{"id":2227806,"date":"2024-04-23T04:33:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T08:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-columbia-protest-organizers-have-ties-to-left-wing-donors\/"},"modified":"2024-04-23T04:36:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T08:36:40","slug":"major-columbia-protest-organizers-have-ties-to-left-wing-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-columbia-protest-organizers-have-ties-to-left-wing-donors\/","title":{"rendered":"Key protest leaders in Columbia have connections to left-wing contributors"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fmajor-columbia-protest-organizers-have-ties-to-left-wing-donors%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=2227806&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--><p>Pro-Palestinian \u200bprotesters with ties \u2062to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megadonors-pour-record-amount-of-money-into-get-out-the-vote-effort-for-dems\/\" title=\"Megadonors Pour Record Amount of Money Into \u2018Get Out the Vote\u2019 Effort for Dems\">left-wing donors<\/a> spark tensions at Columbia University. \u2063The ongoing Gaza Solidarity Encampment, led by Columbia University Apartheid Divest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gwu-students-occupy-building-entrance-in-pro-palestinian-protest-while-taunted-by-aim-billboard\/\" title=\"GWU students protest for Palestine at entrance, taunted by AIM billboard\">demands financial divestment<\/a> from companies supporting Israeli activities.\u2062 The protests, backed \u200dby Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, raise concerns about safety and\u2062 academic ties. Your summary of the situation at Columbia University involving pro-Palestinian \u200cprotesters \u200bwith connections to left-wing donors is \u200cconcise and informative. It highlights the key points of tension, demands, and backing organizations involved in the protests.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Some pro-Palestinian protesters causing chaos at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/columbia-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Columbia University<\/a> and other campuses this week belong to groups that have financial ties to prominent left-wing donors.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions continue to flare at Columbia as the pro-Palestinian protesters enter their seventh day of occupying part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/higher-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>campus<\/a>. The protest has seen more than 100 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/antisemitism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>protesters<\/a> arrested, attracted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/failed-state-protesters-in-canada-topple-statues-of-queens-victoria-elizabeth-ii-as-police-look-on\/\" title=\"\u2018Failed State\u2019: Protesters In Canada Topple Statues Of Queens Victoria, Elizabeth II As Police Look On\">massive police presence<\/a>, and sparked reports of unaffiliated individuals coming onto campus, heightening concerns for student safety.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-Palestinian occupation, called the \u201cGaza Solidarity Encampment,\u201d is organized by a coalition of 116 different groups called Columbia University Apartheid Divest. The organizations involved are numerous Columbia-specific groups or Columbia chapters of national organizations, including the prominent Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.<\/p>\n<p>CUAD\u2019s listed demands are \u201cDivest all of Columbia\u2019s finances, including the endowment, from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupation in Palestine.\u201d The coalition of student groups also demanded that Columbia \u201csever academic ties with Israeli universities\u201d and stop all \u201cland grabs\u2026 whether in Harlem, Lenapehoking, or Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace have also been behind \u201csolidarity\u201d protests that have spread to multiple college campuses to support the Columbia student occupation, including at Harvard University, the Ohio State University, Boston University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<p>As a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-un-pick-urges-continued-u-s-presence-in-chinese-led-panels\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s UN pick urges continued U.S. presence in Chinese-led panels\">national organization<\/a> for more than 200 chapters nationwide, SJP is known for protesting Jewish speakers, promoting the boycott, divestment, and sanction, or BDS, movement, and rallying other like-minded student groups. SJP also came out in support of Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel, which left more than 1,200 Israelis dead.<\/p>\n<p>According to Influence Watch, SJP is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/wespac-foundation-inc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>project<\/a> of the Westchester People\u2019s Action Coalition, or WESPAC, which supports BDS, the Green New Deal, and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/courtroom-holding-trumps-trial-in-disgusting-condition-perfect-representation-of-our-legal-system\/\" title=\"Trump's trial held in 'disgusting' courtroom reflects our legal system perfectly.\">left-wing projects<\/a>, and has assets over $1,000,000.<\/p>\n<p>While SJP claims to be grassroots, the left-wing Anti-Defamation League has claimed it receives support from pro-Hamas organization American Muslims for Palestine, which the ADL has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/resources\/profile\/american-muslims-palestine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>described<\/a> as the \u201cleading organization providing anti-Zionist training\u201d in the country. