America.
End Citizens United, Money is not speech.
Our politician's policy positions are up for sale to the highest bidder. The corruption is playing out in the open while MSM and congress tries to convince us that we are democratic republic..... it's only democratic for the American 1%, foreign governments, and mega corporations who can buy politicians opinion/support.
America is literally bought by the Zionist’s lobby!
Money buys politicians!
America needs to stop pretending to be a democracy!😂😂😂😂
Actually, they are not registered as a foreign agent -----but incredibly, obviously ARE in fact a foreign agent. AIPAC SHOULD be registered as a foreign agent
I hate AIPAC and the extreme Zionist agenda they stand for, but they are NOT registered as foreign agents. They claim they get all their money from US donors and in unaware of any proof to the opposite (unlike the NRA 😑).
When a politician can't criticize another country for wrongdoing, then our political system is broken.
We criticize plenty, and medle in foreign governments who don't want to play ball with our business men all the time. But the one who's getting a free pass is Netanyahooo.
@@marciamartins1992
It certainly looks like it.
It's more than broken at this point!
You can criticize Russia and China, why do you criticize your ally?
When our politicians can insider trade and make millions without any consequences you know our political system is broken. When we only have choices between a turd and a giant douche for president who all suk the dikk of AIPAC you know our system is broken… we’re in a pretty shitty reality right now
It can't be a democracy if politicians can be bought
And judges
Acabas de inventar la polvora. Estos se venden al mejor postor. No tienen escrupulos.
Exactly
AIPAC needs to go, we have enough political problems.
Why would an organisation promoting genocide be dealt with any different fromISIS and alquaeda terror organisations?
How do you get rid of something which has so much money to bribe with?
Agree 👍
@@alphonsemoonflee299 Not sure what you mean.
@@alphonsemoonflee299 With respect, by ending Citizens United and abolishing the notion that corporations are people and money is speech.
Cheers
Another reason not to give Israel a penny.
Absolutely!!!!
Some of the money given to Israel is just re-funnelled back to AIPAC to lobby for Israel.
Nice little feedback loop they’ve got going.
We’re using our own money against ourselves !!
Penny? More like half-cent!
There is nothing to give our Politicians already give them everything
They will go to war for Israeli and not for Americans.
Free the USA! Get rid of AIPAC.
It is clear… PRIVATE money is destroying democracy. We need publicly, funded elections. Each candidate receives exactly the same amount of money. May the best person win.
This is why their focus is "ISRAEL FIRST" instead of "AMERICA FIRST!"
given there'd be no israel wo u$a and that israel is built on the same settler colonial mindset, clearly as nations elites see these two nations as siblings
@@Brianbeesandbikes actually no! Israel is build by forcing your way to have brirish reconcilation to get Israeli land in Palestine.
UK literally ignore the Arabs that help them drive the Ottomman from the whole region. Then split the region into various states with some under British rule & France rule.
Israel got recognition from the West, but they always Palestinian plea to build their own country.
America is build by immigrants from around the globe from different background & ethnicities.
Israel go to the Levant or Palestine to seek refuge from evil Germany, in which some cases paid or collaberate with the same evil gov to let them to go to Palestine.
Nowadays, Israel use AIPAC to bribe politicians to get Israel special treatment in the gov.
It is...(certain) Americans First, but not you all...
EXACTLY
America is first, and Israel is ally to US, and if not America 50-60 years ago,it would USSR/Russia 🪆 that's how politics works.
Aipac needs too stay out of US politics
AIPAC is American... it's the money. Foreign nationals can't donate directly to candidates. Thus, American supporters create and support orgs like AIPAC, creating the indirect avenues of money and more direct correspondence.
End dual citizenship!
@@A-qn1le 🤦🏿♂️ It's not a problem of dual citizenship... it's the Zionism. There's plenty of American Zionist support... this is the result of them pooling their resources and working towards a single goal.
@@A-qn1lein US there is only one party: the power, with two wings: republicans and democrats.
@VierundDB AIPAC doesn't serve US interests its all about providing money , aid and political cover for isreal.. so basically it's just there to ensure israeli interests are fulfilled
"It's now simply deceitful to deny the power of the Israel lobby. Obama aide Ben Rhodes has recalled how members of Congress complained about AIPAC threats to shut down their fundraisers if they didn't vote right on legislation affecting Israeli interests."
~Gareth Porter, Investigative historian and journalist on the national security state
No one in congress is gonna turn down $$$$$ for truth.
