How is Michael Blake the better alternative to Ritchie Torres?
- Took Israel Lobby $
- Spoke at AIPAC conference
- 2 Israel lobby-paid trips to Israel
- Retracted saying Israel holds hostages
- Flip-flopped acknowledging Israel genocide
- Condemned DSA for opposing Israel trips for lawmakers
- Drew parallels between racism against blacks & the struggle of Israelis with terrorism (despite the fact that Israel is an Apartheid state)
- Questionable gov travel reimbursements which prompted an investigation
- Introduced bill benefiting Airbnb while getting paid by Airbnb via consulting firm Hilltop
In 2025, authenticity matters more than ever. Michael Blake is a DNC insider (former DNC vice chair) who blows whichever way the winds of opportunity blow. He is NOT an authentic candidate.
The poorest district in America, the Bronx, deserves a better choice.
2025 Retracted saying Israel is committing genocide in January & continued to apologize for it through May. Every major human rights group has determined that Israel is committing genocide. When Blake was preparing to launch his campaign, he flipped again & acknowledged genocide on September 16, 2025
2020 Drew parallels between his experience as a black man in the Bronx and the struggle of Israelis against terrorism. Every human rights group acknowledges Israel is an Apartheid state where Palestinians are treated as subhumans by the Israeli government.
Crain published an extensive study in 2019 showing a long pattern of submitting travel reimbursements for government work while doing political work in different states than stated work travel. (See link in sources post above)
2015: Introduced bill benefiting Airbnb while getting paid by consulting firm, Hilltop, which was hired by Airbnb to promote the bill Blake introduced
2025: Made a statement about all sides returning hostages. After Zionists told him to go f*ck himself, he retracted & apologized.
As of May 2025, Israel held 3577 Palestinians hostage (no charges, indefinite detention)
Took Israel Lobby money and spoke at Israel Lobby events
Israel Lobby Paid Trips
- 2014 AIPAC-affiliated paid trip to Israel
- 2017 Israel lobby paid trip to Israel
- 2020 Condemned DSA for asking NYC lawmakers not to take Israel paid trips
So how is Michael Blake a better alternative to Ritchie Torres?
Are we saying any apartheid & genocide supporting pro-Israel candidate can just wash it all away simply by making a statement right before launching their campaign?
2019 UK adopted IHRA def of antisemitism & incorporated into terrorism law:
- Israel criticism=hate speech
- hate speech=hate crime
- hate crime=terrorism
2024 UK peace activists arrested for online criticism of Israel
2025 Trump & 37 States adopted IHRA
- Cops visit US Citizens homes for online anti-Israel speech
- Israel Lobby funded House Rep. Brian Mast introduced bill allowing Sec. of State to strip Americans of their passports for criticizing Israel
Remember when you clapped when the Trump administration arrested & deported students for protesting Israel? Well, it’s our turn now.
1 reason wealthy Zionist donors are panicking about Mamdani is because they use the NY based CFI to funnel tax exempt donations to illegal activities in Israel:
- illegal settlements
- blacklist groups like Canary Mission that target Americans (yup, we are subsidizing these donors to fund foreign entities to target us)
In 2024, Canada’s government stripped the Canadian version of CFI, called the Jewish National Fund of its tax exempt status. Zionists are worried Mamdani may push to do the same.
Thank you @GedaliahBlum, the Israeli dual citizen who runs @MOSSADil
By censoring my post, you took a story that I was mildly interested in & made it my top research project
Your little “Heartland Initiative”supporting violent illegal settlers in the West Bank will be exposed, your connections to ADL/Builders for Tomorrow (AI censorship), TheMossadIL, Israellycool, Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, all of it, will be exposed
You said BDS prompted you to start your illegal Israeli settler initiative, well, the BDS’ floodlight is on your supremacist project now
AG PAM BONDI CLEARED THE WAY FOR ISRAEL’S FOREIGN INFLUENCE OPERATION
On her 1st day, newly appointed AG Pam Bondi, disbanded the Foreign Influence Task Force, the DOJ office responsible for enforcing FARA. The change specifically limits DOJ prosecutors from criminally charging those involved in public-relations work & policy advocacy on behalf of foreign businesses & nonprofits.
This is key to understanding how Israel’s current foreign influence campaign is structured. The Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) states a Foreign Agent is "an individual who agrees to operate within the US subject to the direction of a foreign gov or official." The penalty for unregistered Foreign Agents is 10yrs in prison.
FARA documents show money and direction flow from Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Havas Media Group to entities operating in the US (Clock Tower X, Bridges Partners & Show Faith By Works). Employees of the entities are also registered under FARA but what’s not registered are independent contractors (also known as 1099 Contractors) and subcontractors.
Since Pam Bondi has directed the DOJ to only prosecute individuals who fall under the definition of the Espionage Act from 1917 (123 years ago), FARA violations involving PR firms and nonprofits engaged in Israeli influence campaigns online and via social media & media have free reign to propagandize Americans. That also means, unregistered 1099 contractors and subcontractors will also not be prosecuted. Furthermore, the penalty for not registering (should this become an issue) is no longer criminal charges leading to 10 year prison sentences. It is a simple slap on the wrist and a reminder to register.
This deliberate incapacitation of DOJ’s enforcement mechanism gives a green light to foreign influence operatives, ensuring that the Knesset's 2018 plan to skirt FARA can proceed with minimal risk of prosecution.
I will do a separate thread to show how this memo was also used to dismiss one of the biggest FARA cases of our lifetime, NYC Mayor, Eric Adams.
SOURCES:
Link to Ian Carroll Show (highly recommended watching the full episode to understand the various touchpoints)
Shoutout to @gunclubprez for finding the legal review of the Pam Bondi memo & sharing it with me. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have known to look for the actual memo.