On August 6, 2024, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell unseated incumbent Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush in the Democratic Party primary for Missouri’s 1st congressional district. Bell bested Bush by a 51% to 46% margin. 

After her defeat, Bush promised to wage a revenge campaign against The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) super PAC, United Democracy Project. The pro-Israel organization dropped over $7 million to defeat Bush.

Bush has been highly critical of the way Israel has conducted its military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas’ attack on October 7, 2023. She is the second member of the “squad” who got knocked off by the Israel lobby — the other being former New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman. 

In a speech after her defeat, she said that exiting Congress will just take “some strings off.”

“Because now, there are some strings that I have attached. And as much as I love my job, all they did was radicalize me, and now they should be afraid,” she stated.

“They’re about to see this other Cori, this other side,” she added. “There is nothing that happens in my life that happens in vain. So, this happened because it was meant to happen. And let me say, it’s because of the work that I need to do.”

“And let me say this: AIPAC, I’m coming to tear your kingdom down!” she proclaimed.

Bush has described the Gaza war as “Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign,” and earlier in 2024 put forward the Ceasefire Now Resolution. 

By contrast, Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie — a vocal critic of doling out foreign aid to Israel — was able to dominate his primary campaign despite a massive AIPAC campaign being launched against him. Bush is an anti-white fanatic so her presence in Congress will not be missed. 

The calibrated skepticism of Israeli interests that Massie manifests is the way to go. Being an unhinged leftist that criticizes Israel is just bad optics. It will ultimately be a principled, nationalist Right that will restore sanity to American foreign policy.