The PAC Campaign on Flag Day: Supporting Israel and Fighting Antisemitism in the State of Washington, Michigan, and Pennsylvania

The ad campaign is being expanded to target undecided voters in swing states. Over the past week, the PAC spent over $300,000 on a dozen different Facebook ads that are sub-targeted to different audience segments. “Imagine a world where the American Dream has no borders,” reads an ad featuring a photo of dozens of migrants at the US-Mexico border. A second ad says Harris is a supporter of a world without gas-powered vehicles.

Musk personally distributed the first of these checks at a pro-Trump event in Pennsylvania and hasn’t let the Department of Justice’s warning that the lottery may be illegal — or a recent lawsuit filed by Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner — stop him.

Some Republicans see a chance to win over Jewish voters in key states as the Democrats pressure Vice President Kamala Harris to cut military aid to Israel.

Recent polls from the Jewish Democratic Council of America suggest those numbers are holding steady. But some others, including one from the conservative Manhattan Institute, suggest what the organization’s report characterized as “growing cracks in that support.”

Even small groups of Jews who live in swing states such as Michigan, Arizona, and Pennsylvania can make a difference in the election.

At a Harris campaign event on Monday in the critical state of Pennsylvania, second gentleman Doug Emhoff reiterated the vice president’s commitment to supporting Israel and fighting antisemitism. Emhoff, who himself is Jewish, reminded the crowd of the anniversary this week of the deadly mass shooting attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018.

“When Kamala is President, she will continue to stand with Israel and with the Jewish community — our community,” Emhoff said. “She will reject anti-Semitic hate and the notion that Israel does not have the right to exist.”

“Kamala Harris has held the line against these extreme voices that spout off antisemitism when discussing this Israel conflict on the far left right now,” Moss said.

“Israel is in, literally, the fight for its existence,” former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, now the national chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition, told a room of supporters at a country club in suburban Detroit on Monday. “The existence of the Jewish state is at risk today — both in terms of war and battle … as well as what happens in the United States in terms of whether our support is there unequivocally or whether folks are gonna step back.”

“It’s been a tepid response at best by this administration,” Weissman said about antisemitism in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas-led militants. The attack killed 1,200 people in Israel, according to the Israeli government. Israel’s military response has killed at least 43,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

A report released by the Anti-Defamation League — using an expanded definition of antisemitism to include some anti-Zionist language — found a record number of those types of incidents in the year since the Hamas attacks, including thousands surrounding left-wing anti-Israel demonstrations.

Weissman said she thinks those realities could affect voting patterns among Jewish Americans, who have historically sided overwhelmingly with Democrats.

Weissman has heard that Donald Trump has a history of making antisemitic statements. She believes his words are often taken out of context. And she likes his record on Israel, including his decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.

Because of this year’s election, the organization’s largest investment in a campaign ever, is by Matt, who sees it as aninflection point.