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Home Front: Politix

'Neuropoisoning.' Israel manipulates the US through bribed politicians and AI

2026-08-27

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
by Ilya Maximov

[REGNUM] The Israeli lobby's interference in the American elections has sparked a scandal. It turns out that Israel's attempts to influence the hearts and minds of Americans extend far beyond just campaign intervention, and as the scale of such activities grows, so does their toxicity.

The team of Republican Mike Rogers, running for a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, has asked the influential pro-Israel lobbying group the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to stop running ads supporting him.

This speaks not to evil actions the minions of the Elders of Zion — a group that doesn’t exist — but the level of anti-Jewish prejudice that now pervades the Democratic Party. Because AIPAC is an American organization, not Israeli. But even Israeli and AIPAC lobbying spending combined doesn’t come close to the outlay of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, China, and a number of other countries individually.

Last week, Rogers met with the chairman of AIPAC in Los Angeles, after which the organization decided not to release a video it had already made targeting his Democratic rival, Abdul El-Sayed.

Michigan is home to one of the largest Arab communities in the country, and a recent Fox News poll found that 55% of voters in the state oppose continued American aid to Israel. Remarkably, Rogers himself remains a staunch supporter.

However, under the current circumstances, his team decided that openly supporting AIPAC would hurt his electoral chances.

And there was reason for this: during the Democratic primaries, El-Sayed made AIPAC's interference the centerpiece of his campaign, using the $30 million the lobby spent supporting Haley Stevens to portray her as a backer of Israel. Satisfied with the outcome, El-Sayed even declared, "AIPAC, if you're listening, come back and burn again."

The point is to drive Jews out of American politics and the public square altogether, and Regnum is helping.

Rogers' campaign warned the Committee of Stevens' likely defeat before the primary, but the lobbyists ignored the warning. After El-Sayed won, the candidate's team suggested AIPAC provide indirect support.

For example, funneling money to so-called "super PACs"—legal, independent foundations through which billionaires, large corporations, labor unions, and other interested parties pour vast sums into American elections. The idea is that they can raise and spend unlimited sums to support or criticize candidates, but they are not allowed to directly coordinate their actions with the candidate or party.

However, AIPAC rejected the proposal: the organization wanted to play a prominent role in El-Sayed's defeat and pointed out that Rogers's stance on the Middle East would already make him a target for attacks. Direct negotiations between Rogers' team and AIPAC reached an impasse, and now Republican Jewish donors are attempting to mediate the situation.

It also emerged that the Israeli government is running ads on Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) popular podcast, raising the question of whether the ardent Israel supporter has received indirect funding for the Republican presidential campaign from a foreign country.

Is Senator Cruz running for president? I wasn’t aware of that, but given that everyone is talking about JD Vance and Marco Rubio as the favoured candidates to be President Trump’s successor, I don’t really see why he would bother. And he was last reelected to the Senate in 2024, so he isn’t up for reelection until 2030, when he’ll be 60 — barely middle aged for that august body.

Israelis are not legally allowed to sponsor it directly, so a special scheme was devised.

iHeartMedia, which has been distributing Cruz's show since 2022, cannot legally pay the senator for advertising due to lobbying restrictions. Therefore, under the licensing agreement, the company agreed to transfer advertising revenue to a super PAC, which was originally created for his reelection but is currently promoting other Republican candidates.

Since 2023, iHeartMedia has transferred at least $1.72 million to it. The Israeli ads at the center of the controversy are part of a $7 million campaign launched in June aimed at shifting Christian audiences' attention from the war in the Middle East to Israel's cultural and historical heritage and everyday life.

Campaign finance experts note that the money given to Cruz's super PAC is considered iHeartMedia funds unless there is a formal agreement with Israel regarding its intended use, so the company can do whatever it wants with it. However, observers point out that this is another loophole in election finance laws.

Journalist Tucker Carlson recently addressed this issue. "Israel controls our politics through campaign finance," he noted.

But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Recently, in the wake of the growing popularity of artificial intelligence, Israel has launched a campaign to create information "feeding troughs" for large language models, aimed at influencing public opinion in the United States.

