Islamic Terror Group Behind Columbia University Protests Received over $3 Million a Year in Funding from Organizations ‘ Linked to Hamas

Founded at UC Berkeley in October of 2000, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is a highly influential Islamic terror campus organization with chapters based at approximately 200 American colleges and universities, where it organizes and sponsors antisemitic events and campaigns more actively than any other student group in the nation.

SJP has been banned from a number of American universities.

SJP propaganda echos much of what is said by the Hamas terrorists who seek to permanently end Israel’s existence as a sovereign Jewish state. The reason for this is simple: SJP was in essence formed to help spread anti-Semitism through the halls of American academia; to wage a campus war against Israel by providing rhetorical support for the Jew-hatred undergirding the Second Palestinian Intifada which Hamas and allied terrorists had recently launched in late September 2000.

Notwithstanding Hamas’s calls for mass murder and genocide, the website of SJP’s UC Berkeley chapter describes Hamas not as a terrorist group but rather as “a vast social organization” that “provides schools, medical care, and day care for a number of Palestinians who otherwise live difficult lives”; a group with a “clean record as far as domestic corruption in governance [is] concerned”; and an entity whose “officials have often stated that they are ready for a long-term truce with Israel during which time final status negotiations can occur.” SJP does make a pro forma acknowledgment that “Hamas has conducted numerous deadly attacks on Israeli civilians” and “committed numerous human rights abuses against Palestinians,” but then quickly draws a moral equivalence between Hamas’s deeds and “the racism and discrimination underlying the policies and laws of the state of Israel.”

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Pro-Palestine campus group behind Columbia University protests received over $3million a year in funding from ‘charities’ linked to Hamas

• Report obtained by DailyMail.com reveals campus group with 250 chapters got millions from charities with alleged links to Palestinian terrorist organization
• Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is one of the main organizers of the protest that brought Columbia University to a standstill
• The 73-page report by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy points out explicit pro-Hamas statements, chants and signs by protestors

By Josh Boswell For Dailymail.com 1 May 2024

The group behind pro-Palestine student protests at Columbia received ‘over $3 million a year’ – and is linked to organizations accused of funding terrorist organization Hamas, a new think tank has revealed.

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a campus group with more than 250 chapters across the country, is one of the main organizers of a protest that brought the Manhattan university to a standstill.

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The new report by the think tank Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), reveals the group got millions from several charities with alleged links to Hamas.

The 73-page report, exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, also pointed out explicit pro-Hamas statements, chants and placards by protesters, and asserted that the demonstration has crossed the line from criticism of the Israeli government to bald-faced antisemitism.

The report also called for a law enforcement and government investigation into SJP.
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is one of the main organizers of a protest that brought Columbia University to a standstill

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is one of the main organizers of a protest that brought Columbia University to a standstill
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A new report reveals the group got millions from several charities with alleged links to Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas. Students are pictured receiving checks from AMP

A new report reveals the group got millions from several charities with alleged links to Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas. Students are pictured receiving checks from AMP

‘It’s being presented as a peace movement, that there’s Jews involved, that it’s not anti-semitic. But when people chant ‘globalize the intifada’ it’s very clear,’ ISGAP executive director Dr. Charles Small told DailyMail.com.

‘What Hamas represents, its ideology, is a commitment to dismantling Israel and exterminating Jews around the world.’
ISGAP executive director Dr. Charles Small told DailyMail.com, ‘It’s being presented as a peace movement, that there’s Jews involved, that it’s not anti-semitic. But when people chant ‘globalize the intifada’ it’s very clear’

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ISGAP executive director Dr. Charles Small told DailyMail.com, ‘It’s being presented as a peace movement, that there’s Jews involved, that it’s not anti-semitic. But when people chant ‘globalize the intifada’ it’s very clear’

The student groups say they do not promote violence, are inclusive towards Jewish people, and are exercising a legal right to protest.

The ISGAP report asserts that SJP has become an effective and well-funded network for organizing protests around the country, but that its failure to register as a charity or formal organization left its funding sources and operations murky and unregulated.

Hints of financial backing could be seen at the Columbia ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’, including students erecting several identical high-end tents costing hundreds of dollars each, and handing out free Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, $12.50 sandwiches from Pret-a-Manger and $10 rotisserie chickens to participants.

Small said his think tank, with ‘a group of forensic accountants and experts in terror financing’, have been working to follow the money funneled into protests.

What they found was a combined flow of more than $3 million a year going to campus chapters, coming from a constellation of charities, some of which have alleged links to Hamas.

The nonprofits funding SJP include the Westchester People’s Action Coalition (WESPAC), Tides, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), its parent organization Americans for Justice in Palestine (AJP), and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).

The ISGAP report said SJP had the closest financial links with WESPAC, which acts as a ‘financial sponsor’ for the organization, routing tax-free donations through its accounts to SJP chapters.

The report pointed to small print on a donation page of the SJP website which states that the money ‘goes to WESPAC Foundation Inc.’

New York-based WESPAC’s IRS filings for the year to August 2023 list a total revenue of $2,379,650, with expenses of $1,362,449 for ‘human rights and current affairs education and information provided to many hundreds of people through public meeting events, conferences and newsletters.’