Billionaire financier George Soros and his left-wing affiliates are funding many of the anti-Israel protests on student campuses across the United States. According to a report from The New York Post, protests at Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, Ohio State, and Emory, among others, were organized by the Soros-backed Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
As Valuetainment previously reported, anti-Israel protests kicked off at Columbia University last week and spread to colleges throughout the country, leading to clashes with police at college campuses in Ohio, Texas, Michigan, Minnesota, California, and more. Over the weekend, students took down the American flag and raised the flag of the Palestinian territories over Harvard yard.
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SJP is the child organization of WESPAC Foundation, a left-of-center incubator funded by Soros’ Open Society Institute, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and Tides Foundation, three of the largest and most powerful left-wing institutions in the United States.
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Other campus protests are being organized by “fellows” of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR). In exchange for spending eight hours a week learning from “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations,” USCPR awards is campus fellows with up to $3,660 to carry out activism on their campuses. Their activism has its motto, to “rise up, to revolution.” USCPR has received $300,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations since 2017 and $355,000 from Rockefeller Brothers Fund since 2019.
USCPR fellows include Nidaa Lafi, former president of the University of Texas Students for Justice in Palestine; Craig Birckhead-Mortonm who was arrested on Monday and charged with first-degree trespassing when SJP’s Yale branch, Yalies4Palestine, occupied the university’s Beinecke Plaza; and Malak Afaneh, co-president of the Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine, who has been speaking to crowds ad nauseum this week and even interrupted a dinner at the dean’s house, and then accused his wife of assault when she was asked to leave.
In addition to SJP, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Within Our Lifetime were involved in setting up encampments at Columbia, and all three received money from Soros groups. JVP also received funds from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Shane Devine is a writer covering politics and business for VT and a regular guest on The Unusual Suspects. Follow Shane’s work here.
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