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Some Anti-Israel Protesters Are Paid-Rockefeller and Soros grants are subsidizing those who disrupt college campuses
Wall St Journal ^ | April 24, 2024 | Ira Stoll

Posted on 04/25/2024 7:42:53 AM PDT by SJackson

Since at least the Vietnam War, exasperated observers of student protests have rolled their eyes and thought: Get a job. In some cases today, activism is a job. Two of America’s largest philanthropic foundations are behind a group that has paid some of the anti-Israel activists for the kind of antics disrupting campuses across the country.

Consider Malak Afaneh, a law student at the University of California, Berkeley, and Craig Birckhead-Morton, a senior at Yale. Ms. Afaneh went viral this month for disrupting a dinner at Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s home. This week the Yale Daily News reported that Mr. Birckhead-Morton had been arrested for trespassing—and then re-emerged to address an anti-Israel crowd blocking an intersection in New Haven.

Ms. Afaneh and Mr. Birckhead-Morton have both been “youth fellows” of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, whose website identifies them by their first names. As of April 4, the campaign was soliciting applications for a new cohort, whose “campus-based fellows” would receive stipends of $2,880 to $3,360 for three-month terms of roughly eight hours of work a week. That “work” could include aiding campaigns that “demand federal or state politicians cut US military, financial, or diplomatic ties with Israel.”

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While some policymakers have wondered whether activists receive money from overseas, it turns out that there’s a clear paper trail of funding at home. That ought to have policy implications. In considering whether to discipline students for rule violations, university administrators might more harshly punish activism done, at least in part, for pay.

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Meantime, Congress and the Internal Revenue Service might want to examine whether the grants fit the charitable purposes defined in the tax code.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: domesticenemies; education

1 posted on 04/25/2024 7:42:53 AM PDT by SJackson
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He Refused To Leave Columbia When He Was Suspended. Two Weeks Later, He's Still There—And Leading the Protests Roiling Campus.

2 posted on 04/25/2024 7:43:38 AM PDT by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
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I bet you all thought financing terrorist activities and committing terrorist activities for compensation was a Major Felony???


3 posted on 04/25/2024 7:49:05 AM PDT by eyeamok
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This could be a conspiracy to foment an insurrection.

After November there needs to be a full investigation.

No one should be sent to prison; unless they broke a law or violated one of the rules in the two million page Federal Register.


4 posted on 04/25/2024 7:49:26 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: SJackson

As of April 4, the campaign was soliciting applications for a new cohort, whose “campus-based fellows” would receive stipends of $2,880 to $3,360 for three-month terms of roughly eight hours of work a week. That “work” could include aiding campaigns that “demand federal or state politicians cut US military, financial, or diplomatic ties with Israel.”

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While some policymakers have wondered whether activists receive money from overseas, it turns out that there’s a clear paper trail of funding at home.


clear paper trail, but no eyes to see


5 posted on 04/25/2024 7:51:30 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: SJackson

Of course.
Soroznaxi is probably the most dangerous individual in USA Today.


6 posted on 04/25/2024 7:56:37 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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While some have wondered whether anti-Israel activists receive money from overseas;
it turns out that there’s a clear paper trail of radicals funding protests right here in the US.
<><>As of April 4, applicants could get $2,880-3,360 for 3-months work, of 8 hours a week.
<><>to demand fed or state pols cut US military, financial, or diplomatic ties with Israel.


7 posted on 04/25/2024 8:05:41 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: SJackson
I mentioned this, the other day.

Many of these "Kill the Joos!" "protestors" are the same that participated as blm / antifa in the "Summer of Love" "fiery, but mostly peaceful racial justice" riots.

These are the foot soldiers of the international communist revolution, working on the "color revolution", here.

The Globalists; UN, CCP, WEF, IMF and all assorted NGOs and foundations.

Aided and abetted by the feral...err...I mean "federal" gov't, under Pedo Joe.

8 posted on 04/25/2024 8:15:09 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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Soros is re-living his youth...the glory days of the Nazis.


9 posted on 04/25/2024 8:19:09 AM PDT by ryderann
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bttt


10 posted on 04/25/2024 8:20:29 AM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be a slave in a new Socialist America..)
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To: jeffersondem
This could be a conspiracy to foment an insurrection.

Yes, but in my non legal opinion, I've no training for that, common sense tells me they are providing material support to a designated terrorist organization. Courts have usuallly interpreted material support as financial, send money to Hamas and go to jail, or training or logistical support. My guess a prosecutor could make the case that organizing support constitutes material support, and parts of this are clearly financial. Of course it's a federal law, so would take a federal prosecutor. Though like President Trump's current trial, a state prosecutor could clearly try to charge what are federal crimes. I don't like that concept. However any state could essentially pass a law copying the federal statute, and prosecute that.

From 18 USC 2339B: Providing material support or resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations

(a) Prohibited Activities.- (1) Unlawful conduct.-Whoever knowingly provides material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both, and, if the death of any person results, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life. To violate this paragraph, a person must have knowledge that the organization is a designated terrorist organization (as defined in subsection (g)(6)), that the organization has engaged or engages in terrorist activity (as defined in section 212(a)(3)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act), or that the organization has engaged or engages in terrorism (as defined in section 140(d)(2) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989).

11 posted on 04/25/2024 8:35:31 AM PDT by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
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To: Eagles6
Many of these "Kill the Joos!" "protestors" are the same that participated as blm / antifa in the "Summer of Love" "fiery, but mostly peaceful racial justice" riots.

Yes.

12 posted on 04/25/2024 8:36:03 AM PDT by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
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To: ryderann
Soros is re-living his youth...the glory days of the Nazis.

In his own words, the best years of his life.

13 posted on 04/25/2024 8:37:21 AM PDT by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
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All these stories mentioning Soros are anti semitic and will not be tolerated! (Sarcasm)


14 posted on 04/25/2024 8:56:28 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: SJackson

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15 posted on 04/25/2024 9:13:22 AM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam)
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Antifa and the nazis walking lock step together against Israel. Never thought I would see the day!


16 posted on 04/25/2024 10:54:13 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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The swastika is going to be the new progressive chic.


17 posted on 04/25/2024 6:30:30 PM PDT by Spok
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