Judith Levine argues in a Guardian opinion piece that Israel and its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, took a beating in the US midterms. Abdul El-Sayed beat Mike Rogers by seven points in Michigan despite AIPAC spending nearly $30 million, its biggest investment ever in one race, while six Democratic Socialists of America-endorsed candidates won Congressional seats; Levine holds that strong criticism of Israel may have put such Democrats over the top, though in many places Israel probably had little effect.