AIPAC’s super PAC, which is backing Wesley Bell, used distorted photos of Bush as part of a $7 million ad blitz against the progressive incumbent.

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.

“It is shameful that, in 2024, our communities are still being targeted with such blatant racism from political campaigns, let alone in a Democratic primary,” Bush said in a statement to The Intercept. “The people of St. Louis deserve better than to see their first Black Congresswoman racistly distorted into a caricature — I shouldn’t have to ask my opponent to condemn his biggest funders for putting out an ad like this and to apologize to the people of this district.”

  • unexposedhazard
    34·
    5 months ago

    Crazy how people whose parents/grandparents were subjected to exactly this kind of racist stereotyping and degredation decide they want to do the same to others.

  • nkat2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    27·
    5 months ago

    Hello, folks. The Missouri primary is just a week away. Please be sure to vote if you can (always!) and support Cori Bush.

    This primary is crucial. Go, Cori!

  • jumjummy@lemmy.world
    26·
    5 months ago

    And yet I’m sure the AIPAC would be totally ok with photo edits of Jewish candidates being stereotyped, right? It’s not like nobody has ever done that before.

    What absolute hypocrites.

    • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
      14·
      5 months ago

      AIPAC isn’t a Jewish lobby, it’s an Israeli lobby.

      To that end, they would absolutely like Jewish caricatures to turn up in campaign ads and just in general. Anything that helps push Jewish migration to Israel.

      Their biggest objective is securing migration to Israel to bolster it’s population. Population transfers with Russia are one of the biggest reasons why Israel didn’t go against them in regards to overtly supporting Ukraine.

      So, rising ambient levels anti-semitism are actually good for AIPAC. They won’t say that publicly, but it’s not exactly a secret.

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
    20·
    5 months ago

    Isn’t it great how dark money super pacs can spend unlimited resources on influencing our campaigns? Where does the money come from? Foreign governments? oligarchs? apartheid states? Who knows! Yay citizens united! I didn’t want free and fair elections anyways, that’d be too easy, too smart, too economical, too practical, and enrich our lives by making campaigns last only a couple months at most! I’d rather live life on Hard Mode, where every fucking day is a struggle against multi-national billionaire conglomerates that control everything around me! Wheeeee! Life is terrible! Thanks citizens united!

  • restingboredface@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    131·
    5 months ago

    I live in STL and get a constant flood of campaign flyer garbage from Wesley bells campaign and pacs all trying to get rid of Cori.

    The paper waste alone makes me not want to vote for Bell, but the more I read about him the more I think this guy is supported by the wrong people for very wrong reasons.

  • brvslvrnst@lemmy.ml
    11·
    5 months ago

    Almost looks like they bumped up the light saturation as well…what a time to be alive.

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    69·
    5 months ago
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