{"id":60995,"date":"2026-04-10T14:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/60995\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:13:07","slug":"dnc-committee-rejects-resolution-condemning-pro-israel-lobby-aipac-specifically-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/60995\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Committee Rejects Resolution Condemning Pro-Israel Lobby AIPAC Specifically"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AKen Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee, speaks during an interview at DNC headquarters in Washington, Nob. 2, 2025. (Photo credit: Bill Clark\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images via JTA)<\/p>\n

Joseph Strauss | JTA<\/p>\n

The Democratic National Committee will not vote on a resolution that condemns the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC<\/a> specifically, after a sub-committee rejected the resolution on Thursday during the DNC\u2019s annual meeting in New Orleans.<\/p>\n

The DNC\u2019s Resolutions Committee instead advanced a resolution condemning \u201cdark money\u201d more broadly<\/a> in electoral politics. AIPAC is one of several lobbies that have flooded elections with millions of dollars of spending, along with technology and real estate PACs, but it was the only one mentioned specifically in the proposed resolution.<\/p>\n

Proponents of the resolution said AIPAC\u2019s $14 million spend during Illinois\u2019 primaries last month made it worth calling out specifically. But its critics \u2014 including some who are themselves critical of AIPAC \u2014 said the resolution\u2019s singling out of AIPAC carried an \u201cundercurrent of antisemitism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chair Ken Martin said the DNC had opted to take the more inclusive approach. \u201cWe had various resolutions that focused on different industries and groups, and instead of going one-by-one, we passed a blanket repudiation,\u201d he tweeted<\/a>. \u201cI have made my position on this clear from day one: We must end the influence of dark money in our politics and restore power back to the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jewish Democratic groups praised the decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe agree with the rejection of dark money in politics \u2014 a topic covered in another more expansive resolution adopted by the Committee \u2014 but also believe that singling out any individual organization is both unproductive and unnecessarily divisive,\u201d said Halie Soifer, CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America.<\/p>\n

The DNC\u2019s rejection of the resolution comes as a new poll finds that about 80% of Democratic voters say they have an unfavorable view of Israel, up sharply over the last three years.\u00a0The Resolutions Committee also declined to adopt two resolutions supporting the Palestinians and opposing the war in Iran, instead referring them to the party\u2019s year-old Middle East Working Group, which is also meeting this week.<\/p>\n

Martin and other party leaders have portrayed the working group as an essential strategy to manage delicate decisions on a complex topic, but their critics say it is a mechanism to evade making decisions on a topic where party leaders and rank-and-file members may not share the same views.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re pleased that the DNC Resolutions Committee rejected a set of divisive, anti-Israel resolutions,\u201d Democratic Majority for Israel President and CEO Brian Romick said in a statement. \u201cThese measures would be a gift to Republicans, would further fracture our party, and do nothing to bring Israelis and Palestinians closer to peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee, speaks during an interview at DNC headquarters in Washington, Nob.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2922,23287,23288,37,23289],"class_list":{"0":"post-60995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-aipac","9":"tag-democratic-national-committee","10":"tag-dnc","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-ken-martin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116380827874339732","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}