{"id":3206,"date":"2025-10-15T10:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3206\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:44:13","slug":"forget-about-mamdanis-illegal-donors-his-legal-ones-are-even-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3206\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget about Mamdani’s illegal donors \u2014 his legal ones are even worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

The $13,000 that Zohran Mamdani seems to have accepted in illegal donations from foreigners<\/a> isn\u2019t as sketchy as some of the legal money his campaign has taken in.<\/p>\n

When you combine Mamdani\u2019s two obsessions \u2014 socialism now! and the elimination of Israel \u2014 with deep-pocketed political donors you wind up with a toxic pool of reprehensible characters.<\/p>\n

For starters, let\u2019s play two-degrees-of-separation between the campaign and the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n

Relatives of China-based billionaire Neville Roy Singham \u2014 who funded multiple radical anti-Israel and Marxist groups linked to the Los Angeles riots and Columbia University protests<\/a> \u2014 have contributed thousands of dollars to Mamdani.<\/p>\n

Alicia Goodwin, Singham\u2019s niece,<\/a> is a Mamdani donor as well as a prominent far-left activist in New York City. She founded \u201cJews for Zohran,\u201d much like \u201cChickens for Col. Sanders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Omer Hasan and Mohammad Javed<\/a> \u2014 who each gave a cool quarter million to a Mamdani-supporting PAC \u2014 made their dough as executives for tech firm AppLovin, which short-selling firm Culper Research alleges is a national-security risk because Chinese national Hao Tang controls nearly 10% of the company.<\/p>\n

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Then there\u2019s Zohran\u2019s Islamist fans.<\/p>\n

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, via its \u201cUnity & Justice Fund,\u201d directed a full $100,000 into Mamdani campaign coffers. <\/p>\n

CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the notorious 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial; five Holy Land Foundation leaders were convicted of giving Hamas more than $12 million, and were sentenced to decades in prison.<\/p>\n

In a 2017 song, Mamdani rapped \u201cMy love to the Holy Land Five\/You better look \u2019em up.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

So, a year before the likely next mayor of New York was naturalized as a citizen he was (literally!) singing the praises of convicted Hamas supporters.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, five staffers of the Islamic Circle of North America gave $1,300 in individual contributions to Mamdani\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n

The ICNA is the North American branch of Jamaat-e-Islami<\/a>, a South Asian Islamist group tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and banned in India and Russia as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n

Former New York City ICNA head Ashrafuzzaman Khan was sentenced to death in absentia for his role in the torture and murder of 18 Bangladeshi intellectuals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mamdani is no Manchurian Candidate: A proud socialist and an open Israel-hater, he\u2019s telling us forthrightly what he stands for.<\/p>\n

Bad enough that many New Yorkers like what they hear; worse that even more just stick their heads in the sand about it <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The $13,000 that Zohran Mamdani seems to have accepted in illegal donations from foreigners isn\u2019t as sketchy as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3692,304,3693,9,24,55,54,56,563,299,3694,82],"class_list":["post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-campaign-contributions","tag-editorial","tag-islamists","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","tag-opinion","tag-terrorism","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}