Pro-Israel group’s donors and affiliates pour $ 13.7M into Chicago-area primaries

Indeed, I hope that Black voters will care about AIPAC’s role in Chicago congressional races.

By now, every American voter, regardless of race, should know that “AIPAC is a national lobbying organization that tries to ensure U.S. policies and public perception favor Israel.” (WBEZ). For over two years, Israel has indiscriminately punished the Palestinian population in Gaza for Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, committing acts of genocide and numerous war crimes against the civilian population.

Israel is responsible for murdering over 20,000 innocent children of Gaza. By acknowledging those facts any candidate with empathy for victims of Israeli revenge should avoid any association with AIPAC, let alone receiving campaign money from it. Therefore, Black voters in
the 2nd and 7th districts, should avoid these candidates: Donna Miller and Melissa Conyears-Ervin whose campaign is financed by AIPAC and its affiliate the United Democracy Project.

Furthermore, it is a notorious fact that Israel practices full-blown apartheid against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, which could be compared with the apartheid of Jim Crow (Ta-Nehisi Coates). African Americans fought a long battle to be equal members of American society, therefore it would be hard to imagine any Black person supporting apartheid in any form.

Also, it would be hard to imagine any Black voter supporting Black community leaders who lack moral values and promote interests of the state that treat Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, much harsher than white supremacists treated African Americans.

Gladly, Black voters in the 2nd Congressional District have a candidate with honesty and dignity who will put the interests of his community before the interests of a foreign country, and who will not be a “pay-to-play” politician. That is “Illinois State Sen. Robert Peters, an African American, Jewish and progressive candidate.

Idhan Tahirovic,
President of Bosniak Brotherhood of Genocide Survivors-BBGS

6711 N Maplewood Ave
Chicago IL 60645
773-936-4545
bosniakbrotherhood@genocidebosnia.org