New York Democratic candidates in aggressive races took marketing campaign donations from Westchester Individuals’s Motion Coalition, a left-wing nonprofit, and the Soros household, that are each pouring cash into antisemitic encampments on school campuses.
Former Rep. Mondaire Jones, who’s working to win again his seat in New York’s seventeenth Congressional District this yr, has acquired greater than $35,000 in donations from billionaires George and Alex Soros since 2022, FEC filings present.
These contributions included $6,000 donations apiece from the father-son duo in December, because the progressive hopes to unseat freshman New York Republican Rep. Mike Lawler.
Throughout his first marketing campaign and later time period in Congress, Jones additionally acquired greater than $3,400 from a board member of the WESPAC, a fiscal sponsor of the anti-Israel teams Inside Our Lifetime and College students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
WESPAC President Howard Horowitz gifted greater than $1,000 to the first campaigns of “Squad” Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), whose district covers Westchester County and elements of the Bronx.
That White Plains-based nonprofit backed protests of President Biden over his assist for the “genocide” of Palestinians within the Gaza Strip on Thursday, as he headed to a swanky fundraiser on the dwelling of actors Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
“SHUT DOWN WARMONGER’S FUNDRAISER,” an electronic mail invitation endorsed by WESPAC learn, in response to a duplicate obtained by The Submit. “NO MONEY, NO PEACE FOR BABY-KILLER BIDEN!”
Felice Gelman, a retired Wall Avenue banker who’s freely giving her fortune to anti-Israel causes, has additionally donated almost $3,700 to Bowman’s congressional campaigns.
Her newest contribution of $1,000 comes forward of the anti-Israel rep’s robust main battle in opposition to Westchester County Government George Latimer, who’s forward by 17 proportion factors in a Democratic ballot earlier this month.
Jones trailed Lawler by simply 2 proportion factors in one other Democratic ballot performed in Could 2023.
“Mondaire Jones friends round with radical antisemites like AOC, Ilhan Omar and Jamaal Bowman and is bankrolled by the exact same people who find themselves funding the horrific antisemitic protests we’re seeing on school campuses throughout the nation,” Lawler marketing campaign spokesman Chris Russell informed The Submit.
“He should instantly return these donations and denounce these he continues to affiliate with,” he added.
“Mondaire Jones has vigorously spoken out in opposition to antisemitism and the BDS motion, so after all he doesn’t assist the pro-BDS College students for Justice in Palestine,” mentioned Shannon Geisen, a spokeswoman for Jones’ marketing campaign.
“If Mike Lawler needs to criticize individuals who have contributed to Mondaire, Lawler wants to clarify why he accepted a contribution from Harlan Crow, a billionaire with a Nazi memorabilia assortment, and has endorsed a well known antisemite for the Rockland County Legislature and Donald Trump, who has repeatedly cozied as much as Nazis.”
The Soros’ community of nonprofits, WESPAC and Gelman have all propped up Inside Our Lifetime and SJP’s tent encampments at Columbia College which have threatened the college’s Jewish group.
The teams — together with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) — descended on the Morningside Heights campus final week to arrange a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” as Congress grilled Columbia’s president Minouche Shafik for fostering antisemitism on campus.
Undergrads on the sprawling tent metropolis have intimidated and harassed Jewish college students and college, forcing directors to scrap in-person courses as chants of “Intifada” and “f–ok Israel” ring out on the quad.
“A message to the scum of countries and pigs of the earth: Paradise lies within the shadow of swords,” learn a cardboard signal seen by The Submit that was hidden deep within the encampment.
Since 2017, Soros’ Open Society Foundations donated no less than $300,000 to the US Marketing campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), which is paying pupil radicals to “stand up, to revolution” on the Ivy Leagues and elsewhere.
USCPR’s group “fellows” rake in as a lot as $7,800 and its campus “fellows” get pleasure from between $2,880 and $3,660 to prepare “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.”
Gelman, a former member of WESPAC’s committee for Justice and Peace within the Center East, and her husband, Yoram, donated $20,000 to the group by way of her nonprofit, the Sparkplug Basis, in 2022, public filings present.
Reps for Bowman’s marketing campaign didn’t reply to a request for remark.
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