God my God ! How sad it is to see so much money being spent… and watch Homelessness …and Famine spreading all over the World ! 😢
Judaism ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Zionism🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
specially in us
KEEP foreign freaking money out of our government
It's local money. The Jews are all here. Their interest lies abroad.
where ever it comes from we need it stopped. Israel is not our baby ,...or our daddy@@JWRame
and stop giving our tax money to foreign country's.
Let them run their Government not ours . Sneaky thieves …
It's the tax payers money circulating .
"I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist."
~Joe Biden, said in April 2007
We know where his allegiance lies
@@SktheladyinredDonald Trump Says He Is No Apprentice When It Comes To Israel
"The only [candidate] that's going to give real support to Israel is me. The rest of them are all talk, no action. They're politicians. I've been loyal to Israel from the day I was born. My father, Fred Trump, was loyal to Israel before me. The only one that's going to give Israel the kind of support it needs is Donald Trump."
~Donald Trump, May 9, 2015
CEASEFIRE NOW-Free Palestine..🇵🇸👍
vote every politician that takes AIPAC money out of office !
that takes any big money
That would be all of them
If you do that I 'm afraid that you will haven't politicians 😂
Every lobbyists include big pharma, many lobbyists were former US govt officials and the unelected ones. On both parties. I know of AIPAC members Jews mostly vote for dems- 95%. But AIPAC does go over to the other side too. Genocide Joe as U.S Senator has been the one for years up to his presidency. Israel's favorite guy. You cannot easily become a politician without taking something from lobbyists. Lobbyists love dirty games, pull the strings attached and conflicts of interest. They have the power to run the media to smear you, if oppose to theirs. AIPAC is part of CIA assets as well.
Same with Russian money, party be damned. Did Citizens United make this legal too? I have been wondering if the SCROTUS is doing what they are supposed to. Or if AIPAC money is buying them quarter million dollar trinkets too? Has the actual purpose of the court been illuminated by it's current level of personal pollution?
It's sad that so many billions of dollars is wasted on politics when it could serve society in so many more productive ways.
Yeah it could be used to educate trump supporters. Well?.. at least get them started?
With fair taxation for corporations and indivduals.
@@michaelrmurphy2734 How about invidious taxation in favor OF the individual? ...With incentivized tax breaks for industry, of course.
EXACTLY!!!! Now we all need to come together and sign something stating we NO LONGER want our taxpayer dollars funding a genocide, Israeli healthcare or the IDF soldiers college!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@ttacking_youWhat verifiable evidence and authority from a published book of sociology or economics supports your claims that a) such matters have some salubrious effect equally for everyone and b) such a tax scheme does not already exist.
P.s The existence of this lobby was thought to have an important influence in the decision to attack IRAQ, which resulted in the devastating destabilisation in the whole Middle East region to this day!
This side of the story didn't get much daylight.
@@marciamartins1992Duh even Josh Harris dances around the question of shit like the clean brake memo
We’ll do anyone else recall when Netanyahu met with Congress, Netanyahu talked about Iraq being a threat to all, and we all now know the rest of that story. Iran, Syria, & Lebanon is now on the top of his list. Many Zionist are calling today time to make the move to annex Jordan. It all in the Zionist long time plan for the Greater Israel.
Candidates should now be asked if they are AIPAC sponsored Candidates. This will tell us who they are going there to support or represent.
How can USA claim sovereignty if the Senate and The Congress is subservient to FOREIGN INTERESTS?
Mind Begs the Question:
- If a USA Politician funded by
- Pro Apartheid/Nazi Lobby
- The Politician is
- Pro USA or Pro Apartheid/Nazi?
Mind Begs the Question:
- If a USA Politician funded by
- Pro Apartheid/Nazi Lobby
- The Politician is
- Pro USA or Pro Apartheid/Nazi?
THEY ARE ALL IN THE POCKET OF AIPAC.
It's treason!
The smarts already know long ago that the us have only a fake democracy and fake sovereignty.
No media is Reporting in germany about AIPAC! THANK Amy and Team.
Never count on german media. Germans never were able to get over their "brown shirt" past. First they tried to pretend "it never happened". Then they developed this image of being "The Protector of the Jews" in hope to "earn jewish forgiveness." As such they were and still are easy prey for Zionist propaganda. You cannot talk with them about Israel without "exposing yourself as an antisemite". You can show any evidence of Israels crimes and they just ignore them or declare it "bullshit".....Germans are a hopeless cause.....
AIPAC is in Germany? I thought it was for American Israeli..
