A Big Apple pol is demanding the city defund former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s homeless services nonprofit until the organization takes “meaningful action” against a staffer who marched in a pro-Palestine rally the day after Hamas terrorists massacred over 1,400 people in southern Israel.
Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens) said the more than $100 million gravy train must end for Women in Need following a Post report that Emilia Vieira, the group’s communications manager, attended the Oct. 8 rally, where attendees burned an Israeli flag and at least one flashed a swastika.
“Any organization that receives public funding should be held accountable for ensuring its members do not endorse or promote extremist views,” Holden told The Post.
The group, which is the city’s largest shelter operator for families with children, raked in just under $116 million in taxpayer dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, according to its latest audit. The group also pulled $4.4 million from the state and $2.1 million in federal funding.
Video of the contentious rally shared on YouTube captured Vieira chanting “Free Palestine!”
Quinn condemned Vieira for participating in the rally, but declined to say whether the staffer would be punished for her attendance.
“WIN stands arm-in-arm with Israel and the Jewish people and strongly supports Israel’s right to defend itself against a vile terrorist organization like Hamas,” Quinn said.
“While we think it was in extremely poor taste to attend this rally in the aftermath of the Hamas attacks, in America people have a right to engage in non-violent protest on their own time.”
Vieira declined to comment through a WIN spokesperson.