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The city is in such dire financial shape, that NYC Mayor Adams announced deep cuts to police and schools but they have money for this – funding death to Jews marches.
We, the people, have lost control of our cities, our nation. Horros abound.
Pro-Palestinian protest sponsors have raked in $9M in NYC taxpayer funds
By:Rich Calderand Matthew Sedacca, NY Post, Nov. 4, 2023:
Story continues below advertisementBig Apple taxpayers have shelled out nearly $9 million since 2010 — including $3.3 million the past two years — to four nonprofits that helped spearhead anti-Israel protests where demonstrators openly cheered Hamas’ terrorist attacks on the Jewish State.
A Post examination of city records shows more than $4.25 million – or nearly half — of the cash was funneled through yearly pots of political pork that City Council members dish out to help raise local support and sway votes during re-election bids.
And nearly $2 million of the Council’s so-called “discretionary funds” were awarded to the anti-Israel groups after a November 2021 general election spawned a mass influx of socialists and other new far-left members to the legislative body.
The remaining $4.46 million was paid out to the nonprofits through government contracts awarded by city agencies.
The biggest winner: The Arab American Association of New York, a Brooklyn-based group that helped plan a hate-filled “Flood Brooklyn for Palestine” protest in Bay Ridge on Oct. 21, where protestors called for the eradication of Israel and held a sign of the Israeli flag in a trash basket that read “Please keep the world clean!”
The Arab American Association of New York, which helped plan a hate-filled “Flood Brooklyn for Palestine” protest in Bay Ridge on Oct. 21, received $6.8 million in city council discretionary funding and city contracts. AFP via Getty Images
It’s received $6.8 million in Council pork and city contracts – including $3 million-plus the past two years – for criminal justice services, adult literacy programs, mental health aid through ex-First Lady Chirlane McCray’s failed ThriveNYC initiative and other services, records show
Councilmembers had previously discussed pulling the Arab American Association’s funding in 2015 after controversial Muslim activist Linda Sarsour, then the group’s executive director, posted a photo on social media of a young Palestinian boy clutching a rock in front of Israeli soldiers and labeled it “the definition of courage,” recalled ex-Councilman Rory Lancman.
The Queens Democrat, who is Jewish and clashed with Sarsour over the post, said many of his Council colleagues said it would be unfair to punish the nonprofit for the behavior of its executive director, who eventually stepped down in 2017.
He said he accepted that outcome but has zero tolerance for organizations that collect taxpayer money and support “hateful conduct.”
“You reach a point where it becomes unacceptable for the government to be funding that mission,” Lancman told The Post. “It becomes unacceptable for the government and taxpayers to be subsidizing that hate.”
Other winners include:
- Muslim American Society of New York, another southern Brooklyn-based group that co-sponsored the Bay Ridge rally. It’s received more than $260,000 in city contracts and Council funding.
- Queens-based Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), which received more than $390,000 and co-sponsored an Oct. 20 rally in Bryant Park organized by Democratic Socialists of America, where hostile demonstrators blocked Midtown traffic and spewed antisemitic chants.
- Tides Center — an advocacy group heavily funded by far-left billionaire kingmaker George Soros that sponsored some nonprofits who’ve justified Hamas’ bloody attacks — earned more than $1.2 million through contracts at the Department of Education and other city agencies. The nonprofit still does business with the city, but a bulk of its contracts were awarded over a decade ago.
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11 Comments
5 months ago
Those non–Muslims Americans who are protesting against the State of Israel and who likewise greatly favor Hamas are people who are ,rightly , described ,as the “useful idiots” of the leaders of Hamas and their jihadist members who are dedicated to the cause of conquest for the cause of Islam.
Those Americans who aren’t Muslims the stooges of those Hamas chefs and the other Muslim terrorist, For those of Hamas view all people who are not Muslims as inferior creatures to them and refer to them .
Behind their backs as , “Kafirs,” which is the Islamic derogatory term for “disbelievers”
It’s tragic that those non-Muslims pro-Hamas America protesters against Israel are so very deluded by Hamas that this Islamic terror / murder organization so easily manipulates and uses them as their tools.
Those poor people are ,truly, their useful idiots.
5 months ago
Reply to
Walter Sieruk
We can see by your boring posts that you are a non-useful idiot.
5 months ago
Reply to
Edward
Way more insightful and knowledgeable than you are. Boring? You must be on the wrong site, yes I think you need to head over to The New York Times or The Washington Post or maybe the USA Today because they tell you what you want to hear and that is FAKE NEWS but if you really want non boring info try going to a Christian Post where the Truth is not twisted and might set you free!!!!!!!!!!!
Last edited 5 months ago by Staff Sgt Chaos
5 months ago
Reply to
Walter Sieruk
They’re leftover followers of BO, and are stronghold Democrats. If this isn’t enough Google and see how many Muslims hold public offices. Americans are just misinformed and just plain foolish for allowing them in our country. “We are not here to assimilate, we are here to caliphate.—Linda Sarsour.
D
5 months ago
The nyc is filled with ignorant bigoted hating moronic criminals from the top on down!!!!!! Just liek our WH and this criminal administration!!!
D
5 months ago
PLM. Palestinian Lives Matter. The upgrade for BLM. Stay tuned.
5 months ago
Reply to
Roger Grant
I kinda doubt that, BLM is turning towards Trump. This recent fake protest was all by design and had been planned for quite sometime. How did all those flags and people populate so massively and quickly in so many cities across the world? It makes no sense.
5 months ago
Sponsored and endorsed by Obama and Soros.
D
5 months ago
Yeah. 1940 Norway called Quislings. 5th Column. They are now in key positions of power and can make decisions affecting millions. Three pronged approach or offensive if you like. Divide….Disarm….Starve….all taking place at the same time. Each of the prongs are divided in various approaches. Example: Starve has morphed into not eating meat and the elimination of small farming (Netherlands) Midwest in the USA. FDA is going after the Amish for selling raw milk amongst themselves. I don’t think it can be fixed. If we go to war amongst ourselves the bad actors are waiting in the wings to swoop in and they will.
5 months ago
Genocidal Jew Hate = The work of Satan and his demons!
