Founder of ‘America First’ AIPAC Tracker Is Self-Proclaimed Marxist Who Lives in Germany
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. During this time, she has volunteered with various left-wing U.S. electioneering groups and political campaigns. She also took several leadership roles with Brand New Congress, a now-defunct political action committee formed in the aftermath of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I., Vt.) unsuccessful presidential primary campaign in 2016, while living abroad.
“I’ve been an expat for 20 years,” she wrote on her X account—located in Germany—in May 2024. “It’s a weird life and not without its challenges but I have no regrets … I continue to work for political change ‘back home.'”
Archibald described herself last November as an “American cat lady living in Germany,” and last December she posted photos of her cat’s “first Christmas in Germany.”
In another post, Archibald said she was “raised by Reagan Republicans” and later “found [her] way to Marxism.”
Archibald’s biography on the website of the Association of War Zone Contractors—an organization she has led since February of this year—also states that she no longer lives in the United States.
“After working 20 years in the Middle East, Cory and her husband now live in Germany,” the page reads.
Track AIPAC has made accusing supporters of Israel of being insufficiently committed to the United States a calling card even as Archibald has lived outside the country for decades. It went so far as to argue that Hamas’s kidnapping of American-Israeli dual citizen Edan Alexander was justified because Alexander “should have stayed at home in New Jersey instead of signing up for the Israeli military.”
The group also denounced Itay Chen, a 19-year-old American hostage killed by Hamas, as an “American citizen [who] volunteered to move overseas to join the [Israeli military] to partake in ethnic cleansing and genocide.”
In other posts, Track AIPAC denied that Hamas raped women during the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, despite extensive documentation of these assaults.
“There were no rapes on October 7th. This has been debunked thoroughly,” the group said last October, adding that the charges were “debunked rape propaganda from the Israel lobby.”
Track AIPAC has also denounced Israel as an “evil, malignant force” that “should simply not exist.” The group has repeatedly invoked Nazi Germany when discussing Israel, accusing the Jewish state of committing a “21st Century Holocaust” and calling Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “modern day Hitler.”
Track AIPAC denied that such comparisons are anti-Semitic or even inappropriate, arguing that “no one has a monopoly on the word holocaust! It’s a noun! Deeming this the Gaza Holocaust is entirely appropriate.”
The organization has attempted to galvanize its large following—nearly 400,000 on X—into joining boycotts of Jewish Americans in the entertainment industry who, like most Jews, support Israel. Track AIPAC posted a Google Docs spreadsheet titled “Boycott These Movies & TV Shows for Palestine” on its X account, listing “450 Jewish creatives and professionals” in Hollywood who have spoken out in support of the Jewish state alongside their upcoming TV shows, films, and other projects.
“Let’s keep track of which upcoming projects to boycott!” the group wrote in the X post. “Drop a reply if you know of info to add!”
One film that Track AIPAC called on its followers to boycott was the 2025 live-action adaptation of Snow White. The organization took issue with actress Gal Gadot—who grew up in Israel and served in the Israel Defense Forces, as is required of Israeli citizens—and her statement that she was “proud to be an Israeli” and “proud to be Jewish.”
Disney reportedly had to hire security to protect Gadot following a torrent of death threats against the actress.
Archibald did not respond to a Washington Free Beacon request for comment.
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