the fierce heir of the past $34 billion Cox Media empire Having liquidated his share of a reported $250 million family fortune and disowned his relatives, he is now channeling funds from his current base in Tunisia to the fight against Israel, Zionism, and other “anti-colonialism.” I'm pouring it into it.
James “Fergie” Chambers, 38, also sent a $24,000 check he received from New York City (part of a payment to about 1,300 Black Lives Matters protesters) to ” Donating to Palestine.
“New York City paid me and over 300 other people $24,000 each for beating us and detaining us in the Bronx during the 2020 George Floyd riots.”[.] “I want New York City Mayor Eric Adams, former emir and leading Zionist, to know that this money is going to Palestine,” Chambers tweeted on January 5.
He called on US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Sentenced to death for 'crimes against humanity' and tweeted it “If you do not unequivocally support the total annihilation of Israel, your soul is rotten.”
Mr Chambers, who attended Bard College, where his father is now chairman, now lives in Tunisia and is studying the Arabic Koran as part of what he calls a “return” to Islam.
He is with his Jewish partner, Stella Schnabel, 40, the daughter of former downtown scenester and artist Julian Schnabel, and their 2-year-old Victor.
He is the eldest son of James Cox Chambers, co-owner of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, who has a net worth of $5.65 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
After divorcing Chambers' mother, artist Lauren Hamilton, Cox-Chambers married the daughter of Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.
Chambers told the Post that many in his family, including socialite Katherine Rayner, were “sociopaths.”
“I'm not saying it's my mother, but the problem lies in the way she raised me,” he said. “But many of the rest are, and to me, all [family] money. “
The father did not return calls from the Post.
Mr. Chambers has come under fire in the United States for being portrayed as a cop-hating communist bent on seizing the capitalist forces that have made the nation's eighth-richest family successful. He is also accused of establishing a communist militia in the Alford area of Berkshire. Known as the Berkshire Communists.
The Berkshire Eagle was the first to sound the alarm. In November, he referred to Chambers and the people he calls “comrades” as “pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian gun owners.”
The Eagle reports that county residents fear Chambers and his group because of his tweets and unapologetic anti-American and anti-Israel rhetoric, both in real life and online, and that they have screenshots of his posts. The report was sent to a news station and a nearby police station. (Chambers is also a fierce anti-police advocate and wants to defund the police.)
Berkshire District Attorney Timothy Shugrue has directed the State Police Criminal Division, which is assigned to his office, to “continue to monitor the situation,” the Eagle reported.
In response to the public's concerns, Mr. Shugrue responded with a statement that said he “strongly condemns those who spew hateful rhetoric in our community.”
The name of the funding arm of Berkshire Communists is Babochki Collective And it is being run by Paige Belanger, the group's secretary, in his absence, Chambers said. “She definitely doesn't have a gun,” he added.
The newspaper has reached out to Belanger for comment.
Chambers added that he owns few guns and has no intention of building an armed camp in the Berkshires.
“No one in Alford organizes militias,” he told the Post.
As for accusations of anti-Semitism, “We have Jewish members and Jewish residents who despise Zionism, even its liberal undertones, more than anyone else.”
Local residents in Alford are upset by Mr Chambers' comments.
“The United States was and is a completely irredeemable and indefensible nation.” Chambers wrote in X Sunday. “The brightest souls, the greatest concepts born within the walls of that prison since the British occupation began, shone so brightly in spite of it, and precisely because we resisted it. Never. Don’t participate in it.”
free press He recently visited Chambers, his former home in New Hampshire, which he openly acknowledges is his address for tax purposes, and also spoke with several residents of Alford, Massachusetts. It's like a “mob'' or “cult'' where “Fergie plays the dual roles of guru and sugar daddy.''
Chambers said it was “beyond insane” to call himself a cult leader, adding, “Westerners are obsessed with cults of personality. I'm no one's leader. Fortunately, I've been able to meet smart people with a lot of resources and clear ideas, which I've tried to share and leverage. I'll never take myself seriously enough to be a 'guru.'
In October, pro-Palestinian activist Carla Walsh was chained to the entrance to the Cambridge, Massachusetts offices of Israeli-based arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, along with Chambers and Baragher.
“The onslaught of hit stories about Fergie and ridiculous hoaxes like the 'Berkshire County People's Militia' show how afraid the ruling class is that one of their own has become a true class traitor. Walsh told the Post on Monday.
Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises was founded in 1898 by Mr. Chambers' great-grandfather, former Ohio Governor James M. Cox. Mr. Cox ran unsuccessfully for president against Warren G. Harding in 1920 and went on to build an industrial empire.
This powerful conglomerate has grown to include Cox Communications, the nation's third-largest cable company, as well as companies such as AutoTrader, Kelley Blue Book, and Valpac.
The family fortune established by Governor Cox was bequeathed to his two daughters, Barbara and Chambers' grandmother, Anne.
Before Anne died in January 2020 at the age of 100, she distributed shares to her three children, including James Cox Chambers, who reportedly owns 17% of Cox Enterprises. .
Chambers, who studied at Russia's St. Petersburg State University and has tattoos of Stalin and Mao Zedong, is a fan of the Soviet Union and Communist China, but not the United States.
“I am categorically opposed to any armed wing of the American empire,” Chambers told the Post. “This is an evil, murderous, theft, genocidal idea, and every element of it must be dismantled.”
