On Oct. 22, just 12 days before the US midterm elections, a pro-Israel lobby group in America announced that it was stopping endorsing candidates or making direct contributions to their campaigns. But everything was not quite what it seemed. In a letter to its members, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee said that it would continue to fund pro-Israel candidates by mobilizing “contributions from individual Americans.” AIPAC’s decision to, in effect, take its name off the funding was a ta
