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Cori Bush: When caricatures become Racism [1]

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Date: 2024-08-06  

I’ve tried several searches and could not find this being diaried

AIPAC Used Distorted Photo of Cori Bush in $7 Million Negative Ad Blitz The Intercept

In the First month of its spending in a Missouri congressional election, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee poured $3 million into the race to unseat Squad member Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo. AIPAC’s super PAC, United Democracy Project, has gone on to spend a total of $7 million so far to oust Bush. Its recent mailers, reviewed by The Intercept, show images of Bush with distorted features that make her forehead look bigger and elongate her features. Bush condemned the ads as part of a trope of using racist caricatures to target candidates based on their ethnicity.

The Missouri Independent said AIPAC’s use of the photo violated its site rules. “As a nonprofit news organization we do not allow campaigns or political groups to use our photography,” said Jason Hancock, the editor-in-chief of the Missouri Independent. “We would never give a PAC permission to use our photos, and doing so without our knowledge or permission violates our terms of use.”

With its attacks on Bush, the lobby group is looking to oust a second member of the progressive Squad. The group spent more than $17 million to unseat Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., last month. Since toppling Bowman last month, AIPAC has shifted its focus toward the upcoming primary in St. Louis. It’s dropped $3 million on the race against Bush in less than a month.

Anyone, If not I’ll continue:

One would have thought that AIPAC would have in their documents Nazi caricatures of Jewish people? How it was used to differentiate them as subhuman?

What in the hell are they thinking?

How fast would they come down on cartoonists/image alterers doing the same to Jews?

This is beyond shame and into the realm of hate speech.

This is not acceptable in any shape or form.

How is it protecting democracy?

Where is the public apology, if you have $7 million to spend on attack ads, you have enough money to apologize.

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