If the Emergency Committee for Israel’s aggressive political tactics are unsettling to some Democrats, maybe it’s because “they know they’ve been caught doing something the American people don’t want them to do,” said Noah Pollak, ECI’s executive director.
In the past few months, ECI has made a name for itself by assaulting Democrats in hotly contested congressional races over their support for Israel — or lack thereof, as ECI sees it.
Seeking to strengthen its fiscal prowess, ECI recently established an independent expenditure committee, ECI PAC, a so-called “super PAC” that is permitted to solicit and spend unlimited amounts of money on issue advocacy campaigns, so long as it doesn’t contribute funds to any particular campaign or candidate. (The group did not provide its contributions, nor total advertising expenditures, saying it preferred waiting until its documents were made public by the Federal Election Commission.)
