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**** November 1, 2024
AIPAC's Only General-Election Target Is an L.A. Progressive
BY RYAN GRIM, DAVID DAYEN
In California's 34th District, anti-war advocate David Kim has come close to unseating Rep. Jimmy Gomez twice. Now AIPAC is attacking Kim, and a crypto PAC is joining in.
This is a collaboration with Drop Site News [link removed], an independent news site about politics and war.
In July of 2023, just five days after he launched his third consecutive campaign for Congress in California's 34th Congressional District, David Kim got a request he wasn't prepared for. AIPAC-the American Israel Public Affairs Committee-wanted to meet. The organization had sent the message through a trusted emissary, a high-profile businessman in the local Korean community who was an acquaintance of Kim's and a sometime political ally.
Kim told his friend that the meeting wasn't necessary. He understood AIPAC's position on the question of Israel, Palestine, and Washington, and it was at odds with his own view. Thanks, but no thanks.
Kim and AIPAC, of course, would meet again.
AIPAC and its allied super PAC have spent some $100 million this year [link removed] to install a Congress friendly to Israel amid its brutality in Gaza and Lebanon. But it's always done so with a conceit that fealty to Israel takes precedence over party politics. AIPAC endorsed 233 Republicans and 152 Democrats over the course of the 2024 election cycle, and maintains the pretense of being a bipartisan organization. But most of its spending this cycle came in primaries targeting progressive Democrats who were insufficiently supportive of Israel.
When it comes to the general election, AIPAC has only gotten financially involved directly in a single race, and it's David Kim's.
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