Left-wing billionaire GeorgeSoros joined his son AlexanderSoros in steering maximum campaign donations to RepJayapal, who has recently come under fire from Democrats over her anti-Israel rhetoric, second quarter filings show.
The Soroses contributed $6,600 each on June 29 to the campaign for Jayapal, who said she's"been fighting to make it clear that Israel is a racist state" at a July 15 progressive event in Chicago held by a group called Netroots Nation. Dozens of House Democrats released a statement on July 17 calling the comments"dangerous and antisemitic" from the congresswoman, who has since tried to walk back her comments and apologize.
"The Soros family and its massive network of nonprofits have long been some of the biggest funders of anti-Semites and Israel-haters in the world, surpassed only by a few oil kingdoms," Scott Walter, president of Capital Research Center, a conservative investigative think tank, told the Washington Examiner."This gives the lie to claims that it's anti-Semitic to criticize Soros.
Netroots Nation, the nonprofit group based in Kansas City, Missouri, that held the conference, has received grants over the years from the likes of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and the left-wing group Demand Justice. Meanwhile, Jayapal's Democratic colleagues called her Israel remarks"unacceptable" in their joint statement, noting,"We will never allow anti-Zionist voices that embolden antisemitism to undermine and disrupt the strongly bipartisan consensus supporting the U.S.-Israel relationship that has existed for decades."
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