Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Aipac halts candidate endorsements amid US backlash against Israel

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‘Political candidates’ once reflexive support for Israel has increasingly become a liability’When the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the most prominent pro-Israel lobby group in the US, announced on Wednesday that it would stop endorsing candidates or make direct contributions to them, its many critics were quick to <a href="https://x.com/_waleedshahid/status/2113004469046632477?s=20" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">hail</a> the development as Aipac’s admission of <a href="https://x.com/JeremyBenAmi/status/2113023818704859147?s=20" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">how</a> <a href="https://x.com/tparsi/status/2113228824557023272?s=46&t=XL3hLKk6NHntmhCc79r-NA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">toxic</a> its brand had become.The announcement marked a significant reversal that underscored just how profoundly US public opinion of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Israel</a> has shifted over the latest war in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Gaza</a>, and how political candidates’ once reflexive support for Israel has increasingly become <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/ritchie-torres-democrats-israel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">a liability</a>. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/22/aipac-politics-endorsements-israel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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