Westchester County executive George Latimer attends a menorah lighting ceremony at Chase Park in White Plains, N.Y., on Dec. 12, 2023. Earlier this month, a powerful pro-Israel group gathered donors at a summit outside Washington, where organizers played a video montage of some top targets for defeat in this year’s Democratic primaries. It ended with a clip of Rep. Jamaal Bowman — and a surprise in-person appearance from his primary challenger, George Latimer.
Powerful pro-Israel groups have rallied behind Latimer and have vowed to spend millions unseating Bowman. Latimer, the Westchester County executive, visited Israel weeks after Hamas’s attack and said he was motivated to run in part because of Bowman’s criticism National polls show voters under 40 are more likely to oppose Israel’s military actions. Noel Casey, a 29-year-old community organizer in Yonkers, said people her age are very upset about the war.
“Jamaal was working really hard at trying to get people to see the nuance, but the disappointment and anger were there,” David Greene, who is Jewish, said late last year. The message from many people in the room, according to the liberal activist and retired teacher: “We loved you, and now we don’t.”
“We really don’t want AIPAC deciding who our political representatives are,” said Peter Bernstein, chairman of the local Working Families Party and a Bowman supporter. “They don’t care about the district needs; they only care about Israel.” “Everything before the word ‘but’ is bulls--t. Because what you really want to say is what comes after the word ‘but,’” LatimerAIPAC is backing Latimer because Bowman had “aligned with the anti-Israel extremist fringe,” said AIPAC spokesman Marshall Wittman. Individual donations made to Latimer via AIPAC totaled around $400,000 between December 2023 and February, according to the most recent Federal Election Commission filings.
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