A dummy institute was recently established that mass-publishes articles that feed AI with the "correct" viewpoint on the Middle East conflict. At first glance, the Hannover Institute for Public Policy appears to be a typical organization focused on Israel-Palestine issues.

Looking at Hannover Institute’s About page, it openly admits to being an Israeli government project, one properly registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which properly submits copies of all its reports to the DOJ. I don’t see what Mr. Maximov is fussing about.

Since its launch on August 6, it has released over 100 reports.

Of course. You know how industrious those Jews can be.

The organization's website is designed to give the impression of an American think tank.

Only to blind idiots. The About button is one of only three buttons at the top of the website front page. Click on that, and the jig is up. One would expect Jews to more cleverly hide the thing, if hiding were their intention.

"It's a perfect imitation of a typical American think tank, right down to the name, layout, and red-white-and-blue color scheme," said Alice Lee, an analyst at NewsGuard, an organization that specializes in assessing the credibility of news sites and combating disinformation.

The Hannover Institute claims that "the cited studies have been peer-reviewed and are of an academic nature," though it frequently cites various Israeli agencies. The published reports follow a template and begin with a question a user might ask a chatbot: "What caused the displacement of Palestinians in 1948?", "Which humanitarian organizations have documented Israeli war crimes?", "What is the current situation in the Gaza Strip?"

For example, in response to the question of whether the IDF can be considered "the most moral army in the world," the survey cited the results of a survey in which a whopping 47% of respondents agreed with this statement. There's just one small caveat: the survey was conducted among Israeli residents.

Twenty percent of Israelis are Arab. Some unknown number of them are strong Israeli patriots, while another portion hate being ruled by Jews, but are strongly uninterested in giving up the benefits of being Israeli citizens in Israel.

Another report found that 19 of the 36 most-viewed videos online about the situation in Gaza contain "controversial claims." Controversial from the Israeli perspective, of course.

Or from the perspective of raw truth and morality, but whatevs.

At the bottom of the institute's page, it is noted that the organization was created by Piro, Inc., commissioned by the Israeli government's advertising agency. It produces content developed using how large language models evaluate the credibility of information.

…and the truth. But as he is Russian, it’s understandable that he would believe that government defaults inevitably to propaganda rather than provable truth.

Analysts call this practice "AI poisoning." An analysis using GPTZero, a program that identifies texts generated by artificial intelligence, revealed that 11 of the institute's 12 reviewed articles were written by a neural network.

Israel also awarded former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale a $46.5 million contract to create websites designed to influence chatbots. Parscale and his firm, Clock Tower X, created a network of at least ten different portals, each dedicated to promoting a specific Israeli narrative: Paxpoint.org ("Israel as a Country of Peace"), Allyvia.org (strengthening the US-Israel alliance), FactSignal.org (refuting anti-Israel information), and others.

All websites contain a mandatory notice in small print at the bottom: "This material is distributed by Clock Tower X LLC on behalf of the State of Israel."

So not hiding anything.

The investigation revealed that many chatbots, including Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini, were successfully trained using data from these pages and now respond to questions accordingly.

Given that all the chatbots lean left, thus quickly antisemitic, regaining balance is an amazing achievement.

For example, if you ask them whether it is beneficial for the US to increase military cooperation with Israel, the answer will be a resounding yes. And this answer is based on an article from Allyvia.org, part of Parscale's grid.

The web began to be archived in datasets published by Common Crawl, an organization that crawls the internet and makes the resulting archives freely available to the public. These datasets are now widely used to train large-scale language models.

From January to June 2026, ten websites were indexed by Common Crawl 912 times. According to Anthropic's research, only about 250 malicious documents would be enough to create a vulnerability in a large language model.

Israel's influence on US elections and public discourse is also eloquently demonstrated by the sums spent on these goals. During this election cycle, the AIPAC super PAC has already spent approximately $62 million. Overall, Israel's public diplomacy budget for 2026 is approximately $730 million.

