Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), who has served in Congress for 21 years, denounced the American Israel Public Affairs Committee after he lost soundly, 30.6% to 69%, to Rep. Christian Menefee (D-Texas) in the Democratic Party runoff for the state’s newly formed 18th Congressional District in Houston.
“Afraid to come out during the election, AIPAC has finally reared its ugly head,” the 78-year-old stated on Thursday, after losing the race. “I am not anti-Israel. I am anti-sending any more hardworking Americans’ tax dollars to Israel.”
Green, who has represented Texas’s 9th Congressional District since 2005, was responding to a post, in which AIPAC congratulated Menefee, 38, on defeating “one of the most outspoken anti-Israel voices in Congress.”
“AIPAC, which has not denounced the genocide in Gaza, seems to perceive every person who denounces the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian men, women and especially children, under the leadership” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “anti-Israel,” Green stated.
U.S. President Donald Trump weighed in on Green’s defeat, calling him “one of the most mentally deficient congressmen in the history of our country.”
“I will miss that lunatic not screaming and violently waving his cane at me during my next State of the Union speech,” Trump wrote.
