Posted on 01/10/2024 2:47:53 PM PST by Todd_Gray
They’re being paid to protest.
What many have suspected has now been confirmed by this newspaper and a few courageous Canadians: pro-Palestine — and, increasingly, pro-Hamas — protestors are being paid to protest. To block highways and roads. To intimidate and threaten Jews and non-Jews. To cause chaos.
They’re being paid.
In years past, anti-Israel protests were typically small, disorganized and ineffective. Not many people came out. Since Oct. 7, when 1,200 Israeli men, women, children and babies were slaughtered, and hundreds taken hostage, the protests have been dramatically different.
Hundreds, sometimes thousands, participate. They’ve got professionally-rendered signs and banners. They’ve got transportation, and food and drink. And they’ve got organizers who wear uniforms and control the crowds.
And who distribute the cash.
This week, this newspaper was alerted to the fact that a Victoria, B.C., organization was distributing thousands of dollars to anti-Israel protestors. The Plenty Collective, as it calls itself, created what it called a “Solidarity Fund” for Victoria-area “folks or groups” to pay for “costs related to supporting or organizing actions in solidarity with Palestine and Palestinian people.”
Said the Plenty Collective: “This fund is to help cover costs incurred when organizing or participating in local actions. This can include, but is not limited to, the costs of lost wages, supplies, items for fundraising, paying speakers, etc.”
Priority was given to Palestinian, Black or Indigenous people. And thousands have been paid out for weeks now — typically close to $20,000 every month. The Plenty Collective did not respond to multiple attempts to seek comment.
Ian Ward, a municipal councillor for Colwood on Vancouver Island — along with local activist Charles Bodi — discovered the pay-a-protestor payment scheme. And he’s seen the effectiveness of the paid-protests up close. Says he: “They are highly organized. I’ve watched them. A van pulls up, and they’ve got flags, signs, and they’ve got organizers from the Plenty Collective wearing orange vests controlling the crowds.”
“And they have control because they are holding the cash for the protestors.”
Much of the money is being generated locally, says Ward, who was the first to break the news that Victoria City Councillor Susan Kim — along with Ontario MPP Sarah Jama — had signed on to a pro-Hamas letter that denied Israeli women and girls were sexually assaulted on Oct. 7. But some of the money, he says, seems to be coming from elsewhere: “We don’t see them being this organized, and this well-funded, without offshore money.”
It’s not just happening in Victoria, B.C. In the U.S., there is now confirmation that anti-Israel — and often anti-Semitic and violent — protestors are getting paid to protest.
A multi-millionaire tech mogul, Neville Roy Singham, has — along with his wife Jodie Evans — been bankrolling pro-Palestinian protests since last year. Their “People’s Forum” has organized multiple anti-Israel protests since Oct. 7 — including a number of efforts designed to “shut down” public and private sector offices. On Nov. 24, they posted on X: “Are you ready to disrupt business as usual? No celebrating in peace while genocide takes place!”
What a SURPRISE!
Virtually every Leftist ‘protest’ is well-oiled by money, but don’t be fooled, most of the anti-Israel protesters simply want another Holocaust.
Ya think!!!!????
And suspiciously they all were well versed on their protest chants especially that stupid "river to the sea" one.
Plenty Collective = BAD COLLECTIVE
Can you take the money and not show up? I might be up for that gig.
FBI has no idea who is paying them...
Protesters paid to take part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations
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Of course all these large demonstrations have a significant portion of participants that are paid - something that has been going on since the mid-70s. Back in the day they used to advertise in the local papers - so much an hour, plus legal fees etc.
It’s the game, and the right is too righteous to play it. Even when people do take it upon themselves to go out and protest for our causes on their own accord, at their own expense, we’ll let them rot in jail for years if the protest gets out of hand and the police arrest them.
Meanwhile the hard left has legal aides with bail money funds at every protest and shows up in force at the hearings to intimidate judges so most of the time charges get dismissed.
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