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By: Ellen Cans
The Open Society Foundation, founded by Billionaire George Soros, has contributed over $15 million to groups responsible for the recent Pro-Palestinian rallies.
As reported by the NY Post, the Open Society Foundation has allocated some $16.3 million in grants since 2016 to left advocacy groups which have proven themselves to be anti-Israel. The report says that roughly $13.7 million was granted to the Tides Center, a broad social justice nonprofit which has openly justified Hamas’s savage terrorist attack on Israel while saying Palestinians are the real victims. The Tides foundation has distributed funds to an Illinois-based Adalah Justice Project, a Palestinian advocacy group.
On the Oct. 7th bloody massacre, the group had posted a picture on Instagram of a bulldozer tearing part of Israel’s border fence down with a caption, reading: “Israeli colonizers believed they could indefinitely trap two million people in an open-air prison… no cage goes unchallenged.” Adalah’s members also co-sponsored a rally in Bryant Park on Oct. 20, in which angry protesteres yelled antisemitic chants and waved a sign saying, “I DO NOT CONDEMN HAMAS.” The same group had also stormed into California Rep. Ro Khanna’s office demanding the Democrat sign a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
The Open Society Foundation also granted $1.5 million to Adalah’s founding nonprofit, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. However, only about $800,000 of it was dispersed, as the legal center cut ties with the American organization in 2018. The legal center says its mission is to promote human rights in Israel.
The charity foundation also gave $60,000 in 2018 to the Arab American Association of New York, a group which helped plan a hate-filled “Flood Brooklyn for Palestine” protest in Bay Ridge on Oct. 21. The group, co-founded by politically connected activist Linda Sarsour, had led the rally in which protestors called for the eradication of Israel and held a sign of the Israeli flag in the gatbage, with a caption that read “Please keep the world clean!”
Open Society Foundation gave another $30,000 in 2020 to Desis Rising Up and Moving, another group which co-sponsor of the Bryant Park protest, during which 139 people were arrested, per the NY Post. The Soros backed philanthropy group, has also given to Palestinian advocacy groups including Jewish Voice for Peace and If Not Now. Jewish Voice for Peace received $650,000. Its website says, “Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression — are the source of all this violence.”. If Not Now, which co-sponsored the Bryant Park rally, had received $400,000.
Dan Schneider, vice president of the conservative watchdog group Media Research Center, recently co-authored a letter along with MRC President demanding that Soros stop donating to groups who have shown their true colors recently by spewing anti-Israel rhetoric. “George Soros and his son Alex have a long history of supporting the most radical organizations across the planet, and that includes pro-Hamas organizations that support the most heinous kind of behavior,” said Schneider. “We’ve called on George Soros to withdraw this funding, but he seems very determined to continue supporting antisemitic organizations that want to upend western civilization.”
Open Society Foundations, and related nonprofits founded by Soros, have generously donated in total over $32 billion to numerous nonprofits across the globe since 1984, per the organization’s website. Soros has a net worth of roughly $6.7 billion, as of Oct 23, after he has already donated some 64 percent of his fortune. Per the Post, the 93-year-old announced in June, that he is handing over control of his business and philanthropic affairs to his son Alexander, 38.
