Forget about Mamdani’s illegal donors — his legal – Latest News
The $13,000 that Zohran Mamdani appears to have accepted in illegal donations from foreigners isn’t as sketchy as some of the legal money his marketing campaign has taken in.
When you mix Mamdani’s two obsessions — socialism now! and the elimination of Israel — with deep-pocketed political donors you wind up with a poisonous pool of reprehensible characters.
For starters, let’s play two-degrees-of-separation between the marketing campaign and the Chinese Communist Party.
Relatives of China-based billionaire Neville Roy Singham — who funded a number of radical anti-Israel and Marxist teams linked to the Los Angeles riots and Columbia University protests — have contributed hundreds of {dollars} to Mamdani.
Alicia Goodwin, Singham’s niece, is a Mamdani donor in addition to a distinguished far-left activist in New York City. She based “Jews for Zohran,” very similar to “Chickens for Col. Sanders.”
Omer Hasan and Mohammad Javed — who every gave a cool quarter million to a Mamdani-supporting PAC — made their dough as executives for tech firm AppLovin, which short-selling firm Culper Research alleges is a national-security risk as a result of Chinese national Hao Tang controls almost 10% of the company.
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Then there’s Zohran’s Islamist followers.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, by way of its “Unity & Justice Fund,” directed a full $100,000 into Mamdani marketing campaign coffers.
CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator within the infamous 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial; 5 Holy Land Foundation leaders had been convicted of giving Hamas more than $12 million, and had been sentenced to a long time in jail.
In a 2017 track, Mamdani rapped “My love to the Holy Land Five/You better look ’em up.”
So, a yr earlier than the probably subsequent mayor of New York was naturalized as a citizen he was (actually!) singing the praises of convicted Hamas supporters.
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Meanwhile, 5 staffers of the Islamic Circle of North America gave $1,300 in particular person contributions to Mamdani’s marketing campaign.
The ICNA is the North American department of Jamaat-e-Islami, a South Asian Islamist group tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and banned in India and Russia as a terrorist group.
Former New York City ICNA head Ashrafuzzaman Khan was sentenced to death in absentia for his position within the torture and homicide of 18 Bangladeshi intellectuals.
Mamdani is no Manchurian Candidate: A proud socialist and an open Israel-hater, he’s telling us forthrightly what he stands for.
Bad enough that many New Yorkers like what they hear; worse that even more simply stick their heads within the sand about it
