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Forty-four percent of American Jews view Zohran Mamdani favorably, according to an AP-NORC poll released in July 2026 - 1,022 Jewish adults nationwide, margin of error ±5 points. The mayor of New York City - a democratic socialist born in East Africa who ran on Palestinian Arab solidarity, endorsed by progressive Jewish organizations - helped gain office due to Jewish money.
We can reveal that money included funds from Spielberg's Righteous Persons Foundation, built with Schindler's List profits.
Between 2020 and 2024, the Righteous Persons Foundation directed $3,065,000 to progressive organizations that endorsed Mamdani's mayoral campaign, advocated for U.S. arms embargoes on Israel, opposed the IHRA definition of antisemitism, and organized protests against the Israeli military. During the same period, the foundation allocated $125,000 to Holocaust-related projects. For every dollar spent on Holocaust remembrance since 2020, it spent roughly $19 funding organizations that work against the Jewish state.
Fifty-nine percent of American Jews hold an unfavorable view of Netanyahu. Thirty percent believe the false accusation that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. Thirty-eight percent say the U.S. is too supportive of Israel. Just 42% support continued military operations in Gaza - even as 73% say Israel's initial response to October 7 was justified. These numbers were built - deliberately, over decades - by a progressive Jewish infrastructure funded by Diaspora liberal Jews, including Steven Spielberg and George Soros.
Steven Spielberg and the "Blood Money"
Steven Spielberg called the profits from Schindler's List - a film about the murder of six million Jews - "blood money." He put it into the Righteous Persons Foundation, established in 1994 with approximately $100 million from the film's earnings. The stated mission: support Holocaust education and Jewish life in America.
Thirty years later, the foundation's tax returns reveal that money funds the progressive Jewish infrastructure that endorsed Mamdani, mobilizes for Palestinian Arab rights, advocates to defund the police, and publicly defended Mahmoud Khalil - the Columbia University activist facing deportation.
The 990 filings show Bend the Arc received $1.2 million across five years. T'ruah received $690,000. Jews United for Justice received $925,000. The Jewish Social Justice Roundtable received $250,000. The foundation's last donation to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum came in 2019. Its last grant to the USC Shoah Foundation - Spielberg's own creation - was $500,000 in 2015.
The Recipients of Spielberg's Money
Bend the Arc received $1.2 million. The largest progressive Jewish advocacy organization in the country. Its political arm - Bend the Arc Jewish Action - was co-founded by Alex Soros, who serves as founding chair. The Foundation to Promote Open Society has directed over $13 million to Bend the Arc's 501(c)(3) charitable arm. The (c)(3) and (c)(4) share the same CEO, address, and cost-sharing agreements for staff.
Bend the Arc endorsed Mamdani on September 26, 2025 - its first-ever mayoral endorsement. It ran paid media, canvassing, and Jewish voter outreach for the campaign. It demanded a U.S. arms embargo on Israel and defended campus protest movements. On Khalil, Bend the Arc launched a petition with nearly 5,000 signatures demanding his release, published an op-ed in Haaretz titled "Smokescreen Antisemitism," and co-led a letter to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
T'ruah received $690,000 since 2021. A rabbinic organization (almost all of whose members are Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist with a few Open Orthodox) commanding over 2,300 rabbis and cantors - described by JNS as "the rabbis training clergy to oppose Zionism." T'ruah organized protests against Israel's military operations in Gaza, falsely accused Israel of deliberately starving civilians, and mobilized its clerical network against Israeli government policy.
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) received approximately $925,000. Opposed the IHRA antisemitism definition. Advocates to abolish the NYPD and ran the #DefundNYPD campaign.
Jewish Social Justice Roundtable received $250,000. A collective whose members include both Bend the Arc and T'ruah - meaning Spielberg's money flows to the same organizations through multiple channels.
A detailed investigation cross-referencing these IRS filings documents the year-by-year grant flow from the Righteous Persons Foundation to each of these organizations - and the political activities funded with Spielberg's money.
Decision Makers:
The board has included Margery Tabankin since 1995 - Executive Director and Senior Advisor for nearly three decades.
Tabankin's background: a former Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) member and anti-Vietnam War activist who studied community organizing under Saul Alinsky. Among the early American Jews advocating for Palestinian Arab statehood, she traveled to Ramallah in 1989 and met Yasser Arafat. Spielberg hired her in February 1995. A celebration party in New York was attended by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
The remainder of the board is Steven Spielberg as Chairman; wife Kate Capshaw Spielberg as Director; and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Spielberg's longtime film producer - she started as his assistant in 1998 and rose to produce Bridge of Spies, The Post, West Side Story, and The Fabelmans.
Day One with Zohran
On January 1, 2026 - inauguration day - Steven Spielberg officially became a New York resident. Days later, he hosted a private meeting with the new mayor at his apartment overlooking Central Park. They were joined by Kate Capshaw, their son Theo and his wife, and Morris Katz, Mamdani's senior Jewish adviser. The meeting did not appear on the mayor's public schedule. It was confirmed only after New York Times inquiries. Both sides described it as a "friendly introduction." There was "no particular agenda."
Munich: Spielberg and Palestinian Arab Terrorists
In "Munich" (2005), Mossad agent Avner - played by Eric Bana - hunts the Black September operatives who murdered eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics. The film is structured as a revenge thriller. Its argument runs the other direction.
In a safehouse scene, Avner encounters Ali, a PLO operative who does not know Avner is Israeli. What follows is the most sympathetic case for Palestinian Arab nationalism in a major American studio film. NPR called it "Spielberg's most provocative film."
"You don't know what it is not to have a home," Ali tells Avner. "Home is everything." He continues: "We have a lot of children. They'll have children. So we can wait forever... The world will see how they've made us into animals."
Spielberg lets Ali make this argument without interruption or narrative correction. Avner manages only: "You'll never get the land back." Ali is given the philosophy. Avner is given the gun. Avner's arc is a man destroyed by violence committed on behalf of a state whose moral authority he can no longer locate. By the film's end, Avner is paranoid, isolated, undone.
Ali accuses Jews of exploiting German guilt over the Holocaust to secure Western support for Israel. Spielberg - the filmmaker who built his reputation on Schindler's List - put this argument into the mouth of a character the audience is positioned to sympathize with. One side received the philosophy. The other received the doubt.
Progressive Jews: Enemies of the Jewish State
The "blood money" from Schindler's List - his term, not ours - now funds opposition to the Jewish state and the political movement that elevated Zohran Mamdani. The foundation, the film, the grants, and the meeting all tell the same story: Steven Spielberg took the profits from a movie about the murder of six million Jews and built a machine that works against the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Forty-four percent of American Jews now view Mamdani favorably. That did not happen organically. It was engineered - by Bend the Arc, T'ruah, JFREJ, and the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable. Funded by the Righteous Persons Foundation and people like Steven Spielberg and George Soros.
These are not critics. These are not dissenters. These are Jews who fund, organize, and mobilize against the survival of the Jewish state - while claiming to speak for Jewish values. They endorsed a mayor who ran on Palestinian Arab solidarity. They defended an activist facing deportation for campus protests against Israel. They demand arms embargoes. They reject the internationally recognized definition of antisemitism. They call the IDF's operations war crimes.
The progressive Diaspora Jew has become an enemy to Zionism and Israeli Jews.
Steven Spielberg took the proceeds from a film about the murder of six million Jews and directed them to organizations that defend the enemies of the Jewish state. What can one say?