Far-left DSA Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rae Huang pocketed the maximum $1,800 campaign donation from a Twitch streamer who was suspended last year for calling Jews a “demonic ethnicity,” The California Post can reveal.
The donor, Michael Beyer, who streams under the name “Mike from PA” and the username Central_Committee, made the remarks during a 2024 livestream, saying, “Jewish is not an ethnicity. This constructed ethnicity, this demonic ethnicity, wholly invented.”
Beyer was later suspended from Twitch over the comments.
He has since apologized, saying he misspoke and intended to criticize what he described as a Zionist political identity, not Jewish people.
Haung’s spokesperson Emel Shaikh told the LA Times that Huang and Beyer have met twice, including at a Los Angeles chapter meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America.
“Mike has been working to uplift progressive candidates across the country and Rae is among the other folks he’s donated to or platformed,” Shaikh told the publication.
They also said that Huang has no plans to return the money.
Both Huang, who is a minister, and Beyer are members of the DSA’s Los Angeles chapter, an explicitly anti-Zionist organization that has publicly accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and operates a Palestine Solidarity Committee.
In seeking the group’s endorsement, Huang pointed to her own background, writing that she lived with a Palestinian family in the West Bank nearly two decades ago and declaring, “We are not free until Palestinian lives are freed.”
The controversy lands as Huang is already running an insurgent campaign centered on dismantling existing power structures inside City Hall, particularly policing.
In a recent campaign video, Huang outlined a three-part plan to overhaul the Los Angeles Police Department, including removing Chief Jim McDonnell, redirecting legal liability payouts directly from the department’s budget and pushing for criminal prosecution of officers who break the law.
She has said the department consumes a growing share of city resources while other services fall behind, pointing to roughly $400 million in city payouts tied to police-related cases since 2019.
Her campaign remains a long shot.
A recent UCLA poll placed her support at just 3 percent, far behind better-known figures in the race, including Mayor Karen Bass.