[ May 18, 2024 ]
The donors include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Gates, Soros, Rockefeller and Pritzker, according to a POLITICO analysis.
Pro-Palestianian protesters are backed by a surprising source: Biden’s biggest donors
Some of the most outspoken groups against Biden and Israel get funding from foundations attached to some of the biggest names in Democratic circles.
By Shia Kapos, Politico, May 5, 2024;
Story continues below advertisementPresident Joe Biden has been dogged for months by pro-Palestinian protesters calling him “Genocide Joe” — but some of the groups behind the demonstrations receive financial backing from philanthropists pushing hard for his reelection.
The donors include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Gates, Soros, Rockefeller and Pritzker, according to a POLITICO analysis.
Two of the main organizers behind protests at Columbia University and on other campuses are Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. Both are supported by the Tides Foundation, which is seeded by Democratic megadonor George Soros as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and it in turn supports numerous small nonprofits that work for social change. (Gates did not return a request for comment, and Soros declined to comment.)
Another notable Democratic donor whose philanthropy has helped fund the protest movement is David Rockefeller Jr., who sits on the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In 2022, the fund gave $300,000 to the Tides Foundation; according to nonprofit tax forms, Tides has given nearly $500,000 over the past five years to Jewish Voice for Peace, which explicitly describes itself as anti-Zionist.
Several other groups involved in pro-Palestinian protests are backed by a foundation funded by Susan and Nick Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt Hotel empire — and supporters of Biden and numerous Democratic campaigns, including $6,600 to the Biden Victory Fund a few months ago and more than $300,000 during the 2020 campaign.
The trail of donations shows a series of blurred lines when it comes to liberal causes and Democratic politics. Often those missions are aligned, but they also sometimes have different and — particularly when it comes to Gaza — conflicting agendas and tactics. And a small group of wealthy heavyweights are often playing an outsize role funding many of them.
But as protester tactics have grown more intense, like taking over university buildings and shouting antisemitic remarks, the groups behind them are now attracting criticism from prominent donors on the left.
“Why [is the Rockefeller Fund] giving significant grants to Jewish Voice for Peace, [which] blamed the horrific Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and the United States rather than Hamas?” said Elisha Wiesel, a Democratic donor who chairs the Elie Wiesel Foundation, an organization that supports anti-genocide work.
Jewish Voice for Peace, which did not return a request for comment, has been a leader in disruptive protests against Biden, including shouting “genocide supporter” at his glitzy fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York in March. It protests on campuses across the country, and its statement immediately following the Oct. 7 attacks said that “the source of all this violence” was “Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression.”
The Truth Must be Told
Your contribution supports independent journalism
Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more.
Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible.
Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too.
Please contribute here.
or
Make a monthly commitment to support The Geller Report – choose the option that suits you best.
Quick note: We cannot do this without your support. Fact. Our work is made possible by you and only you. We receive no grants, government handouts, or major funding.Tech giants are shutting us down. You know this. Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Adsense, Pinterest permanently banned us. Facebook, Google search et al have shadow-banned, suspended and deleted us from your news feeds. They are disappearing us. But we are here.
Subscribe to Geller Report newsletter here— it’s free and it’s essential NOW when informed decision making and opinion is essential to America's survival. Share our posts on your social channels and with your email contacts. Fight the great fight.
Follow Pamela Geller on Gettr. I am there. click here.
Follow Pamela Geller on Trump's social media platform, Truth Social. It's open and free.
Remember, YOU make the work possible. If you can, please contribute to Geller Report.
Join The Conversation. Leave a Comment.
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spammy or unhelpful, click the - symbol under the comment to let us know. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.
If you would like to join the conversation, but don't have an account, you can sign up for one right here.
If you are having problems leaving a comment, it's likely because you are using an ad blocker, something that break ads, of course, but also breaks the comments section of our site. If you are using an ad blocker, and would like to share your thoughts, please disable your ad blocker. We look forward to seeing your comments below.
Subscribe
16 Comments
13 days ago
Totally sick and full of corruption! On this eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, we are hearing of threats to withhold ammunition from Israel from the Biden administration.
The threats should be to Hamas, Iran and is proxies, to China and Qatar who host Hamas. This is how we treat an ally?
Every criticism of Israel about Rafah emboldens Hamas to refuse the release of hostages and accept the temporary ceasefire. It also emboldens the riots against Israel in the US and across the world.
It creates the same conditions for a repeat Hamas Holocaust into Israel and new incursions into Gaza. We are promoting the opposite of “Never Again” for both Israelis and Palestinians.
13 days ago
Reply to
Cynthia
Biden- Obama gang is promoting the opposite of ” Never Again ” for USA.
D
12 days ago
Reply to
Cynthia
I thought Hitler had died,but look at what he said:
“Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.”
“The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”
D
13 days ago
The criminal moronic perverted obiden and his supporters love to protect their bigoted criminals!!!! FJB LGB!!!!!!
13 days ago
Yes. We could have told y’all this.
… Jew-hating Demokkkrats supported anti-Semites for as long as I can remember … and long before.
All while telling Jews to vote Demokkkrat … or the Americans will get ya’ … or something.
… vote Demokkkrat or y’all ain’t black!
Oh, wait.
How is that working out now? …
If the Demokkkrats are not stopped … everyone will be Jewish … except
We have nowhere to go.
Jews can make aliyah, but the rest of us are stuck here with the KKKrats.
13 days ago
The Mossad should have taken out Soros forty years ago.
13 days ago
Reply to
Eric Arthur Blair
All of them need to be taken out. They are destroying the US, and the rest of the Western world, by poisoning the water, land, animals, and the food supply. With computerization they want to control how and where we travel, heating and cooling of our homes and what we can purchase. That is why no one should buy any WIFI operated appliances that can be controlled by a phone. The UN and EU need to be de-funded.
13 days ago
Reply to
Snowedin
“….no one should buy any WIFI operated appliances that can be controlled by a phone.”
Spot on Snowedin!
And like Britain in WW2 “Dig For Victory”. Even if you have only a small back garden plant something edible instead of flowers. They can’t put the price up out of reach on what you grow yourself and they can’t ration it.
13 days ago
I’m shocked….SHOCKED, said no one with a brain in their head.
13 days ago
These people apparently have never read the Bible or they have been mislead to believe it is not true. Jesus said that if they do not believe that He said who He is that they will not inherit the kingdom of God in other words they ae bound for hell.
13 days ago
Arrest these monsters!
13 days ago
Hitler’s boys! The unholy three.
12 days ago
I don’t get this Jewish Voice for Peace group when they sound like anything but for that.
12 days ago
where we be if these clowns manage to win by funding the radicals
You all know they want the population to be reduced by 90%
Are you all willing to give up with out a fight
D
12 days ago
One Nazi collaborator, one population control advocate and a slave advocate. Bill Gates father was high up at Planned Parenthood and he himself said “The optimum population for the earth if 500 million.” Haven;t was exceeded that a bit? Of course, the Rockefellers assisted the Nazis during WWII. It was John D. Rockefeller that said “I don’t want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers.” Their tax exempt foundation has worked to undermine education. Read Samuel Blumenfeld’s book NEA: Trojan Horse In American Education, as well as Paolo Lionni’s THE LEIPZIG CONNECTION; The Systematic Destruction of American Education. Also Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt’s The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail. You can find her book for free at her web page.
