George Soros-Connected Groups Paying for Antisemitic Campus Protests, Calling for Revolution

Ward Clark reporting for Redstate 

George Soros, through his veritable octopus of activist groups, has never seen a leftist, anti-American cause that he wouldn't support, no matter how vile, hateful, or loathsome. So it doesn't come as a terrible surprise to learn that Soros-funded groups are sticking their finger in the witch's brew of antisemitic campus "protests" by paying organizers who are openly calling for violent revolution. (Is there any other kind of revolution?)

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.

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

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 Post's investigation has determined that at least three high-profile protest leaders are on the payroll of Soros-funded organizations.

The SJP parent organization has been funded by a network of nonprofits ultimately funded by, among others, 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).

The three radicals being paid by USCPR are:

• Nidaa Lafi, once the president of the University of Texas Students for Justice in Palestine, appeared this week at the University of Texas Dallas campus to demand a cease-fire in Gaza — not pointing out that there was a cease-fire in place before the Oct 7th massacre. Lafi is also a law student at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
• Craig Birckhead-Morton was arrested Monday at Yale and charged with trespassing. A former intern for Representative John Sarbanes (D-MD), Birckhead-Morton was released from custody and immediately returned to speak at a traffic-blocking "sit-in."
• Finally, at Berkeley (What is it with Berkeley? Is it something in the water? Is it the air that makes these people crazy?) Malak Afaneh, the co-president of the Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine, recently tried to intrude on a dinner at the school dean's home and cried "assault" when they were asked to leave.

To call these people unhinged is to do a grave disservice to unhinged people everywhere.

Here's the onion:

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. 

$7,800 for eight hours of work is a pretty good dodge if you can get it; even $2,880 isn't at all bad for one easy day of shouting anti-Israel and antisemitic slogans at a crowd while sleeping in an "occupied zone" full of mysteriously identical tents while eating Domino's, drinking coffee and enjoying free grub.

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 from Pret a Manger, organic tortilla chips and $10 rotisserie chickens.

One thing is key: They are trained to "rise up, to revolution." You can see their actual training materials here. The slides are a veritable woke-fest, crying about "oppressed groups" (like Ivy League college students?), but the kicker is in this statement:

Committed to rise up, to revolution, not reform. We demand transformative change, from the grassroots, up!

That sounds like it was focus-grouped to put their toes right up on the line of advocating for violent rebellion.

It is becoming apparent that these protests are not spontaneous. They are not organic to the locations where they are taking place. Spontaneous, organic protests don't involve PowerPoint training slides and legions of people sleeping in dozens of mysteriously identical tents. Spontaneous, organic protests don't receive logistical support from shadowy organizations funded by Hungarian-American billionaires who got rich with currency manipulation schemes. No, these protests were planned, organized, and financed, and now we know who is behind the financing. George Soros seems to have his fingers in every anti-Western, anti-American, anti-freedom, and now antisemitic thing going. This is just one more example — but now he is funding people who are calling for violent revolution. That's a big red line in the sand that, sadly, will probably be ignored.