It should be clear to anyone who has observed the various pro-Hamas protests on college campuses across the country that these events were not impromptu. There are too many signs that these things were planned (at least in the tiny term): fields full of identical tents and hundreds of neatly pre-printed signs. This is not something that happened overnight.
On Tuesday, two Republicans in Congress called on the Treasury Department to hand over related documents Groups that may be funding these protests.
Reps. James Comer (R., Ky.) and Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.) — chairmen of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and the House Education and Workforce Committee, respectively — called on the Treasury Department to immediately turn over “Suspicious” activity reports ” related to a number of campus groups and nonprofits that provide resources to anti-Israel campus agitators. Financial institutions file these reports with the federal government when they identify cases of potential money laundering or support for terrorism. The reports could provide evidence that several of the organizations behind the anti-Israel protest movement are engaging in prohibited financial activities.
The groups named in the query represent a who’s who of far-left voices opposing Israel:
The groups mentioned include Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Jewish Voice for Peace, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Tides Foundation, Open Society Foundations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Adalah Justice Project and Samidoun. All of these groups have been identified as either financiers or supporters of the nationwide protest movement, in which students set up anti-Israel camps on college campuses. SJP and AMP in particular have proven to be such Top organizers these anti-Israel protests and are sued from Israeli terror victims who claim the groups served “as collaborators and propagandists of Hamas.”
Among the most generous donors to these pro-Hamas protests are those supported by George Soros US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) and the Rockefeller Brothers-backed group Defense for Children International-Palestine.
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Representatives Comer and Foxx intend to employ the outcome of this investigation to draft legislation that would require greater scrutiny of foreign funding of campus groups and activities, although it is hard to see how such a law could prevent these strongly ideological groups from doing so to fund protests; Much of the external support the recent protests have received appears to be logistical, as evidenced by the strangely identical tents and signs mentioned above. Such legislation would only drive this support into even more underground channels.
Representative Comer, said in a statement:
“Several left-wing organizations are reportedly at the forefront of funding and promoting these hateful and unlawful camps,” he said. “As part of a Housewide effort to address this issue, the House Oversight and Education and Workforce Committees are committed to following the money trail – something our committees are very good at.”
It is unclear how legislation would affect the government sponsors of these campus riots, such as Qatar, which not only spent $6 billion on it Funding American universities but in direct lobbying with US politicians.
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