In Deutschland darf man noch weniger sagen als in den USA
Ja stimmt. Schweigen ist Gold sagt man ja. Aber zum Dialog sollte doch jeder bereit sein dann wird das schlecht zumindest minimal gehalten.
@@thomasschieron4534 Meiner Erfahrung nach ist die "Dialogbereitschaft" nur Fassade. Sobald man ernster und mit Nachdruck für seine Überzeugung einsteht und die nicht dem Mainstream entspricht wird man automatisch geächtet und gemieden.
Thank you democracy now and Brian for bringing attention to this matter. We pretend to live in a democracy but really there is so much back door white collar corruption in our govt
Thank you so much for showing us the truth and making the people more aware.
the American people vs AIPAC.
You can add to that the American People vs. NRA - they have also created a lot of damage in our country.
Unfortunately AIPAC will win😢
@@egoless4762
I won't count it it! They are losing their cover the more people - "We the People" - shine a light on them.
It will be interesting when we learn about their connection with Netanyahu and the rigging of the 2016 Election to make us think that trumpy's win was legal. In the words of the Venerable Rep John Lewis, " he (trumpy) is an "illegal" president.
@@egoless4762 not if americans pull out the guns and use the 2nd amendment they swear they love so much
More like far left radicals and Muslims vs AIPAC.
And you call this system a "democracy".
It's actually a Republic but not many people go that deep into America's foundations
No, it is not freaking democracy!
Its autocracy by big business and lobbyists
@@GroumAyinalem-tp7cn you mean oligarchy. That's for debate. But they definitely have too much power.
@@Muhdah1972You repeat the same meaningless claim taken from a meme, "republic not democracy. " Cite verifiable evidence and authority from a published book of history or law review article to support your claim.
The title should be called plain and simple: AIPAC BRIBES. Politicians.
To make a bribery legal. Just call it lobby. Now i get it .
Kick Aipac out! No more US tax payer money going to Israel!
The trouble is that politicians are elected by the support of AIPAC money. AIPAC consider it as an investment. Once they are elected, AIPAC will have to be repaid.
@@elvirageronimo4604 It's bribery, pure and simple!
Free healthcare, weapons and schooling until college for Israelis, while Americans are struggling! The American Dream!
@@Taina2024 Yep! America should have all that! (And so should all the other countries where Israel has far to strong an 'influence' on!) All our pollies need to grow up and grow a pair!
I want tax money going to support the only true democracy in the region. Democracy Now should be called "Socialism Now"
The way that organization moves should be illegal Sounds like blackmail
More like a protection racket, but yes, if a gang were doing the exact same thing, it would be illegal. Different rules for the elite.
It is
Yes
Because IT IS.
Blackmail and corruption. The Zionist Agenda uses the slogan 'profits before people'. We have been brainwashed for decades
Vote people ! Vote wisely!
Until money get out of politics. Nothing will change full stop.
Never going to happen, the wealthy make the world go round sweetheart
How can a foreign country be allowed to have so much influence on our government? Please explain how this is tolerated. This is outrageous.
It has been this way for SO long.. since JFK. But is it very worse now, almost all politicians in office are bribed by them
Because they’re funded by US citizens (at least as far as anyone can prove). And because our laws governing political donations are stupidly lax (thanks to Republican judicial appointees).
Hegemony
Because it’s AIPAC is American money and totally legal
It’s all about the Benjamin’s.
The irony is all this pushing for Israel has backfired because of what Israel is doing. International views of Israel, particularly Netanyahu and the IDF has really gone sour. If AIPAC is willing to condone the actions of the Israeli government, Netanyahu, the right-wing factions plus the abuses by both the IDF and the "settlers" ( mostly former Americans) in both Gaza and the West Bank, it's going to get worse.
Tantura documentary shows what Israel and the “IDF” are..
I quote that last one cause it’s not a defense force..
IOF.. it’s an occupation force.
Aipac and the Israeli government have no separation. Same entity
AIPAC is not condoning, they are complicit and part of the evil Isreali machine
America and the civilized people of the world are backing Israel. The protests in major cities have had zero impact or success in changing Israeli policy.
What ever happened to separation of Church and state?
Aipac should be illegal in this country
Until we take money out of politics this country is doomed.
