By Isabel Vincent, NEW YORK POST 26 April 2024
ISRAEL HATE CAMPS EXPLODE-FUNDED BY SOROS
George Soros is paying agitators who are fueling the explosion of radical anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country.
George Soros and his hard-left acolytes are paying agitators who are fueling the explosion of radical anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country.
The protests, which began when students took over Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus lawn last week, have mushroomed nationwide.
Copycat tent cities have been set up at colleges including Harvard, Yale, Berkeley in California, the Ohio State University and Emory in Georgia — all of them organized by branches of the Soros-funded Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — and at some, students have clashed with police.
The SJP parent organization has been funded by a network of nonprofits ultimately funded by, among others, Soros, the billionaire left-wing investor.
At three colleges, the protests are being encouraged by paid radicals who are “fellows” of a Soros-funded group called the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).
Video below explains funding in greater detail:
USCPR provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based “fellows” in return for spending eight hours a week organizing “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.”
They are trained to “rise up, to revolution.”
The radical group received at least $300,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations since 2017 and also took in $355,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund since 2019.
George Soros and Wall Street moguls financed radical anti-Israel groups behind campus protests at Columbia University.Rikki Schlott
The University of Texas-Austin is one of the campuses where anti-Israel protests have exploded this week, copycatting the takeover of Columbia University’s lawn.
It has three “fellows” who have been major figures in the nationwide protest movement.
Nidaa Lafi, a former president of the University of Texas Students for Justice in Palestine, was seen at an encampment at UT Dallas Wednesday making a speech demanding an end to the war in Gaza.
Lafi, a former legislative intern for the late Democratic Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, graduated from the school last year with a degree in global business and is now a law student at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Lafi was seen at the University of Texas-Austin on Wednesday leading a protest against Israel./Alamy Live News.
Nidaa Lafi returned to the University of Texas, Dallas, campus Wednesday to lead a “teach-in” at the Students for Justice in Palestine’s occupation of the college lawn. She is paid as a “fellow” by a group backed by George Soros.
In January, she was detained for blocking the route of President Biden’s motorcade after he arrived in Dallas for the funeral of Johnson, her former boss.
At Yale, USCPR’s fellow Craig Birckhead-Morton was arrested Monday and charged with first-degree trespassing when SJP’s branch, Yalies4Palestine, occupied the school’s Beinecke Plaza, the Yale Daily News reported.
Birckhead-Morton — also a former intern for a Democrat, Maryland rep John Sarbanes — emerged from custody to address a sit-in blocking traffic in New Haven.
At Yale, Craig Birckhead-Morton (circled) is paid up to $3,360 for his work encouraging protests. He was arrested for trespass Monday and charged with first-degree trespass
The most high-profile of the fellows is Berkeley’s Malak Afaneh, co-president of the Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine.
She has been a serial speaker at an anti-Israel protest on the campus this week — which came after she first shot to prominence by hijacking a dinner at the law school dean’s home to shout anti-Israel slogans, then accused the dean’s wife of assaulting her when she asked the radical to leave.
UC Berkeley law student Malak Afaneh speaks to a large crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters during a protest on the campus of UC Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., Monday, April 22, 2024.AP
The cash from Soros and his acolytes has been critical to the Columbia protests that set off the national copycat demonstrations.
Three groups set up the tent city on Columbia’s lawn last Wednesday: Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Within Our Lifetime.
At the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” students sleep in tents apparently ordered from Amazon and enjoy delivery pizza, coffee from Dunkin’, free sandwiches worth $12.50 from Pret a Manger, organic tortilla chips and $10 rotisserie chickens.
An analysis by The Post shows that all three got cash from groups linked to Soros. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund also gave cash to JVP.
The fund is chaired by Joseph Pierson, and includes David Rockefeller Jr, a fourth-generation member of the oil dynasty, on its board of directors. The non-profit gives money to “sustainable development” and “peace-building.”
And a former Wall Street banker, Felice Gelman, a retired investment banker who has dedicated her Wall Street fortune to pro-Palestinian causes, funded all three groups.
