U.S. Funding Sources for American/Canadian Antisemitic Hatefests
"We therefore seek documents and information from your organization [National Students for Justice in Palestine -- National SJP] to facilitate oversight into how pro-Hamas propaganda and illegal encampments are being funded.""[NSJP, a subsidiary of American Muslims for Palestine in turn has] substantial ties to Hamas via its financial sponsor, Americans for Justice in Palestine Educational Foundation, Inc."Kentucky Rep. James Comer, chairman, committee on oversight and accountability"The trail of donations shows a series of blurred lines when it comes to liberal causes and Democratic politics.""And a small group of wealthy heavyweights are often playing an outsize role funding many of them."Shia Kapos, Politico"This is not just spontaneous student unrest. It is co-ordinated and funded by a powerful network of anti-Israel advocates.""No organization may retain its tax exemption if it backs protests at which members are urged to commit acts of civil disobedience." Senator Josh Hawley, U.S. Senate
People gather to protest the banning of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace at Columbia University on November 20, 2023, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images via AFP)
The
funding streams supporting the hateful, disruptive, destabilizing
rallies and protests across Canada have a link to the United States.
These were the 'spontaneous' rallies that took place immediately news
came out of the Middle East that Gaza-based Hamas terrorists had invaded
Israel's southern border with Gaza, along with Palestinian Islamic
Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in a
concerted, deadly assault of thousands of their members converging on
Israeli kibbutzim and other farming towns in a long-planned action to
savagely assault Israeli citizens; unprepared men, women and children.
Leaving in their wake on October 7, 1,200 dead and kidnapping another
250.
The
protests aiming their slander at Israel claiming it was planning a
Palestinian genocide, pre-dated the Israel Defense Forces' post October 7
retaliatory invasion of Gaza, under the pretense of outrage over
Israeli aggression against Gaza's civilian population among whose dense
urban centres Hamas terrorists have long installed their rocket
launchers, where schools and mosques and hospitals were built over
elaborate tunnels housing weapons and sheltering terrorists and their
command centres. An American Congressional committee was struck to
investigate the funding source for the 'protests' and the 'student'
encampments at U.S. universities.
A
week ago the committee called on a prominent backer of those
anti-Israel encampments both in the United States and Canada, for
details on its funding sources amidst a validation of links to the
terrorism endemic to the Palestinian Territories. A three-page letter
from the committee to the National Students for Justice in Palestine
known to have affiliates in Canada including Solidarity for Palestinian
Human Rights representing a central group with the illegal Palestine
Solidarity Encampment at McGill University sought details of their
income source.
In
Canada, the McGill chapter of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights
had organized a blockade at the Montreal Holocaust Museum and arranged
targeted shutdowns of McGill's Bronfman Building, named for Samuel
Bronfman, a Jewish philanthropist, in recognition of his endowments to
the university. SPHR has been denounced by McGill administration for its
"threatening" tactics; an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu was hung last week, and masked groups of protesters appeared
at the homes of school administrators.
"Two hundred Palestine solidarity organizations on college campuses across occupied Turtle Island (U.S and Canada)",
triumphed the National JSP on its website in an open brag of
entitlement in the general atmosphere of untouchability where no
government agencies, intelligence or policing services have been seen to
react against public displays of blatant antisemitism, threats,
intimidation, trespassing, criminal slander and blockage of private and
public thoroughfares.
Congressman
Comer relied on investigative data for Hamas ties from a 75-page report
by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy, a
think tank located in New York. The comprehensive profile targeting NSJP
revealed that the group's origins dated to 2001 at the University of
California, Berkeley. Since then, over 250 North American affiliates
arose as purveyors of slogans such as "Israeli apartheid", and chants to "globalize the Intifada". The report spoke of the scattered nature of NSJP's structure, enabling them "to operate chapters spreading radical ideology in U.S. universities from behind a facade of grassroots campus activism".
An investigation by Politico
reached the conclusion that many of the same donors supporting the
Democratic Party funded the U.S. Anti-Israel movement, including
organizations with ties to David Rockefeller Jr, Nick Pritzker and
George Soros. San Francisco-based "social justice" non profit the Tides
Foundation was found by the analysis to have given its support to Jewish
Voices for Peace and IfNotNow, among others known for their perennial
organization of anti-Israel rallies and blockades.
The
U.S. Justice Department had been petitioned by Senator Josh Hawley to
probe the "illegal dark money" known to fuel anti-Israel encampments on
college campuses. In Canada, the Palestinian Youth Movement, operating
through funding by the Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation
based in New York state, organized initial waves of celebratory rallies
in Canada orchestrated immediately after the October 7 attacks. As it
happens, WESPAC is a major fiscal sponsor of NJSP.
NYU students participate in a anti-Israeli protest led by the ‘Students for Justice in Palestine’ at Washington Square Park, New York City, October 25, 2023. (Ed Jones/AFP) |
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