It isn’t making news in Georgia’s mainstream media, but earlier this year James “Fergie” Chambers reportedly secured multiple hundreds of millions of dollars from his family, which controls the Cox Enterprises empire. And now he’s using that slush fund to bankroll a hard-left group that’s harassing Jews across the country.
Avowed communist Chambers, whose billionaire father James Cox Chambers co-owns the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks, revealed recently that he secured a significant payout from Cox Enterprises while cutting ties with his family. And, following the terrorist group Hamas’ assault on Israel, Chambers has begun using that money to underwrite the legal fees for members of Palestine Action U.S. It’s a group that is targeting Israeli businesses with vandalism and harassment. Those actions, Chambers says, are part of a broader effort to popularize coordinated attacks against Jews and their conservative and Christian allies.
“We need to start making people who support Israel actually afraid to go out in public,” Chambers said in a recent Instagram post. “We need to make all of white America afraid that everything they have stolen is going to be burned to the ground. That’s what makes them listen.”
Such left-wing groups have long received financial backing from liberal megadonors. According to a report in the Washington Free Beacon,
Palestine Action U.S. members have especially targeted Elbit Systems, an Israeli defense company that provides the Jewish state with counterterrorism equipment. The paper reports that the group’s members last month clashed with police outside of the company’s Boston office, a demonstration that the group boasted “completely halted” Elbit’s business and led to “multiple arrests.” Within hours of the ordeal, Palestine Action U.S. members were back on the street, having been released from jail thanks to Chambers’ funding.
The newspaper also says Palestine Action U.S.— which has referred to Israelis as “genocidal maniacs” and “scum”— also targeted an Elbit office in Arlington, Va., where members on Nov. 6 smeared red paint on the doors to the company’s building and spray painted “War Criminals Work Here” on the ground. The group said its northern Virginia vandalism was part of a coordinated attack on Elbit, with members also targeting company offices in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
Chambers, the paper also reported, was arrested in early November for vandalizing a McDonald’s restaurant near the White House after the company’s Israeli branch donated free meals to the Jewish state’s soldiers, Washington, D.C., police confirmed.
Law enforcement officials told Los Angeles Magazine that federal agencies have “received intelligence” that Palestine Action U.S. could threaten homeland security and heed calls from Hamas to carry out attacks in America. Chambers, though, has dismissed those concerns by insisting his “comrades” are “not violent” and merely “break things.”
Chambers, who serves as Palestine Action U.S.’s spokesman in addition to his role as the group’s benefactor, has long espoused radical beliefs.
He serves as general secretary and founder of the Berkshire Communists, a Massachusetts-based group that uses ”agitational methods” to combat “the structural oppression of bourgeois fascism and its protectors.” He claims he sent a grant to an Israeli-designated terror organization, the Samidoun Network, to support Palestinian “political prisoners.”
“No faction of the Palestinian resistance, Hamas or other, has done *anything* wrong,” Chambers wrote days after the terror group’s Oct. 7th bloody attack on Israel.
