{"id":296451,"date":"2026-05-02T10:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/296451\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T10:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:27:13","slug":"mayoral-hopeful-huang-takes-donation-from-twitch-streamer-suspended-for-antisemitic-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/296451\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayoral hopeful Huang takes donation from Twitch streamer suspended for antisemitic comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rae Huang received the maximum $1,800 campaign contribution from Michael Beyer, who was suspended from the livestreaming platform Twitch last year after comments surfaced of him referring to Jews as a \u201cdemonic ethnicity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJewish is not an ethnicity,\u201d Beyer, who goes by the online moniker \u201cMike from PA,\u201d said during a 2024 livestream. \u201cThis constructed ethnicity, this demonic ethnicity, wholly invented.\u201d <\/p>\n

Beyer later apologized for his remarks<\/a>, saying he misspoke and that he meant to speak about Zionist identity, not Jewish identity. <\/p>\n

Huang is a minister, community organizer and member of the Democratic Socialists of America. She has no plans to return the contribution, campaign spokesperson Emel Shaikh said.<\/p>\n

Huang and Beyer have met twice, Shaikh said, including at a Los Angeles chapter meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America.<\/p>\n

\u201cMike has been working to uplift progressive candidates across the country and Rae is among the other folks he\u2019s donated to or platformed,\u201d Shaikh said.<\/p>\n

In her endorsement questionnaire response when she was seeking the Democratic Socialists of America\u2019s backing, Huang outlined her support for Palestinians, saying she lived with a Palestinian family in the West Bank nearly 20 years ago. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not free until Palestinian lives are freed,\u201d she said in her response.<\/p>\n

Beyer, who streams on Twitch under the username Central_Committee<\/a>, is from Pennsylvania and recently moved to Los Angeles. He was suspended for a week for his 2024 comments. <\/p>\n

He said those comments were misconstrued and taken out of context.<\/p>\n

\u201cI meant to say the Zionist conception of Israeli identity would be a settler colonial identity,\u201d he said. \u201cI would never support antisemitism in any way.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Anti-Defamation League, which had commended Twitch for suspending Beyer, didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment on Huang\u2019s decision to accept Beyer\u2019s donation. <\/p>\n

Like Huang, Beyer is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America\u2019s L.A. chapter, an explicitly anti-Zionist organization committed to Palestinian liberation. <\/p>\n

The group has a Palestine Solidarity Committee and has written that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide in Gaza. <\/p>\n

A United Nations International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory found that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians last year, a finding that was rejected by the Israeli and U.S. governments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rae Huang received the maximum $1,800 campaign contribution from Michael Beyer, who was suspended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[125746,125745,125748,125751,1552,29229,34917,340,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,125749,2324,23511,125747,125750,12239],"class_list":["post-296451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-antisemitic-comment","tag-beyer","tag-campaign-contribution","tag-demonic-ethnicity","tag-donation","tag-dsa","tag-huang","tag-israel","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mayor-hopeful-huang","tag-member","tag-mike","tag-ongoing-genocide","tag-shaikh","tag-twitch-streamer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}