The Democratic Party’s growing antisemitic wing is out to blacklist support for Israel, or at least the nation’s main pro-Israel lobbying and political action group, AIPAC.
Never mind that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spends far less than other interest groups: Climate-obsessed California billionaire Tom Steyer, a prime AIPAC-denouncer, has spent much more on campaign donations all by himself these last few years.
But such is the power of Democrats’ hard left that delegates to the Democratic National Committee’s April meeting will debate a resolution that first condemns “the growing influence of dark money and corporate-backed independent expenditures in Democratic elections” but then singles out only AIPAC as “undermining public trust in democratic institutions.”
But AIPAC isn’t “corporate-backed” or “dark money”: its SuperPAC donors, all successful American individuals, are completely open about who they are and what they support.
The same cannot be said about the real dark money spent on American politics, most of which — about $1.2 billion — supported Democrat candidates and issues in the last election cycle.
The elusive Sixteen Thirty Fund spends hundreds of millions of dollars on leftist causes each cycle, disguising its reach through dozens of fronts with names like “Floridians for a Fair Shake” or “Michigan Families for Economic Prosperity.”
The anti-AIPAC trolls insinuate — indeed, often openly charge — that its first loyalty is to a foreign country, that its dual-allegiance donors and representatives have undue influence in Congress.
But one of the Sixteen Thirty Fund’s largest donors is 90-year-old Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, who somehow can flow hundreds of millions of dollars into left-wing American politics.
By comparison, the largest individual donors to AIPAC contribute at most $1 million each.
If Democrats are so worried about money in politics, they could look at the teachers unions, which routinely spend close to $1 billion per election cycle; then again, virtually all that cash goes to Dems, so the party’s unlikely to ask where that lobby’s loyalties lie.
The DNC resolution is backed by the same hard-left groups behind “Track AIPAC,” which brands politicians who’ve accepted donations from any pro-Israel group, including leftist ones, or even from Jewish individuals, as supporters of “genocide.”
Talk about blood libels!
Beware: This fight is about a lot more than just “anti-Zionism,” antisemitism or even the bizarre lefty “unicause.”
The rise of institutionalized antisemitism is a canary in civilization’s coal mine: A warning that the forces of illiberalism have achieved a perilous strength.
Even if you despise AIPAC and all it stands for, know that this blacklist is a win for the barbarians among us.
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