The Wall Street Journal is not shy about the fact that the Israeli lobby pushed Missouri Representative Cori Bush out of her House seat. She was defeated on Tuesday by Democrat Wesley Bell, who the WSJ says was “a well-funded challenger who is backed by AIPAC.”
The Israel lobby group AIPAC spent $19 million to deliver St. Louis voters “a barrage of advertisements over the past few months.” They began targeting her because she “led efforts in the House to advocate for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza in the weeks following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks and Israel’s military campaign that followed.”
The lobby group did the same to Rep. Jamaal Bowman, according to the WSJ, “spending almost $15 million in independent expenditures to boost his challenger George Latimer.”
Israel was not the only thing working against Representative Bush. She is under investigation by the Justice Department for “her alleged use of campaign funds for security payments to her husband.”
