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Show captionJamaal Bowman at an event at Suny Westchester community college in
Valhalla, New York, on 10 May 2023. Photograph: John Minchillo/AP
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PRO-ISRAEL GROUP POURS MILLIONS INTO UNSEATING NEW YORK PROGRESSIVE JAMAAL
BOWMAN

Super Pac has run ads opposing the congressman and supporting his opponent as he
criticizes Israel’s military campaign in Gaza

Alice Herman and Will Craft
Mon 20 May 2024 15.27 EDT
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A Super Pac affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac)
has revved up its campaign spending, pouring $2m into a New York congressional
primary to oppose the progressive incumbent Jamaal Bowman.

Campaign finance disclosures released this weekend showed the Super Pac, called
United Democracy Project (UDP), spending about $1m in support of Bowman’s
opponent, the moderate Democrat George Latimer and $1m in negative
advertisements opposing Bowman. If the group succeeds in defeating Bowman, it
will deliver a significant blow to the progressive wing of the House.

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“They don’t want Israel to be criticized, they don’t want Israel to be held
accountable – they don’t want anyone to mention Palestine or speak up for
Palestinian rights and lives,” said Bowman during an interview with MSNBC on
Saturday.

In comparison, progressive groups including Justice Democrats and Working
Families Party have spent less than $300,000 in support of Bowman and opposing
Latimer. Latimer’s campaign has similarly outpaced Bowman’s in fundraising, with
Latimer garnering more than $3.6m and Bowman raising about $2.6m so far.

Pro-Israel US groups plan $100m effort to unseat progressives over Gaza

In an email to the Guardian, an Aipac spokesperson previously described Latimer
as “a strong advocate for the US-Israel relationship in clear contrast to his
opponent who is aligned with the anti-Israel extremist fringe”. Bowman has
sharply criticized Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and was among the first of
his colleagues to call for a ceasefire.



Notably, ads countering Bowman do not mention Israel at all. One ad from UDP
accuses Bowman of having “his own agenda”, highlighting policy differences
between the congressman and Joe Biden.

The heavily Democratic contested district, with large numbers of Black, Jewish
and Latino constituents, elected the progressive “Squad” member Bowman in 2020
in an upset primary election in 2020.

Aipac’s forays into campaigns represent a new avenue of political activism for
the pro-Israel lobbying group, which until the 2022 election cycle did not spend
on campaigns. By forming a Super Pac, which can legally contribute unlimited
amounts of money on advertisements and communications in races, Aipac has been
able to ramp up its influence.

Aipac planned to spend $100m on campaigns this year and has so far targeted a
wide and at times unexpected range of races – with mixed results.



In an Indiana congressional primary, UDP spent $1.6m in a successful bid to stop
the former Republican congressman John Hostettler, an isolationist-leaning
Republican who in the past made antisemitic remarks, from regaining a seat in
the House. In a Maryland race, the Super Pac threw its support behind the
Democratic candidate Sarah Elfreth, who beat the former US Capitol police
officer Harry Dunn. Neither Dunn, whose book about the January 6 attack
propelled him to national prominence, or Elfreth, a Maryland state senator, made
comments about Israel-Gaza during the race.

But candidates backed by pro-Israel groups have not succeeded in every race so
far this year – UDP also dropped $4.6m in a failed bid to stop the Democratic
congressional candidate Dave Min from advancing in his primary race against
Democratic candidate Joanna Weiss.


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