‘Morally bankrupt’: outrage after pro-Israel group backs insurrectionist Republicans

Aipac defends move by saying that support for the Jewish state overrides other issues as it faces a storm of criticism

The US's most powerful pro-Israel lobby group has been accused of putting support for Israel before American democracy after it declared its backing for the election campaigns of three dozen Republican members of Congress who tried to block President Biden's presidential victory.

But the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) has defended the move by saying that support for the Jewish state overrides other issues and that it is no moment for the pro-Israel movement to become selective about its friends".