[ April 15, 2024 ]
Scott Wallace, the Democratic congressional candidate from Pennsylvania who just won his primary fight for the state’s 1st District, is financially tied to organizations that promote the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.
Wallace’s foundation, the Wallace Global Fund — which Wallace ran from 2003 until 2018 — has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to these BDS-tied groups.
And now he’s running against the Republican in a tense battle for ultimate control of the House of Representatives.
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This is the guy the Democrats in Pennsylvania picked to run this race.
From the Washington Free Beacon:
The foundation run by Pennsylvania Democratic congressional candidate Scott Wallace has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to organizations that promote the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.
Wallace won the Democratic nomination Tuesday night to face Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in Pennsylvania’s new first congressional district, seen as a key race in the 2018 battle for control of the House of Representatives. He is a wealthy philanthropist and the grandson of Henry Wallace, the second of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s three vice presidents.
The Forward reports Wallace ran the Wallace Global Fund from 2003 until this year, when he made his run for Congress, and the organization has dispensed more than $300,000 to anti-Israel groups in support of BDS. The Anti-Defamation League has condemned BDS as a movement to delegitimize Israel and “rampant with misinformation and distortion.”
The support for BDS could be damaging to Wallace, given the district’s relatively high Jewish population.
According to tax filings analyzed by The Forward, the Wallace Global Fund gave $25,000 to the anti-war group Code Pink in 2009, the year it endorsed BDS. It gave $25,000 in 2010 and another $25,000 in 2011 to Jewish Voice for Peace, which The Forward describes as “the most prominent American Jewish pro-BDS group.”
It earmarked $150,000 to left-wing publishing company Haymarket Books in 2011, which published a pro-BDS manifesto, and it’s also donated to left-wing legal advocacy group Center for Constitutional Rights, another pro-BDS group:
That same year, Haymarket published “BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle For Palestinian Rights,” a manifesto of the movement by one of its main leaders, Omar Barghouti. The book’s copyright page notes that it was published “with the generous support of Lannan Foundation and the Wallace Global Fund.” Haymarket has gone on to publish several more books on the issue by controversial Palestinian-American activists like Ali Abunimah and Steven Salaita.
The foundation also gave Haymarket’s parent company $25,000 in 2005 in support of a speaking tour for the controversial British politician George Galloway, who has frequently been accused of crossing the line between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Soon before the speaking tour commenced in 2005, Galloway called Israel a “little Hitler state on the Mediterranean,” and went on in later years to claim that the British media is controlled by Zionists.
The fund gave $40,000 in 2013 and $50,000 in both 2014 and 2015 to the Center for Constitutional Rights, a left-wing legal advocacy group. The fund’s website says that the donations were meant for “challenging the rise of the ‘National Security State’” and advocating on issues like stop-and-frisk and the prison at Guantanamo Bay. But the CCR is also known for its support and advocacy for BDS; they most recently garnered attention for organizing a tour of Israel and the West Bank for activists like Tamika Mallory of the Women’s March.
In 2016, the fund donated a further $5,000 to the Arab American Association of New York, which is run by fervent anti-Israel, pro-BDS activist Linda Sarsour.
Jill Zipin, a founder and spokesperson for Democratic Jewish Outreach Pennsylvania, told The Forward the donations are “deeply concerning to me.”
“If Scott Wallace, it turns out, supports BDS, he won’t get our endorsement, even though he’s a progressive,” she said.
The Wallace Global Fund, which has more than $140 million in net assets according to its most recent available tax filing, primarily promotes other work like combating climate change and protecting voting rights.
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36 Comments
5 years ago
Unless they start throwing these into jail these Left/jihadi savages will only get worse.
Like this Airlines kicked out the jihadi muslima out for trying to impose sharia law on other in an airplane http://tinyurl.com/yaz3286w
Its Hilarious !
5 years ago
I see that happening in Eastern PA, primarily Philly because of the black Muslim influence. I am in the PA panhandle and this is more old Americana. I moved here from TX 13-14 yrs ago and life is much, much different. Now when you go to Pittsburgh you see the beginning of what has taken place in Philly. Hopefully, we can stop this before it gets worse. People need to know what Islam is and what a cancer it has become in society.
5 years ago
All that money spent on bds and absolutely nothing but a stronger Israel for it.
5 years ago
as for waterboarding, I think mixing a 3 day drunk beer dump into the bucket would improve results
5 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
That smell (three day beer bender dump) would make the moslems feel right at home … Every time they sniff that left hand .. smeared with excrement, it gives them a feeling that alley is watchin’ ’em.
5 years ago
The Democrats exposing their KKK roots? Them Neegras and Christ killin’ Jews a problem for y’all Scott Wallace? Like a dog returning to its vomit…
5 years ago
I can only hope that the voting Jews vote Republican. The Dems themselves should vote Republican. Wallace is a fraud!
5 years ago
Reply to
Ron rockit
LOL don’t kid yourself Jews will still vote for Democrats I don’t know why, I can’t explain it, they’re just dumb.
5 years ago
Reply to
tn_tea _ partyer_420
It is strange, most Israeli Jews are very right-wing and conservative.
