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Published: Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Anti-AIPAC congressman unseated in most expensive House primary ever – Ya Libnan Ya Libnan Featured Lebanon World Opinion Business Arts Science Anti-AIPAC congressman unseated in most expensive House primary ever May 20, 2026 Share: File : US Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) in an interview with CBS, Massie said pro-Israel groups have “tried to buy my vote for 14 years, and it was never for sale”. Thomas Massie, the Republican congressman who voted down foreign aid packages and heavily criticised pro-Israel lobbying groups’ influence in US politics, lost his primary race in Kentucky on Tuesday. It was the most expensive US primary race of all time as outside groups – namely pro-Israel political action committees – poured millions of dollars into anti-Massie ad

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Anti-AIPAC congressman unseated in most expensive House primary ever &#8211; Ya Libnan Ya Libnan Featured Lebanon World Opinion Business Arts Science Anti-AIPAC congressman unseated in most expensive House primary ever May 20, 2026 Share: File : US Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) in an interview with CBS, Massie said pro-Israel groups have &#8220;tried to buy my vote for 14 years, and it was never for sale&#8221;. Thomas Massie, the Republican congressman who voted down foreign aid packages and heavily criticised pro-Israel lobbying groups&#8217; influence in US politics, lost his primary race in Kentucky on Tuesday. It was the most expensive US primary race of all time as outside groups &#8211; namely pro-Israel political action committees &#8211; poured millions of dollars into anti-Massie ad campaigns to oust him from Washington. &#8220;Congratulations to US Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein for defeating anti-Israel incumbent Thomas Massie!&#8221; the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) posted to X on Tuesday. &#8220;Pro-Israel Americans are proud to back candidates who support a strong [US-Israel] alliance and help defeat those who work to undermine it. Being pro-Israel is good policy and good politics!&#8221; 68-year-old Gallrein, who has never held elected office before, will now be the Republican candidate for the House of Representatives in Kentucky&#8217;s 4th District, come November&#8217;s midterm elections. He had previously pledged his loyalty to President Donald Trump. In return, Trump gave Gallrein his endorsement. Massie, the president said on Monday, is &#8220;the worst congressman in the long and storied history of the Republican party&#8221;. Massie himself has voted to back Trump&#8217;s agenda more than 90 percent of the time, and they both agree on issues important to the conservative movement, such as ousting immigrants and prohibiting abortion. But Massie&#8217;s insistence that the entirety of the secret files on Jeffrey Epstein be released. potentially compromising Trump himself, was likely the last straw for the president. Massie had already spent the past year making his critical views on Israel known, and refusing to take money from groups whose sole agenda is the Israeli state. Antisemitism accusation The Associated Press called the race for Gallrein less than an hour after the polls closed on Tuesday evening. Former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, who resigned in March after saying he could not support Israel taking the US into a war on Iran, praised Massie on X after the results were announced. US congressman says pro-Israel groups behind 95 percent of funding against him Read More » &#8220;God bless Thomas Massie. He walks out of this with his honor intact . He’s a patriot & kept his integrity. As long as the voters give their votes to whoever can run the most ads we will have politicians who are purchased by foreign governments & corporate interests,&#8221; Kent said. On Monday, in an int

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