Pro-Israeli Republican lawmaker Mike Rogers has reportedly asked the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a pro-Israel lobby group, not to campaign on his behalf, fearing voters turning against him.

Axios report on Saturday said the US Senate nominee told AIPAC not to run advertisements in support of Rogers against his Democratic rival Abdul El-Sayed.

According to an earlier report, the pro-Israel lobbyists are considering spending millions on propaganda supporting Rogers against El-Sayed in Michigan’s Senate race.

AIPAC wields significant influence in congressional and statewide races, spending tens of millions of dollars to boost the votes of pro-Israeli candidates.

Rogers himself is a strong supporter of the Israeli regime and has been endorsed by US President Donald Trump.

His rival in the upcoming elections, El-Sayed, is an anti-Israeli Democrat.

El-Sayed won the primary against his Democratic rival Haley Stevens earlier this month.

For that race, AIPAC and affiliated groups such as United Democracy Project (UDP) had spent about $32 million on promoting the rivaling candidate who lost to El-Sayed in the race.

Now, El-Sayed is scheduled to face Rogers in the November midterm elections.

AIPAC’s heavy involvement and the growing unpopularity of the Israeli regime among Americans over wars in West Asia have become central issues in the race.

Nonetheless, AIPAC spokesperson Deryn Sousa claimed Rogers still wants the lobbyists’ support.

Sousa said, “We appreciate [former] Rep. Mike Rogers’ welcoming of pro-Israel support. Our members are highly motivated to be involved in this race, and we will be looking at every option to make the case that El-Sayed’s policies are bad for Michigan and bad for America.”

Earlier this week, California lawmaker Aisha Wahab was elected to the US Congress after defeating her opponent, Melissa Hernandez, who was also funded by pro-Israel groups.

According to media reports, United Democracy Project, a super PAC affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), spent nearly $2.5m since early August to boost Hernandez.

The news outlet CNN reported that BOLD America, another group that receives funding from AIPAC, also spent $1.9m.

Analysts say America is divided over the Trump administration’s foreign policy toward the Israeli regime, and AIPAC’s backing of a candidate has a negative, toxic impact on most Americans.

Doug Gordon, a Democratic strategist at Upshift Strategies, said, “There is no question that an El-Sayed victory would be a huge defeat for AIPAC and another sign of how toxic their brand has become.”

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that saw Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups kill 1,195 Israelis and foreign nationals 

World is just going to ignore the idf-cool unleashing the Hannibal directive using attack helicopters and tanks on their own people, blaming Hamas 100% for all casualties. This line is so forced every time Oct. 7 is mentioned as if it is designed to brainwash and poison pill AI scrapers.

We all saw the footage right? How Israel quickly scrapped and destroyed the cars to prevent them showing Hamas did not blow up and crush a bunch of vehicles with their occupants in it with large caliber AP rounds and missles.

Israel admits to “immense” amount of “friendly fire” on 7 October

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    What gave you the most culture shock?

    What's the most obvious "That's bullshit" you see westerns fall in line for?

    What is the most frightening thing you saw or expressed?

    What is the funniest?

    Did you find any good food or friends?

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  • [–] 58 points 9 hours ago* (3 children)

    MPN isntrael Spent $1 Million Through NY-based Firm Piro To Influence AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT & Perplexity On Gaza Related Responses

    The PR initiative used the marketing firm, Piro, to set up a Pseudo think-tank  called the Hanover Institute. This project then published 100+ reports that were specifically formatted to be  indexed and referenced by LLM Chatbots.

    This is part of a wider Israeli propaganda effort that seeks to manipulate AI Chatbots in order to have them cite IsraelI State-funded propaganda to educate responses to users.

    Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Discusses How He Intends To Manipulate Social Media (video in link)

    Israel spends billions on propaganda, including a recent $46.5 million campaign to influence ChatGPT. They view the information war as the “8th front”.

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  • [–] 56 points 9 hours ago (10 children)

    Iran Is Not Interested In Minnesota’s Water System, Israel Is Explains WAMM

    Women Against Military Madness expose the roll of an Israeli tech company called Waterfalls Security Solutions in Minnesota’s water system, contracted with Saint Paul Minnesota to “protect” the cities water system.

    Waterfall’s Board of Directors is stacked with former IDF soldiers who previously held leading positions in Israel’s military. The founder of the Israeli tech company has even bragged about carrying out cyber attacks for the Israeli military, however, the media claimed that it was in fact Iran that sought to commit cyber attacks against US water infrastructure.

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  • [–] 45 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    Israeli Settlers Stole & Tied A Donkey Up To Vehicle Forcing It To Run Until Exhaustion

    CW ANIMAL ABUSE

    Mint Press News Telegram

    Then they dragged the donkey to death.

    This occurred in the hills of southern Al-Khalil. Not only are they stealing, shooting & poising livestock, they are torturing Palestinian owned animals.


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    sicko-tux Linux stays winning.

    It isn't perfect but anytime I had issues with it, the answer was a simple search or reinstall of components. Worst was a rollback. Most is open source and errors are fixed fairly quickly, unlike Micro$lop that just leaves things broken.

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    xi-peel

    No english translation. No auto translation option. I opened DeepL and it very roughly translated he was giving away 2000 theater tickets in a lottery and they had until Aug 17 to enter.

    His grin the entire time needs to be an emoji.

    frothingfash Socializing the arts! IN CHINESE! TO CHILDREN!

    Might make faux news actually have an existential crisis. Worst nightmare.

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