Joe Biden enjoys a deep groundswell of support from Jewish-Democratic benefactors, with giants in the worlds of Hollywood, Silicon Valley and Wall Street making up a significant portion of the U.S. president’s fundraising as he begins his reelection bid in earnest.
By Ben Samuels
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden’s reelection bid has some tough sledding ahead if the majority of polls that have emerged in recent months are to be believed. His fundraising efforts tell another story, though, with his reelection campaign already raking in significant donations – many coming from longtime Jewish Democratic megadonors.
An analysis of campaign finance disclosures showing contributions to Biden’s campaign and pro-Biden PACs and super PACs for 2023 illustrates a deep groundswell of support from Jewish-Democratic benefactors. They make up a significant portion of the president’s fundraising as he begins his reelection bid in earnest.
The donors in question – many of whom are in the finance industry, with others connected to Hollywood and Silicon Valley – vary in their prioritization of Israel as a campaign issue, as well as their respective involvements in local Jewish communities and philanthropies.
Their steadfast and deep-pocketed support for Biden, however, indicate how the Democratic Party has generations-deep support within the American-Jewish community.
Polls have continuously shown that Jewish voters vastly prefer Biden over Donald Trump, with Israel rarely being among voters’ top priorities. Despite this, American Jews are among the few groups who have stuck with Biden amid plummeting poll numbers (many of which stem from his approach to Israel, which centrist Democrats deem a threshold issue).
Haim Saban is perhaps the key pro-Israel megadonor for Biden, significantly overlapping between both the president’s reelection bid and AIPAC’s United Democracy Project super PAC. He has given over $936,000 to Biden, after donating $1 million to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s super PAC. (While federal political action committees have strict limits on the amounts they can contribute, a super PAC is allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to campaign independently for candidates for federal office.)
Saban has long been one of the most important donors and fundraisers for the Democrats, generating millions of dollars for the party over the years. He has also made significant financial investments in pro-Israel organizations such as AIPAC and Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.
He also collaborated with late Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson on the Israeli American Council, which was founded to organize Israeli expats living in the United States. He told The New Yorker in 2010 that he was “a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel.”
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Joining Saban as an overlapping megadonor is casino magnate Neil Bluhm. He has already given more than $1.4 million this cycle to the Biden super PAC, on top of $200,000 to United Democracy Project. His daughter Leslie, a social entrepreneur who sits on the AmeriCorps board of directors following an appointment from Biden in 2021, has given over $554,000.
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On the other end of the Democratic Party’s pro-Israel political spectrum, J Street’s political action committee has already contributed more than $1.4 million. J Street PAC’s donations, made over the course of 40 separate contributions in 2023, were largely buoyed by $500,000 contributions from career diplomat Jon Greenwald and radiation oncologist Patricia Gordon (both J Street board members).
Billionaire philanthropist George Soros – one of J Street’s previous key political contributors and longtime Democratic megadonor, who has steadily become synonymous with Republican attacks that have too often masqueraded as antisemitic dog whistles – has given Biden $758,000.
Left-wing pro-Israel donations go beyond J Street, though. Michael Sonnenfeldt – co-founder of the Israel Policy Forum, and a massive donor to Israel-related causes like Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Institute for National Security Studies – has given more than $200,000.
Many of Biden’s key Jewish donors are based in California, both in the Los Angeles entertainment and business sector, and Silicon Valley.
Film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, renowned as one of the most prolific Democratic fundraisers, has given nearly $2.9 million, while his DreamWorks Pictures co-founder Steven Spielberg has given more than $936,000. (The “Schindler’s List” director also said his USC Shoah Foundation would launch a new project aimed at collecting and acquiring testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the Oct. 7 attack.) His wife, Kate Capshaw, donated the same sum.
Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg attending the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills last month.Credit: Mike Blake/Reuters
Entertainment executive Casey Wasserman, who gave the Biden super PAC more than $936,000, also spoke out in support of Israel following Oct. 7, invoking the terror attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics during an International Olympic Committee session in his role as chairman of the 2028 Olympics in LA.
Billionaire investor Peter Lowy donated the same figure. A major benefactor to Jewish causes like the American Jewish University and the Jewish Journal, he is the son of Frank Lowy – who fought in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, before becoming one of Australia’s richest businessmen and chairing Israel’s Institute for National Securities Studies. Lowy Sr. moved to Israel at the end of 2018.
