{"id":2236598,"date":"2024-05-03T15:03:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T19:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/revealed-pro-hamas-billionaires-funding-the-pro-gaza-campus-rioters\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T19:06:08","slug":"revealed-pro-hamas-billionaires-funding-the-pro-gaza-campus-rioters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/revealed-pro-hamas-billionaires-funding-the-pro-gaza-campus-rioters\/","title":{"rendered":"Unveiled: Supporters of Hamas Funding Gaza Campus Protests"},"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\">16<\/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%2Frevealed-pro-hamas-billionaires-funding-the-pro-gaza-campus-rioters%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=2236598&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>Investigative \u2064journalists uncover links between \u2064pro-Hamas billionaires \u2063and the pro-Gaza college campus riots. The Capital Research Center&#8217;s forthcoming analysis reveals that many\u200c groups behind the protests\u2063 are associated with Hamas. Funding connections, \u200bincluding\u2062 donations from George Soros&#8217; Open Society Foundation, are exposed. Students for Justice in \u200dPalestine, indirectly\u2064 supported by Open Society, \u200calso play a\u2064 significant role. The concerning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voa-whistleblower-misrepresented-academic-credentials\/\" title=\"VOA \u2018Whistleblower\u2019 Misrepresented Academic Credentials\">findings raise questions<\/a> \u2062about the protests&#8217; motivations.  <\/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<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aaltomari\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aaltomari\/%20\"><span>Anthony Altomari<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 3, 2024 at 9:29am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Investigative journalists have uncovered a connection between pro-Hamas billionaires and the pro-Gaza riots taking place across U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-china-threat-is-real-and-upon-us\/\" title=\"The China Threat is Real and Upon Us\">college campuses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2024\/may\/1\/driven-by-hamas-campus-protests-led-by-groups-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a>, a forthcoming analysis by the<a href=\"https:\/\/capitalresearch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Capital Research Center<\/a>, which describes itself as \u201cAmerica\u2019s investigative think tank,\u201d found that \u201cthe vast majority\u201d of groups behind ongoing protests on college campuses \u201care operating as fronts for Hamas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2024\/may\/1\/driven-by-hamas-campus-protests-led-by-groups-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Times<\/a> spoke with Capital Research Center investigator Ryan Mauro about the report.\u00a0 Mauro admitted that he was \u201cshocked\u201d by what he found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t put any effort into trying to hide the fact that this is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-kjp-says-deal-hamas-table-biden-pushes-cease-fire-gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamas<\/a>-driven thing,\u201d Mauro said.<\/p>\n<p>Mauro told the Times that he examined over 100 organizations involved in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fighting-abortion-now-requires-fighting-americans-increasing-hatred-of-children\/\" title=\"Fighting Abortion Now Requires Fighting Americans\u2019 Increasing Hatred Of Children\">campus protests<\/a>, and that most of them \u201charbor pro-Hamas messaging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The data used for the report purports to show that some of the groups supporting the campus protests, including George Soros\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/follow-money-clear-paper-trail-found-paid-anti-israel-agitators-us-college-campuses-soros-foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Society Foundation<\/a>, have been linked to causes such as the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, whose mission is to \u201cend U.S. complicity in Israel\u2019s massive violence against the Palestinian people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soros\u2019 group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensocietyfoundations.org\/grants\/past?filter_keyword=education+for+just+peace+in+the+middle+east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donated<\/a> $700,000 to the USCPR from 2018-2022 under the group\u2019s official name, Education for Just Peace in the Middle East.\u00a0 The description of the 2018 donation on Open Society\u2019s website said it was for the promotion of \u201cfreedom, justice, and equality in a world without racism and oppression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newsweek <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/uscpr-palestine-gaza-protests-college-israel-1896670\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that USCPR fellows have been among those involved in the protests, including Craig Birckhead-Morton, a senior history major at Yale University and Malak Afaneh, a law student at the University of California-Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p>Birckhead-Morton was reportedly arrested by Yale police last week when they cleared a pro-Palestine encampment on Yale\u2019s campus. Afaneh has been active in organizing protests on her campus, and even interrupted a backyard dinner at the home of the dean of the law school with other activists, Newsweek reported.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Were you surprised by the billionaires involved in funding these riots?