Alana Goodman writes for the Washington Free Beacon about the dubious origins of a group that tracks pro-Israel American politicians.
A founder of Track AIPAC, a group that accuses pro-Israel U.S. politicians of being “foreign agents,” is a self-proclaimed Marxist who lives in Germany.
Cory Archibald, who founded the Citizens Against AIPAC Corruption political action committee behind the Track AIPAC X account in 2024, describes herself in numerous social media posts and a website biography she published this year as a “long-time American expat” and an “American cat lady living in Germany” who has spent the past “20 years” living abroad in the Middle East and Europe. Though Archibald went public as one of Track AIPAC’s founders in a podcast interview earlier this month, she did not mention that she has lived outside the United States for such a significant amount of time.
The news raises many questions for Track AIPAC, which has gained popularity with anti-Semites and anti-Israel radicals on both the right and left in recent months. The group publishes lists of political donations from pro-Israel Americans and accuses politicians who accept these donations of being “Israel First traitor[s] to America.” It frames itself on social media as a supporter of the “America First” movement, arguing that U.S.-based pro-Israel groups such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee—which has no relationship to the Israeli government—should register as foreign agents or “get out of our country.”
“You can’t be claim to be America First while pledging allegiance to Israel,” Track AIPAC said in an X post in May.
Track AIPAC has denied allegations that its leadership has worked from outside the United States in the past, maintaining that it is simply a group of concerned Americans.
“We’re Americans fed up with AIPAC’s stranglehold on our government,” the group said in a post on X in May. “This lie that we are operating from outside the US started spreading directly from the Israel lobby’s Eyal Yakoby.”
But records, news reports, and social media posts show that Archibald has spent at least the past two decades living outside the United States, including in Kuwait, the Philippines, and Germany.
