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NEW DELHI: Hungarian-American business magnate George Soros since 2016 has funded more than $15 million to pro-Palestinian groups which organised protests in support of Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel at New York’s Bryant Park, reported the New York Post.
According to The Post Open Society Foundations records shows “Soros’ grant-making network gave $13.7 million of the money through Tides Center, a deep-pocketed lefty advocacy group that sponsors several nonprofits who’ve justified Hamas’ bloody attacks”.
The advocacy group has claimed that Palestinians were the real “victims” in the hands of the Jewish state.
One of the beneficiaries of Tides Centre includes the Illinois-based Adalah Justice Project, which posted a photo on Instagram on the day Hamas attacked Israel’s southern territory.
“Israeli colonizers believed they could indefinitely trap two million people in an open-air prison… no cage goes unchallenged,” the post reportedly read.
Palestinian advocacy group members occupied California Representative Ro Khanna’s office on October 20 to demand he sign a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Adalah’s members also co-sponsored a rally that same day in Bryant Park where hostile demonstrators spewed antisemitic chants and waved a sign that read “I DO NOT CONDEMN HAMAS,” according to the New York Post.
According to the report, Open Society Foundations, founded by Soros, also gave $30,000 in 2020 to Desis Rising Up and Moving, “another co-sponsor of the Bryant Park protest where 139 people were arrested, financial records show”.
Soros’ Foundations “gave $60,000 in 2018 to the Arab American Association of New York, a group co-founded by politically connected activist Linda Sarsour that helped plan a hate-filled “Flood Brooklyn for Palestine” protest in Bay Ridge on October 21”, according to The Post.
In the agitation protestors reportedly called for the “eradication of Israel and held a sign of the Israeli flag in a bin that read “Please keep the world clean!”
Other Soros-backed, Palestinian advocacy groups whose members have been organising rallies since the massacre carried out by Hamas include “Jewish Voice for Peace and If Not Now, which received $650,000 and $400,000, respectively”.
Both, according to the New York Post, “co-sponsored the Bryant Park rally, and its members were among the protestors who converged on the US Capitol complex October 18.”
Jewish Voice for Peace was also involved in occupying Khanna’s office and blamed Israel for the Hamas attacks by writing on its website: “Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression — are the source of all this violence.”
The Open Society Foundations also granted $1.5 million to Adalah's parent organization, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, with only $800,000 of the grant being disbursed before the legal centre severed its relationship with the American organization in 2018. The legal centre is dedicated to advancing human rights in Israel as its primary mission.
Dan Schneider, vice president of the conservative watchdog group Media Research Center, told the New York Post that Soros - a Holocaust survivor whose loyal lieutenants have scored unmatched access to President Biden’s White House — has a long history of standing against Israel and backing groups who champion terrorists.
“George Soros and his son Alex have a long history of supporting the most radical organizations across the planet, and that includes pro-Hamas organizations that support the most heinous kind of behaviour,” said Schneider, who recently co-authored a letter with MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell demanding Soros cease funding to pro-Hamas groups told New York Post.
“We’ve called on George Soros to withdraw this funding, but he seems very determined to continue supporting antisemitic organisations that want to upend western civilization,” he added.
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