Most antiwar voters in Massachusetts don’t believe that the GOP’s Trump administration should be using the U.S. power elite’s permanent war machine to continue a U.S.-Israeli war of aggression against people in Iran in 2026. And most antiwar voters in Massachusetts don’t believe that the GOP’s Trump administration should continue to authorize U.S. munitions shipments to an Israeli government that continues to wage genocidal war against people in Gaza and Lebanon in 2026.

Yet one of the trustees of the Needham, Massachusetts-based and registered Adelson Family Foundation–an Israeli-born multibillionaire named Miriam Farbstein Adelson–donated $106 million in 2024 in support of the GOP’s campaign to provide  Donald Trump with the dictatorial presidential power he needed to use the U.S. power elite’s permanent war machine to join a U.S.-Israeli war of aggression against people in Iran in 2026 and to continue to authorize U.S. munitions shipments to an Israeli government that continues to wage genocidal war against people in Gaza and Lebanon in 2026?

Trump campaign financial backer Miriam Adelson, the daughter of a Zionist movement settler-colonialist who, during the 20th-century, owned a chain of movie theaters, historically, in Palestine, was born in 1945, graduated from the now-Columbia University-affiliated Tel Aviv University, served in the Israeli Army, and–after being given a fellowship by Rockefeller University and hired by Rockefeller University to do research on “drug addiction”–eventually migrated to New York City in 1989, when she was 44 years-old. And, by marrying the then-58 year-old Sheldon Adelson two years later in 1991, when she was 46 years-old, Miriam Adelson was able to eventually become the  53rd-richest individual in the USA in 2021, following Multibillionaire Sheldon Adelson’s death, at the age of nearly 88 years old, in January 2021.

According to David Clay’s 2017-published book, titled “Gangsters to Governor: The New Bosses of Gambling in America”, Miriam Adelson’s now-deceased husband was born in 1933 to a “mother who ran a knitting shop;” and he grew up in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

During the McCarthy Era of the 1950s, according to Jeff Burbank’s 2000-published book, “License to Steal: Nevada’s Gaming Control System in the Megaresort Age”, Sheldon Adelson “studied corporate finance and real estate at City College of New York,” was “a court stenographer for the U.S. Army” and made his first million dollars by “charging small companies a finders fee to help them go public and sell stock.”

Then, during the Vietnam War Era of the 1960s, according to the same book, Adelson Family Foundation Trustee Miriam Adelson’s now-deceased husband apparently became a “venture capitalist in Boston, eventually buying up 75 companies”; and by the late 1960s, Sheldon Adelson also “owned a condominium building.”

Yet, according to the “License to Steal” book, by 1969  Sheldon “Adelson and the other partners” of his venture capitalist firm “were in trouble” because they had used value of their” by 1969 now less valuable partnership “shares as security for bank loans.”

But, according to the same 2000-published book, “it was at this point that” a former owner of Boston,, Massachusetts’s pre-1980s gay bars named Henry “Vara entered the picture and loaned” Sheldon Adelson’s then-business partner, Irwin Chafete “about $10,000 [equal to around $82,000 in 2026 U.S. dollars] without interest or notes.” In the early 1970s, according to the “License to Steal” book:

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“Vara owned a pair of gay bars in the Bay Village area of Boston. The businesses were then the largest gay-oriented bars in the city.”

After the formerly low-income Bay Village neighborhood became gentrified, Vara apparently gave up his ownership of his two Bay Village gay bars in Boston, but “later bought gay bars in other cities, including Atlanta and Fort Lauderdale, Florida,” according to the same book.

Following the financial rescue of his venture capitalist firm in 1971 by the former Boston, Massachusetts gay bars owner’s no-interest loan,” Miriam Adelson’s now-deceased husband’s firm purchased a majority interest in a publishing company in the early 1970s, produced a high-tech industry trade show in Dallas in 1973 and sold its share of the publishing firm in 1975.

