Funding Terrorism Support, the Role of Iran/Qatar

"The project revealed, for the first time, the existence of substantial Middle Eastern funding [primarily from Qatar to U.S. universities that had not been reported to the Department of Education, as required by law."

"Foreign donations from Qatar, especially, have had a substantial impact on fomenting growing levels of antisemitic discourse and campus politics at U.S. universities, as well as growing support for anti-democratic values within these institutions of higher education."

Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)

 

It has been a stormy, disheartening, and frightening eight months for the Canadian Jewish community in the wake of the notoriously ghastly terrorist flood that rushed into southern Israel to enact a crime scene of unbelievable proportions when thousands of Hamas, PLFP and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists followed by ordinary Palestinian civilians set out to slaughter 1,200 Israelis of all ages, from babies to the elderly in a bloodbath of grotesque proportions. That the Hamas operatives took tender care to video their sadistic savagery is testament to the pride they took in tormenting, raping, torturing their defenceless victims.

Yet these psychotic acts of inhuman depravity are celebrated in the streets of Canada by Israel-and-Jew haters who characterize the murder of babies, music festival celebrants, terrified men and women, as 'just due' by the courageous Palestinians who 'confronted' their oppressors vindicating their pledge to destroy Israel and Jews wherever they are. In Canada, immigrants from Middle East nations who arrived in Canada to find a better life for themselves, find it evidently in destroying life for Jews in Canada. And there they assemble in keffiyeh-clad, masked mobs to slander Israel and threaten Canadian Jews.

 

Toronto's Walk with Israel, June 9,2024 (Credit: Michael Weisdorf)

 

The blockades and university encampments where demonstrators celebrate their uninhibited antisemitism while uttering alarming threats to the safety and security of Jews loyal to Canada and to Israel have been a fixture for far too long in Canada. Destabilizing society, committing ongoing threats to Jewish communities, and under the cover of night, committing violent criminal acts, fire-bombing and shooting at Jewish parochial schools, synagogues, community centres and Jewish-owned businesses, screaming boycott and Intifadeh.

On Sunday, Toronto was witness to an estimated 50,000 Jews, Christians, Iranians, and First Nations supporters marching in solidarity with the State of Israel, celebrating its existence and demonstrating on behalf of Canadian Jewry, whose presence as generations of Canadian citizens was affirmed and supported. Most Canadians, the 'silent majority' despise Hamas and what it stands for; death-dealing. A Leger poll conducted in May sought the opinion of Canadians on the university encampments demonizing Israel; 19% of those polled supported them, while 48% condemned them.

Sunday's March for Israel saw some counter-demonstrators present, praising Hamas, amidst a massive police presence to ensure security. From time to time questions arise respecting the organization and funding of the ongoing pro-Hamas demonstrations and the installation of university campus encampments that authorities barely know how to respond to, for fear of offending a much larger Muslim than Jewish population in Canada. 

 

Politico conducted an investigation, discovering that organizations with associations to major donors of progressive political causes, such as George Soros and David Rockefeller along with others, including the Tides Foundation have been sources of financial support. It has long been recognized that Iran and Qatar have been funding sources for these exhibitions of foetid Jew-hate and Israel-bashing. The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy launched its "Follow the Money" project in 2012, discovering that Qatar and Iran are principal patrons of Hamas.

ISAP revealed that Columbia University, which has proven itself an epicentre for campus activism supportive of Hamas, received close to $3.5 million from Qatar but neglected to report the money, thus breaking U.S. law in the process. The plagues of pro-Hamas demonstrations that have dominated the streets in Canada since October 7 have been organized by Palestinian students and non-students savvy in the ways of Marxist theory and the foibles of Western progressive-left antipathy to Israel.

"President 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: Soros, Rockefeller and Pritzker, according to a POLITICO analysis."

"Two of the organizers supporting the 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 and was previously supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It in turn supports numerous small nonprofits that work for social change. "

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Students at Washburn University stage a protest expressing support for Palestinians in Gaza and calling for a cease-fire on May 3, 2024, in Topeka, Kansas. | John Hanna/AP