Shiite scholar Hassan Qazwini of Dearborn Heights called voting a "religious duty" and "powerful weapon" ahead of the Senate primary, said Israel and its lobby treat America as a "cash cow," and warned of "AIPAC's plots" against Michiganders.
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El Sayed Distinguishes AIPAC From Judaism
Michigan Democratic primary winner Abdul El Sayed:
AIPAC and Israel are not the same as Judaism and the Jewish people... I love the Jewish people.
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Mamdani Criticizes AIPAC Dark Money
Reporter: Some members of the Jewish community, including Rep. Josh Gottheimer, were alarmed when you called AIPAC “monsters who move dark money.”
Mamdani: “I want to be very clear.” He said the focus should be on the war, arguing that chi...
Reporter: Some members of the Jewish community, including Rep. Josh Gottheimer, were alarmed when you called AIPAC “monsters who move dark money.”
Mamdani: “I want to be very clear.” He said the focus should be on the war, arguing that children are being killed daily and that more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire.
He also cited the death of Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Wishah, who he said was killed in an Israeli strike. (Israel has identified Wishah as a confirmed Hamas terrorist.)
Mamdani accused AIPAC of supporting “a status quo of immorality” and said the organization has opposed efforts to bring safety and stability to the region.
He added that AIPAC helps defend that status quo through political donations and, at times, through “dark money,” which he said is routed through outside groups whose donors are not fully disclosed until after elections.
“When we ask ourselves how such death and destruction is happening overseas, we also name those who allow it to take place,” he said.
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Mamdani Criticizes AIPAC Influence
Zohran Mamdani on AIPAC:
In AIPAC, for whom the only thing more frightening than democracy being allowed to run its course is an end to genocide and Netanyahu's wars.
They move millions in dark money to accomplish a single goal: to preser...
Zohran Mamdani on AIPAC:
In AIPAC, for whom the only thing more frightening than democracy being allowed to run its course is an end to genocide and Netanyahu's wars.
They move millions in dark money to accomplish a single goal: to preserve their power so that they can turn us against one another instead of our leaders turning towards the moral change we all know to be necessary.
In the wealthiest city, in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, we need not live in fear of monsters any longer.
