If AIPAC Didn't Invite Democratic Presidential Candidates Then Why Are So Many Boasting About Staying Away?

Over the weekend, I wrote about Democratic presidential candidates boycotting this week's AIPAC Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.


However, it appears that AIPAC never invited them. A unnamed source from AIPAC stated off the record, "Since 2008, we have only had presidential candidates speaking in actual election years."


Perhaps this is a face saving measure. But let us say this is true. If AIPAC didn't issue an invitation to any of the Democratic presidential candidates then why would they make a point of telling the world they weren't coming instead of simply saying they weren't invited in the first place?


It seems to me that among so-called progressive activists that AIPAC is the new NRA. If a Democratic presidential hopeful makes a point of saying they won't attend AIPAC then it enhances their street cred with The Left.


Well, let's see what happens at the 2020 AIPAC Conference. By that point, there won't be 14 candidates. Will whatever's left of the Democratic field stay way? It's pretty clear Bernie Sanders won't go since he didn't go in 2016. But what about the rest? If none of the Democratic candidates attend next year then we will have a party that has shunned both America's alliance with Israel, but the Jewish community at large. Democrats no doubt think this won't affect their vote in 2020 and it probably won't. But today's shunning can turn into tomorrow's shaming and ostracism and soon into vandalism and violence. The termites are chipping away.