The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) issued an "unequivocal apology" to congressional Democrats on Saturday over a Facebook ad slamming the "radicals" in the party as anti-Semites.
The ad in question, paid for by AIPAC, said that they were "pushing their anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli policies" down Americans' throats.
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The organization apologized and said that it deeply appreciated the support for Israel in the ranks of the Democratic Party and regretted the poor wording of a message that, however, "alluded to a genuine concern of many pro-Israel Democrats about a small but growing group ... working to erode the bipartisan consensus."
The matter of US-Israeli relations is one of the divisive issues in the current political debate in the Democratic Party, with some of the candidates in the Democratic presidential nomination contest – Bernie Sanders, Elisabeth Warren and Tom Steyer – hinting they were open to limiting US aid to Israel.
The restrictions would kick in should Israel push forth with the settlements, thus turning the aid into a point of leverage.
Warren also said she was willing to skip this year's AIPAC conference when responding to a question that slammed the organization over an alleged "unholy alliance" it is supposedly "forming with Islamophobes and anti-Semites and white nationalists."
Joe Biden, however, said that the idea of limiting or conditioning US military aid to Israel was "absolutely outrageous."
This article was originally published by i24NEWS.
