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The Intercept Briefing

How Does AIPAC Shape Washington? We Tracked Every Dollar.

The Intercept Briefing

The Intercept

Politics, Unknown, Daily News, History, News

4.86.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to The Intercept Briefing, a new podcast from our newsroom. In our first episode, politics reporters Jessica Washington and Akela Lacy break down The Intercept’s recent investigation on how the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has shaped U.S. foreign policy, as well as, as well as its record-breaking spending in the 2024 election cycle to unseat members of Congress who are who are insufficiently pro-Israel. 





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0:00.0

This year's election is on track to be the most expensive ever,

0:08.0

with influential groups like APAC becoming consequential forces in shaping American political spending and discourse.

0:15.0

Twenty more pro-Israel candidates endorsed by APAC won their primary elections in Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, and Oregon.

0:25.7

For more than 60 years, APAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has focused on issue-based

0:31.9

lobbying to, quote-unquote, build bipartisan support for the U.S. Israel relationship.

0:37.1

But in 2022, the influential group embraced a new strategy, targeting members of Congress

0:42.6

critical of unconditional military aid to Israel.

0:46.3

Welcome to the Intercept briefing, a new podcast from our newsroom.

0:50.4

I'm Jessica Washington, a politics reporter at The Intercept, and your host this week.

0:54.6

Every week we'll bring you stories from the Intercepts Newsroom and discuss the most consequential issues of our time.

1:00.0

This week, we're bringing you a story from senior politics reporter, Akela Lacey.

1:04.3

Over the years, she was reported on the role APAC has played in individual races, injecting millions to oust any member of Congress insufficiently pro-Israel.

1:13.2

She joins me now to discuss her latest investigation, which looks at the sum of APEC's

1:17.8

massive outflow of money this election cycle and the impact those funds have had on shaping

1:22.2

U.S. Israel policy. Welcome to the show, Akela. Thank you, Jesse. To start, I want to ask, I mean, many people are probably familiar with APAC, but as someone who's an expert, I would argue, what is APAC and what do they do?

1:35.5

So to answer that question, I'll zoom out a little bit, which is why do we even care about what APAC is?

1:42.2

Israel's war on Gaza is entering its 13th month, and APAC has played a huge

1:47.6

outsized role in this year's elections. But the role of the Israel lobby goes back half a century

1:53.1

plus to Israel's founding, upon which it became the top recipient of U.S. military aid and economic

2:00.3

aid going back to 1946. I think we've given them over $300 U.S. military aid and economic aid going back to 1946.

2:02.5

I think we've given them over $300 billion.

2:04.8

They are the top recipient of aid every year, year upon year.

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