–Haim Saban has given $213,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2020. Saban is famous for saying, “I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel.”
–Maryland Rep. and liquor baron David Trone has given $248,500 to the congressional campaign committee in the last 16 months.
Trone is very clear about Israel and BDS
in his lengthy position paper on Israel.
Israel is the homeland of the Jewish People, one to which my family and I are deeply committed… we must also speak out against the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which is rooted in anti-Semitic sentiment – and we need to fight back against it. I am deeply troubled by the BDS movement on college campuses across the country and around the world.
–Cari Sacks and husband Michael Sacks of Illinois gave $426,000 together to the congressional campaign committee in late 2019. The Sackses surely care about Israel: their family foundation gives a
lot of money to Birthright Israel and other Zionist causes.
–S. Daniel Abraham and wife Ewa Abraham,
are legendary Israel supporters. They also gave $426,000, according to Open Secrets.
–Seth Klarman, the chairman of the Times of Israel, who was mentioned in an Ilhan Omar mailer as a donor to her opponent, gave $106,500 to the DCCC earlier this year.
–Donald Sussman,
a liberal Democrat who is on the board of the Weizmann Institute in Israel, also gave $213,000 to the DCCC in March.
–Producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, who gave $112,000 in March 2020, is an
ardent supporter of Israel.
–Andrew Hauptman appears to have wide interests philanthropically, but
Israel is one of them. He gave $109,000 in March 2020.
–John Pritzker gave $106,500 in February. Pritzker’s family foundation
has given money to an Israeli cultural organization.
Right there you have over $2 million in gifts from a dozen pro-Israel donors. You can imagine that that money means a lot to the Democrats, when the average gift is a lot closer to $250 a pop.