Squad Rep. Cori Bush campaign duped by fake ‘Chief Rabbi of Gaza Linda Goldstein’
A parody social media account of the fake “Chief Rabbi of Gaza” has duped another Squad member.
The re-election campaign of stridently pro-Palestinian Rep. Cori Bush (D-Missouri) was considering a possible fundraiser with “Rabbi Linda Goldstein” — a bogus X account that spews anti-Israel bile to catfish eager-to-believe progressives.
The account — which previously fooled Bush’s congressional comrade Rep. Jamaal Bowman — reached out to Team Bush on June 23 with the fundraising idea, exchanges shared with The Post reveal.
“I’ve been bouncing around different cities since my congregation was displaced from Gaza after Israel’s invasion on October 7,” Goldstein wrote in an email to Ronika Moody, Bush’s finance and engagement director.
“Also – would [Bush] travel to the Gaza border for the fundraiser? The optics could be incredible!”
Moody responded on June 27, writing, “Cori is interested in hosting in Gaza and it’s something she has been trying to plan. Unfortunately, we have not been successful with that opportunity as of yet.”
“Theme is Gaza?” Moody asked.
Goldstein — who has boasted of using a menorah made of missiles and digging terror tunnels into American universities among other outlandish antics — suggested the fundraiser’s theme could be “the morality” of intifada.
“The topics are built around finding a final solution to the problem of Zionism,” added Goldstein, without a response from Bush’s campaign.
“Cori Bush is the perfect example of an ’empty suit’ antisemite.– completely clueless about how the Israel-Palestine conflict works, but eager to speak up because it gives her cover to publicly hate Jews,” said the man behind the parody account, a pro-Israel lawyer named Michael, who declined to give his last name.
Like Bowman, Bush is stridently pro-Palestine and polls suggest she is heading for a loss in the Aug 6 contest against St. Louis prosecutor Wesley Bell.
Team Bowman fell victim to Goldstein in April during his failed primary race against Westchester County Executive George Latimer.
Rabbi Susan Talve, the founding rabbi of the Central Reform Congregation in Bush’s St. Louis district said the lawmaker should know better.
“Cori has not done her homework about anything to do with Israel and Palestine and it’s very sad,” the genuine rabbi told The Post.
