Increasing pressure on Biden to not accept AIPAC grants

, A coalition of progressive groups asked US President Joe Biden and other Democratic Party officials to raise funds for the American Public Affairs Committee. – Israel known as AIPAC (AIPAC) .

Alliance ” AIPAC Reject” includes a group of congressional Democrats and the Democratic Socialists of America and is directed at the American-Israel Public Relations Committee and affiliated groups. This committee is a political committee and has already invested millions of dollars in the 2024 US elections.

This is while Joe Biden’s support for the war in Gaza and the continued killing of innocent people in this region, with the protest action of some liberal activists , and the non-commitment vote has been accompanied by Democrats in intra-party elections in the states of Minnesota and Michigan.

At the same time, Ashiq Siddique, vice president of the Democratic Socialists of America, stated that this coalition has been trying to put together for months Organizations are trying to identify the harmful effects of AIPAC.

The coalition called on the entire Democratic Party not to accept any support from AIPAC, noting that the group receives millions of dollars from donors who support Republican interests.

AIPAC also expressed in a statement that only The criteria for evaluating the candidates from both parties is their position towards strengthening the US-Israel relations.

In the meantime, when Biden was a senator and vice president of the United States, he was the main beneficiary of this pro-Israel lobby and during more than From the past 34 years, it has received more than 2.5 million dollars in financial aid from them.

Also, the US Federal Election Commission announced in a report that AIPAC collected about 24.8 million dollars from January 2023 to January 2024.

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The US presidential election will be held on November 5, 2024. According to the latest Reuters/Ipsos polls in February, former US President Donald Trump with 37% approval rating has surpassed current US President Joe Biden with 34% approval rating, and the competition between the two is going shoulder to shoulder. .

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