U.S. Funding Sources for American/Canadian Antisemitic Hatefests

"We therefore seek documents and information from your organization [National Students for Justice in Palestine -- National SJP] to facilitate oversight into how pro-Hamas propaganda and illegal encampments are being funded."

"[NSJP, a subsidiary of American Muslims for Palestine in turn has] substantial ties to Hamas via its financial sponsor, Americans for Justice in Palestine Educational Foundation, Inc."

Kentucky Rep. James Comer, chairman, committee on oversight and accountability

"The trail of donations shows a series of blurred lines when it comes to liberal causes and Democratic politics."

"And a small group of wealthy heavyweights are often playing an outsize role funding many of them."

Shia Kapos, Politico

"This is not just spontaneous student unrest. It is co-ordinated and funded by a powerful network of anti-Israel advocates."

"No organization may retain its tax exemption if it backs protests at which members are urged to commit acts of civil disobedience."                                                       Senator Josh Hawley, U.S. Senate

People gather to protest the banning of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace at Columbia University on November 20, 2023, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images via AFP)

The funding streams supporting the hateful, disruptive, destabilizing rallies and protests across Canada have a link to the United States. These were the 'spontaneous' rallies that took place immediately news came out of the Middle East that Gaza-based Hamas terrorists had invaded Israel's southern border with Gaza, along with Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in a concerted, deadly assault of thousands of their members converging on Israeli kibbutzim and other farming towns in a long-planned action to savagely assault Israeli citizens; unprepared men, women and children. Leaving in their wake on October 7, 1,200 dead and kidnapping another 250.

The protests aiming their slander at Israel claiming it was planning a Palestinian genocide, pre-dated the Israel Defense Forces' post October 7 retaliatory invasion of Gaza, under the pretense of outrage over Israeli aggression against Gaza's civilian population among whose dense urban centres Hamas terrorists have long installed their rocket launchers, where schools and mosques and hospitals were built over elaborate tunnels housing weapons and sheltering terrorists and their command centres. An American Congressional committee was struck to investigate the funding source for the 'protests' and the 'student' encampments at U.S. universities.

A week ago the committee called on a prominent backer of those anti-Israel encampments both in the United States and Canada, for details on its funding sources amidst a validation of links to the terrorism endemic to the Palestinian Territories. A three-page letter from the committee to the National Students for Justice in Palestine known to have affiliates in Canada including Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights representing a central group with the illegal Palestine Solidarity Encampment at McGill University sought details of their income source.

 

In Canada, the McGill chapter of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights had organized a blockade at the Montreal Holocaust Museum and arranged targeted shutdowns of McGill's Bronfman Building, named for Samuel Bronfman, a Jewish philanthropist, in recognition of his endowments to the university. SPHR has been denounced by McGill administration for its "threatening" tactics; an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was hung last week, and masked groups of protesters appeared at the homes of school administrators.

 

"Two hundred Palestine solidarity organizations on college campuses across occupied Turtle Island (U.S and Canada)", triumphed the National JSP on its website in an open brag of entitlement in the general atmosphere of untouchability where no government agencies, intelligence or policing services have been seen to react against public displays of blatant antisemitism, threats, intimidation, trespassing, criminal slander and blockage of private and public thoroughfares. 

Congressman Comer relied on investigative data for Hamas ties from a 75-page report by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy, a think tank located in New York. The comprehensive profile targeting NSJP revealed that the group's origins dated to 2001 at the University of California, Berkeley. Since then, over 250 North American affiliates arose as purveyors of slogans such as "Israeli apartheid", and chants to "globalize the Intifada". The report spoke of the scattered nature of NSJP's structure, enabling them "to operate chapters spreading radical ideology in U.S. universities from behind a facade of grassroots campus activism".

 

An investigation by Politico reached the conclusion that many of the same donors supporting the Democratic Party funded the U.S. Anti-Israel movement, including organizations with ties to David Rockefeller Jr, Nick Pritzker and George Soros. San Francisco-based "social justice" non profit the Tides Foundation was found by the analysis to have given its support to Jewish Voices for Peace and IfNotNow, among others known for their perennial organization of anti-Israel rallies and blockades.

The U.S. Justice Department had been petitioned by Senator Josh Hawley to probe the "illegal dark money" known to fuel anti-Israel encampments on college campuses. In Canada, the Palestinian Youth Movement, operating through funding by the Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation based in New York state, organized initial waves of celebratory rallies in Canada orchestrated immediately after the October 7 attacks. As it happens, WESPAC is a major fiscal sponsor of NJSP.

NYU students participate in a anti-Israeli protest led by the ‘Students for Justice in Palestine’ at Washington Square Park, New York City, October 25, 2023. (Ed Jones/AFP)