5 years ago
Reply to
tn_tea _ partyer_420
I suppose you’re right, provided you equate dishonor with stupidity.
5 years ago
Reply to
Michael Garfinkel
I definitely do not equate dishonor with stupidity however I do equate self-loathing and stupidity. I will say this many Jews are dishonoring their heritage. Way too many , sadly put their liberalism above their faith in God
5 years ago
Reply to
tn_tea _ partyer_420
If not an exact correlation, I do see dishonor as a “stupid” choice, more often than not.
As for the “liberalism” you cite, I’m pretty sure that most “liberal” Jews have only the vaguest idea of what the term means.
From my experience, the so-called liberal verities boil down to fortune-cookie messages and Yoga.
I might add that this is also the case amongst persons who claim to be Christians – and know nothing about the faith they “practice.”
The heart of the matter is this: there is no faith in G-d, no fear of G-d, and no love of G-d.
In that vacuum you have the rise of cults, school-shootings, civic decay, and all the other horrors that inform daily life.
For the majority of Jews, who, as you say, “put their liberalism above their faith in God,” the tragedy is profound – the consequences of which we see all around us, as in Spitzer, Weiner, Silver, Schneiderman, ad inifinitum.
5 years ago
Reply to
JeromefromLayton
Lol… there’s always an element of Truth in humor and that was a good one
D
5 years ago
Reply to
Ron rockit
NAH !! THEY’LL VOTE STRAIT DEMOCRAT . THEY ALWAYS VOTE THE WAY OF THE SHEEP LED TO SLAUGHTER .
5 years ago
Surprise, surprise…this is the party which fought for the KKK and slavery, don’t forget.
5 years ago
Practically all Demoncraps are anti-Semite. Remember their Negro? He was a Moslem. That was more important to them then anything else. Yes, even being a Negro.
5 years ago
If I was the Republican candidate, at the first debate I would turn to him and ask: “why do you hate the Jews”?
See how he responds… If he says he doesn’t , give chapter and verse of his activities against Jews and Israel. And keep pounding him with that.. To heck with the other issues.. How can that district have a person representing them who has such animosity toward a percentage of the population?
5 years ago
Reply to
Political_qrm
Sounds like a very good plan. Do they have active talk radio in that area? Talk radio listeners are high propensity voters. Really good idea to contact them over the media.
5 years ago
BDS is anti-zionist not anti-jew. The radical zionists are doing the decent folks a real disservice. They are the Al Queda of Israelis.
BDS just disdains genocidal land confiscation and wants it to stop.
5 years ago
Reply to
herbdavis
Genocidal? … Can you please name one incident of genocide?
BDS are anti-semitic people who couch their language in Anti-Israel terms.
Stop fooling yourself and do some research.
5 years ago
Reply to
herbdavis
BDS Jew haters disguise themselves anti-Zionist’s to hide their true intentions. They’re only against Israel because Israel is a Jewish state. Not about the land.
5 years ago
You gotta wonder, (if voting is actually a true and real system), how many people, that actually voted for this man…in that state. are that ignorant. Then I can see those people, holding up signs, that say “welcome refugees”, and welcoming in as many of those evil creatures, that they can fit into that state!
5 years ago
With the muslums taking over the dying atheist West it’s a grand time to be an antisemite again.
D
5 years ago
Somebody will give this slug some street justice.
5 years ago
That this democrat very left wing guy has funded Islamic organizations is no surprise. The left have moved so far to the left they are in bed with communists and Islamists.
These two groups would love to overthrow our elected government to install their dictatorship(s).
5 years ago
Makes me wonder how bad his primary opponent must have been.
5 years ago
ANOTHER DEMOCRAT JEW HATER FOR CONGRESS ????? SOON AS HE GETS ELECTED, WHICH HE MOST ASSUREDLY WILL, HE’LL START TO LOBBY JEWS ON K STREET FOR THEIR CASH AND HE’LL GET IT TOO. MOST JEWS WHO LIVE IN THE USA ARE SELF HATING JEWS AND WOULD SELL THEIR OWN KIN TOT THE NAZIS FOR A PROFIT . HOW CAN I SAY THAT YOU ASK ???? WELL IT IS PRETTY OBVIOUS IF YOU TOOK THE TIME TO LOOK AT WHO THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE JEWS SUPPORT IN THE U.S. . IT’S THE DEMOCRATS SILLY , THEY SUPPORT THE VERY SAME PARTY THAT WOULD SELL THEIR ASSES TO THE NAZIS OR MOSLEMS FOR PROFIT OR TO APPEASE THEM .
5 years ago
If you vote the “Union Ticket”, you will tend to vote Democrat. For a lot of Jews, this goes back to the Triangle Shirtwaiste Fire and the ILGWU that fought for worker’s conditions. Problem is that a lot of Democrats didn’t reciprocate and tended to side with their Jacksonian and Klan roots. On the other hand, Republicans were the original Civil Rights Party. So, it’s time to wake up, realize that those donkeys are not your friends, and vote for people that have your back, Republicans.