Ellen Bronfman Hauptman, a private investment firm co-chair whose Canadian-American father Charles is one of the most significant Jewish and pro-Israel philanthropists, is another LA-based scion megadonor who donated the same figure.
Attorney Martha Karsh, who is one of LA’s most noted philanthropists (including backing a nationally recognized social services initiative at LA’s Wilshire Boulevard Temple), has given Biden more than $556,000.
Further north in California, Eli Reinhard – a San Jose land developer who is one of Silicon Valley’s most prolific contributors to Jewish philanthropies, as well as Jewish and Mideast-centric programs at Stanford University and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy think tank – has given nearly $927,000.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last September to discuss artificial intelligence, gave Biden $506,000. Alex Karp, the Palantir co-founder who recently flew the data-analysis software giant’s board to Tel Aviv in a show of solidarity, has given more than $366,000.
Sheryl Sandberg, the former Meta executive who has been among the most outspoken public figures attempting to draw attention to Hamas’ use of sexual violence during the Oct. 7 attack, donated more than $500,000 to the Future Forward pro-Biden super PAC, as did her husband Tom Bernthal.
Other key donors have been longtime supporters of Democratic candidates and causes, though their Jewish connections are not perhaps as obvious as those previously mentioned.
Biden enjoys significant support from the finance world, particularly among Jewish megadonors in the northeast.
Jim Simons – who grew up in the heavily Jewish Brookline, Massachusetts, before becoming one of the most successful Wall Street investors of all time – has given more than $3.6 million, alongside his wife Marilyn. Their daughter, educator and philanthropist Liz Simons, and her investor husband Mark Heising, have given Biden $800,000.
Simons’ longtime colleague Henry Laufer and his wife Marsha, an institutional Democratic donor and power player, have given more than $865,000. Hedge fund manager Stephen Mandel and his wife Susan, who have largely given to education causes as well as the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, gave Biden $832,000.
Another anti-Trump megadonor worth noting is Seth Klarman, the hedge fund manager and Times Of Israel co-founder who strayed from the Republican Party following Trump’s ascendance. Klarman has given Biden more than $409,000.
Deborah Simon, daughter of late shopping mall magnate and philanthropist Mel Simon, has also donated at least $1 million in support of Biden. The Indiana-based Simon has long been a supporter of Jewish causes and charities, specifically the U.S. Holocaust Museum and the Anti-Defamation League. The co-chair of NFL club Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Avram Glazer – whose family has been deeply involved in Jewish philanthropic causes across the United States – also donated more than $888,000.
Other key donors have been longtime supporters of Democratic candidates and causes, though their Jewish connections are not perhaps as obvious as those previously mentioned.
Biden enjoys significant support from the finance world, particularly among Jewish megadonors in the northeast.
Jim Simons – who grew up in the heavily Jewish Brookline, Massachusetts, before becoming one of the most successful Wall Street investors of all time – has given more than $3.6 million, alongside his wife Marilyn. Their daughter, educator and philanthropist Liz Simons, and her investor husband Mark Heising, have given Biden $800,000.
Simons’ longtime colleague Henry Laufer and his wife Marsha, an institutional Democratic donor and power player, have given more than $865,000. Hedge fund manager Stephen Mandel and his wife Susan, who have largely given to education causes as well as the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, gave Biden $832,000.
Another anti-Trump megadonor worth noting is Seth Klarman, the hedge fund manager and Times Of Israel co-founder who strayed from the Republican Party following Trump’s ascendance. Klarman has given Biden more than $409,000.
Deborah Simon, daughter of late shopping mall magnate and philanthropist Mel Simon, has also donated at least $1 million in support of Biden. The Indiana-based Simon has long been a supporter of Jewish causes and charities, specifically the U.S. Holocaust Museum and the Anti-Defamation League. The co-chair of NFL club Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Avram Glazer – whose family has been deeply involved in Jewish philanthropic causes across the United States – also donated more than $888,000.
Via Haaretz
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25 responses to “These Are the Jewish Megadonors Helping Fund Biden’s Reelection Campaign”
Oh stop.lets see who is funding don the con.
many of the same group funding don the con fund Biden! Murica is so fake. We live in one big psyop.
