Most Demonstrators Weren't Students

Of the 300 pro-Hamas agitators arrested at Columbia, most were not students. 

Mayor of New York City, Mayor Eric Adams (D), has gotten the message and is sounding the alarm that the roughly 300 pro-Hamas protestors arrested by NYPD Tuesday night at Columbia University and City College of New York may not be students— but rather part of radical terrorist organizations. 

Adams said that when he became aware that the majority of the pro-terrorism protestors weren’t students but professional agitators, he promised to fight for the American “way of life” as the demonstrators continued to harass Jewish communities. 

Is he suggesting that it's OK to harass Jewish communities if you are a student?

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“Once I became aware of the outside agitators who were part of this operation, as Columbia mentioned in their letter and their request with the New York City Police Department, it was clear we had to take appropriate actions when our intelligence division identified those who were professionals, well trained,” Adams told CBS Mornings. 

Last week, Sarah Arnold wrote an article exposing who was really behind the demonstrations on campus:

Several groups organizing the anti-Israel protests on college campuses are being funded by dark money and left-wing extremist George Soros. 

According to a new report, Soros is paying pro-terrorism activists to harass Jewish students and help them set up encampments at universities such as Columbia, Yale, Berkeley, Harvard, and Ohio State University. 

All of the demonstrators have been organized by branches of the Soros-funded Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group— which have been told to “rise up, to revolution.” 

Breitbart News reported, "Several groups involved in organizing anti-Israel protests that have broken out at college campuses since last week have received money from organizations funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros, according to a report."

The report.

The "report' was published by the New York Post. 

On April 26, the Post reported, "George Soros and his hard-left acolytes are paying agitators who are fueling the explosion of radical anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country."

They said, "The protests, which began when students took over Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus lawn last week, have mushroomed nationwide."

Continuing, the Post reported, "Copycat tent cities have been set up at colleges including Harvard, Yale, Berkeley in California, the Ohio State University and Emory in Georgia — all of them organized by branches of the Soros-funded Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — and at some, students have clashed with police."

The New York Post published a map identifying the Soros-financed protests around the country.

The SJP parent organization has been funded by a network of nonprofits, ultimately funded by Soros, the billionaire left-wing investor.

At three colleges, the protests are being encouraged by paid radicals who are “fellows” of a Soros-funded group called the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).

USCPR provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based “fellows” in return for spending eight hours a week organizing “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.”

They are trained to “rise up, to revolution.”

The radical group received at least $300,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations since 2017 and also took in $355,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund since 2019.

A run-down of the people putting up the money to make the protests happen.

There are three “fellows” who have been major figures in the nationwide protest movement.

Nidaa Lafi, a former president of the University of Texas Students for Justice in Palestine, was seen at an encampment at UT Dallas Wednesday, making a speech demanding an end to the war in Gaza.

Lafi, a former legislative intern for the late Democratic Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, graduated from the school last year with a degree in global business and is now a law student at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

At Yale, USCPR’s fellow Craig Birckhead-Morton was arrested Monday and charged with first-degree trespassing when SJP’s branch, Yalies4Palestine, occupied the school’s Beinecke Plaza, the Yale Daily News reported.

Birckhead-Morton — also a former intern for a Democrat, Maryland rep John Sarbanes — emerged from custody to address a sit-in blocking traffic in New Haven.

The most high-profile of the fellows is Berkeley’s Malak Afaneh, co-president of the Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine.

She has been a serial speaker at an anti-Israel protest on the campus this week — which came after she first shot to prominence by hijacking a dinner at the law school dean’s home to shout anti-Israel slogans, then accused the dean’s wife of assaulting her when she asked the radical to leave.

The cash from Soros and his acolytes has been critical to the Columbia protests that set off the national copycat demonstrations.

Three groups set up the tent city on Columbia’s lawn last Wednesday: Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), and Within Our Lifetime.

At the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” students sleep in tents apparently ordered from Amazon and enjoy delivery pizza, coffee from Dunkin’, free sandwiches worth $12.50, organic tortilla chips, and $10 rotisserie chickens.

An analysis by The Post shows that all three got cash from groups linked to Soros. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund also gave cash to JVP.

The fund is chaired by Joseph Pierson, and includes David Rockefeller Jr, a fourth-generation member of the oil dynasty, on its board of directors. The non-profit gives money to “sustainable development” and “peace-building.”

Felice Gelman, a former Wall Street banker who has dedicated her Wall Street fortune to pro-Palestinian causes, funded all three groups.

Both SJP and JVP were expelled from Columbia University in November for “threatening rhetoric and intimidation.” JVP blamed Israel for the Oct 7 Hamas terrorist attack that left 1,200 Israelis dead.

SJP called the terrorist strike on Israel “a historic win.”

An analysis by The Post shows how Soros and Gelman’s cash made its way to the students through a network of nonprofits that help obscure their contributions.

Soros has given billions to the Open Society Foundations, which his son Alexander — whose partner is Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s top aide and the estranged wife of pervert Anthony Weiner — now controls.

In turn, Open Society has given more than $20 million to the Tides Foundation, a progressive nonprofit “fiscal sponsor” that then sends the cash to smaller groups.

A slogan that Soros' "Open Society Foundation" likes to hide behind claims:  

“The Open Society Foundations proudly support the right of all citizens to peaceful protest — a bedrock principle of our democracy.”

Takeaway

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk suggested that many of the pro-Hamas protestors arrested at Columbia University were criminals-- part of Black Lives Matter and Antifa. 

He posted this:

Two key confirmations in this clip:

1) The criminals who seized Hamilton Hall at Columbia were outside agitators, not students.

2) Approximately 300 were arrested at Columbia University overnight, the majority of whom are not students.

People do not yet realize just how much… pic.twitter.com/sBsblhn2ir

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 1, 2024

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