MAGA Megadonors Are Recruiting Mayors to Criminalize Pro-Palestine Speech
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🗓️ 11 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This week, the mayor's summit against anti-Semitism will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana. |
| 0:06.0 | According to a press release from the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement, or CAM, that's the organization convening this event, |
| 0:13.0 | New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell will welcome municipal leaders to three days of panels, workshops, and conversations |
| 0:19.0 | about strengthening community resilience |
| 0:22.0 | and countering anti-Semitic hate. |
| 0:24.1 | The event will reportedly bring in mayors from across the country, including Beverly Hills |
| 0:28.0 | Mayor Sharon Nazarian, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley, Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotterine, and |
| 0:34.1 | North Miami Mayor Alex Dossol May, including hundreds of others. If you're listening to this, there's a good chance your mayor is going to this. |
| 0:40.3 | New York City Mayor Eric Adams will attend as a guest of honor and is slated to receive an award for what Cam describes as, |
| 0:47.3 | quote, exceptional leadership in the fight against anti-Semitism. |
| 0:51.3 | A press release from Cam also listed New Orleans mayor-elect Helena Moreno as a |
| 0:55.7 | participant, but when I reached out to her for comment, a spokesperson confirmed that Moreno was |
| 1:00.7 | never scheduled to attend to the event and had no prior knowledge that she was even listed as a |
| 1:05.2 | speaker. Indeed, for attendees, it'll be a wonderful time to be in New Orleans. The weather will be |
| 1:10.3 | mild, the holiday lights will be |
| 1:12.4 | twinkling along Canal Street, and the inaugural New Orleans Michelin Guide was published just in time |
| 1:17.7 | for these visiting dignitaries to make the best dinner reservations. Meanwhile, as they congratulate |
| 1:22.7 | themselves on safeguarding Jewish communities from the anti-Semitic terrors of Manhattan, Miami Beach, |
| 1:28.9 | and Beverly Hills. Some 6,000 miles away, the people of Gaza are living through a nightmare with no end in sight. |
| 1:35.6 | Cam is staffed heavily with former Israeli military and government communications operatives. Its CEO, |
| 1:41.8 | Sacha Reutman-Dratwa, previously served in the IDF spokesperson's unit |
| 1:46.1 | and went on to establish and command its new media division, where he spent four and a half |
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