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Pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC reverses policy of identifying US election candidates it funds

CHICAGO: In a move reflecting significant backlash against the growing involvement of pro-Israel political action campaign money, the leading pro-Israel lobbying organization in the US, AIPAC, has reversed its 2021 policy of publicly identifying candidates who receive their money. In election cycles over the past two years, dozens of candidates who received millions in campaign donations from AIPAC and its affiliated United Democracy Project PAC were defeated by rivals who criticized AIPAC and I