Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat Party's anti-Semitic, socialist nominee for mayor of New York City, apparently proved he’s extremist enough to earn the backing of the political machine of America’s most notorious billionaire.
The New York Post reported July 12 that George Soros poured $37 million into a litany of leftist groups backing Mamdani, which is ironic given the latter’s phony, public dog-and-pony show disdain for billionaires. As the Post summarized, “[I]t’s unlikely [Mamdani would be] be the front-runner to become the Big Apple’s next mayor if it wasn’t for” the left’s “kingmaker” Soros.
The Soros fortune went into a collective of at least 10 groups behind get-out-the-vote efforts that helped Mamdani upset former New York governor Andrew Cuomo in the NYC Democratic primary, including the infamous Working Families Party (WFP). MRC Business profiled WFP in its most recent report documenting George and his son Alex’s financing of the radical, global climate change movement.
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We reported WFP and its advocacy group WFPower, are both prominent leaders of a Soros-financed coalition known as the Green New Deal Network. Soros’s Open Society Foundations gushed this group is “working to build a movement to pass local, state, and national policies that create millions of family-sustaining union jobs, ensure racial and gender equity, and take action on climate at the scale and scope the crisis demands.” It's packed with ESG overtones.
In the NYC primary, WFP — which pocketed the lion’s share of the Soros funding ($23.7 million) — “helped score Mandani the Democratic line by brokering cross-endorsement deals that squeezed out Cuomo,” the Post reported. The entire Soros-backed cohort is backing Mamdani’s “Marxist agenda that includes advocating for criminal migrants and condemning Israel.”
MRC was also one of the first to report on how Soros was financially supporting groups that celebrated Hamas’s genocidal attack on Israel October 7, 2023. This is right on par with Mamdani’s absurd defense of the grotesque anti-Semitic catch-phrase, “Globalize the intifada."
Soros’s own anti-Israel political stance is well-documented. MRC resurfaced a horrific pro-Hamas 2007 op-ed by the billionaire calling on America and Israel to “open the door to Hamas.” As Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz wrote in 2023, “no single person has done more to damage Israel’s standing in the world, especially among so-called progressives, than George Soros.”
It looks like the Soros machine has found its lackey to embed its anti-Israel extremism into the NYC framework for the foreseeable future.
