How AIPAC channels millions through shell PACs ahead of US midterms

Key points

• Al Jazeera analyses how the pro-Israel lobby group has relied on shell political action groups with deceptive names to defeat Israel critics.
• Washington, DC – For many voters in Illinois, nothing appeared overtly suspicious in the 30-second election that aired in mid-March.
• The video starts with a burst of cheerful music, and a narrator praises congressional candidate Bushra Amiwala as a fighter for “real economic justice” and “the real deal”.
• But the video was not part of a genuine effort to get Amiwala elected to the United States House of Representatives.
• And the candidate quickly disavowed it.