Funding Hate

For John, BLUF:  George Soros doesn't seem to like 'the West" which made him a rich man.  How weird.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Guess Who Funded the Pro-Palestinian ‘Insurrectionists’ on Capitol Hill

From PJ Media, by Reporter Matt Margolis, 25 October 2023, 11:42 AM.

Here is the lede plus four:

Last week a group of pro-Palestinian protestors stormed the Cannon House Office Building and staged a protest inside the Rotunda.  Protests are not allowed in congressional buildings, so they had no right to be there.  Roughly 300 of these protesters were arrested for illegally demonstrating, and a few more were charged with assaulting police officers.

The protest, which promptly met the qualifications of an insurrection (according to Democrats), was organized by the supposed “Jewish” organizations Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and IfNotNow.  How Jewish are these groups in reality?  I dare say very little.

IfNotNow claims to be an organization of Jews but doesn’t appear to have any good relations with longstanding Jewish advocacy groups.  Similarly, JVP is likely no more Jewish than Joe Biden.  JVP doesn’t even claim to be an organization exclusively for Jewish anti-Zionists but merely “an organization that is inspired by Jewish values and traditions to work towards peace and justice.”

How did such fringe groups acquire the resources to stage a massive protest at the Capitol? Just follow the money, which leads us to George Soros.

“Through Soros’s philanthropic work, JVP was awarded several grants totaling $650,000 that bankrolled its ‘human rights’ campaign and ‘social welfare activities’ in the Middle East, according to a grant database maintained by the Soros-funded Open Society Foundations, the central hub of the financier’s anti-capitalist, redistributionist network,” writes Mia Cathell over at our sister site Townhall.  “The Soros-branded Open Society Policy Center Inc. — once the second-largest spender on federal lobbying after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — donated $150,000 and $200,000 in 2021 and 2019, respectively, to the Jewish Voice for Peace Action Incorporated, JVP’s tax-exempt 501(c)(3).  And, in 2017, Soros’s primary grant-giving vehicle, the Foundation to Promote Open Society, gifted JVP $300,000.”

I am shocked, shocked, to find the finger prints of Mr George Soros on this.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff