Elizabeth Warren Sits on Panel with Anti-Israel Punk Rocker

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., praised the anti-Israel Private Equity Stakeholder Project as a “great organization” on Wednesday.

The Massachusetts Democrat co-hosted the panel on “The Role of Private Equity in Healthcare” hosted by the Center for Economy and Policy Research. Another panelist was Eileen O’Grady, director of programs for the Private Equity Stakeholder Project by day and anti-capitalist punk rocker by night.

Less than two weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, which killed more than 1,200 people, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, or PESP, shared a statement on X expressing “unwavering support for the people of Palestine as they fight their brutal occupation.”

The Foundation to Promote Open Society, founded by left-wing billionaire George Soros, funds the Private Equity Stakeholder Fund.

K (Toyin) Agbebiyi, a senior housing campaign coordinator with PESP who describes herself on her blog as a “disabled lesbian communist,” posted a picture of herself at an anti-Israel rally in November, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

In a blog post, which only refers to Israel in quotations, she accuses the Jewish state of committing a “genocidal reign of terror.”

She posted a mural of a Hamas terrorist with the words, “Liberation looks like terrorism in the eyes of the oppressor.”

Agbebiyi also praised last week’s anti-Israel riots in the District of Columbia, where protesters burned a flag and an effigy of Netanyahu.

Agbebiyi did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment.

Azani Creeks, a Private Equity Stakeholder Project research coordinator, was arrested after participating in an anti-Israel protest with the goal of shutting down traffic in New York City, the New York Post reported.

Creeks did not respond to a comment request.

Eileen O’Grady, the PESP employee on the panel with Warren, said in a 2020 interview that “workers joining together is the only way we will end capitalism.”

Grady is a member of a punk rock band that uses its music to denounce capitalism. O’Grady said that “alienation (due to capitalism) and the accompanying despair” inspired her band’s album. Grady did not respond to a comment request.

Neither the Private Equity Stakeholder Project nor Warren’s office responded to The Daily Signal’s requests for comment.