Editing AIPAC (section)

==Controversy and criticism==

===Criticism===
One critic, former congressman [[Brian Baird]], who "had admired Israel since I was a kid," but became alienated from AIPAC, argued that "When key votes are cast, the question on the House floor, troublingly, is often not, 'What is the right thing to do for the United States of America?', but 'How is AIPAC going to score this?{{'"}}
He cited a 2009 House resolution he opposed condemning the [[Goldstone Report]] on civilian deaths. "When we had the vote, I said, 'We have member after member coming to the floor to vote on a resolution they've never read, about a report they've never seen, in a place they've never been.{{'"}}<ref name=bruck/>
Baird worries that AIPAC members and supporters believe that they're "supporting Israel" when they are "actually backing policies" such as the killing of civilians in Gaza, "that are antithetical to its highest values and, ultimately, destructive for the country."<ref name=bruck/>

A criticism of AIPAC's proposal for tougher sanctions on [[Iran]] is that the primary incentive [[P5+1]] negotiators can give Iran to stop its nuclear program is reduction in the [[Sanctions against Iran|sanctions]] that have harmed Iran's economy. By imposing even harsher sanctions on Iran, AIPAC takes this chip away. According to a "senior" Obama Administration official, the administration told AIPAC leadership that its tougher sanctions on Iran "would blow up the negotiations—the Iranians would walk away from the table." The official asked them, "Why do you know better than we do what strengthens our hand? Nobody involved in the diplomacy thinks that."<ref name=bruck-53/> A former congressional staffer complained to journalist Connie Bruck, "What was striking was how strident the message was," from AIPAC. {{"'}}How could you not pass a resolution that tells the President what the outcome of the negotiations has to be?{{'"}}<ref name=bruck-60>{{cite magazine|last1=Bruck|first1=Connie|title=Friends of Israel|magazine=The New Yorker|date=September 1, 2014|page=60|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/01/friends-israel|access-date=September 9, 2014}}</ref>
[[Image:AIPAC Protest DC 2005-a.JPG|thumb|250px|right|Protesters at AIPAC conference in [[Washington, D.C.]], May 2005]]

AIPAC has been criticized as being unrepresentative of American Jews who support Israel, and supportive only of right-wing Israeli policy and viewpoints.<ref name="SAIP">{{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/2007/12/12/ajc_poll/ |title=New poll reveals how unrepresentative neocon Jewish groups are |last=Greenwald |first=Glenn|author-link=Glenn Greenwald|date=December 12, 2007 |website=[[Salon (website)|Salon]]|access-date=February 8, 2017}}</ref> A PEW center poll found that only 38% of American Jews believe that the Israeli government is sincerely pursuing peace; 44% believe that the construction of new settlements damages Israel's national security.<ref name=pew-peace>{{cite web|title=A PORTRAIT OF JEWISH AMERICANS Chapter 5: Connection With and Attitudes Toward Israel|url=http://www.pewforum.org/2013/10/01/chapter-5-connection-with-and-attitudes-towards-israel/|website=Pew Research, Religion and Public Life Project|publisher=Pew|date=October 1, 2013|access-date=September 14, 2014}}</ref><ref name=bruck-52-pew>{{cite magazine|last1=Bruck|first1=Connie|title=Friends of Israel|magazine=The New Yorker|date=September 1, 2014|page=52|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/01/friends-israel|access-date=September 9, 2014|quote=Today, a growing number of American Jews, though still devoted to Israel, struggle with the lack of progress toward peace with the Palestinians. Many feel that AIPAC does not speak for them. The Pew Center's survey found that only thirty-eight per cent of American Jews believe that the Israeli government is sincerely pursuing peace; forty-four per cent believe that the construction of new settlements damages Israel's national security.}}</ref>

Among the best-known critical works about AIPAC is ''[[The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy]]'', by [[University of Chicago]] professor [[John Mearsheimer]] and [[Harvard Kennedy School]] professor [[Stephen Walt]]. In the working paper and resulting book, they accuse AIPAC of being "the most powerful and best known" component of a larger pro-Israel lobby that distorts American foreign policy. They write:<ref name=Mear>
{{Cite magazine |last1=Mearsheimer |first1=John |last2= Walt |first2=Stephen |date=March 23, 2006 |title=The Israel Lobby |language=en |magazine=London Review of Books |volume=28 |issue=6 |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v28/n06/john-mearsheimer/the-israel-lobby |access-date=2022-02-26 |issn=0260-9592}}</ref>

