Chinese Communist Party Funding Pro-Hamas Demonstrations

"SID4P [Shut It Down for Palestine] represents a significant evolution in networked influence and coordinated direct action aimed at disrupting critical infrastructure and inflaming protests across the U.S. and around the globe."

"[The activities of SID4P highlight a trend in which] the instruments of democracy are being exploited to undermine its foundations."

The National Contagion Research Institute 

"This is the moment we must all fight back -- by raising our voices in support of Palestinian armed resistance including the heroic and momentous operation, the Al-Asque Flood launched on October 7th, by calling for the removal of Palestinian and Arab resistance movements from so-called terror lists."

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

An anti-Israel tent encampment protesting the war in Gaza continues to stand at the University of Toronto campus in Toronto, Tuesday May 7, 2024 Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post

The independent body launched to identify cyber threats to civil society -- The National Contagion Research Institute -- issued a new report revolving around the funding of the anti-Israel movement in North America. According to their research some left-wing groups have united under the Shut It Down for Palestine banner, linking to Beijing through Communist Party associates, Neville Roy Singham and wife Jodie Evans. Organizations operating under the umbrella of SID4P, are widely recognized as a conduit for Chinese Communist Party geopolitical influence.

The hashtag for the SID4P links to 11,874 Instagram posts, 8,000 tweets, 9,200 Facebook posts and 2,457 TikTok videos. The New York Times linked U.S. tech multimillionaire Singham who lives now in Shanghai, as controlling a financial network using North American non-profit groups to further Chinese propaganda worldwide. Singham, charges the NCRI, has seen investigations by the U.S., Canada and India for CCP-linked operations. His wife lists as a board member for the China People's Forum; she is a co-founder of Code Pink.

Loopholes in the U.S. non-profit system are used by SID4P to facilitate flow of American dollars to organization whose  function is stoking social unrest. SID4P convenors the report lists include the People's Forum, the ANSWER Coalition, the International People's Assembly, Al Awda NY, National Students for Justice in Palestine, the Palestine Youth Movement, and the Palestinian American Community Centre. 

 

A statement issued on October 8, following the October 7 atrocities committed by Hamas in southern Israel at the Gaza border, explained they were "mobilizing in the belly of the beast because we understand we have a unique role to play in combating material support for Zionism and weakening the handmaiden of U.S. global imperialism." According to Richard Robertson, director of research and advocacy at B'nai Brith Canada, the Revolutionary Communist Party, established as a new group to "prepare Canada for revolution" has a presence at almost every protest; they encourage student walkouts at high schools.

 

Groups active in the United States are similarly active in Canada; organized protests are advertised on the website of the SID4P. The Palestinian Youth Movement, one of the seven conveners for SID4P, has been active and visible in both Montreal and Toronto; planning a "No Rest Until Liberation" rally tomorrow in Montreal. Director of Samidoun, Charlotte Kates, is listed as an official of Al Awda, another SID4P convener. 

 

Arrested earlier in the month at a Vancouver protest held at the city's art gallery, she had shouted: "Long live October 7th", claiming Hamas is not a terrorist organization. "They are resistance fighters. They are our heroes", she claimed. Her husband, Khaled Barakat is an advocate for the violent destruction of Israel. Not only has Canada's Liberal-led government of Justin Trudeau been absent from action when it should have taken steps to shut down the hate rallies, their silent inaction has been taken by those involved in the rallies glorifying Hamas and excoriating Israel, as approval.

A pro-Palestinian demonstrator holds up a mock body as protestor confront police as they clear an encampment after students occupied the Physical Sciences Lecture Hall at the University of California, Irvine, in Irvine, California on May 15, 2025. (Image: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

"The People’s Forum, IPA, and ANSWER Coalition serve as the conduit through which CCP-affiliated entities have effectively co-opted pro-Palestinian activism in the U.S., advancing a broader anti-American, anti-democratic, and anti-capitalist agenda."

"These three far-left SID4P Convenors are part of a network linked by close financial, interpersonal, and ideological ties to Neville Roy Singham and his wife Jodie Evans, a power couple within the global far-left movement with close ties to the CCP."

The National Contagion Research Institute