Free sandwiches from upscale takeout joint Pret a Manger are on offer at the encampment, worth up to $12, and $10 rotisserie chickens. Cash for the encampment has come from billionaire investor George Soros.NYPJ
Both SJP and JVP were expelled from Columbia University in November for “threatening rhetoric and intimidation.” JVP blamed Israel for the Oct 7 Hamas terrorist attack that left 1,200 Israelis dead.
“Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression — are the source of all this violence,” JVP said in a statement on its website.
SJP called the terrorist strike on Israel “a historic win.”
Also on offer for the thirsty anti-Israeli protesters camped out at Columbia is free coffee from Dunkin’. Behind the scenes, the groups organizing the encampment have received cash from Soros and another former Wall Street banker.NYPJ
An analysis by The Post shows how Soros and Gelman’s cash made its way to the students through a network of nonprofits that help obscure their contributions.
Soros has given billions to the Open Society Foundations which his son Alexander — whose partner is Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s top aide and the estranged wife of pervert Anthony Weiner — now controls.
In turn, Open Society has given more than $20 million to the Tides Foundation, a progressive nonprofit “fiscal sponsor” that then sends the cash to smaller groups.
George Soros, the billionaire investor, is the ultimate source of cash for JVP and SJP, two of the groups encamped on Columbia’s lawn. It comes via a series of intermediaries.Andrew Toth
Those groups include A Jewish Voice for Peace, which between 2017 and 2022 has received $650,000 from Soros’ Open Society. Its advisers include the academic Noam Chomsky and the left-wing feminist author Naomi Klein.
JVP has been a prominent part of the protests at Columbia and one of its student members was among a group expelled from the university for inviting the leader of a proscribed terrorist group, Khaled, to the “Resistance 101” Zoom meeting.
Soros has also donated $132,000 to WESPAC, called in full the Westchester People’s Action Coalition Foundation.
Soros’ Open Society Foundations is now controlled by his son Alexander. It has been the ultimate source of funds for all three groups that set up camp on the Columbia lawn.
The White Plains-based nonprofit was founded in 1974 to rally for civil rights and against the Vietnam War but is now a major funder of anti-Israel groups, including Within Our Lifetime and Students for Justice in Palestine.
SJP has also received funding from the Sparkplug Foundation, a New York-based nonprofit run by Gelman and her husband, Yoram Gelman.
The couple funneled their $20,000 donation to the group through WESPAC in 2022, according to public filings.
Alexander Soros’ partner is Huma Abedin. The Hillary Clinton aide separated from her husband Anthony Weiner after he was caught sexting an underage girl.X/@humaabedin
Gelman was previously on WESPAC’s committee for Justice and Peace in the Middle East in 2009 when she was invited to Gaza by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, according to the group’s website.
The UN group has been slammed for its support of Hamas.
Gelman is on the board of the Bard Lifetime Learning Institute, an offshoot of the infamously progressive college, as well as the Jenin Freedom Theatre, located in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.
David Rockefeller Jr., seen with daughter Ariana, is a fourth-generation scion of the Standard Oil fortune. He chaired the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which champions progressive causes until 2022. It is now chaired by Joseph Pierson.Paul Bruinooge/PatrickMcMullan.
Felice Gelman, a former Wall Street investment banker, gave Students for Justice in Palestine $20,000 through Sparkplug, her family foundation.Bard LLI
WESPAC president Howard Horowitz, a former Orthodox Jew, is a member of the New York chapter of JVP, which says it works for “advocacy and public education for Palestinian human rights.”
Horowitz said he embraced the Palestinian cause after time spent living in Israel, according to a report in the Israel Times.
WESPAC has also given money to Within Our Lifetime, founded by the ubiquitous anti-Israeli protester Nerdeen Kiswani.
Howard Horowitz, a former Orthodox Jew from New York, is the longtime leader of WESPAC, which funds radical anti-Israel groups, including Students for Justice in Palestine.914Wired/ YouTube
Within our Lifetime uses a loophole in the law to avoid declaring how much it receives from donors by not being a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, meaning it is unknown how Kiswani has benefited.
However, WESPAC is named as a fiscal sponsor of Within Our Lifetime.