<blockquote>[AIPAC's] success is due to its ability to reward legislators and congressional candidates who support its agenda, and to punish those who challenge it. ... AIPAC makes sure that its friends get strong financial support from the many pro-Israel [[political action committees]]. Anyone who is seen as hostile to Israel can be sure that AIPAC will direct campaign contributions to his or her political opponents. ... The bottom line is that AIPAC, a ''de facto'' agent for a foreign government, has a stranglehold on Congress, with the result that US policy towards Israel is not debated there, even though that policy has important consequences for the entire world.</blockquote>

AIPAC has also been the subject of criticism by prominent politicians including Democrats [[J. William Fulbright]],<ref name=Forward>Ori Nir, [http://www.forward.com/articles/4064/ Leaders Fear Probe Will Force Pro-Israel Lobby To File as ‘Foreign Agent’] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127095221/http://www.forward.com/articles/4064/ |date=January 27, 2012 }}, ''[[The Forward]]'', December 31, 2004.</ref> [[Dave Obey]]<ref>{{cite news| last = Edsall| first = Thomas B.|author2=Moore, Molly| title = Pro-Israel Lobby Has Strong Voice|newspaper=The Washington Post| date = September 5, 2004| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62438-2004Sep4?language=printer| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200324085403/https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62438-2004Sep4/?language=printer| url-status = dead| archive-date = March 24, 2020| access-date =August 14, 2008}}</ref> and [[Mike Gravel]],<ref>{{cite episode| title = Gravel Discusses Campaign Funding, Relations with Iran| url = https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec07/gravel_10-01.html| series = The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer| airdate = October 1, 2007| access-date = August 24, 2017| archive-date = January 19, 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140119000232/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec07/gravel_10-01.html| url-status = dead}}</ref> as well as Republicans [[John Hostettler]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Marans|first=Daniel|title=Why Pro-Israel Groups Are Targeting An Indiana Republican|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-hostettler-pro-israel-groups-gop-primary_n_6638117ee4b0e44cfb120fb4|work=Huffington Post|date=6 May 2024}}</ref> and [[Thomas Massie]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Magid|first=Jacob|title=GOP Rep. lashes AIPAC for 'foreign interference' after Iron Dome vote attack ad|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/gop-rep-lashes-aipac-for-foreign-interference-after-iron-dome-vote-attack-ad/|work=Times of Israel|date=28 September 2021}}</ref>

Democratic congressman [[Jim Moran]] from [[Northern Virginia]] has been a vocal critic of AIPAC, causing national controversy in 2007 and drawing criticism from many Jewish groups after he told California Jewish magazine ''[[Tikkun (magazine)|Tikkun]]'' that AIPAC had been "pushing the [Iraq War] from the beginning," and that, "I don't think they represent the mainstream of American Jewish thinking at all, but because they are so well organized, and their members are extraordinarily powerful—most of them are quite wealthy—they have been able to exert power."<ref name="politico moran">{{cite news|last=Hearn|first=Josephine|title=Dems slam Moran's tying AIPAC to Iraq war|url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5925.html|access-date=May 31, 2010|newspaper=Politico|date=September 19, 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100425053328/http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5925.html| archive-date= April 25, 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref name="washpost moran">{{cite news|last=Gardner|first=Amy|title= Moran Upsets Jewish Groups Again|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/14/AR2007091402171.html|access-date=May 31, 2010|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=September 15, 2007}}</ref> AIPAC's membership has been described as "overwhelmingly Democratic" by one conservative columnist (Jennifer Rubin).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rubin|first1=Jennifer |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/aipac-weighs-in-all-is-not-well-with-the-us-approach-to-israel/2011/03/29/AG6WrxVH_blog.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=June 15, 2011 |title=AIPAC weighs in: All is not well with the U.S. approach to Israel |access-date=May 29, 2013}}</ref>

In 2020, Democratic congresswoman [[Betty McCollum]] accused AIPAC of [[hate speech]] and said the group is a [[hate group]].<ref name="aje2020" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mccollum.house.gov/media/press-releases/mccollum-statement-hate-speech-makes-aipac-hate-group|title=McCollum Statement: Hate Speech Makes AIPAC a Hate Group|date=February 12, 2020|website=Congresswoman Betty McCollum}}</ref>

