NEW YORK (VINnews) — Ella Emhoff, the stepdaughter of Vice President Kamala Harris, is raising money publicly for Gaza, according to a post on her personal Instagram account and a New York Post report.
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Emhoff’s father, First Gentleman Doug Emhoff, is Jewish, but she herself is supporting a fundraising drive “supporting urgent relief for Gaza’s children”, without mentioning the bloody attacks of October 7th in which scores of Jewish children were murdered and many others taken captive.
The fundraiser, which has netted more than $7.8 million so far, is being operated by the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, a nonprofit based in Kent, Ohio, which raked in more than $21 million in 2021, according to ProPublica.
It is unclear whether Emhoff herself has donated to the cause.
“It’s of tremendous concern and I find it abhorrent,” said Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ). “To be honest with you, I am kind of stunned by it. It’s disturbing to the maximum degree.”
Van Drew, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said it was almost certain that Hamas would be able to siphon any humanitarian cash that entered Gaza for terror purposes.
Ella Emhoff, who is not halachically Jewish, has insisted in the past to reporters that she does not consider herself Jewish.
“Ella is not Jewish,” a rep for the second daughter insisted to The Forward in 2021. “It’s not something she grew up with. Ella truly has no qualms with the faith, but she does not want to speak on behalf of Judaism, as she does not celebrate herself.”
She is close with her stepmother, who congratulated her in an X posting after Emhoff’s graduation from Parsons in 2021.
“Keep dreaming with ambition and there is nothing you cannot achieve,” Harris wrote.
Last month President Biden announced that he would send $100 million in “humanitarian assistance” to the Palestinians — a move which was sharply criticized by Republicans seeking to challenge him in the 2024 presidential contest.
Former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum have all denounced the idea.
Just another member of Useful Idiots for Hamas.
Paul I agree, 100% right. DEMAND that the Hamas terrorists IMMEDIATELY release all the children they kidnapped on October 7.
Hamas takes care of these children very well, they give them machine guns teach them to hate everybody, uses them as human shields these children are well taken care of and ready to enter the world as full fledged low life terrorist.
She is the proud product of the US education system or should we say indoctrination system.
Halachically she isn’t Jewish and from her comments she also doesn’t consider herself so.
She is as tone deaf as her step mother.
Daddy must be so proud of her.
Shame on all communists, socialists and democrats. The daughter of of Emhof, a Jew who married what’s her name.
This piece of garbage girl is the result of an evil intermarried lowlife father.
Why don’t the Palestinians allow gay pride flags at these protests and demonstrations? Ms. Emhoff, can you please explain it?
She wasn’t raised to value Jewish people, and she doesn’t have the neshama we do. Leave her alone. If her father would have cared, he wouldn’t have married, twice, out of faith. Plenty like her supporting Gaza, sometimes even kids who are halachically Jewish, but I’d bet many marching with the pro-Palestinians have a Jewish last name and nothing more.
Shoin! Ah bimbo mit ah yiddishe hartz un ah goyishe kup.
We need that like a hole in the head.
Another self important phony fake.
Nu, Emhoff married a schikshe, so don’t expect his daughter to be the tzedekiss of the generation.
Typical Democrat supporting Hamas.
The White House is disgusting!
The idea of supporting displaced Palestinian civilians is a nice mitzvah.
Believing that these funds will get to them is a different matter.
It is good to help children.