Meet the deep-pocketed far-left foundations providing the money behind anti-Israel protests convulsing America’s college campuses.
As the mainstream media covers these Campus protests, the question of who is orchestrating and funding these organized efforts is rarely discussed.
Look no further than the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center, two far-left nonprofits backed by George and Alexander Soros – and your taxpayer dollars. The Washington Examiner highlighted that congressional Democrats and the Biden administration have steered $81 million to the Tides Center. In a separate report, Washington Examiner revealed that the organizations fund the Alliance for Global Justice, a charity that has close ties with Palestinian terrorist groups.
Other key groups that mobilize anti-Israel protests – IfNotNow, Jewish Voice for Peace, the Palestinian Youth Movement, the so-called “grassroots” Adalah Justice Project, and the Sunrise Movement – also have close financial ties with the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center, as does the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which is alleged to have ties with Hamas itself. The Soros-backed groups are estimated to have steered more than $15 million to these groups.
The Tides Center also supports the Community Justice Exchange, a fund that has helped provide bail money and legal representation for protesters arrested for blocking freeways, airports, and bridges.
Another key alleged funder of the protests is the People’s Forum, an NGO whose executive director met with masked activists at the group’s headquarters days before Columbia’s Hamilton Hall was broken into and occupied by anti-Israel activists. Financial backers of the People’s Forum include Goldman Sachs and Neville Roy Singham, a far-left millionaire who resides in China and who, according to the New York Times, functions effectively as both a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party and a funder of far-left groups like Code Pink.
The anti-Israel protests have been hallmarked by blatant antisemitism, bigotry and ethnic intimidation and have devolved into violence, vandalism, and other crimes, leading one national security scholar to call for the FBI to begin investigating the funding sources behind the protests.
Mike Gonzalez, a national security and foreign policy fellow at the Heritage Foundation, argued the FBI must look into whether a US adversary like Iran or a designated terrorist group like Hamas (which, of course, is backed by Iran) is helping support the anti-Israel demonstrations.
Gonzalez pointed to yet another beneficiary of the Tides Foundation, the Progress Unity Fund, which funds the ANSWER Coalition, a group that claims credit for recent anti-Israel protests in Washington, DC. ANSWER collaborated with American Muslims for Palestine, another backer of Students for Justice in Palestine with ties to Hamas.
Who backs AMP? The WESPAC Foundation, yet another far-left foundation that’s received money from the Tides Foundation and Tides Center. The WESPAC Foundation is a New York-based group that champions the cause of imprisoned Palestinian terrorist leader Ahmad Saadat and is closely tied with Students for Justice in Palestine. Who funds WESPAC? Open Society, another George Soros-backed nonprofit.
Soros is not the only left-wing billionaire steering money to both major Democrats and anti-Israel activists. The billionaire Pritzker family, which counts among its members the Governor of Illinois and Barack Obama’s former Commerce Secretary, has funded far-left activist groups like the Climate Justice Alliance (who branded President Joe Biden “Genocide Joe”), a group that promoted anti-Israel demonstrations, and, of course, the Tides Foundation.
According to Fox News, other beneficiaries of the Pritzkers’ largesse include vulnerable Pennsylvania Democrats like Reps. Susan Wild, Chris Deluzio, and Matt Cartwright.