In 2020, Senator [[Bernie Sanders]] said AIPAC provides a platform for [[bigotry]] and said he will not attend their conference.<ref name="aje2020">{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/2/24/sanders-accuses-pro-israel-group-of-giving-platform-to-bigotry|title=Sanders accuses pro-Israel group of giving platform to 'bigotry'|website=Al Jazeera|first=Usaid|last=Siddiqui|date=February 24, 2020|access-date=September 1, 2022}}</ref> In 2023 (February 19), on [[Columbia Broadcasting System|CBS]] ''[[Face the Nation]]'', Sanders said that AIPAC, formerly bipartisan, had evolved towards attempting to "destroy" the [[Progressivism in the United States|American progressive movement]].<ref name="face_the_nation_2023_02_19_cbs">[[Bernie Sanders|Sanders, Bernie]], interviewed by [[Margaret Brennan]], February 19, 2023, ''[[Face the Nation]],'' [[Columbia Broadcasting System|CBS]], retrieved February 19, 2023</ref>

====Alleged complicity with antisemitism====
Critics have alleged that AIPAC is [[Zionist antisemitism|antisemitic]], complicit in antisemitism, or silent concerning antisemitism coming from Donald Trump and other right-wing politicians.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 25, 2022 |first1=Gabe |last1=Friedman |first2=Ron |last2=Kampeas |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/aipac-gop-silent-on-trump-warning-us-jews-to-get-their-act-together-on-israel/ |title=AIPAC, GOP silent on Trump warning US Jews to 'get their act together' on Israel |work=[[The Times of Israel]] |accessdate=2025-03-31}}</ref> Eva Borgwardt, writing for ''[[The Nation]]'', criticized AIPAC for alleged complicity with antisemitism, stating that the organization "has welcomed Trump—and his top donors—with open arms, while refusing to condemn his blatantly antisemitic remarks."<ref>{{cite magazine |date=November 1, 2024 |first=Eva |last=Borgwardt |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/adl-trump-rally-fascism/ |title=Let's Call the ADL What It Is: an Ally of Fascists |magazine=[[The Nation]] |accessdate=2025-03-31}}</ref>

In August 2022, AIPAC tweeted that "[[George Soros]] has a long history of backing anti-Israel groups...Now he’s giving $1 million to help @jstreetdotorg support anti-Israel candidates and attack pro-Israel Democrats. AIPAC works to strengthen pro-Israel mainstream Democrats. J Street & Soros work to undermine them." In response to the tweet, the left-wing Jewish organization [[IfNotNow]] denounced AIPAC for antisemitism, tweeting that "AIPAC is the antisemitic far right...They are not a Jewish org, nor claim to be one."<ref>{{cite web |first=Emily |last=Tamkin |url=https://forward.com/opinion/515927/aipac-accused-george-soros-american-politics-antisemitism/ |title=AIPAC accused George Soros of undermining American politics. Is that antisemitic? |date=August 29, 2022 |publisher=[[The Forward]] |accessdate=2023-04-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Michael |last=Starr |url=https://www.jpost.com/bds-threat/article-715593 |title=In ridiculous claim, left-wing Jewish group calls AIPAC 'antisemitic' |date=August 26, 2022 |publisher=[[The Jerusalem Post]] |accessdate=2023-04-06}}</ref>

===Controversies===
Former [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[William Fulbright]], in the 1970s, and former senior [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] official [[Victor Marchetti]], in the 1980s, contended that AIPAC should have registered under the [[Foreign Agents Registration Act]] (FARA).<ref>Ori Nir, [http://www.forward.com/articles/4064/ Leaders Fear Probe Will Force Pro-Israel Lobby To File as ‘Foreign Agent’], [[The Jewish Daily Forward]], December 31, 2004.</ref> FARA requires those who receive funds or act on behalf of a foreign government to register as a foreign agent. However, AIPAC states that the organization is a registered American lobbying group, funded by private donations, and maintains it receives "no financial assistance" from Israel or any other foreign group.<ref>{{cite web
  | title = What is AIPAC? A Voice for the U.S.-Israel Relationship
  | publisher = aipac.org
  | url = http://www.aipac.org/about_AIPAC/Learn_About_AIPAC/26.asp
  | access-date =September 9, 2008| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080917204558/http://aipac.org/about_AIPAC/Learn_About_AIPAC/26.asp| archive-date= September 17, 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref>

In 2006, [[United States Representative|Representative]] [[Betty McCollum]] ([[Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party|DFL]]) of [[Minnesota]] demanded an apology from AIPAC, claiming an AIPAC representative had described her vote against the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006 as "support for terrorists." McCollum stated that AIPAC representatives would not be allowed in her office until she received a written apology for the comment.<ref>{{cite magazine
  | last = McCollum
  | first = Betty
  | title = A Letter to AIPAC
  | magazine = [[New York Review of Books]]
  | volume = 53
  | issue = 10
  | date = June 8, 2006
  | url = http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19063
  | access-date =September 9, 2008}}</ref> AIPAC disputed McCollum's claim, and McCollum has since declared the incident over.<ref>{{cite news
 |author=Forward Staff
 |title=Lawmaker, Aipac Feud After Fight Over Hamas Bill
 |publisher=The Jewish Daily Forward
 |date=May 26, 2006
 |url=http://www.forward.com/articles/lawmaker-aipac-feud-after-fight-over-hamas-bill/
 |access-date=September 9, 2008
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080610134359/http://www.forward.com/articles/lawmaker-aipac-feud-after-fight-over-hamas-bill/
 |archive-date=June 10, 2008
 |url-status=live
}}</ref>

