NYC Dem leader blamed Zionists for property dispute, peddled antisemitic conspiracy theories

A Brooklyn Democratic district leader peddled antisemitic conspiracy theories and blamed “Zionists” for her personal property dispute — prompting Jewish leaders to demand her resignation Tuesday.Carmella Charrington, who represents socialist friendly turf in Bedford-Stuyvesant, is a key vote in an ongoing fight over who will be the next chair of the powerful Kings County Democratic Party.Charrington has been embroiled in a legal inheritance fight over her family’s brownstone home in Bed-Stuy, and outrageously pointed the finger at “Zionists” with ties to the West Bank for her troubles.“They’re Zionists that basically did this.Same thing that they’re doing in the West Bank, it’s the same thing.

There’s a connection,” Charring recently told Egyptian podcaster Raha Zein, an interview that was picked up by Jewish Insider Tuesday.Charrington also stirred outrage last year when she shared a video on Instagram promoting notorious antisemite industrialist Henry Ford’s “The International Jew” booklets that falsely claimed Jewish people control business, media and banking.“Repeatedly invoking Zionists’ as a collective villain, particularly after previously promoting Henry Ford’s ‘The International Jew’, is not legitimate policy criticism.It traffics in some of the oldest and most dangerous forms of antisemitic scapegoating,” said Mark Treyger, CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council.“Rhetoric has consequences.

Jewish New Yorkers continue to be disproportionately targeted by hate crimes.We have witnessed physical attacks and synagogues targeted,” Treyger said.

“Carmella Charrington should resign as district leader.She has demonstrated that she is unfit for this position of public trust.”Charrington has claimed she’s a victim of deed theft, but a Georgia conservator accused her of kidnapping her elderly father, who suffers from dementia.

In the podcast interview, she mentioned Joseph and Elliot Ambalo and Daniel Gaza...