“Hakeem Jeffries is compromised and he needs to resign… We are not going to retain our country with a Democratic Party taking donations from AIPAC.”
“Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are controlled opposition, full stop.”
– via I’ve Had It Podcast pic.twitter.com/zcls32BRA7
— AIPAC Tracker (@TrackAIPAC) February 26, 2026
The New York Times is editorially aligned with Israel. Here Israel’s casualties are presented as verified reality but Iran’s are framed as possibly propagandistic. The presentation of death is also skewed: “9 killed” scans as confirmed whereas “dozens” scans as inflated or unverified. Did NYT journalists suddenly find themselves helpless to chase down that information for verification (a process known as “investigation”)? Finally, the passive construction selectively hides agency—in the Israel headline, Iran is assigned responsibility, yet in the school bombing there is no perpetrator.
This media bias, presented through differential standards of evidence, is what permits greater atrocities to be committed by America’s favored monster Israel while the rest of the civilized world recoils in horror.
Despite the fact that 77% of Democrats view Israel’s “war” in Gaza as a genocide, Schumer said last year his “job is to keep the left pro-Israel.” which is an odd job requirement for a senator from New York. Rep Jeffries is by far the largest recipient in Congress of pro-Israel funding in the House, raking in $1,157,099 in 2024 alone, including $866,550 from his biggest single donor: AIPAC. This $866,550 from AIPAC was more than 11 times the money from his next highest donor, BlackRock, who donated $74,275 to Jeffries’ coffers.
Despite the fact that a vast majority of Democratic voters are demanding clear opposition to Trump’s buildup to a potentially disastrous war that could end up killing tens of thousands, what they’re getting instead is a slightly softer, and more process-oriented, version of Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump. And, once again, Trump gets to play bad cop while the ostensibly liberal opposition party feigns helplessness, stands around slack-jawed, and can only marshal token prosecutorial objections to what could potentially be a years-long, ruinous, and deadly war of aggression.
— Johnson, Adam. “As Trump Builds up to Attack Iran, the Dem Establishment—Again—Shows Its Support with Silence.” The Real News Network, 25 Feb. 2026.