A foreign country spends 100m to defeat US citizens in their own elections.... And this legal??😂
American democracy 🙄
The U. S. Constitution is a framework for some administration of the state not an enumeration of humane democracy. The Constution does not prohibit electoral control by capitalists but rather ratifies slavery. Article I, Section 2 of the original Constitution is commonly known as the three-fifths compromise. It stated that each enslaved individual counted as three-fifths of a person in terms of representation in Congress, which is based on population. The compromise was struck between those who argued that enslaved people should not be counted at all and those who argued that all should be counted, thereby increasing representation for Southern states. Enslaved people did not have the right to vote, so this issue had nothing to do with voting rights; it merely enabled Southern states to count them among their population totals. No amendment, including the 14th Amendment, expressly abrogated the
three-fifths provision.
Enslavement
Article I, Section 9, Clause 1 of the original Constitution prohibited Congress from passing laws that banned enslavement.
False. AIPAC is American funds only
AIPAC has carve out, a special exemption from having to register as a foreign agent.
@@mischevious false. AIPAC is an American organization, not a ‘foreign agent’.
How is this country a DEMOCRACY in the light of these revelations?!
Damn this is crazy!!
AIPAC vs. Democracy
So true, well said
AIPAC - the mortal enemy of EVERY Loyal American citizen.
Vs humanity
No matter if your a conservative or a liberal. You should be supporting Americans over foreign lobbyists.
You sound like a Trumper.
libertarians and Trump supporters do. Rino's only support is for themselves, and Democrats hate America.
@@malcolmsherwood19
You sound like you are scared of American voters.
@malcolmsherwood19 cool story bro, way to completely miss the point of my comment
Don’t pay attention to them i’m a liberal leaning person but i said the same thing America has to understand we can fight among ourselves but we have to close ranks when it comes to foriegn entities we can be dem or rep but weAmerica first it’s clear that American citizens are an after thought to Israel!
Unreal abuses of power! Vote uncommitted!! The squad is us!
United States of Israel
As a person who is not an American citizen, I do not understand how they talk about these amounts of money given to the senators and politicians without talking about them being bribes!!???😮. How can this be so open??
We in the US, as far as I can tell, live in an Orwellian alternate reality.
War is peace!
The “Patriot Act” allows our government to dig into our private lives and label us “terrorist” and lock us in a military prison indefinitely for any reason they choose or for no reason at all!
And all the while we’re “fighting to save democracy!”.
On and on, calling it Orwellian really doesn’t begin to cover it.
Because the Supreme Court said so.
It is very likely that an AIPAC like group does the same thing in your Country.
The US has virtually no limitations or regulations on campaign spending, advertising et cetera. Those limits that technically exist are not enforced particularly stringently and are easy to bypass. And the US supreme court has over time made it harder to attempt to regulate these forms of influence.
What in other countries would absolutely be undue influence or subornment is so fundamentally normal and built in to the US system that their politics would collapse without it. That is to say, politics is an industry unto itself in the US. Facebook for instance has its own teams that interface directly with the two major political parties to help them develop advertising strategies.
Most companies, most individuals, tend to support both sides. It's not about buying a senator, for instance, it's about the threat of withdrawing support or increasing it to the opponent. It's about ensuring everyone in every party is dependent on you, because ad buys are highly competitive and the amount of money spent is extreme.
“Citizens United!” SCOTUS decision for the Nazi Koch Brothers.
“Corporations are UNITED STATES CITIZENS (all caps)
Candidates To Sign Pledges Of Support For "Israel" - Cynthia McKinney Drops Bombshell
May 23, 2011
U.S. POLITICIANS FORCED TO SUPPORT ISRAEL
In an interview which aired on Press TV on Saturday-one day before the AIPAC conference got under way in Washington, former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney revealed what amounts to some pretty startling news regarding the extent of the Israeli lobby's influence over Congress.
During her years in Congress, she stated, candidates for both the House and the Senate were requested to sign pledges of support for Israel, documents in which the candidate promised to vote to provide consistent levels of economic aid to the Zionist state. Refusal to sign the pledge meant no funding for the candidate's campaign.
"You make a commitment that you will vote to support the military superiority of Israel, the economic assistance that Israel wants, that you would vote to provide that," McKinney, who served in Congress from 1993-2003 and again 2005-2007, tells Press TV interviewer Marzieh Hashemi in the two-part video program below.
According to McKinney, the pledge also included a vow to support Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel.
"Every candidate for Congress at that time had a pledge, they were given a pledge to sign..." she said. "If you don't sign the pledge, you don't get money. For example, it was almost like water torture for me. My parents observed this. I would get a call and the person on the other end of the phone would say `I want to do a fundraiser for you.' And then we would get into the planning. I would get really excited, because of course you have to have money in order to run a campaign. And then two weeks, three weeks into the planning, they would say, `Did you sign the pledge?' And then I would say, `No, I didn't sign the pledge.' And then my fundraiser would go kaput."
