Soros, Hong Kong Donor Fund J Street

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2010/09/soros-hong-kong-donor-fund-j-street

One of the hottest stories in Washington at the moment was broken by my former Forward and New York Sun colleague Eli Lake, who reported that the left-wing advocacy group on Arab-Israeli issues J Street is being funded by George Soros and a Hong Kong-based figure named Consolacion Esdicul. The Washington Examiner, Weekly Standard, and Atlantic (Jeffrey Goldberg) all follow up.

This all raises plenty of questions, but among them are: Will President Obama, who has been attacking the Supreme Court and Republicans in Congress for supposedly allowing "foreign-controlled corporations seeking to influence our democracy" the ability to "spend freely" reconsider his close relationship with J Street now that he knows it is funded by a foreign individual?

And will the news organizations that have been running articles criticizing or reporting on libertarian or Republican-oriented donors funding organizations advancing libertarian or Republican principles as if it were some kind of loophole pay the same kind of attention to Mr. Soros and Consolacion Esdicul's backing of J Street?

by Ira Stoll  |  Sep 26, 2010 at 12:47 am Related Topics:  Campaign Finance, Non-Profits, Politics, President Obama, Press receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list