How Progressive Democrats Were Railroaded in the Primaries by AIPAC and Allied Groups

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🗓️ 26 February 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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This week on Deconstructed, host Ryan Grim revisits his reporting on how the Democratic Majority for Israel, Mainstream Democrats PAC, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spent so much money on the politics of Israel that the question of Israel-Palestine now dominates Democratic primaries.

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0:00.0	I'm Jordan Henderson and Home of Warwick here to send to me online is seen by
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0:10.8	Grassroots, couches like me
0:13.0	And players, families
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0:32.3	Welcome to Deconstructed, I'm Ryan Grimm
0:34.7	Today we're bringing you something a little bit different
0:36.8	An audio version of a recent story I wrote for the intercept
0:40.1	The story is ostensibly about the role played by an unusual coalition of big money groups
0:44.8	A-PAC, Democratic Majority for Israel, a Super PAC backed by LinkedIn, billionaire Reed Hoffman
0:50.4	And another Super PAC funded by the now indicted Sam Bankman Fried
0:54.5	What brought them all together though was the goal of beating progressive Democratic candidates in Democratic primaries
1:00.9	In the story Mark Melman, the head of DMFI, justifies his strategy explicitly on the basis of his pro-Israel politics
1:07.8	Telling me that the left in the United States is too critical of Israel and that the Israeli right uses the American left to fear Manga their way into power
1:15.6	So he's trying to beat the Israeli right by first beating the American left
1:20.0	The money behind these organizations of course has other reasons to oppose the wing of the Democrats
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