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AIPAC, which has been around since 1963, is a convenient target for their anti-Israel grievances. The group has long taken flak from opponents who argue that it nefariously influences American ...
AIPAC, as Bruck shows, has perfected that approach in the last 35 years. It doesn’t give money itself, but it gets its high-rolling members and friendly political action committees to do so.
AIPAC and the Zionist, and later pro-Israel, movements were based primarily among liberal Jews who usually voted Democratic except when the Republican was a liberal like New York Senator Jacob Javits.
That seemed to be fine with AIPAC, which is clearly less focused on the “Israel” part of its mission than on the “lobby” part. But perhaps we shouldn’t be so surprised.