It is a theme that Beinart has been pushing for years.
But this is a theme in crazed progressive spaces, that AIPAC is racist and attacks Black politicians, especially women of color.
Equally insane was this Intercept headline last year, where the subhead likewise contradicts the headline:
Similarly, anti-Israel Rep. Summer Lee said last year that "what AIPAC does to me is textbook anti blackness" and complained that their support of pro-Israel Black candidates is still "textbook racism actually.”
Textbook racism is discriminating against people of a certain race, not giving millions to their campaigns.
And even that is not a complete list.
The "progressives" know they are lying, but they want to make people think that Zionism is racism, Their evidence is just as inane as Beinart and The Intercept's. For example, Rashida Tlaib and Nina Turner recently wrote in The Nation:
Since 1948, the US has approved more than $141 billion in weapons to the Israeli government as it continues to carry out ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. Just imagine what $141 billion invested in our communities could do instead.According to Tlaib and Bush, the Jews are taking money away from Blacks. This is as antisemitic as it gets. US military aid to Israel is a minuscule percentage of the federal budget (and most of it goes to US defense contractors, employing countless numbers of people of color.) Yet none of the other spending is criticized. Not the $600 billion every year to pay the interest on the national debt, not the billions that go to Egypt and Jordan annually, not even the trillions of dollars the US spent on defense over the same time period. No, only Jews are taking money away from Blacks.
People who hate Israel want to racialize the conversation, even though they know it is nonsense. They are the racists, not AIPAC.
In 2022, AIPAC supported a majority of members of the Black and Hispanic caucuses in Congress. This year they supported many candidates of color - you can go through their list - including these Black female candidates:
Which disproves Beinart's thesis that Black candidates are more often anti-Israel. The truth is the opposite - most of them are pro-Israel, not just Ritchie Torres.
That is the fact that the anti-Israel Left does not want you to know. They want to divide the Black and Jewish communities. They are the ones promoting both racism and antisemitism, and they are doing it while pretending to be against both.
