New York — The New York Post has reported that Hungarian-Jewish billionaire George Soros has allegedly funneled over $15 million since 2016 to groups associated with pro-Hamas protests in the United States.
The funding was reportedly channeled through the Soros-founded Open Society Foundations, with a significant portion of the money, around $13.7 million, being provided through the left-wing advocacy group Tides Center.
Among the recipients of funding, the Adalah Justice Project in Illinois stands out. Tides Center donated to this group which, on the day of the reported massacre, shared a picture on social media depicting a bulldozer tearing through Israel’s Gaza security fence.
The caption accompanying the image read, “Israeli colonizers believed they could indefinitely trap two million people in an open-air prison… no cage goes unchallenged.” Additionally, members of the Adalah Justice Project occupied the office of California Representative Ro Khanna on October 20, demanding that he support a resolution calling for a ceasefire.
During an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan explained the rationale behind the calls for a ceasefire, stating, “What a lot of people are calling for is just a stop to Israeli military action against terrorists, period. Just stop, no more, Israel cannot go after terrorists who conducted this largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. We have taken the position that Israel has a right to defend itself against terrorist attacks.”
The Arab American Association of New York, co-founded by Linda Sarsour, a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and an individual widely accused of antisemitism, reportedly received $60,000 in 2018 from the Open Society Foundations.
This group organized a protest titled “Flood Brooklyn for Palestine” in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on October 21. The New York Post reported that during the protest, participants called for the eradication of Israel and displayed an Israeli flag placed in a trash basket with the words, “Please keep the world clean!”
Other groups allegedly receiving funding include fringe anti-Israel Jewish organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), which reportedly received $650,000, and If Not Now, which purportedly received $400,000.
JVP organized a sit-in at Grand Central Station in Manhattan on Friday during rush hour, resulting in the arrest of two hundred people. Both JVP and If Not Now were said to have co-sponsored the Bryant Park rally and participated in a protest at the U.S. Capitol on October 18.
JVP released a statement on its website blaming Israel for the Hamas attack, asserting, “Israeli apartheid and occupation—and United States complicity in that oppression—are the source of all this violence.”
Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of “The Soros Agenda,” claimed in an interview with Jewish News Syndicate in August that former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman once stated that nobody has done more damage to Israel than Soros. Ehrenfeld pointed out Soros’s funding of the New Israel Fund, Palestinians, Birzeit University, and various anti-Israel organizations in Israel.
According to the New York Post, Dan Schneider, vice president of the conservative watchdog group Media Research Center, co-signed a letter with MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell, urging Soros to halt his funding of groups promoting pro-Hamas rhetoric.
Schneider expressed his concerns to the Post, stating, “We’ve called on George Soros to withdraw this funding, but he seems very determined to continue supporting antisemitic organizations that want to upend western civilization.”
The New York Post reported that attempts to reach out to the Soros family, Open Society Foundations, Tides, the Adalah Justice Project, and other pro-Palestinian groups for comment were unsuccessful.