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2018, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/bds-umbrella-group-linked-to-palestinian-terrorist-organizations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tablet<\/a> reported that the USCPR was \u201cthe fiscal sponsor of a group called the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the main West Bank and Gaza-based cohort advocating for sanctions against Israel.\u201d BDS stands for boycott, divestment and sanctions \u2014 the strategy of financially penalizing an organization to force cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>The National Council of Nonprofits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.councilofnonprofits.org\/running-nonprofit\/administration-and-financial-management\/fiscal-sponsorship-nonprofits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defines<\/a> a fiscal sponsor as an organization that performs administrative actions, including \u201ctaking on the responsibility of receiving and administering charitable contributions \u201d on behalf of an organization that has not yet received 501(c)(3) status as a nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BNC\u2019s website, one of its members is the Council of National and Islamic Forces in Palestine, also known as the PNIF.\u00a0 Five of members of the PNIF are designated as terrorist groups by the United States, according to Tablet: Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad the Palestine Liberation Front, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Popular Front \u2013 General Command.<\/p>\n<p>Mauro also told the Washington Times that one of the largest protest organizers, Students for Justice in Palestine, is receiving indirect funding from Open Society.<\/p>\n<p>Open Society has given millions of dollars in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensocietyfoundations.org\/grants\/past?filter_keyword=Tides+Foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grants<\/a> to the Tides Foundation over the years for a multitude of causes.\u00a0 The Washington Times reported that the Tides Foundation provides funding for the Westchester People\u2019s Action Coalition Foundation.\u00a0 Mauro said that WESPAC is the fiscal sponsor of Students for Justice in Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>There is no public evidence that Open Society has directly awarded grants to WESPAC.<\/p>\n<p>PolitiFact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2024\/may\/02\/fact-checking-claims-that-george-soros-is-paying-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that the WESPAC, Open Society and Students for Justice in Palestine all denied any direct connection between their respective organizations.<\/p>\n<p>It quoted and Open Society post on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OpenSociety\/status\/1783877536046301611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media platform X<\/a>, which said, in part, \u201cWe have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/photo-evidence-dominion-voting-machines-have-made-in-china-labels\/\" title=\"PHOTO EVIDENCE: Dominion Voting Machines Have \u201cMade in China\u201d Labels\">long history<\/a> of fighting antisemitism, Islamophobia, and all forms of racism and hate, and have advocated for the rights of Palestinians and Israelis and for peaceful resolution to the conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.\u201d The post invited readers to look at the group\u2019s public funding records.<\/p>\n<p>However, based on his investigation of the data, Mauro suggested that anyone who believes the college campus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hateful-demonstrations-cripple-elite-college-campuses-opposite-happened-major-christian-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protests<\/a> don\u2019t have anti-Semitic roots should look closer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, the students organize it independently, to some degree,\u201d Mauro said to the Washington Times. \u201cBut where do they find other support? It starts with these groups, and then the students will have their own spin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to note that, even though the connections seem attenuated, they do, in fact, appear to be there.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation makes it more difficult for the protesters to argue against the demonstrations being anti-Semitic in nature, especially given that organizing members are a part of the USCPR.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/26\/us-news\/george-soros-maoist-fund-columbias-anti-israel-tent-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a> reported that Soros-funded local chapters of the Students for Justice in Palestine organized many of the pro-Palestine encampments, including those at Yale and UC Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t help that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/expelled-us-college-pro-hamas-protests-iranian-university-offer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iran<\/a> and Hamas have publicly praised the ongoing protests, USA Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2024\/04\/24\/hamas-iran-support-college-protests\/73447123007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, the Capital Research Center\u2019s full report will be able to connect the dots and show just how close the connection is between these organizations and the student protests.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>I heard a chilling comment the other day: \u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>That wasn\u2019t said by a conspiracy theorist or a doomsday prophet. 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He focuses his writing on culture and politics.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  Anthony Altomari is a commentary writer for the Western Journal. He focuses his writing on culture and politics. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary by Anthony Altomari on May 3, 2024 reveals investigative journalists exposing links between pro-Hamas billionaires and the pro-Gaza riots at U.S. college campuses. 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