Democratic House candidates take donations from head of Rockefeller group backing anti-Israel activists

Published October 15, 2024 4:00am ET



Dozens of Democratic congressional candidates are being boosted, to the tune of over $100,000, by a trustee for a Rockefeller family group funding anti-Israel protest organizers.

David Rockefeller Jr., a businessman and trustee for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, has doled out the six-figure checks combined this election cycle to House hopefuls and to a political action committee supporting Democrats, Federal Election Commission filings show. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a private foundation based in New York, has come under fire following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel over the millions of dollars it sends to the progressive activists behind Hamas-friendly protests in the United States.

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