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/isgap.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NSJP-2019-ISGAP-Report-Long-Version.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>report<\/a> from the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, American Muslims for Palestine and the U.S. Palestinian Community Network helped facilitate the first national convention for SJP in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>AMP is also currently under investigation for allegedly fundraising and providing money to terrorist organizations, as the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2445385\/anti-israel-charity-investigated-in-virginia-for-possibly-violating-state-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jewish Voice for Peace, another major pro-Palestinian organizing effort in Columbia and across the country, has assets of over $2.8 million and has an ideology similar to SJP\u2019s. According to Influence Watch, the group received $3.9 million from various donors, including from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, whose director, Nicholas Burns, resigned in 2017 for its support of the pro-BDS JVP.<\/p>\n<p>JVP is also supported by far-left George Soros\u2019s Open Society Network, and since 2016 has hauled in at least $650,000 from Soros-connected groups.<\/p>\n<p>Other groups in the CUAD coalition include Columbia Queer Alliance, Columbia University Students for Human Rights, White Coats 4 Black Lives, and Muslim Students Association, <a href=\"https:\/\/cuapartheiddivest.org\/our-coalition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>according<\/a> to its website.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia president Minouche Shafik met protest-driven tensions on Monday by moving all classes to mandatory virtual instruction in order to \u201cdeescalate the rancor and give us all a chance to consider next steps.\u201d She also asked that students who do not live on the New York City campus to stay home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decibel of our disagreements has only increased in recent days. These tensions have been exploited and amplified by individuals who are not affiliated with Columbia who have come to campus to pursue their own agendas,\u201d Shafik said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/president.columbia.edu\/news\/statement-columbia-university-president-minouche-shafik-4-22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>early-hours statement<\/a> Monday morning, calling for a \u201creset.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot have one group dictate terms and attempt to disrupt important milestones like graduation to advance their point of view,\u201d she added. \u201cLet\u2019s sit down and talk and argue and find ways to compromise on solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The protests began early in the morning last Wednesday, the day Shafik testified before Congress about antisemitism on her campus.<\/p>\n<p>Jewish leaders at Columbia have also warned students about safety on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Elie Buechler of the Columbia\/Barnard Hillel and Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life told students to go home and remain there until the situation became more safe, saying in a letter to Jewish students that the school and police \u201ccannot guarantee Jewish students\u2019 safety in the face of extreme antisemitism and anarchy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parker De Deker, a first-year Jewish student at Columbia, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> he originally planned to return back to campus last night but decided to redirect his flight to observe Passover in Florida, saying, \u201cI do not feel welcome back to campus until tensions have settled down.<\/p>\n<p>De Deker, who said he has been the focus of antisemitic harassment and intimidation tactics, including being followed, likely due to him being easily identifiable as Jewish wearing a yarmulke and Star of David, said the protests have grown in danger since their onset, as he said numerous people not affiliated with Columbia have been able to make it onto campus and join the protests or otherwise make the area surrounding campus more dangerous.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hardest thing about it all is that it\u2019s a marker of your Judaism. And I wear it with pride as a means of saying: This is who I am, this is who I\u2019m confident about, and now it\u2019s become like identity of like a political association, where people feel the need to minimize your identity because of your outward pride of your religion,\u201d he explained. \u201cYou have all these individuals who are not Columbia students that are coming out in front of our gates in solidarity, and they are the ones that are doing the most threatening things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI firmly like to believe that the students on campus are not the ones \u2014 or I hope, I firmly hope that these students on campus are not the ones that are perpetuating these acts of antisemitism,\u201d De Deker added, saying some people outside campus are flying the flags of terrorist groups such as Houthis, Hamas, and Hezbollah, and saying things like \u201cWe are Hamas\u201d and \u201cGo back to Poland.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Columbia University and other campuses this week have links to left-wing donors. 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