ITS NOT JUST “BYE-THEN” OR THE “DONAL DUCK”. ALL ARE .. WHOEVER ARE IN THE SENATE & CONGRESS ENMASSE .. ZIONIST JEWS OWN THEM ALL .. EXCEPT A FEW COUNTED ON 10 FINGERS .. WHO ARE CONSIDERED THE PARIAH OF OUR SHAM, FRAUD & CROOKS DOMINATED DEMOCRACY.
So that’s who’s funding Biden’s anti-American agenda.
In recent times, Jews contributed to 60% of the Democrat campaigns and 25% of the Republican campaigns.
not true. it’s publicized like that. but not true. they’re quite alright with MAGA. in fact the ugly agenda fits the cause for them. Look Bankman fried. Gave heavily to repubs but only advertised the dem giving.
There are over 270 US Jewish political organizations, the leaders of which make up the US Jewish Lobby, which ensures that the US government maintains unconditional support for Israel. The lobby also ensures that US public opinion is favorable to all Jewish political concerns, including the definition of “antisemitism,” and the role of Jews in a larger, non-Jewish society. The following link takes you to a list of these organizations.
https://articlebiz.com/article/1052218096-the-jewish-lobby
Many of these organizations are funded to levels of hundreds of millions of dollars a year, with endowments in the billions. The resulting political activity is beyond what a superpower can resist. The leaders of these organizations – Tribal Fundamentalists – are overwhelmingly US Jews, their political goals go far beyond just Israel, and they are overwhelmingly supported by the US Jewish community. Yet we are told to refer to this lobby as the “Israel Lobby,” as if there’s no such thing as a Jewish Lobby. This deception is intentional because it diverts attention from the primary actors.
This lobby can be seen as the political organization of the US Jewish community. There are similar lobbies in other western countries. All in all, they are the political arm of Judaism. The list above is the data, the evidence that proves the enormous political clout of Judaism. And it explains why the US government is willing to materially support Israel in its ethnic cleansing, Apartheid, and likely genocide against the Palestinians, who are being killed because they are not Jews. Without support from the US Jewish Lobby, the Israeli Jews could never commit such atrocities with no accountability.
These facts are among the most important facts we need to consider in any discussion involving Israel. Any discussion of Israel without acknowledging such facts can never lead to significant understanding. Such acknowledgement is absent from public discussion, and the resulting lack of understanding explains many erroneous beliefs about Israel by the public and why this conflict hasn’t been resolved.
As usual, it’s the leaders of any group that are the true culprits, although they need the support of their constituency. Thus, these leaders, by their demented efforts, are really throwing all of Judaism under the bus, because the Tribe for them has become a tremendous business model, fulfilling their wildest desires for wealth and power. Judaism, like many other groups, has succummed to such a fate.
When I finished reading the article, I thought something was missing. You provided that! Now it all makes total sense. Thank you. Another thought: what does Biden do with all of that money donated for “his campaign”? And, if he doesn’t run, does he give it back (hah)?
Hillary, I believe the fact that campaign money is so influential on who is elected is an indictment of the numbskull feature of our citizenry. It’s the same thing as advertising in the fashion industry. Humans react with the Pavlovian instincts of animals.
I got curious about your first question and found that the breakdown for 2022, according to opensecrets.org, was:
Media, 45%
Fundraising, 13%
Unclassifiable, 11%
Salaries, 9%
Campaign Expenses, 8.4%
Administrative, 8%
Strategy & Research, 5%
As for what happens to unspent contributions, Google tells me:
Donations to charitable organizations
Unlimited transfers to political party committees
Donations to state and local candidates
Other lawful purposes
My guess is that #2 suggests they could be used for future campaigns of the same candidate.
What is even more important for people to realize and understand, is that most of the so called “Jews” in Palestine, and elsewhere, is that they are NOT the descendants of Abraham, or the Biblical Hebrews, but are descendants of the Khazars. They were versed in Babylonian Talmudism by Talmudic Rabbis (John 8:44) from the Synagogue of Satan, and NOT by the Torah True brand of Judaism. Hence, the Khazars became “twice the children of Hell” (Matt. 23:15) as the Talmudic Rabbis were themselves. That education occurred around 800 A.D. , at the urging of their neighbors to pick one of the 3 major religions in the hope they would convert themselves from their evil ways that they had been doing for centuries. However, since they picked a very bad choice, it became necessary to evict them out of the land, and they were defeated and ordered to leave by Kievan Rus Prince Svyatoslav the Great in 967 A.D., whereby they were dispersed into Eastern Europe and other parts of Russia, and took up the trappings and customs of the Hebrews, as a disguise. They posed as the CHOSENITES for almost a thousand years, when that particular ruse came in very handy when claiming Palestine as their official homeland given to them by God. If you Google up “THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE INCREDIBLY EVIL KHAZARIAN MAFIA”, you can get a rather good explanation of their story after about a half hour read. Look for the version published by VeteransToday.org
July, I read the results of a DNA study that concluded from 60 to 80 percent of the Mitrochondrial DNA of Ashkenazi Jews are from European descent. On the other hand, I wouldn’t push the Khazar theory so much because I don’t think it’s been scientifically supported much. Remember, facts are our greatest allies. The DNA history of Ashenazi Jews is good enough, which indicates by the way that it’s accurate to identify these Jews as “White,” which many of them do.
