{"id":2132180,"date":"2023-12-23T05:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T10:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-dark-money-giant-behind-anti-israel-protests-has-scored-81m-in-taxpayer-dollars\/"},"modified":"2023-12-23T05:43:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T10:43:03","slug":"democratic-dark-money-giant-behind-anti-israel-protests-has-scored-81m-in-taxpayer-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-dark-money-giant-behind-anti-israel-protests-has-scored-81m-in-taxpayer-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"$81M in taxpayer dollars awarded to democratic dark money giant fueling anti-Israel protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocratic-dark-money-giant-behind-anti-israel-protests-has-scored-81m-in-taxpayer-dollars%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2132180&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>CCP-ALLIED CHARITY BEHIND ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS SEES DONATIONS \u2063SKYROCKET BY MILLIONS<\/h2>\n<p>An influential liberal\u2064 dark money group propping up anti-Israel activism across the United States has pocketed massive amounts in taxpayer-backed grants and\u200b contracts in recent years, according to a Washington \u200dExaminer\u200b analysis of federal spending records.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Tides Center<\/strong>, which funds organizations behind Hamas-sympathetic protests held after \u2063the terrorist faction&#8217;s deadly Oct. 7 attack against Israel, has long helped shape\u200b the progressive agenda with \u200dthe financial backing of billionaire philanthropists such as Bill Gates\u2063 and George Soros. But the Democratic-allied charity sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars in assets also \u200cretains another\u2064 key supporter in the federal\u2062 government, which directly or through subawards steered more than $81.2 million to the Tides Center between\u200b 2006 and 2023, \u200ddocuments show.<\/p>\n<h3>U.S. Government Support for \u2064Anti-Israel Movement<\/h3>\n<p>The U.S. \u200dgovernment&#8217;s extensive\u200c support for the Tides \u200dCenter is a window into how taxpayer dollars regularly flow to charities closely\u200c affiliated with the anti-Israel movement. The \u200cTides Center has faced scrutiny from conservatives for facilitating\u2064 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hamas-friendly-protest-groups-bankrolled-by-democratic-dark-money-juggernaut-tides\/\" title=\"Democratic dark money juggernaut Tides funds Hamas-friendly protest groups\">dark money pass-<\/a>through system allowing wealthy Democrats to pour donations into initiatives housed under the nonprofit\u2062 group, whose projects do not have to file their own tax forms with the IRS. This process, known as fiscal sponsorship, has the effect of obscuring sources for donations to and from the California-based charity.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-Palestinian projects benefiting from the Tides \u200bCenter&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leah-remini-says-her-16-year-old-daughter-keeps-her-woke\/\" title=\"Leah Remini Says Her 16-Year-Old Daughter Keeps Her \u2018Woke\u2019\">tax-exempt status<\/a>, including the Adalah Justice Project, Palestine Legal, and the Catalyst Project, have repeatedly justified and downplayed the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack \u2014 which killed more than 1,200 people in the Jewish state. The Tides Center and its sister group, the Tides Foundation,\u2062 also have granted millions of dollars combined over the years to Alliance for Global Justice, a \u200ccharity in \u2064Arizona revealed through\u200d a Washington\u2064 Examiner\u2064 investigation to share ties to Palestinian terrorism, and \u2063other entities that have celebrated convicted terrorists from the Popular \u2062Front for the Liberation of Palestine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Tides Center is a clearinghouse \u2063for funding far-left causes, including radical anti-Israel \u2018resistance&#8217; groups that have been spotted\u200d on college campuses chanting for the destruction of Israel,&#8221; said Benjamin \u2063Baird, director of Middle East \u200bForum Action, a watchdog tracking terrorism-tied groups. &#8220;It\u200d does not need any help from the federal government, which is \u2062only subsidizing\u200c extremism by bankrolling a Marxist-Islamist piggy bank like \u200dTides.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nearly half\u2062 of\u2064 the $81.2 million that flowed to \u2062the Tides Center was routed through a subcontract or subgrant, meaning the charity received the cash after the federal government first made a prime\u200c award to another entity, such \u2062as the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, City and County of San Francisco, and universities, the Washington Examiner found. During President Joe Biden&#8217;s time in office alone, the Tides Center has\u200d been awarded roughly $38.3 million in\u200d taxpayer money, either directly or through subawards, records show.