Jewish billionaire George Soros’ foundation linked to pro-Palestine protests on US campuses

Jewish left-wing philanthropist George Soros and the organizations he funds are reportedly promoting it Nationwide pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses.

protests, which Started last week at Columbia University, Has spread to universities and colleges in more than eight states.

Camp sites, called ‘Liberated Zones’, popped up on one campus after another, including Columbia in California, Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, Ohio State University and Emory in Georgia – all entities funded by George Soros. , were organized by the students’ branches. For Justice in Palestine (SJP), The New York Post reports.

SJP is funded by a network of non-profit organizations, which in turn was funded by Soros, a billionaire known for his wealth. “The man who destabilized the Bank of England”.

At three universities, the demonstrations are being promoted by paid activists who are “affiliates” of the George Soros-funded organization known as the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), the New York Post reports. goes.

However, an analysis in The Washington Times tried to argue otherwise. The article titled ‘The dishonest – and ironic – attempt to blame campus protests on George Soros’ states, “The connection between the protests and funding from Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) is so tenuous that It can clearly be fabricated.”

“This is just cliché rhetoric and a vague indication of a pre-existing visceral reaction to the Jewish billionaire,” the analysis said.

At the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University, protesting students are using tents purchased from Amazon and delivering pizza, drinking coffee from Dunkin’, $12.50 complimentary sandwiches from Pret A Manger, organic tortilla chips and a $10 rotisserie. Was seen taking chicken. New York Post.

The report also mentions three associates who are leading protests on US campuses.

Nida Lafee, former president of the University of Texas Students for Justice in Palestine, led protesters at UT Dallas, where she demanded an end to the war in Gaza.

Lafey, who was previously detained for blocking President Biden’s motorcade, was also mentioned in the report.

Craig Birkhead-Morton, Yale’s USCPR fellow, was captured by police and charged with first-degree trespassing after his group, Yalice4Palestine, took over the campus lawn, according to the Yale Daily News.

The report said USCPR pays its community-based fellows approximately $7,800 and its campus-based fellows $2,880 and $3,660 in exchange for eight hours a week conducting “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.”

“They are trained to rise up, to revolutionize,” the NYP reports.

SJP has received at least $300,000 from Soros’s Open Society Foundation since 2017, the DailyMail reports, and also $355,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund since 2019, according to the NYP.

Berkeley’s Malak Afaneh, co-chair of Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine, addressed several anti-Israel protests on campus this week.

The New York Post said all three were paid by Soros-linked groups.

The SJP had described Hamas’ attack on Israel on 7 October as “a historic victory”.

Students for Justice in Palestine told The Washington Post, “We refuse to engage in unfounded claims regarding our funding in the midst of a genocide funded, militarily supported, and politically supported by the United States. “