(Headline USA) Leftist billionaire George Soros and his son Alex Soros maxed out their political contributions to Rep. Pramila Japayal, D-Wash., just two weeks before she slammed Israel as a “racist state.”
Both Soroses sent Jayapal’s campaign $6,600 in late June, according to the Washington Free Beacon — the maximum amount an individual can give to a candidate in an election cycle.
Two weeks later, Jayapal told pro-Palestinian activists during a July 15 panel discussion that she is “fighting to make it clear that Israel is a racist state,” leading dozens of her own Democrat colleagues to condemn her comments as “dangerous and antisemitic.”
The Soroses, who are Jewish, are similarly anti-Israel. In 2003, for example, George Soros compared Israel’s behavior to that of Nazi Germany, claiming the “victims” had become “victimizers.”
Yet the Left frequently uses Soros’s Jewish heritage as a defense of him, claiming that any criticism of his politics is “antisemitic.”
A number of conservative Jews have begun pushing back on this narrative. A new avowed grassroots coalition, Jews Against Soros, was founded by two lawyers, Newsweek senior editor Josh Hammer and former federal prosecutor Will Scharf, who is running for attorney general in Missouri, this year.
“We are Jews who have had enough of George Soros and his malign, leftist influence on American politics,” their website says.
For her part, Jayapal faced a rebuke from her own party this week when the Senate passed a resolution declaring that Israel is not a “racist or apartheid state.”
Jayapal also offered a back-handed apology.
“I do not believe the idea of Israel as a nation is racist,” Jayapal said in a statement. “I do, however, believe that [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s extreme right-wing government has engaged in discriminatory and outright racist policies and that there are extreme racists driving that policy within the leadership of the current government.”
