What does Bernie Sanders's AIPAC snub mean?

Here is why Bernie Sanders refused to join this year’s pro-Israel AIPAC meeting

another Jewish American organisation with leftist credentials to rise at the expense of the hawkish group, moving to garner more mainstream Jewish support.In 2015, then-US President Barack Obama alsoto his landmark nuclear deal with Iran, criticising the lobby group for its hawkishness.

AIPAC was formed by American Zionists in the 1950s with a stated purpose to lobby the Congress of the United States on issues and legislation related to Israel.

After the massacre, Israel was harshly criticised across the world and even Washington took the exceptional measure of cutting aid to the Zionist state, creating panic in American Zionist ranks. Isaiah L Kenen, one of the most fervent supporters of Israel in Washington, who had also previously served in the Israeli foreign ministry, and his backers thought that they urgently needed a group to back up Tel Aviv, founding the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs in 1954. The group is known for its uncompromising support of Israel even at the expense of US interests.

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