by Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project:
(The Rundown Live) In recent days mass protests have begun to sweep across University campuses of the United States with students rising up in mass opposition to Israel’s ongoing genocidal onslaught in Gaza. Particularly targeting the policies of the Biden administration support for the genocide, as well as the schools themselves for their financial ties to corporations such as weapons manufacturers and other groups also playing a role in facilitating the massacre.
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Galvanized by initial protests at Columbia University, the viral nature of the protests and copycat demonstrations have quickly begun to spread internationally, as it has lit a fire of anti imperial resistance in the hearts of the youth.
Or has it? Almost immediately Western corporate media reports, particularly from The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post and later parroted by similar outlets such as Fox News and others, began circulating the notion that the mass protests sweeping across college campuses in opposition to the genocide is in fact an activist campaign funded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros and his Open Society Foundation.
On the surface these claims certainly seem plausible given Soros’ known history as a deep state financier and funder of political agitation. Still, as critical thinkers evidence has to take precedent over speculation. So what is the evidence?
The basis for the allegation asserts that three specific individuals; Nidaa Lafi, Craig Birckhead-Morton, and Malak Afaneh, and three organizations which they are all closely associated with: Education for Just Peace in the Middle East (which operates publicly under the name U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, or USPCR), Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).
The article then goes on to draw attention to the fact that these individuals have been involved with the protests, and the organizations with which they’ve been associated has received funding from nonprofits which received funding from Soros’s Open Society Foundation. Connecting a line of dots to assert that Soros is funding the protests.
Although, it is interesting to note that when reading NYP’s supposed exposé that the article in question doesn’t actually provide any sort of financial documents or other records to substantiate their claims. However, at the time of this writing we were able to locate publicly available financial records concerning the grants from the Open Society Foundation to the three organizations in question.
The records indicate three donations to Education for Just Peace in the Middle East, totaling $700,000 between 2018 and 2022. Four donations to Jewish Voice for Peace totaling $875,000 between the years of 2017 to 2022, and as for Students for Justice in Palestine the supposed money trail is particularly convoluted. With donations allegedly going from the Open Society Foundation, to the Tides Foundation, then to the Westchester People’s Action Coalition Foundation (WESPAC), and finally to the SJP.
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