Top Left-Wing Network Blocked From Credit Card Processor Over Ties to Palestinian Terror Group

Alliance for Global Justice urges supporters to make a donation via paper checks after Palestinian protesters burned the US flag during a demonstration called by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Getty Images

One of the nation’s most prominent left-wing dark money groups announced Tuesday that it was unable to process credit card payments, following reports of its ties to a Palestinian terrorist group.

Alliance for Global Justice released a statement stating that Salsa Labs handles its credit card contributions and has locked the door. “anti-capitalist” The Alliance and its 140 left-wing initiatives through its online fundraising platform. According to the Alliance, the January freeze-out was caused by a January Washington Examiner Report This group was illegally raising funds for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. It is a U.S. terror organization.

For the Arizona-based company, which was founded in 2021 to help others, this move could prove costly. raise More than $56 Million for the initiatives that it sponsors Discover Card Blockade The Alliance was prevented from accessing its network September 2021 due to its financial ties with the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. This terror group, which is Israel-designated, works to liberate Palestinians from Israeli prisons.

Alliance has few options for fundraising as of Tuesday. The group asked supporters for their support. “donate via paper checks” To boost the group “as the enemies of the people gloat about our trouble.”

The Zachor Legal Institute is a pro-Israel thinktank that filed an IRS complaint against the Alliance in January for its alleged ties towards the Popular Front. It praised Salsa Labs’ decision to cut ties with the group.

“We are happy to see that the platform provider for Alliance for Global Justice’s terror funding efforts has finally complied with its legal obligations to terminate unlawful uses of its platform,” Marc Greendorfer, founder and CEO of Zachor Legal Institute, told the Examiner. “We hope that there will also soon be federal action to put an end to the unlawful terror financing being enabled by Alliance for Global Justice.”

Salsa Labs has not responded to our request for comment.

George Soros, a liberal billionaire, is one of the most prominent donors to the Alliance. He contributed $250,000 to it in 2020. The group sponsored Louisville Community Bail Fund 2022 which generated $100,000 Bail A man was released from jail within days of being arrested and charged with attempted attempting to evade arrest