According to Pew Research Center, a record 80 percent of Democratic-leaning voters now have an unfavorable opinion of Israel.

And the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is absolutely panicking.

The pro-Israel lobbying group is determined to ensure that Congress continues sending billions in arms to Benjamin Netanyahu. So they’ve launched a new dirty trick to defeat anyone who dares to criticize Israeli policy in Democratic primaries.

In election after election, voters have been flooded with attack ads sponsored by mysterious new groups with vague names like “Elect Chicago Women.” The ads say nothing about Israel but inevitably turn out to be funded by a “who’s who” of AIPAC donors.

Voters deserve to know the truth about the money behind the candidates on their primary ballots. That’s why — with dozens of primary elections in the coming weeks — The Intercept is racing to expose how AIPAC and pro-Israel donors are hiding behind campaign finance loopholes.

But with local news outlets decimated — and much of the corporate media maintaining a blackout on the pro-Israel lobby — there is almost no one left to blow the whistle on these deceptive tactics.

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The Intercept’s major priority in this year’s all-important midterms is to track and reveal the donors who are secretly pouring billions into our elections.

During the 2008 election cycle, the last presidential campaign before the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, outside spending in elections totaled $574 million.

By 2024, with the caps on spending limits erased, outside spending — mostly super PACs — exploded to nearly $4.5 billion.

That’s an eightfold increase.

The reason wealthy billionaires and corporations are spending so much money is because they’re getting a great return on their investment in the form of corporate welfare, lax regulatory oversight, and other goodies.

In the absence of new legislation that closes campaign disclosure loopholes, the only way we can find out who is funding the ads flooding our televisions and social media feeds is through the kind of deep-dive investigative journalism that few, if any, news outlets have the resources and independence to pursue.

This year’s political reporting is some of the most ambitious and challenging we’ve ever done — and we simply won’t be able to do it unless readers like you step up to support it.

Please donate to The Intercept today and help expose the pro-Israel and other dark-money front groups trying to buy our elections.

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