Some of the most visible left-wing fundraising organizations in America have been funding pro-Hamas groups and "sponsoring" others as millions of dollars flow into the coffers of antisemitic organizations.
Organizations connected to George Soros's foundations, as well as the group ActBlue, which is the major fundraising arm of the Democratic Party are among the primary donors to and sponsors of antisemitic organizations like the Adalah Justice Project, Palestine Legal, The Arab Resource and Organizing Center, and The Catalyst Project.
“The disturbing reality is that Hamas’s allies in the U.S. have a significant foothold in the non-profit sector,” Ryan Mauro, a national security analyst at the Capital Research Center, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Major left-wing organizations are funding Hamas’s sympathizers and those who indirectly help Hamas by waging a political war against Israel.”
The Tides Center, a network of dozens of liberal nonprofits, "sponsors" many of the pro-Hamas groups. According to the American Bar Association, fiscally sponsoring a group allows an "established non-profit like Tides Center to process tax-deductible donations for allied groups without those groups themselves needing to register with the IRS."
How convenient, yes? Groups supporting terrorists don't have to pay any taxes on funds raised or identify any donors who support terrorism. Nice racket the terrorists have gotten for themselves with the help of radical left fundraisers.
The Tides Foundation, the Tides Center’s sister organization, gave millions to liberal groups like the Black Lives Matter Foundation, the National Network of Abortion Funds, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, the Southern Poverty Law Center and various chapters of Planned Parenthood in 2021, according to tax forms.
The Tides Foundation also poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into funding organizations that accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing or genocide.
The Tides Center, meanwhile, fiscally sponsors an array of organizations that push for things like expanded access to abortion, racial equity in grant-making organizations and the Biden administration’s climate agenda.
Arabella Advisors is a consulting firm that manages left-wing non-profit groups. It also directly funds non-profit groups across the United States. Arabella says it has not funded any groups that are involved in supporting Hamas or the Palestinians in the current conflict with Israel and the claims that it does "are as false as they are reprehensible.”
But it doesn't know where most of this cash is going and probably has plausible deniability about any projects it is aware of.
The Sixteen Thirty Fund, a fund managed by Arabella, gave $62,000 to the IfNotNow Movement, a group that has organized pro-Palestinian demonstrations across the country. The group has accused Israel of genocide and occupied the offices of senators demanding that they support a ceasefire.
The Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which shared a template instructing people how to criticize their employers for releasing statements in support of Israel, received $40,000 from the New Venture Fund, which is part of Arabella’s network of nonprofits.
“One of the effects of this left-wing support is that it mainstreams Hamas and its propaganda,” Mauro told the DCNF. “A recent poll showed that the younger generation is more favorable to Hamas than to Israel. That’s a frightening statistic that means we should expect antisemitism and pro-terrorist sentiment to increase as the next generation takes the reins,” he continued.
Finally, the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundation gave $13.7 million to anti-Israel organizations through the Tides Center, which sponsors several of the organizations, according to the New York Post.
It's very difficult to track Soros's money because it often goes through at least one other non-profit before ending up in the coffers of its intended beneficiary. But washing the donations through "sponsored" non-profits further hides the donations.
ActBlue processed $3.5 billion in donations for Democratic candidates and many left-of-center nonprofits. They have millions of online donors whose cash also goes not only to fund mainstream Democratic candidates but to Palestinian causes as well.
ActBlue processes the donations of the US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN). On Oct. 7, the day Hamas began its invasion of Israel and ultimately killed over 1,400 civilians, USPCN released a statement characterizing the terrorist attacks as “self-defense operations” that were a “legitimate response to unending violence from Israel’s extreme right-wing, racist, white supremacist, zionist [sic] government.
Mauro has it right. This is nothing less than "mainstreaming" Hamas and Palestinian terrorism. Perhaps some Congressional hearings would enlighten some Americans who might not like the idea that their dollars are going to fund terrorist sympathizers.
