continued………. AIPAC has become aware of how toxic its brand has become. To hide her influence, she began channeling money through shell organizations with completely misleading names unrelated to Israel, such as Choose Women in Chicago and Affordable Chicago Now. In AIPAC's announcement, she said she would continue to try to "win the battle for the US-Israel alliance, [by building] a more strategic, consequential and agile political operation." However, analysts warn that the change in AIPAC is not the victory against the lobby that it appears. "AIPAC is now such a political liability for candidates that it ends its direct campaign contributions, but it's harder to double down on dark money and other fundraising," explained Dylan Williams, vice president of government affairs at the Center for International Policy. AIPAC will now rely heavily on its supra-political political action committee, the United Democracy Project (UDP), which can channel unlimited sums into political advertising without direct candidate coordination. By withholding official support, candidates can receive pro-Israel campaign capital without wearing the politically dangerous public badge of official AIPAC backing. "They have just realized that running under the AIPAC flag is political suicide now. Then they will rebrand, hide behind networks of dark money and continue business as usual," noted Palestinian activist Avier Khatib.