John,
AIPAC is planning to spend $20 million against Jamaal Bowman in the next few weeks.
The anti-Palestinian group’s super PAC recently spent $2 million for one week’s worth of attack ads targeting Jamaal, who has been an outspoken leader for Palestinians’ human rights. Jamaal joined me early on in demanding a permanent ceasefire. He’s one of the few Congresspeople speaking out against Israel’s latest attacks in Rafah, and he’s calling out the U.S. government’s complicity in genocide.
With Jamaal’s re-election just a few weeks away, MAGA Republican mega-donors are dropping millions to support his opponent through AIPAC.
AIPAC recruited Jamaal’s anti-ceasefire opponent, and has even encouraged Republicans to register as Democrats in order to vote for Jamaal’s opponent—carrying out a pattern of interfering in Democratic primaries to take down Black and brown progressives.
In 2022’s midterm elections, AIPAC and its network of PACs spent $40 million against Black and brown progressives, with most of the funds coming from Trump-supporting GOP mega-donors.
AIPAC also endorsed more than 100 insurrectionist members of Congress who voted to overturn 2020’s election. These anti-democratic legislators are trying to censor discussions of racism in schools and ban diversity initiatives in public education.
Meanwhile, Rep. Jamaal Bowman has introduced urgent legislation to support African American history education, and he’s bringing us closer to a multi-racial democracy where we all have equal rights protected by the government.
For years, Jamaal has called to condition U.S. funding for Israel’s military based on Palestinians’ human rights. After visiting my grandmother in the West Bank, he compared Palestinians’ lives under Israeli military control to his experience with racist U.S. police targeting Black people like him.
Jamaal and I understand that marginalized people’s struggles are intertwined, and we want to make our government work for all of us—not just the privileged few. Instead of voting to send billions of American taxpayer dollars to Israel’s apartheid regime, Jamaal is pushing to invest in our communities’ needs, like public education and utility services.
Since he’s up against billionaires who’ll spend a lot to continue the unjust status quo, Jamaal needs support from our grassroots movement between now and his state’s June 25th Democratic primary election.
Thank you for continuing to grow our movement for equity and justice for all,
Rashida