Socialist Brooklyn Rep. Emily Gallagher is sponsored by a group whose leaders espouse vile anti-Semitic rhetoric and are under investigation by the Virginia attorney general for allegedly financing terrorists. Attended an anti-Israel phone bank meeting.
On Tuesday, Gallagher spoke at an online event hosted by the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and “guest-hosted” by the New Jersey chapter of American Muslims for Palestine.
The organization’s parent organization is under investigation in Virginia for allegedly raising money for Hamas.
“It hurts to see this war continue, and it hurts to feel solidarity with those who are suffering so much right now, but we cannot stop it,” Williamsburg, home to a large Hasidic Jewish population, said in a statement. Gallagher, who heads the , said on a Zoom call Tuesday. .
Former Brooklyn City Councilman David Greenfield, who runs the Metropolitan Council, the Big Apple’s largest Jewish charity, criticized the extremist Paul for her appearance.
“It is shocking that Emily Gallagher, the representative of America’s largest Jewish community, would actually align herself with people known for spreading bloody slurs against Jews,” Greenfield wrote in the post. told the paper.
AMP national leaders have repeatedly expressed their hatred of Jews and Israel over the years.
Hatem Bazian, the group’s chairman and founder, previously published a cartoon depicting an Orthodox Jew with the caption, “I can now kill, rape, smuggle Palestinians, and steal their land.” and has repeatedly asserted that Israel harvests people’s organs. .
Another national board member, Salah Sarsour, is said to have raised funds for the Holy Land Relief and Development Foundation, a charity targeting Hamas terrorists. 2001 FBI memo It cited an interview with Mr. Sarsour’s brother by Israeli authorities.
Former leaders of charities was convicted of a crime In 2008, he funneled more than $12 million to terrorist groups.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Gallagher declined to comment.
