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AIPAC Is an American Lobbying Organization Whose Stated Goal Is to Strengthen the Israeli-American Relationship. The Problem Is That Over the Years, the Organiz

Should be following. >> a great analogy. whenever we talk about, aipac any type of lobby group there, is a danger of kind of slipping into antisemitic discourse about the jews controlling congress. it's about our political system. we see it, we see it with the nra and with gun control. we don't see it when it comes to middle east, to israel, to saudi arabia, to other areas of life. jeremy bennett, we'll have to leave, there thank you so much for joining us tonight i appreciate it. >> thanks, mattie, could see. you >> coming, up at the top of the hour with ayman mohyeldin, arizona secretary of ...

As well, this is aided and abetted and facilitated by american politics and american policy. >> jeremy, you mentioned aipac, the lobby group. they sponsor the hit came jeffries congressional democratic business week two -- it's a group which i know j street doesn't get along with. you pointed out before aipac is funded gop members, who try to overturn the last election. how they've used donor money to unseat progressive democrats in the primaries. how much damage in your view has a putt done to our ability as a country to try to push back against israeli expansionism, colonialism, and to suppo...

Pursue an agenda that allows us to live in a congressional we live with kids getting killed in schools. you have pal -- policy being driven by politics. often by a limited number of people, with a great deal of money, a great deal of power. as long as our political system is driven by that money, it is not about just effect, it is about the entirety of our political system. warped, our policies being worked by the influence of money and our politics. aipac represents a small percentage of jewish america that, at this point, is you know, not able to see what is going on in israel, not able to s...

Congressional democrats. that is indefensible, is it not? >> well, there is a willful blindness. congressional democrats are a piece of it. let's be fair. republicans don't go to the west bank either. the overwhelming majority of americans who visit israel spend their time in jerusalem, and tel aviv, they did it the gala, they enjoy the good food and the beaches. they ignore the reality of what is happening just in miles away. this trip that aipac sponsored for democrats from the house, it's part of a much broader problem that we have. which is that we ignore the realities of what's happening ...