- New York Gov. Kathy Hochul stopped to take photos prior to a fundraiser with Maher Abdelqader, who has pushed anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, including claiming that Jews are “satanic.”
- Abdelqader also has charged that Jews control the media and has questioned whether 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust.
- Abdelqader also promotes the Boycott, Divestment, Sanction (BDS) Movement that targets Israel and has claimed on social media that the Jews were not really from Israel.
