In a bombshell interview aired Wednesday on *The Tucker Carlson Show*, sitting Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has made explosive claims that no less than 95 percent of campaign funding for his main primary challenger comes from national pro-Israel lobbying groups and out-of-state billionaires. The race, set to wrap up later this month, has emerged as one of the most heavily targeted Republican primaries in modern U.S. political history, according to Massie. First elected to Congress in 2012, Massie has carved out a unique niche on the American right as a vocal critic of endless foreign wars, unrestricted foreign aid, and a self-described skeptic of uncritical U.S. policy toward Israel. He has also drawn national attention for his uncompromising push to unseal all court documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, a stance that has put him at odds with establishment figures across both major parties. For years, Massie has also been a frequent target of former President Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again movement, which has thrown its full weight behind his opponent this cycle. Massie’s challenger, Ed Gallrein, is a former Navy Seal with low name recognition even among Kentucky voters, but his campaign has been flooded with outside cash from a coalition of pro-Israel advocacy groups led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Speaking to Carlson, Massie named additional backers including the Republican Jewish Coalition and Christians United for Israel, alongside three high-profile billionaires that have become major players in U.S. electoral politics: Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer, and John Paulson. None of these major donors are residents of Kentucky, Massie emphasized. “Their position is more war, more strife, more bombs, more foreign aid, and those are exactly the policies I have been voting against throughout my time in Congress,” Massie told Carlson. “That is the real reason this race has become competitive, and why I could lose. A foreign lobby has poured unprecedented funding into this race, on a scale they have never done in any Republican primary before.” To put the spending disparity in perspective: Massie’s own campaign has raised roughly $5 million total for this cycle, while pro-Gallrein forces have spent more than $10 million alone on negative attack ads targeting the incumbent. Among the attack content is an AI-generated deepfake video that falsely depicts Massie entering a hotel with members of “The Squad,” the high-profile group of progressive Democratic congresswomen. When Carlson asked why national pro-Israel groups and billionaires would care so deeply about the outcome of a small-state Republican House primary, Massie framed himself as a rare dissenting voice inside Congress on foreign policy matters. “If I lose on May 19, I’ll be out of Congress come January 3 next year,” Massie explained. “Nobody will follow my social media, I won’t be invited into the sensitive compartmented information facilities, the SCIFs, to read the classified interpretations of laws the executive branch uses to spy on American people. The one whistleblower, for all intents and purposes, inside Congress will be gone.” As public awareness of AIPAC’s election spending has grown in recent years, and American voters have increasingly grown weary of the U.S.’s unconditional diplomatic and military support for Israel, the lobbying group has adapted by obscuring its financial ties to preferred candidates, Massie claimed. According to his analysis, the groups are funneling direct cash from their donors to Gallrein’s campaign through an intermediary vendor named Democracy Engine, a platform that allows any donor to contribute to any candidate from any party without publicly linking the original donors to the spending. Carlson pushed back on the common narrative that criticism of pro-Israel lobbying amounts to anti-Israel or antisemitic rhetoric, noting that Massie’s position is simply rooted in opposition to U.S. foreign aid spending of any kind for foreign nations. “You didn’t even attack Israel. You’re not even hostile to Israel. That’s nothing to do with that at all,” Carlson said. “You just don’t think the U.S. government should be sending money for other countries, right?” Massie responded by confirming that stance, adding that it aligns with the views of his Kentucky constituents. This is not the first time AIPAC has poured massive sums of money into o sitting members of Congress it views as out of step with its policy goals. The group successfully defeated multiple progressive Democratic incumbents in recent cycles, including Missouri’s Cory Bush and New York’s Jamaal Bowman. This report originates from Middle East Eye, a media outlet focused on independent coverage of the Middle East, North Africa and global affairs. Late last year, the organization Democracy for the Arab World Now—founded by the late Washington Post and Middle East Eye journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in 2018—launched the “Faces of AIPAC” project, which published the identities and profiles of the key leaders who run the influential lobbying group.