Palestinian Ambassador Donated to California Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar

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While it is unusual for foreign ambassadors to contribute money directly to U.S. political campaigns, it is not illegal if the ambassador in question holds U.S. citizenship. Abdelhady has identified herself in the past as the “daughter of Palestinian immigrants to the U.S.,” and was educated in the U.S., according to her LinkedIn profile.

Still, the ambassador’s contribution suggests a strong degree of interest among Palestinians — both in the United States and abroad — in Campa-Najjar’s candidacy, and in the 2018 election in general. Another Palestinian-American, Rashida Tlaib, won the Democratic Party primary in Michigan’s 13th congressional district in August, and is running unopposed in the general election. (The Palestinian mission to the U.N. did not reply to a request for comment.)

Campa-Najjar, whose father is Palestinian and whose mother is Mexican-American, and who is a practicing Christian despite his Muslim roots, has drawn attention to his unusual “Hispanic Arab-American” heritage. Last year, he told an interviewer that he saw himself as “the minority’s minority.”