<\/p>\n<p>The Tides \u2062Center awards are sprawling in policy focus and come from many agencies, including the \u2062U.S. Departments of \u2062Agriculture, State, Education, the Interior, and the U.S. Agency for International Development, among others.<\/p>\n<p>For \u2064instance, the Agriculture Department\u2064 has moved about $1.5 million to the Tides Center since 2021. Included in \u2063that sum is the more \u2062than $198,000 sent to the Tides Center for an &#8220;indigenous farm hub&#8221; in New Mexico working with the Navajo Nation &#8220;to protect \u2063and preserve land sovereignty, cultural sovereignty, and food sovereignty.&#8221; In June, the Labor Department began disbursing $2.9 million, which will continue until June 2024, to\u200b the Tides Center for an &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-what-each-of-bidens-42-executive-orders-will-actually-do\/\" title=\"Here\u2019s What Each Of Biden\u2019s 42 Executive Orders Will Actually Do\">early childhood education<\/a>&#8221; initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The single\u200c largest individual obligated\u2064 amount, however, has come from the U.S. Agency for International Development, which awarded\u200d the Tides Center a whopping $24.6 million in September 2016 for a program\u200d called the Civil Society Innovation Initiative,\u2064 records show. The\u200c program aims &#8220;to establish Innovation \u2063Hubs around the world that support, strengthen, and \u200csustain civil\u2062 society&#8221; and was launched in\u200d 2014 under then-President Barack Obama, according to \u2064archived White House documents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;USAID uses a rigorous process to thoroughly vet all partner organizations for compliance with legal and policy requirements,&#8221; a USAID spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. &#8220;USAID funded awards for the Tides Center, \u200dwhich supported the Civil Society Innovation\u2062 Initiative, to strengthen the\u2063 capacity and resilience \u200bof civil society through development. The awards ended on Nov. 30, 2023.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Tides Center notably received more than \u2063$32.5 million\u2064 between 2022 and 2023 from the Michigan Department of \u200cHealth and Human Services for healthcare programs, and, in 2019, \u2063was handed $15,000 from the U.S. Department \u200bof Justice for an &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/implicit-bias-is-nothing-but-divisive-junk-science\/\" title=\"\u2018Implicit Bias\u2019 Is Nothing But Divisive Junk Science\">implicit bias training<\/a>&#8221; so employees\u200d in the agency &#8220;can better understand issues concerning justice,&#8221; according to grant records.<\/p>\n<p>To Adam Andrzejewski, \u200cCEO of the federal spending watchdog Open the Books, money is fungible, and the awards mean the U.S. government is &#8220;indirectly \u200dhelping&#8221; to boost anti-Israel projects linked to the Tides Center.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have already seen this playing out on university campuses\u2063 which enjoy billions of dollars\u200b in\u2064 grants, contracts \u2062and tax benefits from the federal government,&#8221; Andrzejewski told the Washington\u2062 Examiner. &#8220;This latest revelation is part of an \u2063unfortunate pattern in which a sprawling federal government \u200cfinds \u200ditself spending money against its own strategic interests.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2022, the U.S. Department of Education gave $2 million to\u2064 the University of Michigan to evaluate &#8220;the impact of trails on academic \u2064and behavioral health outcomes in Detroit public school students&#8221; \u2014 a project that saw \u2063Tides receive a subgrant. The \u200dUniversity \u2063of Michigan has come\u2064 under \u200cfire from Republicans for prioritizing initiatives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, while some \u2062students after Oct.\u200c 7 have protested to support Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Other Tides Center awards include $94,000 \u2064from\u200d the National Science Foundation to study &#8220;next \u2063generation scientists,&#8221; $1.5 million from HHS for &#8220;nurse education, practice, quality\u200b and retention,&#8221; as well as $4 million from HHS, routed through the University of California, Los Angeles, for a project with the description, &#8220;disorders\u2064 of sex development: platform for basic and translational research,&#8221; records show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/ccp-allied-charity-behind-anti-israel-protests-sees-donations-skyrocket-by-millions\">CLICK HERE TO\u200b READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Tides Center \u200bdid not return \u2064a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What \u200bconcerns have been raised about the Tides Center&#8217;s funding \u2062practices \u2064and \u200dtheir impact on transparency and accountability?