But even more important than DNA is the fact that about 95% of Israeli Jews are descendants of Jews who came from Europe, after living many generations for hundreds or even thousands of years of existence outside the traditional homeland. So really DNA has nothing to do with it. Do members of the American Indian tribes have the moral right to kick all us Americans out of our homes? I don’t think so. But that’s what these stupid Jews assert.
Likewise, I believe it would be morally wrong to kick out the Jews currently in Israel. That would be committing the same crime that the Jews committed when they kicked out the Palestinians in 1948. It’s wrong to kick anyone out of the homes they have been established in. I don’t know how many years are necessary before one becomes established, but you get the idea.
Thus, the Israeli Jews are both morally and mentally ill. They have some kind of cultural PTSD that’s Biblical in nature. They believe they must do unto others the horrible things others did unto them. It’s a mental illness.
As an aside, it’s also a lie when Jews say that only those Jews living outside Israel are diaspora Jews. All Jews are diaspora Jews, from the true definition of diaspora, which means living outside of ancient Israel, which ceased to be in the latter part of the first century AD.
Yes, it was around 600AD when white Ashkenazi Jews invented themselves outside of Israel. It would be interesting to know if they are genetically “victims” or did they simply invent that victimhood ploy?
True what you say Sam. Also true what Ariel Sharon said in 2001, “we the Jewish people control America”. Such is life in the US “democracy”.
For a teenager, living in the USA, if this is what religion, politics and “God” are all about, you can leave me out.
USA has one party with 2 parts that (playing) giving you the illusion of free will to choose between, while the real owners of the same system are running the show,
THat explains why Trump is still being carried on MSM heavy rotation: both parties WANT him. Saban = Adelson; and Adelson = Trump. What an ugly politics. Murica so fake.
Merica is no longer run by Mericans, it is run by dual citizens of Israel.
Supporting the Biden regime means supporting genocide.
Not only have the Khazarian Mafia FAKE JOOS bled us dry, and taken over our country, but now they have made us all complicit in their murderous GENOCIDE. The International Court of Justice now considers all of us as Unindicted Co-Conspirators. How long do you think that will go on before they haul us all into court ???
King Herod is still looked down upon with disdain for killing only 2000 baby boys. SatanYahoo has done 5 times that number, plus their mothers
Yes, the dumbed down US taxpayers are complicit and should be held accountable. Stupidity is not an acceptable excuse for being a nation of genocidal maniacs.
I’m wondering why my comment that this a c£a$$ of Jews, and that many less financia££y-fixated Jews are leading the fight to enlighten us as to the actual facts on the WA$P-£ed b£ood$oaKKKd ground.
I’ll try with this shorter take. Hope springeth eternal.
Prometheus, I need to tell you that most your writing is not intelligible to me. Why don’t you try to use conventional English according to reasonable rules of grammar?
This is nothing but legalized bribery. All campaigns should be government funded any political party with ballot access should receive the same funding as the democrats and republicans.
Take away the bribery and they will work for the people.
The single, most effective step we can take as a nation to eliminate the vast majority of government corruption is with a constitutional amendment that mandates political campaign contributions only from individual live human voters, with an across the board maximum. You can work out the details.
There will be no elections in the United States. The Democrats are ready to do anything to keep power. They are preparing a coup d’etat, and they will not allow the election of Trump. But half of the states will refuse to recognize the election results, and then the country will split. Thus, in 2024, America will cease to exist as a single state. But even if we allow such an unlikely event as the coming of Donald Trump to power, it will not change anything. The United States will disintegrate anyway.