Congresswoman Mary Peltola is on a list of more than 30 Democrats in Congress who accepted money from socialist-leaning colleagues Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Seattle and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who have defended Hamas and who voted against condemning Hamas’ brutal rape and murder of innocent Israelis during their Oct. 7 terrorist raid.
According to a Fox News Digital review of federal filings, Peltola accepted $11,000 from the anti-Israel Democrats, including $6,000 from Rep. Jayapal’s “Build Our Movement” political action committee and $5,000 from Ocasio-Cortez’s “Courage to Change” PAC. Both contributions are for the 2024 election year cycle.
The attack by Hamas on Israel resulted in 1,200 dead that day and hundreds taken hostage. But on CNN, Rep. Jayapal said that people should be “balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians” when she was asked why liberals remained silent over the Hamas terrorists using rape as a weapon of war.
The candidate who received the most money from the far-left progressives who refused to condemn Hamas is Rep. Susan Wild, D-Pa., who hauled over $47,000 from the campaigns of PACs controlled by anti-Israel Democrats.
Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-Pa., received the second-most from The Squad leftists — $25,000 from Jayapal and Ocasio-Cortez’s leadership PACs in the 2022 and 2024 election cycles, with most of that cash ($20,000) coming from Jayapal’s Medicare for All committee, according to Fox News.
“The third-highest money hauler from the anti-Israel Democrats is Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Ill. Between 2018 and 2022, Underwood took in $23,000 from committees tied to Garcia, Jayapal, Carson, Ocasio-Cortez and Omar, with each of her donations ranging between $1,000 and $7,000,” Fox News wrote.
Ben Petersen of the National Republican Congressional Committee said Rep. Peltola accepted “blood money” and should return it.
“Mary Peltola needs to answer for why she took so much money from anti-Israel Democrats who can’t even bring themselves to condemn a terrorist attack in which 1,200 people were murdered,” Petersen said. “She needs to immediately return the blood money.”
