Left-wing media pundits and activists were enraged after “Squad” member Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., lost his primary election on Tuesday, blaming the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) role in the race.
“One of the House Democrats to come out for a ceasefire last year … is defeated,” former MSNBC host and Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan wrote on social media. “Replaced by a new House Democrat, backed by AIPAC, who deploys racist dogwhistles and refuses to criticize Benjamin Netanyahu.”
“Congress just got a lot worse than it already is,” Hasan added.
Cliff Albright, a co-founder of Black Voters Matter, also took aim at AIPAC.
“Moderate Democrats—some claiming to be pro-Black—celebrating MAGA billionaires ability to literally BUY a congressional seat by replacing an unapologetically Black Black man with a mini Manchin with racist tendencies… is not gonna age well. But by all means, celebrate,” he said.
Ravi Mangla of the New York Working Families Party reacted to Latimer’s victory by suggesting that if AIPAC’s issues were popular, “they woudln’t have to spend $17 million to take out a public school principal.”
The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank wrote a column on Tuesday that called Bowman the “Democratic Trump.”
“This is the story of two New York demagogues. Both men have a history of bigotry, bullying, law breaking, promoting bogus conspiracy theories, engaging in obscene public rants and playing the martyr,” he wrote.
Milbank pointed to Bowman’s decision to pull a fire alarm while Democrats were trying to delay an important vote in the House. He also wrote that Bowman, a former school principal, “called the (accurate) reports of Hamas attackers raping Israeli women on Oct. 7 a ‘lie’ and ‘propaganda.’”
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