Anti-Israel politicans are obsessed with AIPAC and ignore the real foreign threats to US politics

More than any political cycle in memory, the 2026 primary campaign season has been marked by frequent, and often hysterical, condemnations of the influence of the so-called “Israel lobby.”After the conspiratorial gadfly Rep.Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) lost his Republican primary in May, he quipped about the Trump-endorsed former Navy SEAL officer who defeated him: “I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv.”Way to question the patriotism of a decorated SEAL Team Six veteran, Tom.

Keep it classy!On the Democratic side, the bogeyman du jour has been the America Israel Public Affairs Committee.Some successful Democratic candidates, such as Abdul El-Sayed in Arab-heavy Michigan, rode anti-AIPAC fervor to victory.And some losing candidates, such as the comically corrupt Cori Bush in St.Louis, blamed AIPAC for their rejection.In her concession speech, Bush vowed to dismantle AIPAC’s “kingdom.”Your loss couldn’t possibly be because you defrauded two federal relief programs during COVID-19, could it, Cori?These (literal) losers are barking up the wrong tree.Massie had become a thorn in President Donald Trump’s side, regularly voting against the president on domestic priorities.That, not any outside pro-Israel spending, is why Massie went down in flames.For Democrats, El-Sayed’s success alone belies the popular mythology of AIPAC as a juggernaut — something everyone should have intuited 11 years ago, when the lobby failed to stop former President Barack Obama’s terrible Iran nuclear deal.Even more to the point: AIPAC is a group of activist Americans who lobby and deploy money for an issue they care about.Fact is, AIPAC is no different than the NRA or the NAACP.Sore loser hysterics notwithstanding, there is truth to the allegation of meddlesome foreign interference in American politics.But that interference isn’t coming from Israel.It’s coming from terror-tied Islamic gr...