{"id":698,"date":"2025-11-20T17:43:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:48:06","slug":"698","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Shaun King takes down Gavin Newsom&#8217;s refusal to call out AIPAC:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the text:<br><br>&#8220;So when my friend and brother\u00a0<strong>Van Lathan<\/strong>\u00a0simply brought up AIPAC on\u00a0<em>Higher Learning<\/em>\u00a0and said\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cI will not vote for a candidate that takes $1 from AIPAC.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014I expected a straightforward answer. A yes. A no. A why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Instead, Gavin\u00a0<strong>short-circuited<\/strong>. He said\u00a0<strong>\u201cthat\u2019s interesting\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0again and again (Mediaite counted\u00a0<strong>seven<\/strong>), claimed Van was \u201cthe first to bring up AIPAC in years,\u201d called AIPAC \u201cnot relevant to my day-to-day life,\u201d and tried to pivot to Prop 50, city councils, school boards\u2014<strong>anything but a clear stance.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More from King here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenorthstar.com\/p\/the-aipac-question-that-broke-the\">https:\/\/www.thenorthstar.com\/p\/the-aipac-question-that-broke-the<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Newsom-and-Israelis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"669\" src=\"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Newsom-and-Israelis-1024x669.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-699\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Newsom-and-Israelis-1024x669.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Newsom-and-Israelis-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Newsom-and-Israelis-768x501.jpg 768w, http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Newsom-and-Israelis-1536x1003.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Newsom-and-Israelis-500x326.jpg 500w, http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Newsom-and-Israelis-800x522.jpg 800w, http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Newsom-and-Israelis-1280x836.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Newsom-and-Israelis-624x407.jpg 624w, http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Newsom-and-Israelis.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the text: &#8220;So when my friend and brother\u00a0Van Lathan\u00a0simply brought up AIPAC on\u00a0Higher Learning\u00a0and said\u2026 \u201cI will not vote for a candidate that takes $1 from AIPAC.\u201d \u2014I expected a straightforward answer. A yes. A no. A why. &#8220;Instead, Gavin\u00a0short-circuited. He said\u00a0\u201cthat\u2019s interesting\u201d\u00a0again and again (Mediaite counted\u00a0seven), claimed Van was \u201cthe first to bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[241,242,40,243,244],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aipac","tag-campaign-contributions","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-israel","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}