MacKenzie Scott Gives Millions to Philly Nonprofit Tied to Anti-Israel Penn Encampment
19th June 2024
MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, awarded a $2 million grant to a Philadelphia-based community fund with ties to the Philly Palestine Coalition, the radical activist group behind the anti-Israel encampment at the University of Pennsylvania.
The billionaire divorcée announced the grant to Bread & Roses Community Fund on March 19, lauding the group and other grantees as “vital agents of change” that have overcome “discrimination and other systemic obstacles.” Just weeks later, in May, Bread & Roses honored the Philly Palestine Coalition with its “Victory is Ours Award,” which the fund gives to a local group that has “advanced moments for racial and economic justice.”
It’s hard to maintain the fiction that Republicans are ‘the party of the rich’ when most billionaires (and their former wives) are Democrats–or worse.