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Has also \u200bbeen a recipient\u2063 of funds from local governments and universities for various\u200b projects\u200d and initiatives. These taxpayer-backed grants and contracts have \u2063allowed the Tides\u2063 Center \u2063to amass \u2062significant wealth and influence in \u2062the realm of \u2062progressive activism.<\/p>\n<p>Critics argue \u200bthat the Tides Center&#8217;s\u2064 funding practices raise concerns about\u2062 transparency and \u2064accountability. The charity operates as a fiscal sponsor, allowing wealthy donors to\u200b make\u200c contributions to specific\u200b initiatives without disclosing\u2064 the true\u200c source \u200bof the funding. \u200dThis\u200c process has the potential to \u2062obscure\u2062 the origins of donations and leaves room for abuse \u200cor the \u200bfunneling of\u2064 funds to less reputable\u200d causes.<\/p>\n<p>Of particular\u2062 concern is the Tides\u200b Center&#8217;s support for anti-Israel initiatives. Pro-Palestinian organizations that benefit from the\u200c Tides Center&#8217;s tax-exempt \u200bstatus have been known to downplay \u200bor justify acts of violence\u200c against Israel, including the deadly\u2063 attack carried out \u2062by Hamas on \u200dOctober 7th. The \u200bTides Center&#8217;s connections to entities \u2064with\u200b ties to Palestinian terrorism have also \u2064come under \u2064scrutiny, leading\u2064 to accusations that the \u200bcharity is indirectly \u2062supporting extremists.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin\u2063 Baird, director of Middle East Forum Action, a watchdog organization, \u200dspoke out against the Tides Center,\u2063 stating that it serves\u200b as a &#8220;clearinghouse for funding \u200cfar-left causes&#8221; and accuses it of\u2062 promoting\u200d extremist ideologies. He argues that the federal government should not be subsidizing an organization \u2062that is effectively a\u2062 &#8220;Marxist-Islamist piggy bank.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Washington\u200b Examiner&#8217;s analysis \u2063revealed that a significant portion \u200bof the funds received by \u2062the Tides Center were\u2062 funneled through subcontractors or subgrants. In \u200csome cases, the charity \u2064obtained the funds after the \u2064federal government had awarded them to other\u2063 entities. This convoluted funding process raises questions about the efficacy\u2063 and transparency of taxpayer dollars, \u200bparticularly \u200cwhen it comes to supporting organizations like the Tides Center.<\/p>\n<p>Government\u200c support\u200b for the \u2062Tides\u2064 Center spans multiple agencies\u2064 and policy areas, \u200bwith millions of dollars being allocated for projects \u2063ranging from indigenous\u200c farm\u2062 hubs to early childhood education initiatives. The largest individual grant came from the U.S. Agency for International \u2062Development, which awarded the Tides Center\u2063 $24.6 \u200cmillion for the Civil Society Innovation Initiative. \u2064While these funds were intended to strengthen civil society, critics remain skeptical \u200bof the Tides Center&#8217;s overall agenda and its \u200dpotential\u2063 influence on policy and public opinion.<\/p>\n<p>In response to \u200cinquiries about funding practices, a spokesperson for USAID emphasized that the\u2062 agency \u2063follows a \u2062rigorous vetting process \u200dto\u2064 ensure\u200b compliance with legal and policy requirements. However, concerns still \u200dlinger regarding the transparency and oversight \u200dof taxpayer-funded grants and contracts, particularly when they support organizations like\u2064 the Tides Center.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064growing influence and \u200bfinancial resources \u2063of\u2062 the \u2064Tides Center raise important questions about the use of \u200dtaxpayer dollars \u2063and the potential for political\u200c manipulation. As the organization \u2064continues to fund and support initiatives that some argue promote extremist ideologies, it is\u2062 essential that \u200bgreater transparency and accountability measures be put in place\u2063 to ensure that taxpayer funds are \u2064used in a responsible and ethical manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An influential liberal dark money group, the Tides Center, has received substantial taxpayer-backed grants and contracts. They have been supporting anti-Israel activism in the US and funding organizations behind Hamas-sympathetic protests. 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