{"id":274,"date":"2026-05-07T21:19:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/live-blog\/live-blog-update\/us-congressman-says-pro-israel-groups-behind-95-percent-funding-against"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:19:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:19:01","slug":"6893dce98281f2af3984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"US congressman says pro-Israel groups behind 95 percent of funding against him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US congressman says pro-Israel groups behind 95 percent of funding against him<\/p>\n<p>                Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie told&nbsp;The Tucker Carlson Show&nbsp;that &#8220;at least&#8221; 95 percent of the funding backing his main opponent in the Republican primary taking place later this month comes from pro-Israel lobbying groups.<\/p>\n<p>Massie, who has been in office since 2012, has emerged as a vocal anti-war and anti-foreign aid voice on the right, as wel<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/live-blog\/live-blog-update\/us-congressman-says-pro-israel-groups-behind-95-percent-funding-against\">Read original at Middle East Eye<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US congressman says pro-Israel groups behind 95 percent of funding against him<\/p>\n<p>                Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie told&nbsp;The Tucker Carl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}