But around 1975, Sheldon Adelson’s real estate license was apparently suspended for 6 months by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s state government. In addition, during the 1960s and 1970s the name of Adelson Family Foundation Trustee Miriam Adelson’s later husband was “attached to about 100 civil suits” and “many of the lawsuits came from companies or people to whom Adelson owed money, including bills for utility and gas station charges, hospital service, private prep school tuition, American express charges, and service at a restaurant,” according to Jeff Burbank’s “License to Steal: Nevada’s Gaming Control System in Megaresort Age” book.

Yet “with money raised from the sale of his condominium building,”  former longtime Adelson Family Foundation Trustee Sheldon Adelson was still able to legally set up a then- Needham, Massachusetts-based company called Interface Group Inc.. in the 1970s, which became a lucrative cash cow for the  now-deceased, later husband of Adelson Family Foundation Trustee Miriam Adelson, in 1979; when it began producing the annual Computer Dealer Expo, known as COMDEX trade show in Las Vegas, according to the same book.

As the “License to Steal” book recalled, historically, in 2000:

“By 1984, Interface was producing some 40 trade shows…COMDEX soon became the largest trade show in Las Vegas…Adelson’s company saw its net income reach…$250 million [equal to over $700 million in 2026 U.S. dollars] [in 1988]. Interface also put on COMDEX shows in Chicago, Atlanta and Anaheim and in Europe and Japan…Adelson, assessed only 15 cents per square foot by the Las Vegas Convention Center for exhibit space, charged his show customers as much as $50 per square foot for the same space.

“Interface guaranteed itself a…cash flow by requiring COMDEX exhibitors to sign contracts for exhibit space and then pay up front for it a year in advance of the show.”

And when the by-then 65-year-old husband of Miriam Adelson sold off Interface’s COMDEX shows and other exhibition business entities to a Japanese techie capitalist software industry investment company called Softbank for $860 million [equal to over $1.8 billion in 2026 U.S. dollars] in 1995, his personal wealth continued to increase dramatically; during a decade when the Democratic Clinton administration’s policy of continuing to economically sanction Iraq led to the doubling of the death rate for Iraqi children under five in southern and Central Iraq, according to an August 1999 UNICEF report.

By 1988, Sheldon Adelson’s Interface Group Inc. had also now owned the convention-meetings firm in Las Vegas, two travel and tour companies and an airline; and Adelson had decided he wanted his Interface firm to start making more money directly from Las Vegas’s gaming industry by buying the Sands Hotel in that city to use as its tour and travel companies’ customers’ destination.

So Sheldon Adelson then hired a former Nevada governor named Robert List to represent him before the Gaming Commission of Nevada as an attorney, when Miriam Adelson’s later husband applied for the license he needed to buy and operate the Sands Hotel.

But despite then winning the Nevada Gaming Commission’s approval for his Interface firm to spend $128 million in 1989 to purchase the Sands Hotel and establish a Nevada-based Las Vegas Sands Inc. corporate entity 58.8 percent owned by Sheldon Adelson, that would now own and operate the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, between 1989 and 1996 Adelson’s Sands Hotel lost money for 5 straight years.

So in 1996, Adelson imploded his Sands Hotel in Las Vegas and in 1997 obtained over $520 million [equal to over $1 billion in 2026 U.S. dollars] from two Wall Street banks, Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns, to construct the Venetian Casino Resort on the Las Vegas lander where his Sands Hotel had previously been.

But the largest source of the personal wealth that  Adelson Family Foundation Trustee Miriam Adelson and her now-deceased husband accumulated and then used to promote support for the Zionist movement’s Israeli government war machine and the presidential office-seeking and political dictatorial aspirations of GOP President Donald Trump in the 21st-century was derived, not from the Adelson family’s business operations in Las Vegas, but, ironically, from Sheldon Adelson’s business operations within territory controlled by the government of China. As David Clay’s 2017-published book, “Gangsters to Governor: The New Bosses of Gambling in America” recalled:

“Adelson…turned his focus to China, specifically…Macau, the…part of the…country where authorities permit casino gambling. Adelson’s political connections allowed him in as the first non-Chinese casino operator when he opened the Sands Macau in 2004. He earned back his initial investment within a year and became a multibillionaire overnight when he took his company public later that year…Adelson…added 3 more gigantic resorts to his portfolio in Macau, which has surpassed Las Vegas as the world’s gambling capital.”

