The sister to the ruling emir of Qatar — a country which has funded the terrorist group Hamas and hosted its leaders at the time of the October 7, 2023 massacre — has been a prime funder and career-maker for socialist Zohran Mamdani’s filmmaker mother, Mira Nair, who hates Israel.

Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani has backed Mamdani’s mother since at least 2009, The New York Post reported.

In addition,  Sheikha Al-Thani has “taken to promoting Mamdani’s mayoral candidacy on social media, boosting news of favorable polling on Instagram and posting fire emojis under a TikTok video of him embracing Nair,” the Post noted.

As far back as July 2013, Nair refused to serve as guest of honor at the Haifa International Film Festival, referring to Israel’s “occupation” of the land and its “apartheid,” adding, “I stand w/ Palestine for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) & the larger BDS Mov’t.”

In September 2024, roughly one year after the Hamas massacre of over 1200 Israelis, Sheikha Al-Thani stated, “Qatar has a special commitment to the Palestinian cause. While some Arab countries have shifted their stance, Qatar remains steadfast in its support. We recognize our vital role and maintain a clear, dedicated policy toward this issue.”

The Post delineated some of the ways the sheikha has helped Nair: the Doha Film Institute, which she founded, funded a “bootcamp” between 2010 and 2014 to train students at Nair’s Maisha Film Labs in East Africa and in Doha; the same institute paid the entire $15 million budget of Nair’s 2012 film “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” which revolves around a Pakistani immigrant who supposedly was mistreated by U.S. authorities after 9/11, and the Qatar National Museum, which Sheikha Al-Thani chairs, made the first film it commissioned Nair’s film “Nafa.”

“The country’s most high-profile support for the auteur came in 2022, when state-owned Qatar Airways and Qatar Creates — another of the sheikha’s pet projects boosting the country as a cultural destination — produced an extravagant Nair-directed stage adaptation of her Golden Globe-nominated film “Monsoon Wedding” as part of the World Cup festivities,” the Post pointed out.

Sheikha Al-Thani’s mother, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, wrote on social media that the Jews would disappear from Israel as she praised Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas terrorist who masterminded the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre, “The name Yahya means the one who lives. They thought him dead, but he lives… He will live on. And they will be gone.”

Sheikha Moza also chairs the Qatar Foundation, which has poured billions of dollars into Western institutions. In 2009, the Qatar Foundation’s Faculty of Islamic Studies opened an academic center named after Sheikh Yusuf al‑Qaradawi, who stated, “O Allah, take your enemies, the Jews… do not spare a single one of them… kill them, down to the very last one.”

“In January 2008, he said on Al-Jazeera TV that Allah had imposed Hitler upon the Jews to punish them, and called for a second Holocaust, saying, ‘Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the believers’ – i.e. the Muslims,” MEMRI reported.

President Donald Trump’s White House touted a list of accomplishments aimed at aiding everyday Americans and announced that this Labor Day weekend, Republicans have officially become the party of working people.

The White House released a video, shared via X with the comment, “President Trump is back, and so is MORE money in your pocket. Wages are SKYROCKETING, and American workers are winning BIG!”

President Trump is back, and so is MORE money in your pocket. Wages are SKYROCKETING, and American workers are winning BIG! 💸 pic.twitter.com/UfCTuz8Ce4

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 30, 2025

White House Spokeswoman Taylor Rogers added, “President Trump believes that American workers are the heart and soul of our economy, which is why he’s championed an agenda that always puts them first — from signing the largest middle-class tax cuts in history to securing nearly $10 trillion in new investments to create high-paying jobs across our country. Under President Trump’s leadership, Republicans are once again the proud party of the American worker.”

The White House then listed a number of policies that had been designed to put American workers first and how they had already been implemented to make that happen.

“President Trump has already created half a million new jobs, with native-born workers accounting for ALL net jobs gains,” the statement said, adding “Hourly wages have risen, prices have come down and are holding steady, and consumer confidence is growing.”

In addition, the registration of nearly 2000 new apprenticeship programs had opened doors for hundreds of thousands of American workers to lear new skills or improve upon those they had already learned — and the Trump administration has a stated goal of one million active apprenticeships in the near future. The Labor Department has also made it a priority to expand apprenticeship programs that are accessible to disabled veterans.

The Trump administration also touted the recent passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill and the removal of a number of regulations and small-business penalties, adding, “The Labor Department released 63 deregulatory actions to cut burdens, spur job creation, and fuel economic opportunity for American workers and businesses.”

As a final note the White House said that new guidance had been laid out to make sure that “illegal immigrants are not allowed access to federal workforce development resources and related grants, protecting job training for American workers.”

The White House statement concluded by saying that the nearly $10 trillion in investments are “a direct result of President Trump remaking the global trading order and putting America First.”