New York state Senate candidate Aber Kawas worked at three activist groups funded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros before blasting “oligarchs and billionaires” on the campaign trail.Kawas, who has New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s endorsement, built her activist resume for over a decade at the Arab American Association of New York, Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, and the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility project at City University of New York, according to her media interviews and professional profiles. Those groups received at least a combined $4.1 million from Soros’s Open Society Foundations and an affiliated nonprofit group before or during her tenures, records show.The daughter of Palestinian refugees won the Democratic primary for New York’s 12th state Senate District on June 23, one of several victories by Mamdani-backed socialists seeking more party control. Her platform includes promises for universal healthcare, stopping aid to Israel, and halting state and local officials’ “collusion” with immigration authorities. Conservatives called Kawas out on the campaign trail for her 2017 comments claiming that America exploited 9/11 to advance oppressive capitalism, white supremacy, and “Islamophobia” — remarks she later said were “cherry-picked.”