“Next week, AIPAC is set to spend at least $3,847,990 against me,” Abdul el Sayed complained during his successful Democratic Senate primary campaign in Michigan. “Why? Because [Haley Stevens] is more committed to the future of a foreign country than keeping your tax dollars here to provide schools and healthcare for you and your kids.”

Welcome to the falsehoods and radical biases of the Democratic Party of 2026, which has made Israel the defining issue in primary after primary, and for whom the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is an organization of Americans exercising their constitutional right to petition the government, is depicted as a bogeyman responsible for everything wrong with America and more. Opposition to AIPAC is rapidly and absurdly becoming a Democratic Party litmus test, with candidates competing to prove who is most hostile to the organization and to the enormously valuable U.S.-Israel alliance it supports.