{"id":2212892,"date":"2024-04-04T10:38:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T14:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-israel-group-previously-focused-on-challenging-squad-members-turns-sights-on-former-capitol-police-officer\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T10:38:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T14:38:25","slug":"pro-israel-group-previously-focused-on-challenging-squad-members-turns-sights-on-former-capitol-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-israel-group-previously-focused-on-challenging-squad-members-turns-sights-on-former-capitol-police-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Group shifts focus from challenging &#8216;Squad&#8217; to targeting ex-Capitol police officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpro-israel-group-previously-focused-on-challenging-squad-members-turns-sights-on-former-capitol-police-officer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2212892&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The American \u2064Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has shifted\u200d its focus\u200d to target former Capitol Police \u200dofficer Harry Dunn after previously focusing on progressive House members. AIPAC&#8217;s\u200b affiliate,\u200c the United Democracy Project, is investing over $500,000 \u2062in TV ads supporting Dunn&#8217;s rival for the Maryland House seat. This move follows Dunn&#8217;s Democratic candidacy announcement to replace Rep. John Sarbanes.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/aipac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"American Israel Public Affairs Committee\">American Israel Public Affairs Committee<\/a> is spending a significant sum targeting former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, after previously spending most of its time targeting the progressive members of the House known as the \u201cSquad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The AIPAC affiliate group United Democracy Project is spending over $500,000 on TV ads boosting the rival of Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2711298\/harry-dunn-former-capitol-police-officer-cites-jan-6-in-bid-for-maryland-house-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"announced\">announced<\/a> his Democratic candidacy to replace the retiring Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD) in January. The UDP\u2019s favored candidate is Maryland State Sen. Sarah Elfreth (D).<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Dunn alluded to the donation, avoiding referencing AIPAC by name but characterizing it in relation to its relationship with Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA SuperPAC funded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/maga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>MAGA<\/a> extremist donors who also gave to Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Lauren Boebert just dropped $500k in our race,\u201d he said. \u201cThey want to buy this election. They will fail.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A SuperPAC funded by MAGA extremist donors who also gave to Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Lauren Boebert just dropped $500k in our race. They want to buy this election. They will fail.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harry Dunn (@libradunn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libradunn\/status\/1775161241889071553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>He also denounced AIPAC as a \u201cdark money\u201d group that felt threatened by his \u201cdemocracy plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far, the ads haven\u2019t explicitly mentioned Dunn, instead focusing on boosting Elfreth. Despite the pro-Israel focus of the group, the first ad put out by UDP made no mention of Israel or the war in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Gaza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Gaza<\/a>, instead hailing her record on abortion and protecting \u201cour democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Domestic politics of the Israel-Hamas war hasn\u2019t played a notable role in the Maryland race, with Dunn focusing instead on alleged threats to democracy and combating conservative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Republicans<\/a>. Israel and the war in Gaza are not mentioned on the campaign websites of Elfreth or Dunn.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has shifted its focus to target former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn. Previously known for targeting progressive House members, the group&#8217;s affiliate United Democracy Project is now spending over $500,000 on TV ads supporting Dunn&#8217;s rival in the Capitol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2212893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24005519600371-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24005519600371-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2212893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}