The the Hello and welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Henwood.

Another shocking departure from the two top format. Today three guests.

David Moore will tell us who's funding Apax campaign against

Progressive Democrats and which ones it's targeting. Marin Rappaport will tell us

how Chuck Schumer's BB Must Go speech in the ICJ decision are playing in Israel,

and the Psychoanalyst Jameson Webster,

we'll talk about how social problems

are expressing themselves as mental health issues

among the young.

With formerly solid political support for anything Israel did cracking in the US, the country's friends are mobilizing to fight back.

Some of that fight is on campuses, but with an election coming up this year, and criticism of Israel's imperial brutality growing

within the Democratic Party, its most notorious lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs

Committee, AIPAC, is raising money and writing checks to defeat what it sees as enemies of Israel.

You might not be surprised to learn that many of the contributors to this effort are big funders of the GOP.

Here's David Moore of Sludge, which describes itself as an independent nonprofit news outlet that produces investigative journalism on lobbying and money in politics with the details.

How much does A-Pack have to spend and how much have they spent so far and what do they plan to do for the rest of the election cycle?

APAC spends money in a couple of different ways and in our most recent article on Sledge we covered three of those bodies. The first is its PAC and the second is its

super PAC called the United Democracy Project and the third is an allied super PAC that's called

DMFI. That's in several acronyms of course.

AIPAC's pack serves primarily to funnel donations to lawmakers.

Its super pack is sitting on 42 million dollars in cash as of its most recent filing and its

Allied super PAC PMFI has nearly $3 million more as they did in the most recent

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