{"id":2234253,"date":"2024-05-01T05:10:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T09:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-israel-group-encouraged-columbia-protesters-to-re-create-the-summer-of-2020-hours-before-students-stormed-a-building\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T05:12:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T09:12:34","slug":"anti-israel-group-encouraged-columbia-protesters-to-re-create-the-summer-of-2020-hours-before-students-stormed-a-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-israel-group-encouraged-columbia-protesters-to-re-create-the-summer-of-2020-hours-before-students-stormed-a-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters Urged to Recreate &#8216;Summer of 2020&#8217; Before Storming Building"},"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%2Fanti-israel-group-encouraged-columbia-protesters-to-re-create-the-summer-of-2020-hours-before-students-stormed-a-building%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=2234253&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>The People\u2019s Forum, funded by\u200d a $12 million donation from Goldman Sachs, encouraged anti-Israel \u200bactivists to re-create violent \u200dprotests like &#8220;the \u2063summer of 2020.&#8221; They met in Manhattan to plan actions,\u2064 supporting\u2064 Columbia protesters who later\u200b occupied \u200ba building. The organization, aligning\u2064 with marginalized communities, has been active in anti-Israel events since a Hamas attack. The Columbia president restricted campus access \u200bdue to the incident.  <\/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<h2>The People\u2019s Forum\u2019s operations are made possible in large part by a $12 million donation from Goldman Sachs\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-ted-cruz-calls-to-designate-radical-muslim-brotherhood-a-foreign-terrorist-organization\/\" title=\"Sen. Ted Cruz Calls to Designate Radical Muslim Brotherhood a \u2018Foreign Terrorist Organization\u2019\">charitable arm<\/a>.<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tStudent protesters hoist &#8220;Intifada&#8221; banner from Hamilton Hall.\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A New York City nonprofit that received more than $12 million from Goldman Sachs&#8217; charitable arm encouraged anti-Israel activists to re-create the violent protests of\u00a0 &#8220;the summer of 2020,&#8221; just hours before rioters stormed and occupied a building on Columbia University\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 masked and keffiyeh-clad activists convened in the People\u2019s Forum\u2019s Manhattan office Monday evening to plan their next moves as anti-Israel protests reach a fever pitch across the country. The meeting, which was scheduled to start at 6:45 p.m., was delayed to give protesters from Columbia time to make it downtown.<\/p>\n<p>Once the Columbia protesters arrived, People\u2019s Forum executive director Manolo De Los Santos urged the group to &#8220;give Joe Biden a hot summer&#8221; and &#8220;make it untenable for the politics of usual to take place in this country.&#8221; Los Santos praised Columbia students for &#8220;decid[ing] that resistance is more important than negotiations,&#8221; and urged those assembled at the People\u2019s Forum to &#8220;support our students so that the encampments can go for as long as they can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Los Santos also ranted about the &#8220;Zionist&#8221; Columbia administrators who &#8220;want to be more like their masters in Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Volunteer Meeting,&#8221; which the <em>Washington Free Beacon <\/em>attended via Zoom, concluded at 9:30 p.m. following &#8220;break out sessions&#8221; that focused on organizing new methods of &#8220;resistance.&#8221; A few hours later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abortion-activists-firebomb-another-pro-life-office\/\" title=\"Abortion Activists Firebomb Another Pro-Life Office\">activists smashed<\/a> the windows of Columbia\u2019s Hamilton Hall and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/columbia-students-storm-university-building-and-hoist-banner-calling-for-intifada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barricaded themselves<\/a> inside.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests were made. The People\u2019s Forum did not respond to a request for comment over whether they were aware of any attendees who rioted at Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>The People\u2019s Forum, a registered charity that <a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesforum.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">describes itself<\/a> as &#8220;a movement incubator for working class and marginalized communities,&#8221; has been a mainstay at anti-Israel protests since Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on the Jewish state. A day after the attack, the People\u2019s Forum organized a Times Square protest where attendees celebrated Hamas and waved posters with anti-Semitic slogans and imagery. One protestor waved a picture of a Nazi flag on his cellphone.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear who was or who was not a Columbia student at the People\u2019s Forum meeting, although several had just returned from the campus. But Los Santos encouraged attendees to head back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The moment the call goes out, we have to go back out,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have to be the bodies willing to stand between the police and our students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Columbia president Minouche Shafik effectively shut down the campus on Tuesday, barring anyone who is not a student or staff &#8220;who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/indiana-gov-eric-holcomb-signs-legislation-deeming-churches-essential\/\" title=\"Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb Signs Legislation Deeming Churches Essential\">provide essential services<\/a>&#8221; from stepping foot on its grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The People\u2019s Forum\u2019s operations are made possible in large part by a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/new-york-city-communists-pushing-for-a-gaza-ceasefire-took-millions-from-goldman-sachs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$12 million donation<\/a> from Goldman Sachs\u2019s charitable arm. The source of that money is likely Neville Roy Singham, a communist who has &#8220;long admired Maoism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Singham, an American businessman who lives in China, reportedly helps finance the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s &#8220;propaganda worldwide,&#8221; according to the <em>New York Times. <\/em>His wife, Jodie Evans, is the leader of the activist group Code Pink. Under her leadership, the group has celebrated China as &#8220;a defender of the oppressed and a model for economic growth without slavery or war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As with any donor advised fund, the prior donation was made with the client\u2019s money, at the client\u2019s direction,&#8221; a Goldman Sachs spokesman told the <em>Free Beacon. <\/em>&#8220;This was not firm money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Groups like the People\u2019s Forum stand to lose their charity status if they are found to be party to riots and violent protests, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/this-progressive-dark-money-behemoth-could-face-criminal-charges-over-anti-israel-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">experts told<\/a> the <em>Free Beacon. <\/em>The IRS\u2019s charity guidelines state that groups may lose their charity status if they engage in &#8220;planned activities that violate laws&#8221; or &#8220;induce the commission of crime.&#8221; That could make it harder for the group to raise money, as its donors would no longer enjoy a tax benefit on their donations. It would also require the People\u2019s Forum to pay taxes on any donations it receives.\t<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether the People\u2019s Forum would bail out protesters arrested on Columbia\u2019s campus, one woman affiliated with the group told the <em>Free Beacon <\/em>bail was not a concern, given the city\u2019s approach to the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has been no need for bail for the vast majority of those who have been arrested,&#8221; the woman said, &#8220;because they\u2019re just booked and released.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The People\u2019s Forum runs on a $12 million donation from Goldman Sachs. Student protesters display &#8220;Intifada&#8221; banner at Hamilton Hall. 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