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The Guardian - US
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Pittsburgh Jews decry pro-Israel group’s support for Republican extremists

Summer Lee survived an Aipac effort to block her at the primary stage because of her criticisms of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians.
Summer Lee survived an Aipac effort to block her at the primary stage because of her criticisms of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians. Photograph: Quinn Glabicki/Reuters

More than 240 Jewish American voters in Pittsburgh have signed a letter denouncing the US’s largest pro-Israel group for backing extremist Republican election candidates while spending millions of dollars to oppose a Democrat who would be Pennsylvania’s first Black female member of Congress.

The letter condemned the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) for its attempts to defeat Summer Lee, a candidate for the district that includes Pittsburgh, after failing to block her during the Democratic primaries earlier this year because of her criticisms of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians.

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