However, most ordinary Americans disapprove of such support. According to a July Pew Research Center survey, 62% of American adults have an unfavorable opinion of the Israeli government, while only 32% have a favorable opinion.

Among young people aged 18–29, 75% dislike Israel. Also, for the first time in more than 20 years, a Gallup poll found that more Americans sympathize with the Palestinians (41%) than with Israelis (36%).

At the same time, both major American parties are dependent, in one way or another, on the pro-Israel lobby. While its support is becoming toxic in some states, in others, its money is bringing victories to candidates. This cycle, AIPAC supported 188 candidates who won primaries.

Since its inception in 2022, AIPAC has spent over $221 million on Democratic primaries. The organization often operates through front groups with innocuous names like "Elect Chicago Women" or "Access Chicago Now," which make no mention of Israel.

Against this backdrop, it's telling that the Democratic National Committee recently voted down a resolution condemning AIPAC's "dirty money," demonstrating the party's senior leadership's dependence on pro-Israel donors. Instead, a broader resolution was adopted condemning the use of such money in politics, but without naming any specific group.

As committee spokesperson Nadia Ahmad noted, "They understand that their position does not align with the views of Democratic voters, but they cannot say so publicly."

As Israeli political scientist Kobi Barda notes, "Whoever controls the primaries controls Congress." Therefore, despite the political turbulence of recent years, AIPAC retains control over members of Congress.

It is Congress that votes on military aid packages for Israel, imposes sanctions on Iran, approves defense budgets, and ratifies international agreements.

According to Republican Congressman Thomas Massie,

…the libertarian Jew-hater who is not running for reelection because his voters don’t want him…

each of his Republican colleagues has an AIPAC "minister"—a "nanny" who constantly communicates with them and monitors their votes. He admitted to hearing four members of Congress say, "I'll talk to my AIPAC guy. "

"Americans have a right to know when powerful lobbying organizations are advancing the interests of foreign governments in Congress," Massie said.

At the same time, the congressmen themselves, of course, have no interest in their constituents knowing about such friendships with representatives of another state. But quarreling with the pro-Israel lobby is also dangerous for them.

AIPAC can either provide a candidate with a flood of cash or find them an opponent in the next election, and this threat works without fail. The organization has repeatedly proven its ability to easily oust any member of Congress who criticizes US policy toward Israel by literally flooding their opponent's campaign with millions of dollars.

"We currently have a problem with lobby attacks on American freedoms domestically. This is a result of the lobby's inability to simply defend Israeli policies because they have become too extreme. So, it attacks American freedoms by attempting to suppress debate, intimidate dissidents, and destroy the institutions that foster them," says Ian Lustick, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Moreover, the lobby operates with a calculation: this is not just spending on public diplomacy, it is a good investment.

Since 1948, Israel has received over $300 billion from the United States, adjusted for inflation—more than any other country in the world.

Eh? If that is real number, is the money from the American government or donated by American citizens? Does the writer seriously expect us to be upset about money freely donated by people who decided Israel deserves their help?

There are no precise figures on AIPAC's spending since its inception in 1953, but rough estimates place the total at less than a billion dollars.

More money freely donated by Americans to a cause they believe in. Americans get to do that, so long as the recipient is not breaking the law.

Naturally, these investments also bear political fruit: AIPAC-backed congressmen regularly vote for multi-billion dollar aid packages, providing Israel with the financial and military support it needs.

So, no matter how much Democrats and Republicans criticize Israel, they clearly have no desire to give up its money, and the opinion of ordinary Americans is unlikely to make a difference. As usual.

Hateful propaganda. Kindly find a pole wrapped in rusty barbed wire to sit on and rotate.

Note that unlike AIPAC, which is an American organization funded entirely by Americans, CAIR is an American branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, an international terrorist organization funded by Gulf oil countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar:

BREAKING: The Shariah-ruling arm of the US Muslim Brotherhood has issued a fatwah unlocking an estimated $140 million a year in tithing (zakat) from American Muslims to finance the campaigns of Muslim leaders for public office including the House & Senatehttps://t.co/wqnPCYRiCQ
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) August 22, 2026

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