A coordinated network of pro-Israel billionaires, super PACs, and lobbying organizations is spending more than $10 million to remove a single sitting member of Congress in a Republican primary. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District. The primary is on May 19, 2026. The total spend against him is, by every available measure, the largest pro-Israel intervention in any Republican primary in American political history.
The Kentucky primary on May 19 is therefore not really about Thomas Massie. It is about whether the American political system can still produce representatives who answer to American constituents rather than to a foreign-policy lobby with effectively unlimited resources. That is the actual question on the ballot.
The Three Zionist Billionaires
The three named donors funding the bulk of the operation against Massie are not random political contributors. They are three of the most powerful pro-Israel donors in the United States, and the through-line connecting their political activity is consistent and documented.
Miriam Adelson is the widow of Sheldon Adelson, the late casino magnate who was the largest single donor to the Republican Party in the 2018 and 2020 election cycles. Miriam Adelson holds American and Israeli citizenship. She has spent more than a decade pushing US presidents toward maximalist pro-Israel positions, including the 2017 move of the US embassy to Jerusalem. She publicly supported the annexation of the West Bank and has been one of the largest financial backers of Donald Trump’s political career. Her stated criteria for political support is alignment with the Israeli government.
Paul Singer is the founder of Elliott Management, one of the largest activist hedge funds in the world. Singer has personally directed hundreds of millions of dollars to Republican candidates and PACs over the past two decades, with pro-Israel alignment as a consistent throughline. Singer has been credited as one of the architects of the institutional Republican Jewish coalition’s modern donor strategy.
John Paulson is the hedge fund manager who became a billionaire by shorting the US housing market in the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Paulson has been one of the largest individual donors to pro-Israel infrastructure in American politics. Massie has alleged publicly that Paulson appears in records connected to Jeffrey Epstein, an allegation Paulson’s spokesperson has denied. Whether that specific claim holds up under scrutiny, what is verifiable is that Paulson has been a top-tier financier of the pro-Israel donor class for over a decade.
These three donors, between them, have shaped Republican politics on Israel more decisively than any party institution. Their combined spending in any given cycle exceeds the resources available to most state party operations. The fact that all three have now united around a single Kentucky primary tells you the political stakes the lobby attaches to Massie’s removal.
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