During her years in Congress, McKinney opposed U.S. involvement in foreign wars, questioned the official version of the events of 911, and introduced articles of impeachment against former President George W. Bush. Her final term in Congress came to an end after AIPAC, or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, funneled money into the campaign of her opponent, Hank Johnson.
McKinney's comments to Press TV came on the eve of the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, which was addressed Sunday by President Barack Obama. Last Thursday, Obama gave a "major speech" on the Middle East in which he suggested that a basis for peace in the region might be a withdrawal by Israel to its pre-1967 borders. However, in his speech Sunday, the president, quite predictably, backtracked on the proposal-and it may well have been Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who laid down the law to him.
"On Friday, I was joined at the White House by Prime Minister Netanyah, and we reaffirmed that fundamental truth that has guided our presidents and prime ministers for more than 60 years-that, even while we may at times disagree, as friends sometimes will, the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable, and the commitment of the United States to the security of Israel is ironclad," Obama told the conference.
He also clarified what he had meant by his reference to "1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps" made in his speech Thursday. "By definition, it means that the parties themselves, Israelis and Palestinians will negotiate a border that is different than the one that existed on June 4, 1967," he said.
McKinney was a candidate for president on the Green Party ticket in 2008. Also in 2008 she sailed aboard the Free Gaza ship Dignity as it attempted to deliver humanitarian supplies to Gaza, making a second effort to reach the blockaded territory the following year on the Spirit of Humanity. Both ships were blocked from reaching their destination by the Israeli Navy.
Her comments about the pledges required of candidates for Congress are made in the second part of the program. In the first part she discusses how her congressional district in Georgia was dismantled through a legal suit brought about with the assistance of the Anti-Defamation League.
Let showed AIPAC, that their money cannot buy or corrupt all our politicians
Yeah! Our politicians are already corrupt!
AIPAC mostly attack in the primaries. Months ahead give voice to your critics, make a hit pieces in the medias and to boost a primary opponent. Because they buy adds in the medias, the medias will not critic their hit pieces... to counter the candidate has to buy adds in the medias and thus wasting the money they need for the general.
They create a propaganda war where AIPAC are masters because they don't care about the truth.
Most you folks cannot tolerate the Squad. They seem to be the only ones who do not accept PAC monies. So called "progressives" like Katie Porter accepts monies from AIPAC axillaries and very focal of no cease-fire....
We should insist on Cinise and Russian money only, not from AIPAC.
@@mwoods7696 Every other countries need to be declare as foreign lobbies and they can't influence the elections. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is allowed to meddle in US elections with publicity, founding campaigns...
No lobbying groups come close to the amount of power of AIPEC and other Israeli lobbies it’s insane and scary af there next level ruthless to anyone who just see Palestinians as humans.
Read the New York Times article "Screams without Words"
@@georgemetesky5519 Israel propaganda, like Hamas was doing this in middle of fight with IDF and their hostages still like them, New York Times should try to make article about what happens to Palestinians women in Israeli prison, or try to watch Tantura Documentary.
This is the same issue the Third Reich had with the Zionists and sadly ALL Jews had to pay a heavy price for the Zionist greed for political and economic power at Any cost.
They have the same influence in the United Kingdom and France 🥴
You see the actions of October 7 as humane. Nice
Justice for Somalians for the endless colonial war in Somalia 🇸🇴!
Unbelievable these practices
Thanks for bringing this to the forefront Ryan!! A foreign country should never have gained so much control over our country..I think the vast majority of Americans would agree!!
AIPAC is not controlled by the Israeli government and is not accountable to the Israeli people.
We need to go back to the 2016 Election to see just how much influence Netanyahu had on that election - what Putin did was minimum and indirect while Netanyahu was directly involved with "rigging" the Electoral Votes. to give Trump the win. Indeed Trump as Rep John Lewis said was an "illegal" president.
The investigative material is in the public domain & yet it is not being brought out in the open.
Hopefully this will come to light soon because it puts a new light on foreign involvement in our country and the undermining of our Democracy and our Constitution.
Yes, I agree AIPAC has way too much control of Congress and the Senate. Sadly money has corrupted the whole Federal Government.
Absolutely.
Israel has dual citizenship they work in both places, they have u.s. under lock and key. Look what Israel doing, there will be a day they turn those guns, the ones we gave them on us.
Kudos to Amy and Ryan Grim for reporting on this story. It’s outrageous these two are among the very few journalists even talking about these crucial issues. AIPAC MUST BE STOPPED AND STRIPPED OF ITS LOBBYING PRIVILEGES.