According to the 2025 edition of “The World Almanac And Book Of Facts”:

“Macau, area of 11 sq. mi. is a peninsula and 2 small islands at the mouth of the Xi (Pearl) R. in China. It was established as a Portuguese trading colony in 1557…Under a 1987 agreement, Macau reverted to China Dec. 20, 1999. The Chinese government guaranteed Macau it would not interfere in its way of life for a period of 50 years. Tourism, including casino gambling is a mainstay of the economy. ($32.6 billion in international receipts in 2023); most tourists are from mainland China…”

And the big money that the trustee of the Needham, Massachusetts-based Adelson and Massachusetts-registered Adelson Family Foundation and her now-deceased husband obtained from doing business in Macao was used to increase their special influence over the political direction of U.S. and Israeli government politics in the 21st-century, even before they began funding current U.S. Dictator Trump’s post-2015 presidential campaigns. As the “Gangsters to Governor” book noted in 2017, four years before Multibillionaire and former Adelson Family Foundation Trustee Sheldon Adelson’s death in 2021:

“After cashing in his golden ticket in Macau, Adelson asserted his authority in the political realm. The billionaire is a hawkish backer of Israel and lavishly contributes to Republican and Israeli politicians…Adelson has also written sizable checks to…causes such as…Taglit-Birthright Israel…In the 2012 presidential race Adelson and his wife, Miriam, single handedly kept alive Newt Gingrich’s…bid for the Republican nomination with $15 million in contributions to a pro-Gingrich super PAC during the primaries. In all, the Adelsons spent $93 million (and reportedly many millions more in unreported `dark money’), making them the election cycle’s biggest donors. Adelson clearly revels in his…role as kingmaker, hosting events where candidates fly in to…pay homage in…hope of winning the mogul’s financial backing. He secretly purchased the “Las Vegas Review Journal” in 2015 and has shaped the newspaper into a megaphone for his views…”

And before purchasing the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team during this decade, after her husband’s death, Adelson Family Foundation Trustee Miriam Adelson also donated $82.5 million in campaign contributions to the GOP candidates in the 2016 election cycle and $123.25 million in campaign contributions to GOP candidates in the 2018 election cycle.

With an address at 300 First Avenue in Needham, Massachusetts, the Adelson Family Foundation also gave $123 million in “charitable grants” to the Zionist movement’s Birthright Israel group between 2007 and 2013, $2.3 million in “charitable grants” to the “American-Israel Foundation” arm of AIPAC between 2006 and 2013, and a $400,000 “charitable grant” to the Zionist movement’s Anti-Defamation League [ADL] organization between 2006 and 2013.

In addition, according to the Needham, Massachusetts-based and Massachusetts-registered Adelson Family Foundation’s Form 990-PF financial filings, between 2015 and 2025, Adelson Family Foundation Trustee and U.S. Dictator Trump Presidential Campaign Contributor Miriam Adelson’s foundation gave:

  1. Six “charitable grants”, totaling over $37 million, to the Friends of Israel Defense Forces group;
  2.  Nine “charitable grants”, totaling $170 million to the Birthright Israel Foundation;
  3.  Nine “charitable grants”, totaling over $87 million, to the Israeli American Council;
  4.  Eight “charitable grants”, totaling $778,000, to the Students Supporting Israel group;
  5.  Four “charitable grants”, totaling $1,910,000 to the Christians United For Israel group; and
  6.  Nine “charitable grants”, totaling $2.3 million, to The Rockefeller University.

Yet on its Form 990-PF financial filings, Adelson Family Foundation Trustee Miriam Adelson’s Needham, Massachusetts-based and Massachusetts-registered foundation still claims it does not attempt “to influence any national, state or local legislation,” does not “participate or intervene in any political campaigns” and does not “spend more than $100 during the year (either directly or indirectly) for political purposes”?