Jamaal Bowman faces the full fury of the Israel lobby.
Jamaal Bowman’s shot wasn’t sinking. The second-term congressman from New York was playing two-on-two on a brightly colored outdoor basketball court in Westchester County, and the kids opposite him—one 18 years old, the other 23—were winning handily.—but he wasn’t exactly outfitted for hoops.
Engel was also the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He was hawkish and he loved AIPAC, and it loved him. But this was before the lobbying group began spending actively in elections; perhaps it didn’t realize just how much trouble its man was in until it was too late. “If I didn’t have a primary, I wouldn’t care,” about attending a local event about police brutality justOne election cycle later, in 2022, AIPAC began really putting money into campaigns. The group targeted Democratic primaries, boosting more conservative candidates in deep-blue districts and in open seats. By spending exorbitantly, it was able to help a lot offor an even more ambitious blitz to unseat incumbent progressives, targeting in particular the group known as the Squad.
He ran off to take a call. “It’s Carpenters guys, well within the 100-foot boundary of the polling site, intimidating voters,” he told me. “We called the voter protection team.”
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