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2022-06-29 Home Front: Politix
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Ex-NYC mayor Bill de Blasio says he no longer supports AIPAC
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[IsraelTimes] Running for Congress seat in city’s newly created District 10, former mayor says pro-Israel lobby has undergone ’unacceptable’ change, will not accept endorsement if offered.
That makes it easy, though I can’t imagine he was under consideration anyway. Former New York City mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserved him...
said he no longer supports the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and would not accept the pro-Israel lobby’s endorsement, if offered, in his run for a Congress seat in the city’s newly created District 10.
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The district stretches from de Blasio’s home in Park Slope to Lower Manhattan and includes a chunk of Borough Park with its large ultra-Orthodox Jewish population.
Last I heard, the ultra-Orthodox vote overwhelmingly Republican, conservative, and Trump, given the option. The question is whether they have the numbers to overwhelm the rest of the district. Still, even if they don’t, he will only be one of 435 — and hopefully a junior member of the minority party. According to a report Monday in the New York Jewish Week, de Blasio said AIPAC has changed in a way he found "unacceptable," and indicated that he was not seeking the organization’s endorsement.
The former NYC mayor made the comments during a virtual candidate forum last week on AIPAC campaign spending. Asked if he supports the organization, de Blasio said, "No, I don’t," according to the report.
"I am not seeking their endorsement and would not accept it even if it were offered," he added.
“Zionists are icky,” he added, “and now I’m only responsible to people like me, I don’t have to pretend to like them.” He cited last year’s major upset for Nina Turner, a former state senator and a leading progressive, who lost a Democratic primary in Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone,
...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ...
to a candidate who was partly backed by AIPAC’s affiliated PAC and other groups.
Shontel Brown is also African-American and Progressive. Also younger, more stylish, and unlike Professor Turner, a staunch Joe Biden supporter. She beat the good associate professor 66% to 33% in the recent Democratic primary, a difference no amount of spending can buy. "She’s an incredibly important progressive leader," de Blasio said, according to the New York Jewish Week. "I thought the attack on her was not only horribly unjustified, it deprived our nation of someone who could have been a huge difference maker in terms of our progressive movement."
Turner had expressed backing on Twitter for IfNotNow, a Jewish-American group that accuses Israel of "apartheid" policies vis-à-vis the Paleostinians.
De Blasio said he supports the two-state solution for the Israel-Paleostinian conflict and suggested it was "the only path forward to peace in the region for both Israeli and Paleostinian people to have their own states."
The Saudis are now proposing that the Kingdom of Jordan take over the Palestinian territories, since the Palestinians are clearly unwilling to negotiate peace with Israel. It’ll fly about as well as that thing Prince Abdullah let the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman push two decades ago, but clearly Mr. de Blasio is wrong about the only path. "I would fight for that, and I would certainly fight against any organization that attacks my fellow progressives," he said, according to the report.
AIPAC’s new PAC came under scrutiny earlier this year when it endorsed 109 of the 147 of the Republicans who refused to affirm US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan...
’s election on January 6, 2021, after a deadly insurrection spurred by former president Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
’s false claims that it was he who won the election.
AIPAC has said it was backing candidates of both parties in a majority of the races nationwide, 326 out of 435 House elections and 34 Senate elections taking place in November.
But the endorsements of Republicans who refused to certify Biden’s win earned the organization criticism from Rep. Liz Cheney
 ...Faux Republican hereditary congresswoman-for-life from Wyoming. She has been described as Republican royalty. A staunch Never Trumper, Liz supported the second impeachment of Donald Trump for his role in the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Publicans dumped her from her leadership position in May 2021. Refusing to admit that she had trashed her own career, Cheney has said that she intends to be the leader... in a fight to help to restore our party and that she may be interested in a future presidential run....
, the Wyoming Republican and pro-Israel politician, whose name was initially missing from the list of endorsees.
Cheney also co-chairs the congressional committee investigating the insurrection Trump spurred on Jan. 6, 2021. She was one of just 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for his role in the violence.
"Those of us who have never wavered in our support for Israel or our fight against anti-Semitism in the US & around the world want @AIPAC members to know your leadership is playing a dangerous game of politics," Cheney tweeted in March.
The AIPAC PAC responded to her criticism and others’ by saying that it would make its endorsements purely on the strength of candidates’ records on Israel, and that it would do so in the bipartisan spirit that AIPAC has long boasted.
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