Anti-Israel politicans are obsessed with AIPAC — and ignore the real foreign threats to US politics

Anti-Israel politicans are obsessed with AIPAC — and ignore the real foreign threats to US politics

While critics target Israel, countries like Saudi Arabia spent nearly $92 million lobbying Washington last year to influence US politics.

POLITICS: Anti-Israel politicans are obsessed with AIPAC — and ignore the real foreign threats to US politics

More than any political cycle in memory, the 2026 primary campaign season has been marked by frequent, and often hysterical, condemnations of the influence of the so-called “Israel lobby.” After the conspiratorial gadfly Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) lost his Republican primary in May, he quipped about the Trump-endorsed former Navy SEAL officer who defeated him: “I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took …