Just two years ago, AIPAC infiltrated the congressional race in Oregon, spending roughly $2 million to elect Democratic Congresswoman and physician Maxine Dexter.
Since then, you could say she’s turned her back on the pro-Israel lobby. She’s taken a stand against Israel, co-sponsoring key legislation like the Block the Bombs Act and the Gaza Genocide resolution.
“Everything about that [AIPAC] money has been toxic,” Dexter tells Mehdi, “It was a mistake.”
For the first time publicly, she’s swearing off taking any future AIPAC money. “The Netanyahu government is clearly misguided. He’s a war criminal. What’s happening in Gaza is a genocide. I have no qualms about saying those things out loud.”
But AIPAC isn’t the only topic they discussed. In this wide-ranging interview, Mehdi also presses Rep. Dexter on:
Whether the U.S. should fund defensive weapons to Israel
Whether she supports Hakeem Jeffries’s leadership
Her latest oversight visit to ICE detention facilities in Texas.
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