In the adjacent post I excerpt Jamie Kirchick’s account of the Democratic Socialists of America, of which Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh is one. Fateh is also an incumbent state senator and member of the Democratic Party. The Free Beacon’s Jon Levine reports that Fateh is eager to bring the mythical “Chief Rabbi of Gaza” — “Linda Goldstein” — on board his campaign:
Pray it ain’t so.
Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh engaged in a series of friendly conversations with a parody X account masquerading as the “chief rabbi of Gaza” and “nude yogi,” screenshots shared with the Washington Free Beacon show.
“I would love to do a fundraiser for you,” Rabbi Linda Goldstein wrote. “How do I get in touch? This anti-Zionist rabbi loves and supports you.”
Fateh replied on August 11.
“Thank you for reaching out,” he wrote. “Can you share with me your phone and email? I’ll have my finance director reach out to you.”
Goldstein responded, “It’s been so hard since being displaced as Chief rabbi of Gaza after the Israeli aggression of Oct 7. I’m happy to do anything I can to help fight Zionism.”
Gaza has no chief rabbi and has not had any Jews at all in the territory since Israel withdrew in 2005.
“Why am I not in on this??” Goldstein asked on Aug. 16, sharing a link to a “Jews for Fateh” fundraiser.
Fateh replied two days later.
“We would love for you to join!” he wrote. “This was planned by a group of supporters, but would love for you to get more involved, you can sign up/attend the event or we will have more ways of getting involved in the future. Thank you!”
You can see why Fateh might be so excited by the prospect of bringing “Rabbi Goldstein” on board:
“My first order of business as the Interim Leader of the Hamas Political Bureau will be installing gender neutral bathrooms in all tunnels,” Goldstein wrote in August. “Together, we will rebuild a more progressive Hamas.” She also jokingly wrote in a September post that Israel had used nuclear weapons against Greta Thunberg’s flotilla.
And, as usual, we have the customary nonresponse: “Fateh did not respond to a Free Beacon request for comment.”
By contrast with Fateh, “Rabbi Goldstein” is not tongue-tied. She responds in the X post below.
Another disgusting smear has been written about my relationship with Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Omar Fateh 😡😡😡https://t.co/xAxOYzgmX6
— Rabbi Linda Goldstein (🇵🇸🍉I/P Commentary) (@realrabbilinda) October 17, 2025
In case you were wondering about her support for Mamdani, the X post below leaves little room for doubt.
Zohran Mamdani is a principled man.
He doesn’t hate Israel, he hates that it’s a JEWISH state. As he says, he doesn’t support ANY states with official religions.
That’s why he also openly campaigns to dismantle the 23 proscribed Muslim countries and 14 Christian countries.
— Rabbi Linda Goldstein (🇵🇸🍉I/P Commentary) (@realrabbilinda) October 17, 2025