After The Post published our story, an Open Society Foundations spokesperson said: “For the record, Open Society Foundations has a long history of fighting antisemitism, islamophobia and all forms of racism and hate.
“Open Society has funded a broad spectrum of US groups that have advocated for the rights of Palestinians and Israelis and for peaceful resolution to 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 is part of our commitment to continuing open debate that is ultimately the only hope for peace in the region.
“The Open Society Foundations proudly support the right of all citizens to peaceful protest — a bedrock principle of our democracy.”
None of the other groups responded to requests by The Post for comment.
Thanks Peloni for the link. I understand what you were saying Michael. But did you notice in the u tube link, They had MOSES, the messiah of his day, on trial.
Bear there is not Jewish hate here. At least not from I and I think Michael would tell the same for himself. Edgar, you could have been a Rabbi, however NOBODY said anything about a virgin birth. The Jews regardless of how learnedededed they seem to be always start their attack on Christians over the virgin birth or if the person thinks Jesus, was God.
Why do they do that???? Because they want to shut down the dialogue. Both groups could learn from each other if they would get off the attack and start listening and stop talking past each other. I agree with what you shared and yes there are many mistakes in the text of both the New Testament and the Hebrew bible. There where many different groups 2000 yrs ago. But the text we have today is all we have to work with at this time.
Your fellow JEW, said: If you can’t believe Moses, how could you possibly believe me.(paraphrase) John 5:39 following.
Everybody knows virgins cannot get pregnant. You got to get the little man past the guard at the gate. His name is Mr. Hymen.(sounds like a good Jewish name, by the way) When he’s defeated, there aint’ no virgin around, No MO.
The only thing I advocate and recommend for Jews is the same message given by Moses Deut 5:1 and following.
Edgar, darlin (to quote honeybee) I ain’t no Christian, I don’t meet the definition.
Take time to listen to this Rabbi. Most interesting. Michael, you listen too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUxIh1LdM3o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmrYeHRoiBE&t=26s
Edgar teaching Torah:
https://youtu.be/6hX68X66jyw?t=5
Edgar, you’re so funny!
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@Edgar
I want to thank you for sharing your analysis on the scriptures. It is not the first time you have raised these points, but it is always refreshing to see them raise anew. History is something different from faith, and as you note, to grasp history, to really understand the meaning which was meant to be passed down from back then to later generations, a careful study of the languages involved are necessary and vital. This is not unique to biblical studies of course, but it is true of history in general. In any event, speaking for myself of course, well done, and Kol Hakovod to you in turn.
BEAR_
Kol Hakovod.
The above is a good article with very good information.
But Biden not Soros is the mover in this Antisemitism
Biden, Blinken and Shumer are the agents of big Antisemitism here.
And connected to war against Russia
Hide these facts and you are getting a perverted world outlook.
(Biden et al are the critical factor here. Folks don’t be diverted)
Now we have infants of 76 years old posting on our site. Pendulous lipped and drooling I suppose as all such are. I’m surprised that such an infant can even write, rubbish that it is.
@Micheal I am not an expert on Christianity but I can spot Jew haters or malingers with easy. Some of them are Christians usually not too intelligent!
Then they will not change and I do not have the ability to change a black heart!
I have had many Christian friends over they years and known several Christian Jew haters also. My strong impression in the difference between the two groups appeared that primarily the Jew haters were of lesser intelligence significantly for the most part.
TED this may be too long, if so please post in 2 sections.
Tanna and Michael, better get something straight.
You are reading the Torah in English. You read “seed” and have no knowledge that the vast majority of Hebrew words can have several meanings and many nuances, These meanings, due to changed circumstances in the history of the Hebrew Nation, also changed.
Your own religion, Christianity, is based on the Greek version of the Torah, which was written for the million+ Jews of Alexandria who spoke Greek, and which translated what was really “young woman” as “virgin’
And by then , parts of the Torah itself had been compromised, missing and replaced by scribes’ guesses, etc. As I’ve said before there are 3 lists of the High Priests none completely the same., Fathers are mistaken for sons, grandfathers and unknow others.
The statement by Isaiah to King Ahaz merely indicated a young woman and said “This young woman is pregnant and will shortly give birth to a son. …etc.
