Progressive anti-Israel protesters across the country, including those mobilizing at Columbia University in New York City, have linked far-left groups with dark money and radical organizations backed by liberal mega-donor George Soros.
National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), a national organization affiliated with approximately 200 independent chapters, has vocal presence at Columbia University in recent days and at one point was said to have walked away from negotiations with school leaders until administrators pledged to arrest him or forcefully remove him from his camp on the Ivy League institution’s West Lawn. do not do.
The NSJP operates under a financial sponsor, the Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation (WESPAC), which Fox News Digital previously reported had received a six-figure donation from a nonprofit run by George Soros’ network. WESPAC, whose funding is largely unknown, has supported anti-Israel rhetoric for years, including accusing the government of “apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing,” “collective punishment” and “war crimes.” According to NGO Monitor,
The NSJP regularly compares Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow era in the United States, accuses Israel of genocide, and regularly promotes Hamas propaganda since the October 7 attacks. gives, Influence Watch report.
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“Since October 7, SJP has been extremely aggressive in threatening ways on many campuses, including the use of violent, genocidal rallying calls, including ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’ ‘Globalization of the Intifada.’ And ‘There is only one solution, intifada revolution,'” Rose Rothstein, CEO of StandWithUs. told Fox News Digital The group came to light after it was suspended by Rutgers University last year for anti-Israel incitements.
“So it is no surprise that a growing number of universities are deciding to suspend a student group that uses violent rhetoric and threatens Jewish students on campus in violation of university policies.”
Days after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, the SJP issued a statement calling the massacre a “historic victory for the Palestinian resistance” and claiming, “This is what it means to liberate Palestine: not just slogans and rallies, but the oppressors.” armed confrontation with.”
NSJP’s founder, Hatem Bazian, has a long history of controversial anti-Semitic statements, including calling for an “intifada” in the United States, defending Hamas on social media, and supporting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and Israel divestment. Including supporting. Canary Mission reported,
Anti-Israel protest camp at Columbia University. (Peter Gerber)
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Video circulating on social media In recent days Bazian has been shown inciting a crowd on the campus of UC Berkeley the day after the October 7 massacre and celebrating the attack.
Baziyan – one who has donated thousands of dollars for Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa.; Barbara Lee, D-Calif.; and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. – Currently listed as a lecturer in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.
He also has ties to “Squad” Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who was “guest of honor” at AMP’s annual conference in December 2019 and a few months earlier in July she gave a briefing to more than 70 people hosted by AMP. The Michigan Democrat also addressed AMP’s Palestine Advocacy Day delegates in April 2019.
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Hungarian-born American investor and Democrat donor George Soros wrote an op-ed in 2007 criticizing the US and Israel for not recognizing Hamas’s election in Palestine. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)
Apart from Columbia, the NSJP has been protesting and setting up camps in other universities across the country, including UCLA and USC in California and the University of Texas at Austin. 50 people were arrested This week.
Another group active in Colombia, Jewish Voice for Peace, has brought in at least $650,000 from Soros-linked groups since 2016.
JVP has also taken hundreds of thousands from the billionaire-fueled Rockefeller Fund, which has been boosted by millions of dollars. black money funding network.
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A page from a booklet provided to students at the University of Michigan camp stated, “Freedom for Palestine means death for America.” (Josh Brown)
Influence Watch describes the group as “a left-wing, nominally Jewish group that opposes American aid to the State of Israel and allowing Palestinians to live on lands within Israel vacated by Arabs during the Israeli War of Independence.” “Supports giving.”
Group issued a statement The violence was condemned this week and the university was blamed for the unrest and for failing to protect Palestinian students.
Fox News Digital reported that JVP was also active at the University of Michigan this week, distributing leaflets at a tent camp that included the phrase “Death to America” in addition to other inflammatory phrases.
Another Soros-backed group, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, has paid its “associates” to organize and participate in anti-Israel protests across the country, The New York Post reported.
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“The Open Society Foundations has a long history of fighting anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and all forms of racism and hate,” a spokesperson for George Soros’s Open Society Foundations told Fox News Digital.
“Open Society has funded a broad spectrum of US groups that have advocated for the rights of Palestinians and Israelis and for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Israel and the OPT. This funding is a matter of public record, disclosed on our website, Fully compliant with US laws, and part of our commitment to continuing the open debate that is ultimately the only hope for peace in the region – The Open Society Foundations proudly supports the right of all citizens to peacefully protest – which It’s a foundational principle of our democracy.”
Fox News’ Houston Keene contributed to this report.
