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Pro-Hamas protesters at George Washington University
Now that pro-Hamas campus protesters have made the Biden administration look ridiculous, which could well harm the octogenarian president’s reelection chances, the leftist media is finally interested in the nationwide protest operation’s financiers.
And, oddly enough, one of them just happens to be a man whom the media have described as a “boogeyman” of the “far right,” the hapless victim of “right-wing conspiracy theories.”
That man is George Soros, the hate-Trump Hungarian communist billionaire. Also linked to the protests is leftist bazillionaire David Rockefeller Jr.
Three Major Funders
Good thing is, the report on who’s backing the campus madness didn’t appear in “right-wing media.” Rather, it appeared in leftist Politico.
“Some of the most outspoken groups against Biden and Israel get funding from foundations attached to some of the biggest names in Democratic circles,” the website reported:
President Joe Biden has been dogged for months by pro-Palestinian protesters calling him “Genocide Joe” — but some of the groups behind the demonstrations receive financial backing from philanthropists pushing hard for his reelection.
The donors include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Soros, Rockefeller and Pritzker, according to a POLITICO analysis.
Two of the organizers supporting the protests at Columbia University and on other campuses are Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. Both are supported by the Tides Foundation, which is seeded by Democratic megadonor George Soros and was previously supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It in turn supports numerous small nonprofits that work for social change.
The Gates foundation no longer supports Tides. But, again, the Rockefeller name also surfaced in connection with campus protests. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund dumped $300,000 into Soros’ subversive Tides outfit in 2022.
In turn, Tides has showered some $500,000 on the “anti-Zionist” Jewish Voice for Peace.
Several other groups involved in pro-Palestinian protests are backed by a foundation funded by Susan and Nick Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt Hotel empire — and supporters of Biden and numerous Democratic campaigns, including $6,600 to the Biden Victory Fund a few months ago and more than $300,000 during the 2020 campaign.
The trail of donations shows a series of blurred lines when it comes to liberal causes and Democratic politics. Often those missions are aligned, but they also sometimes have different and — particularly when it comes to Gaza — conflicting agendas and tactics. And a small group of wealthy heavyweights are often playing an outsize role funding many of them.
Funding Pro-Hamas Outfit
One critic of this funding is the son of the late Elie Wiesel, Elisha, who chairs his father’s eponymous foundation.
“Why [is the Rockefeller Brothers Fund] giving significant grants to Jewish Voice for Peace, [which] blamed the horrific Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and the United States rather than Hamas?” he asked.
Jewish Voice for Peace, Politico reported, “has been a leader in disruptive protests against Biden, including shouting ‘genocide supporter’ at his glitzy fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York in March.”
It claims that the “the source of all this violence” on the West Bank following October 7 is “Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression.”
Providing some cover for the donors, Politico explained that big foundations and organizations aren’t “involved in granular” management of activist groups. The Rockefeller fund, for instance, doesn’t monitor what the recipients of its largesse do with the money.
Still, one thing is clear. The protests are AstroTurfed, and funded through a constellation of leftist groups, many of which are not involved in the foreign policy debate yet joined the nationwide movement anyway.
Pritzker money has been funneled through Solidaire Action, and the Pritzkers founded something called the Libra Foundation, which in turn funded the Climate Justice Alliance that called Biden “Genocide Joe.”
A group called Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity, another Libra donee, “promotes pro-Palestinian demonstrations on its website,” Politico reported. The “Immigrant Defense Project, was part of a protest in Washington that saw 13 activists arrested by Capitol police after demanding a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.”
Another avenue for money from the Pritzkers is Tides, which backed the leftist Adalah Justice Project, which is involved in the deranged protests at Columbia University.
“Tides also supports Palestine Legal, a legal defense fund that is offers legal assistance to ‘students mobilizing against genocide,’” Politico revealed.
Election Concerns
Biden and his people are likely quite concerned about the protests, particularly if they go on.
He’s trying “to regain support from young people, who went overwhelmingly for him in 2020, and the protests may complicate that effort,” Politico observed, particularly if they continue into the fall:
“If it continues through November, then yes, it’s likely to be more salient,” said Omar Wasow, a scholar who studies protest movements and their political effects. “And if it somehow winds down, you see Americans don’t care a lot about foreign policy, and it’s likely to not to play out in the election.”
Election regardless, Politico has inadvertently revealed that Soros is exactly what conservatives have said he is: a major influence in American politics because he funds myriad leftist causes, even if indirectly, that are involved in everything from moving “migrants” across the border to electing pro-crime Democratic prosecutors now interfering in the 2024 election by prosecuting Donald Trump.
H/T: Daily Caller