{"id":2642652,"date":"2026-08-10T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-funded-group-offers-to-pay-student-protesters\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:22:17","slug":"soros-funded-group-offers-to-pay-student-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-funded-group-offers-to-pay-student-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros-funded group offers to pay student protesters"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fsoros-funded-group-offers-to-pay-student-protesters%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=2642652&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>An organization funded by George Soros\u2019s nonprofit network runs a program paying college students too protest against the military Industrial Complex. The Chicago-based group Dissenters invited impacted students to apply for an Anti-Militarist Organizing Fellowship, offering stipends up to $6,000 and requiring at least 15 hours weekly involvement in activism activities. Between 2020 and 2023, Soros\u2019s Foundation to Promote Open Society provided Dissenters with $305,000 in grants to support thier work, including promoting more inclusive and just security frameworks worldwide. The fellowship aims to empower students to advocate against companies linked to military and defense industries and to prevent military recruitment on campuses, emphasizing leadership advancement and community building. Dissenters has faced criticism for its associations and materials, including a controversial Solidarity Organizing Toolkit and images linked to Hamas, along with its advocacy for anti-militarist causes on college campuses as 2021.  <\/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<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An organization funded by leftist megadonor <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/george-soros\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/george-soros\/\">George Soros\u2019s<\/a> nonprofit network runs a program paying students to protest \u201cthe Military Industrial Complex\u201d on their campuses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dissenters, a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/chicago\/\">Chicago<\/a>-based activist group, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >invited college students \u201cimpacted<\/a> by war and militarism\u201d to apply for an \u201cAnti-Militarist Organizing Fellowship\u201d by Aug. 7 in a July 31 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbeQnH8j7SM\/?igsh=MXdnNHZ0c3Z3YTZpNw%3D%3D\">Instagram post<\/a>. The program provides stipends of $2,500 or $3,000 for the fall semester, or $6,000 for a yearlong commitment, with participants expected to spend at least 15 hours per week \u201corganizing and participating in fellowship activities,\u201d Dissenters said in the post.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4680805\/soros-foundation-dissenters-military-war-protest\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Soros-funded group offers to pay students protesting \u2018war and militarism\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4680313\/house-democrats-investigations-trump-linked-companies-impeachment\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>House Democrats prefer investigations into Trump-linked companies over immediate impeachment if elected: Report<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4679220\/local-governments-misusing-federal-money-crime-victims-doj\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Local governments keep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/agencies-misuse-doj-funds-meant-for-crime-victims-inspectors\/\" title=\"Agencies misuse DOJ funds meant for crime victims: Inspectors\">misusing federal money meant<\/a> for crime victims: DOJ inspectors<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dissenters received $305,000 between 2020 and 2023 from Soros\u2019s Foundation to Promote Open Society via four grants, according to those years\u2019 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/nonprofits\/organizations\/263753801\/202413199349105961\/IRS990PF\">tax filings<\/a>. Three of the grants went toward Dissenters\u2019s fellowship program or overall work with college students, while a fourth helped the group \u201cpromote a more inclusive, just, and accountable national security framework in the U.S. and globally,\u201d the foundation\u2019s filings show.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Foundation to Promote Open Society funneled the grants through two organizations sponsoring Dissenters: the Center for Third World Organizing in California and the Watershed Center in New York. The two groups and the press team for Soros\u2019s Open Society Foundations did not respond to the <em>Washington Examiner\u2019s<\/em> requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe uplift the leadership of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-investing-in-rural-america-tour-continues-with-next-stop-in-illinois\/\" title=\"Biden&#039;s rural America tour continues in Illinois.\">people directly impacted<\/a> by systems of war, policing, and militarism,\u201d Dissenters said in its post. \u201cCandidates with directly impacted identities are strongly encouraged to apply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The students\u2019 work will include advocating campuses to stop doing business with \u201ccompanies complicit in the Military Industrial Complex,\u201d preventing the U.S. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/military\/\">military<\/a> and defense manufacturers from recruiting at schools, and a separate \u201ccampaign of your own design,\u201d Dissenters said. In addition to funding, the fellowship provides \u201cthe fundamentals of anti-militarist organizing,\u201d \u201cdeep leadership development, coaching and community,\u201d according to the group.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4632602\/mamdani-backed-candidate-billionaires-soros\/\"><strong>MAMDANI-BACKED CANDIDATE RAILS AGAINST BILLIONAIRES DESPITE HER CAREER BENEFITING FROM ONE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dissenters previously drew criticism from the conservative watchdog <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/capitalresearch.org\/article\/marching-toward-violence-part-3\/\">Capital Research Center<\/a> for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/defendinged.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Black-Palestinian-Solidarity-Organizing-Toolkit-compressed-compressed.pdf\">co-authoring<\/a> a \u201cBlack and Palestinian Solidarity Organizing Toolkit\u201d with an image of what appeared to be a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hamas\/\">Hamas<\/a> paraglider flying toward a border wall. The guide also featured a picture of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2854016\/soros-fellowship-anti-israel-center-terrorism-sahar-aziz\/\">Palestinian activist Leila Khaled<\/a>, who gained <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plutobooks.com\/blog\/leila-khaled-the-poster-girl-of-palestinian-militancy-international-womans-day\/\">iconic status<\/a> among left-wing circles for hijacking planes in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/socialistworker.co.uk\/comment\/leila-khaled-armed-resistance-for-liberation\/\">1969 and 1970<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Soros-funded group has been spreading its mission on campuses via the student fellowship <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/wearedissenters.org\/fellowship-program\/\">since 2021<\/a>, according to its website.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soros-backed group pays students to protest militarism on campuses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1239,"featured_media":2642653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP24121479864741-e1786378751112.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[6513,40279,3970,83925,83924],"class_list":["post-2642652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-funding","tag-politicalactivism","tag-protests","tag-socialmovements","tag-studentactivism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP24121479864741-e1786378751112.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2642652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2642656,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642652\/revisions\/2642656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2642653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}