The Democrat party and the GOP with the media are all in full alignment with each other when it comes to Israel. Biden and Blinken are so arrogantly certain that the Democrats will vote for them anyway because of Trump.
Absolutely 💯
They need LONG TERM PRISON SENTENCES ‼️ Both parties participate in these shady behaviors
Lobbying should be completely banned
In most other democratic countries this is known as corruption not lobbying. The Zionist lobby group is too strong and powerful now to be stopped.
Phenomenal piece of journalism
A lot of people saying and asking " how they are allowed in us?" Nah bro.. they are not allowed or anything... They RUN the show themselves... Wake up to the reality
"It's called the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” ~George Carlin~
The Matrix has you
Miss George. He would have so much comic material with today's politics.
It is amazing how America has become a hostage of AIPAC
But when the far right says America is owned by Jews thats anti semitism😂
I just Love Ryan Grim’s EXCELLENT AND TRUTHFUL REPORTING! Thank you.
Spread this with your friends and families!
They need to be banned
I hate them and all aggressive extreme Zionists. But what grounds are there to ban them. They claim they take no foreign money (and far as I know nobody has proven otherwise). As long as lobbying is legal…
While money cannot buy one happiness, it can indeed buy one any number of congresspeople and enormous political influence.
And don't forget Supreme Court Justices....
Exactly
It’s ALL an illusion.
If you have enough money to buy politicians, you can shape the world in a way that makes you happy.
And for shockingly little money... in some cases, as little as 5000 dollars is all it takes to buy representation and political favors.
The elephant in the room:
candidates get to keep any money left in their campaign account, laundering bribes...
Corruption never sleeps.
AIPAC out of USA,this is f America and nobody gonna tell as what to do,now I will vote for this woman even I don’t like her
What about her supporting Ukraine? Cannot vote her for one issue. She takes a lobbyist money from pharma industry as well. She lets other lobbyists run US Congress.
Can all these lobbyists just leave? How did this become such a huge industry? When did this friggin start
Unfortunately l politicians are greedy the will ride with any one that gives them money
That a foreign country can spend so willy nilly in our elections, and it being legal is sickening.
I thought it was illegal already...isn't that what the investigation into Russia and Trump was all about. By the way I understand he wasn't declared innocent but there was insufficient evidence...
Then got cheek to blame putin for interference in your fake ass erictions😂😂😂
The Jews daring to put together a lobbying group surely sickens you because it's not as though the world isn't going to look after them. How dare these people have the nerve to organize in a legal way that every other group can and often does.
TRAITORS
@@user-cg1qq2er8xI think it's more the brutal occupation and genocide that people have a problem with
Remember people. It doesn't really matter who you vote for. They're all in their pockets.
AIPAC must be countered at any cost to preserve democracy.
AIPAC should register as a foreign agent.
But a special exemption was carved out just for them!
I’ll bet it was even one of those ultra rare bipartisan consensus.
@@mischevious Vote out the special exemption.
@@theo7326 That would be up to the House and Senate, currently voting in favor of their stock portfolios.
Sorry
@@mischevious I understand
@@mischevious I know it must come from bottum up so the people should take the lead to change that and not leave it to the politicians who are bought by AIPAC with tax payers money.
Only in America the foreign organization can be allowed to go after the American Citizens and our media and our politicians support this. AIPAC should be registered as a foreign agency and anyone who receives their money should be prosecuted.
WHYYYYY? Have you ever heard of an AMERICAN Jew or an AMERICAN Fundamental Christian? They are not foreigners, they are Americans that don't think like you and your authoritarian friends.
I won't call you an anti-Semite but I will say, how antisemitism works is to otherize a group and always render everything about them to be foreign. BLM is not an African group. AIPAC is not a foreign organization. You can disagree with what either group supports but the otherizing is out of the same old, same old, same old playbook. Use it against the Jews today, and it will be used against the next group tomorrow. I think you should retract or reword your comment. Surprise me and do so.
Absolutely!
Voters must vote them out.
what are the names of the Qatari and Saudi lobbyists ?
@@mz4kids You might, start with former Senator Norm Coleman. You also might want to wait until we learn more about NJ Senator Bob Menendez. The group "Democracy for the Arab World Now" claims Coleman has effectively become an agent working for Saudi Arabia.
welcome to the USAIPAC
The existence and importance of the Aipac lobby is virtuality unknown amongst the UK electorate.
