The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today called on Rep. Ritchie Torres to donate the money he made from investing in weapons manufacturers while advocating for increased weapons shipments to Israel to charities providing humanitarian aid to victims of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Sludge revealed that while urging the White House to speed up weapons shipments to Israel, Rep. Ritchie Torres was investing in defense contractors like Lockheed and Northrop.
SEE: Torres Invested in Weapons Makers as He Backed Billions in Arms for Israel
In a statement, CAIR-NY Executive Director Afaf Nasher said:
“An elected official who secretly invests in weapons companies while encouraging a war reliant upon those weapons is a war profiteer. Rep. Ritchie Torres should donate any profits gained, apologize for his secret support of weapons manufacturing, and retract his public support of Israel’s genocidal war on the Gazan people.”
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CONTACT:
Afaf Nasher, Esq. CAIR-NY Executive Director, ANasher@cair.com
CAIR-NY Communications Team, comms@ny.cair.com