====Steiner resignation====
In 1992, AIPAC president [[David Steiner (AIPAC)|David Steiner]] was forced to resign after he was recorded boasting about his political influence in obtaining aid for Israel. Steiner also claimed that he had "met with (then H.W. Bush [[U.S. Secretary of State]]) [[James Baker|Jim Baker]] and I cut a deal with him. I got, besides the $3 billion, you know they're looking for the Jewish votes, and I'll tell him whatever he wants to hear ... Besides the $10 billion in loan guarantees which was a fabulous thing, $3 billion in foreign, in military aid, and I got almost a billion dollars in other goodies that people don't even know about."<ref name="report">{{cite web|url=http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/1292/9212013.html|title=The Complete Unexpurgated AIPAC Tape|date=November 24, 2009 |publisher=[[WRMEA]]}}</ref> Steiner also claimed to be "negotiating" with the incoming [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] administration over who Clinton would appoint as [[United States Secretary of State|secretary of state]] and secretary of the [[National Security Agency]]. Steiner stated that AIPAC had "a dozen people in [the Clinton] campaign, in the headquarters... in Little Rock, and they're all going to get big jobs."<ref name="report"/>

New York real estate developer Haim Katz told ''[[The Washington Times]]'' that he taped the conversation because "as someone Jewish, I am concerned when a small group has a disproportionate power. I think that hurts everyone, including Jews. If David Steiner wants to talk about the incredible, disproportionate clout AIPAC has, the public should know about it."<ref>[http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/1292/9212069b.html AIPAC President Resigns], Sheldon L. Richman, December/January 1992/93, Page 69.</ref>

====Spying allegations====
{{Main|Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal|United States v. Franklin}}

In April 2005, AIPAC policy director [[Steve J. Rosen|Steven Rosen]] and AIPAC senior Iran analyst [[Keith Weissman]] were fired by AIPAC amid an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] investigation into whether they passed classified U.S. information received from [[Lawrence Franklin]] on to the government of Israel. They were later indicted for illegally conspiring to gather and disclose classified national security information to Israel.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6059-2005Apr20.html "2 Senior AIPAC Employees Ousted"], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', April 21, 2005</ref><ref>Ticker, Bruce. [http://www.pjvoice.com/v3/004aipac.html AIPAC Charges Offer Opportunity], ''[[Philadelphia Jewish Voice]]'', September 2005. Accessed March 27, 2006.</ref> AIPAC agreed to pay the legal fees for Weissman's defense through appeal if necessary.<ref>{{Cite web |title=U.S. to drop Israel lobbyist spy case.. |url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009/5/1/726928/- |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=Daily Kos |language=en}}</ref>

In May 2005, the [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department]] announced that [[Larry Franklin|Lawrence Anthony Franklin]], a U.S. Air Force Reserves colonel working as a Department of Defense analyst at the Pentagon in the office of [[Douglas Feith]], had been arrested and charged by the FBI with providing classified national defense information to Israel. The six-count criminal complaint identified AIPAC by name and described a luncheon meeting in which, allegedly, Franklin disclosed top-secret information to two AIPAC officials.<ref name=rozen>Rozen, Laura and Vest, Jason. [http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=8764 Cloak and Swagger] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070415230043/http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=8764 |date=April 15, 2007 }}, ''[[The American Prospect]]'', November 2, 2004.  Accessed March 27, 2006.</ref><ref>[https://fas.org/sgp/jud/aipac/franklin_facts.pdf "United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, ''U.S. v. Lawrence Anthony Franklin''{{-"}}],</ref>

Franklin pleaded guilty to passing government secrets to Rosen and Weissman and revealed for the first time that he also gave classified information directly to an Israeli government official in Washington. On January 20, 2006, he was sentenced to 151 months (almost 13 years) in prison and fined $10,000. As part of the plea agreement, Franklin agreed to cooperate in the larger federal investigation. All charges against the former AIPAC employees were dropped in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |title=U.S. to drop Israel lobbyist spy case |website=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE540463/ |access-date=2024-04-05}}</ref>