A former BBC foreign correspondent attempted, as long ago as 2002, to examine its influence on US politics and sought answers at the HQ of this organisation, but was met with blank refusals.
A programme entitled 'A Lobby To Reckon With' was broadcast on its Radio 4 in November 2002 and which I have a recording.
The British media is largely 'Right Wing' and have apparently never chosen to expose the 'control' it has on the elected representatives of the American peoples.
...and millions of Americans will fall for it hook, line and sinker. American arrogance and ignorance is getting dangerously worse every damn day.
It's not hard when the mainstream media lies to them all the time, and all they know is what mainstream media says
Apparently EVEN THIS DISCUSSION is threatening isn't it little troll?
@@71sunsI think he is saying millions of Americans fall for these AIPAC politicians ...no?
@@71suns Firstly, I am not a troll.
Secondly, Americans are extremely easy to direct, with money.
Thanks to American Capitalism and its horrific impact on American Elections.
They will not succeed because humanity is more powerful than selfishness.
The Superman is all powerfull.
You say that in defense of Hamas and Iran.
Those woman are so brave ❤
if this were any other country, this would be illegal. a foreign country influencing our politics is insane to me. this needs to be stopped.
How is what AIPAC doing not classified as bribery????
Yes
It's illegal in every aspect but this puppet gvmt is controlled by foreigners. Doesn't work out so well for US.
'political funding'
It's much WORSE than that. It's a ZIONIST Mafia
@@khairulhelmihashim2510Under the GUISE of 'political funding'
We want a list of all policiticians taking AIPAC money. Please Democracy now, show us. So we can make decisions during elections of who NOT to vote in. We need to know who is filling their pockets. We need a democratic party that supports life. At all levels. I want to vote for someone that is humanitarian from the womb to the tomb. And that believes in the dignity of human life while they are living. All of these policiticians are inconsistent with humanities needs.
You can find it online with some digging
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house"---Audrey Lorde
You're asking the wrong question. This is systemic and on purpose. My suggestion is becoming class conscious and educate yourself on the history of humanity.
Lindsey Graham, Nikki Haley, Trump for starters
All but a tiny handful of them.
We need to know who are the donors to AIPAC -- what companies they have stock in so we can do accurately targeted boycotts and whose homes to protest in front of and if the donors are all legit and not fake identities. What if in the more than $3 billion the US sends to Israel each year, Israel zionists find a way to funnel some of it into AIPAC so that US taxpayers are also paying the AIPAC lobbyists?
To be an American requires a pledge to defend America against any enemies foreign and domestic. Can anyone tell me why American Jewish citizens are allowed to serve in the IDF which is a foreign military without losing their American citizenship?.
I agree we’re on the wrong side of both history and morality siding with Israel. That said the State Department and every administration during my entire 59 year life have considered Isreal our bosom buddies. There’s no law stoping a US citizen from fighting for another country (that I know of), just fighting against the US (remember the Abraham Lincoln Brigade? The Flying Tigers?)
Very few Jewish Americans join the US military. They dont fight the wars they start. They rely on Christian fighting men to do that for them. America has had enough of the wars for foreign interests.
Bc it’s legal. Get a clue
@@vzwodb17 then it should be made illegal. At the rate things are going, American Jewish citizens will go to war against the USA to protect Israel. You can’t have it both ways. Choose.
May be legal or moral
See the guys face when he walked in front when that sick lady left ahahahahahahahaha
On the author Ryan Grim… congratulations and my deepest thanks. Keep up the fantastic work.
Bravo🎉Keep it up Amy, you're the hope of America, of the world. Don't stop telling the truth, especially about Israel❤
Please everybody contributing money to Democracy Now will enable Amy to keep reporting on issues legacy media (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, etc.) will not touch with a "ten-foot pole". And that keeps lots of us wondering why Legacy Media won't report on progressive issues. I contribute to Democracy Now on a monthly basis but any method or amount of money will keep the wolfs that will try to get rid of Amy away.
@@esperanza5559Plural of wolf is "wolves", Archie Bunker 😂
@@georgemetesky5519 Ha. Ha. Very funny
She is the hope of America? She is not Elijah, she is an ally. Without Elijah, there is no hope for her, let alone for America! When will Elijah be valued? America is going to be punished because Elijah is STILL not valued even by those who fully understand he is Elijah!
💙🤍💙
So israel is ALLoWED to meddle in our elections??????
The ziofascists have always been doing it. Hush!!!!!!!!
AIPAC is American... it's the money. Foreign nationals can't donate directly to candidates. Thus, American supporters create and support orgs like AIPAC, creating the indirect avenues of money and more direct correspondence.
