Did AIPAC accidentally elect the next Squad member?



The most powerful pro-Israel lobby may have accidentally boosted a progressive rising star who has accused the Jewish state of committing genocide in Gaza.

The New Jersey Democrat primary is in dead heat between former Rep. Tom Malinowski and Analilia Mejia, who has secured the backing of prominent Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In the race to replace Mikie Sherrill, who was just elected to serve as New Jersey's governor, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is once again putting its thumb on the scale.

'AIPAC has historically enjoyed a winning streak of ousting anti-Zionist Democrats.'

Malinowski criticized aid to Israel, prompting a multimillion-dollar ad campaign against the Democrat funded by AIPAC.

The campaign hammered Malinowski for his track record on immigration, attempting to frame the Democrat as a pro-Immigration and Customs Enforcement candidate who approved President Donald Trump's deportation funding in 2019.

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AIPAC likely projected the ad targeting Malinowski would boost pro-Israel Democratic Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way in the overcrowded primary, but polls show they may have massively underestimated Mejia.

AIPAC has historically enjoyed a winning streak of ousting anti-Zionist Democrats, including Squad members like former Reps. Jamaal Bowman of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri.

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This time around, the race remains too close to call, with the latest poll results putting Mejia at a razor-thin advantage of less than 1%.

New Jersey's 11th congressional districts used to be staunchly Republican but flipped to a deep-blue district in 2018, when Sherill defeated GOP candidate Jay Webber. Given the district's newly Democratic affiliation, a primary victory for Mejia would likely guarantee her a seat in the House of Representatives.

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EXCLUSIVE: Palestinian Authority To Pay $315 Million to Terrorists and Their Families Across Middle East in 2026, Watchdog Report Reveals

The Palestinian Authority will dole out $315 million in payments this year to 23,500 terrorists and their families, earmarking more than $19 million a month for a terrorism incentive program, known as "pay-to-slay," that PA president Mahmoud Abbas declared dead last year, according to a new analysis by the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) research institution shared exclusively with the Washington Free Beacon.

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PEN America, Advocate for ‘Free Expression,' Withdraws Defense of Israeli Comedian Who Refused To Condemn Jewish State

PEN America, a self-described "free expression" advocacy group, withdrew its defense of the free speech rights of an Israeli comedian, Guy Hochman, whose New York City show was canceled after protesters blocked the entrance to the performance venue.

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Mamdani’s Health Department Staffers Launch ‘Global Oppression’ Group Accusing Israel of Genocide: Report

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D.) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene staffers have created a “Global Oppression Working Group” that accuses Israel of genocide, the New York Post reported. 

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'Not Sure You Can Reach a Deal With These Guys,' Rubio Says of Iran as Planned Nuclear Talks Reportedly Fall Apart

Planned nuclear talks between the United States and Iran are reportedly unraveling as Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Wednesday that he is "not sure you can reach a deal" with Tehran.

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Israeli Telecom Stock Crosses $800 a Share, Making Norway’s Pension Fund, Led by Scooter-Riding Wokester, Look Foolish for Divesting

Beyond all the moral and geopolitical reasons that divesting from Israel is a bad idea is the reality that even strictly on economic terms, the concept is a money-loser.

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Seth Moulton Said He Would Return ‘Any’ AIPAC Donations. He’s Kept Tens of Thousands of Dollars From the Pro-Israel Group

Rep. Seth Moulton (D., Mass.), who is challenging Sen. Ed Markey in the Democratic primary, pledged in October to return "any AIPAC donations" to his campaign. But Moulton has held onto tens of thousands of dollars in AIPAC donations, refunding only around half of what the group has given him since 2024, a Washington Free Beacon analysis found.

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Teachers’ Unions Sue To Block Tax Cut Referendum From Appearing on Ballot

Massachusetts teachers’ unions are suing to block residents from being able to vote on a statewide tax cut, asking the state’s supreme court to keep it off the ballot in November.

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New York Times Misleads Readers on Gaza Death Toll

Edward Wong, who covers the State Department for the New York Times, has a news article in the Feb. 2 newspaper that says “the Israeli military has killed about 70,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to statistics from the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.”

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Kicking and Screaming Against America and Israel

In the 1970s, after the Six-Day War had time to sink in, an impressive number of Western academics, journalists, politicians, diplomats, spooks, and especially oil executives gave Israel a centripetal eminence in the Middle East that neither its population, geography, faith, wealth, nor even military accomplishments merited. Thirteen hundred years of Islamic history over 3.8 million square miles started getting boiled down to onerous and acrimonious conversations about the contemporary bloody wrestling matches between Jews and Arabs on less than 11,000 square miles of the eastern Mediterranean littoral. Modern Middle Eastern studies, where certainly the most passionate if not the most accomplished students gravitated, became battlefields where anti-Zionist sentiments usually proved triumphant.

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