====Support for 2020 election deniers====
After the formation of its first [[political action committee]] (PAC) in early March 2022, AIPAC was criticized for backing the election campaigns of 37 Republican members of Congress who voted against certifying Biden's [[2020 U.S. presidential election]] victory after the [[2021 United States Capitol attack]].<ref name=McG22>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/aipac-pro-israel-group-backs-insurrectionist-republicans |title='Morally bankrupt': outrage after pro-Israel group backs insurrectionist Republicans |first=Chris|last=McGreal |author-link=Chris McGreal |date=23 March 2022 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref name=Kam22>{{cite news |url=https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-701727 |title=AIPAC defends its endorsees, including those who questioned Biden's election |first=Ron|last=Kampeas |author-link=Ron Kampeas |date=19 March 2022 |publisher=[[The Jerusalem Post]]}}</ref><ref name=Mag22>{{cite news|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/aipac-defends-endorsement-of-republicans-who-questioned-2020-election/ |title=AIPAC defends endorsement of Republicans who questioned 2020 election |first=Jacob|last=Magid |date=18 March 2022 |work=[[The Times of Israel]]}}</ref>

The endorsement of the politicians was described as "morally bankrupt and short-sighted" by [[Richard Haass]], president of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]], while [[Abe Foxman]], former head of the [[Anti-Defamation League]], called it a "sad mistake", and [[Dan Kurtzer]], a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, urged AIPAC to reconsider the move.<ref name=McG22/> Halie Soifer, of the [[Jewish Democratic Council of America]], said the move suggested "one must compromise support of America’s democracy to support Israel",<ref name=McG22/> which, she noted in an opinion piece published in ''[[Haaretz]]'', presents "a patently [[false dichotomy]] rejected by the overwhelming majority of American Jews."<ref name=McG22/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-aipac-s-latest-political-stunt-betrays-its-own-values-1.10670584 |title=AIPAC's Latest 'pro-Israel' Political Stunt Endangers America |first=Halie|last=Soifer |work=[[Haaretz]] |date=13 March 2022}}</ref>

AIPAC defended the endorsements by stating that it was "no moment for the pro-Israel movement to become selective about its friends".<ref name=McG22/><ref name=Kam22/><ref name=Mag22/> In a later, "rare rebuke" of the lobby group from within the Israeli government, [[Alon Tal]], a member of the [[Knesset]], criticized the AIPAC endorsements as "outrageous", noting that criticism was important for maintaining what Tal referred to as "a healthy relationship between Israel and American Jewry", according to ''[[The Times of Israel]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-rare-rebuke-mk-pans-aipac-endorsement-of-republicans-who-disputed-2020-election/ |title=In rare rebuke, MK pans AIPAC endorsement of Republicans who disputed 2020 election |author=Judah Ari Gross |date=28 March 2022 |work=[[The Times of Israel]]}}</ref>

====Financing pro-Israel Democrats in 2022====
Having endorsed over 100 Republican members of Congress who had voted against certifying Joe Biden's election, AIPAC spent $24 million, via its political action committee, the United Democracy Project, to defeat candidates not considered pro-Israel enough in the primaries of the Democratic Party that select candidates for the 2022 midterm elections. Substantial contributions to this funding were obtained from Republican Trump campaign financiers such as [[Paul Singer (businessman)|Paul Singer]] and [[Bernard Marcus|Bernie Marcus]],<ref name ="McGreal2022">{{cite web|first=Chris|last=McGreal|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/04/aipac-pro-israel-groups-primary-race|title=Pro-Israel groups denounced after pouring funds into primary race|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=August 4, 2022|access-date=August 26, 2022}}</ref> together with [[Haim Saban]].<ref name ="McGreal22" /> It spent $4 million to support [[Haley Stevens]] and defeat the Jewish congressman [[Andy Levin]] who is known to be critical of AIPAC's support for hardline Israeli policies.<ref name ="McGreal2022" /> It spent $7 million to defeat the favorite in a Maryland July primary, [[Donna Edwards]], who had failed to back resolutions in support of Israel during its [[2012 Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip|War in Gaza in  2012]].<ref name ="McGreal22">{{cite web|first=Chris|last=McGreal|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/18/democratic-primaries-aipac-israel-hardline|title=Pro-Israel hardliners spend millions to transform Democratic primaries|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=July 19, 2022|access-date=August 26, 2022}}</ref><ref name ="McGreal2022" /> A number of AIPAC supporters [[Weaponization of antisemitism|assert]] that reports focusing on AIPAC's campaign funding against candidates critical of Israel's policies are 'antisemitic'.<ref name ="McGreal2022" />