Évidemment depuis des décennies...il faut vous réveiller !!!
@@VierundDB AIPAC push the " tax money being taken out ' to Israel for 70 years for just being cute ally. We the tax payers spent millions per bomb for them built their schools, their military, and etc. while America rots. Wake up.
They have been for endless decades
Excellent as always Ryan 👏👏
It’s a shame that our voices will be silenced in this manner. An absolute hypocrisy that is embarrassing for a nation that prides itself in protecting human rights and freedom of speech.
Only if you allow them to
“A nation that prides itself on protecting human rights and freedom of speech”
.. no
What alternate universe are you living in?
The US has the worst human rights record of any country on the planet.
Recently vetoed a unanimous UN resolution to declare water a human right.
Currently attempting to subvert the first amendment by coercing social media platforms to censor comments and writing laws that essentially end freedom of speech.
Carries out hundreds of drone assassinations on foreign soil every day.
Occupies dozens of countries at will without consent. Takes their resources. Threatens them with financial retribution should they refuse. Uses financial warfare and proxy terrorist networks to topple any foreign government that won’t comply..
I’m just picking on you. I also used to live in your alternate universe. Those were the days, the days of blissful ignorance.
Making US into hypocrites one war at a time.
So sick and twisted how much money is spent in this country to protect the status quo instead of actually helping real people. 😑
Us to blame for . We give interest/usury at the expense of salvation for and hereafter interest removes money from poor to rich / banks
Majority of these PAC Clan have dual citizenships, they allegiance to foreign Tax Payer welfare recipients is #1 priority
Power to the Squad !!!!!
Yes. Vote them in. Vote more progressives in.
Some democracy we have should be called hypocrisy. We need a progressive party
the fact that so much money has to be spent to thwart these people just shows you that this is for nefarious purposes
They have taken control of our government.
Poor America. Deep in the shit! At least 3rd world countries don't go through it!
"There is only organized power against organized power; I see no other remedy, as much as I regret it."Albert Einstein
AIPAC is right-wing. Period.
It is not pro-Israel, it's pro-Likud.
_"...anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state needs to support strengthening Hamas. This is part of our strategy, to isolate Palestinians in Gaza from Palestinians in Judea and Samaria."_
- Benjamin Netanyahu
(at a Likud party meeting in 2019)
You’re crazy if you think AIPAC is in the right.
No its prooooooo Israel
Are a white collar terrorists.
AIPAC is pro Apartheid - same as Democrats and Republicans.
But Zionism consists of all parties in Israel All parties on one same view is "Fu*k you move the race we hate the brown people. The racists -Israelis. Look up Revisionists and Labor/ National party that goes back to 1948. Zionism started by Socialists and Communists in 1897. look up Ben Guion and Havra Transfer Agreement. Learn the history please.
AIPAC and Weapons lobbies have to go. Don't forget AIPAC is basically a feeder for the military-industrial lobby groups, hence its effectiveness. Any lobby grouped allied to continual war has to go (before all lobbying in general).
Agreed. We need to reverse Citizen's United first.
Lobby is a fancy term for bribery.
Israel: We own your politicians 😎
Thank you AIPAC for proving the stereotypes right
Bigotry bias bonus points!!!
@@georgemetesky5519And what are YOU doing to prove the stereotypes WRONG? 🤔
Yes... they are ironically playing our all the stereotypes and conspiracy theories ....
Of progressives being progressive or Jews being wily manipulators?
Well, it sure ain't helping. That, and the knee-jerk reaction of calling all criticism antisemitism. All that will do is desensitize the impact of the term and fuel the bigots to a frenzy. Alienating the world is not the best way to acceptance or tolerance.
Get big money out of politics!
How?
Legislation.
@@laluba3603 by no paying interest/ usury, takes money from poor and puts it in the pockets of big banks you know who owns the bank and the other word is not a penny for them
@@marziaball5089 If you are insinuating that it is "the Jews" that "takes money" and "owns the bank" then you better try that argument on someone with a lack of a good, functioning brain. Because you sound like a Nazi trying to spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, marziaball5089.
However, if you meant something else, then you better work on your use of language.
Keep the good work. This is a great topic. You have a back bone and actually you are US patriots.
Money is the weapon of the oligarchs.
Rashida Talib is loved in wayne county and the support for her grows more the more she stands up to these AIPAC bullies. We will make sure she stays in congress Inshallah
If you follow the money, you're always find the answer!
Time to fight AIPAC. Oppose both major parties.