Now this was 700+ years BEFORE the supposed birth of Jesus, by a “virgin birth”, And he was NOT named “Immanuel. It could not possibly to related to him.
What is clear is that Paul’s religion, consisting of 90% G-d Lovers developed an inferiority complex and the Early Church Fatherc were always frantically searching for purported “proofs” of authenticity.
They found None, but faked many.
Do yourselves a favour and look up the Translation in” The Jewish Virtual Library”
*****It seems very likely that Paul, who was more than a bit crazy and a HUGE liar (all things to all men, a Roman Citizen etc) was only a humble follower of an obscure sect which called itself Ebionim, (the poor) whose leader, to whom he reported, was named James.
*****There is factual evidence that at that time there were dozens of obscure sects each with it’s own rules and interpretations. This was because of the extremely uncertain times, which spawned them******.
There were likely 10,000 people in Israel named James (Jacob) at that time and only the Gospels have twisted it into a mythical “brother of Jesus”
Being who and what you both are, I don’t expect you to believe a single word I’ve written, but there are others who will, and likely can verify my post.
By the way, the KJV has lovely woodcuts etc, but has over 4000 verifiable errors compared to the Hebrew.
Bear,
You and some others here seem to “know” much about “Christianity” that I have never been taught nor experienced. I’m only 76 year into the game, though. Maybe when i am your age, i will understand more.
Hi, Tanna. You said,
“Are you implying that all of Abraham’s seed are entitled to the land?”
No implications here. Abraham’s seed (ONE person, not many) would become the ruler of many “goyim”, or nations. “The Land” (Eretz Israel) is not counted among the nations.
Numbers 23:9 King James Version (KJV)
“For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him: Lo, the people shall dwell alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.”
Some people are hated on this site because they over time display disdain for Jews stemming from a religious Christian origin of hate. The type that people who are Christian and not too altogether intelligent seem to make.
Michael, You highlighted “seed” then you jumped to David. Are you implying that all of Abraham’s seed are entitled to the land?(Ishmael, Esau) Or are you making the classic Christian mistake – that the new seed of David is the winner of the land title? I’m confused.
Edgar, “Being on a mission is often quite pedestrian and harmless, but a maniac on a mission is an altogether different thing.” Great quote!
@Michael
@Michael Religion aside, the Litvaks were a group of German Jews who were invited by the founder of Vilna and Lithuania in the 13 or 14th century, to settle there.
Sebastien, have you read this?
There was a time in the US, when these distinctions really made a difference. My ancestors, being Galician, of course were probably Hassidic — most Galicians were. Besides being considered “heretics” by the legalistic Lithuanians, they were considered, I believe, the poorest of the Jews. Being a pauper was against the law in the shtetl my ancestors hailed from, but nonetheless over 15% of the shtetl were in that condition. When the Austrians finally allowed them to live elsewhere in the Empire, in the early 1800s, many of them did so. That is likely when my own family became Slovenian Catholics, when they became domestic servants and farm laborers.
Nowadays, of course, the LItvak-Hassidic divide is the least of divisions within Judaism. Since you are an irreligious agnostic, I imagine this does not impact you much.
Tanna-
Being on a mission is often quite pedestrian and harmless, but a maniac on a mission is an altogether different thing.
You are a normal, religious person who believes Torah as G-D’s Word but this phony(ex-presumably) druggie tries to overwhelm us with volume.
Anyone who reels off pages and pages of OUR Torah for purposes totally ignored by us, is not a normal individual. It’s a mental condition which repels..
And let me repeat, he digs out JINOS whom he knows are not really Jews and sticks them under our noses.
We don’t do such things.
He reminds me of a very sad event that occurred to me.
I had a music store. One day a tall lanky woman entered, literally dragging a child who could not have been more than 3 years old. She entered with an open parasol totally covered with religious writings.
She had no interest in anything musical, indeed she never spoke a word to me or my assistants. All she did was drag and pull on the poor kids arm often taking him off his feet, shouting out….. ‘Say the Lords Prayer, say the Lords Prayer”.
In a way, our “friend” reminds me of that woman.