AIPAC’s super PAC, United Democracy Project, entered the Michigan Senate general election on Friday to oppose Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, after reported tensions with the GOP nominee, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) over its role in the race.

Individuals affiliated with Rogers’ campaign had reportedly told AIPAC that it did not want the group to openly spend in favor of him in the general election, fearing that its controversial reputation might do harm to his campaign.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) will campaign alongside Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed next week, joining him for a bus tour across the state’s Upper Peninsula before holding several rallies in the Detroit area on Friday.

Ocasio-Cortez and El-Sayed are scheduled to make stops on Thursday in Escanaba, Iron Mountain and Marquette as part of his campaign’s “Shouldn’t Be This Hard” tour. On Friday, the congresswoman will hold rallies at Oakland University in Rochester and Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, along with a “Latinos for Abdul” event in Detroit.

In Georgia’s first Senate debate on Thursday, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) said he would defer to the International Criminal Court on whether Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, but said that he believes Israel has violated international law.

Ossoff also repeatedly hammered his opponent, Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), as a bigot who had hired, amplified and even welcomed into his home and family antisemitic and white supremacist figures.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) wrote to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent this week urging him to reopen an investigation into the Swiss bank Credit Suisse over its ties to the Nazi regime.

Credit Suisse, now a subsidiary of UBS, was part of a $1.25 billion restitution settlement between several Swiss Banks and Holocaust survivors and victims’ families in 1999, after the banks were accused of accepting and profiting from Nazi assets and seizing accounts from Holocaust victims. But recent investigations have found more Nazi-linked accounts that weren’t disclosed at the time of the 1999 settlement.

Just don’t call it “change.”

Nechumi Yaffe, a norm-shattering Haredi woman, and her fledgling political party, Hatzibur HaHaredi, may be tilting at ultra-Orthodox windmills, but they are seeking nothing less than a wholesale transformation of Haredi society. Yaffe wants to pull the community out of poverty. She wants to alter its relationship to the army on the contentious issue of Haredi conscription. And she wants to “make higher education the default” in order to bring more men into the labor force.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) accused the Trump administration of an “active cover-up” of the costs of the war in Iran and vowed that Democrats would use funding and investigative authorities in the next Congress to force an end to the war.

He also said that he’d warned Saudi officials during his visit this week that the U.S.-Saudi nuclear deal, as currently constructed, would not survive under a Democratic president and urged them to renegotiate it.

In the first debate of the general election for Senate in Michigan, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) repeatedly hit Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed over his supporters’ ties to and support for terrorist groups and El-Sayed’s comments on the Temple Israel terrorist attack — accusations that El-Sayed largely did not respond to during the deeply acrimonious exchange.

El-Sayed, for his part, said he would not support defensive aid to Israel even if it was under attack, framed Israel as a threat to the United States comparable to Iran, defended his decision not to issue a statement honoring the anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel and continued to sidestep questions on Iran’s persecution of its own civilians.

The Jewish Council for Public Affairs called on Democratic and Republican candidates on Thursday to reject antisemitism and political violence, including within their own political coalitions, ahead of November’s midterm elections, warning that conspiracy theories about Jewish influence and efforts to exclude Jews from public life have become increasingly normalized.

In an open letter, the group urged candidates to condemn harassment and intimidation, reject conspiracy theories about Jewish control of government and elections and make clear that those promoting such views have no place in their political coalitions.