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June 3, 2024 - Louder with Crowder
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Campus Jihad: The Dark Money Behind the Hamas Protests
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who have entered the camp.
We walk and take a step forward.
Yeah, I absolutely feel threatened.
So that we can So that we can
start to push them start to push them
out of the camp.
out of the camp.
crowd shouting.
Where are the police?
Where is security?
Where are these people?
Where are, where is authority here?
Get back! Get back over!
Back off! Back off! Back off!
You're under arrest! Stop!
No, stop that!
Get away! Get away!
Get away!
No, I got her.
Hey!
For an end to police brutality and an end to the racist
UWPD, they send them in to violently arrest
Now what you're watching is by no stretch of the imagination
a grassroots or organic social movement
Oh It's a fake revolution that's been organized from the top down, tied together by dark money, connecting not only shady activists, but multinational NGOs, state actors, and actual terrorists.
April 17th, 2024.
Okay.
Columbia University President Manoush Shafiq appears before Congress to address the concerns that anti-Semitism is running rampant on her campus.
When we know that events will happen, we have moved toward requiring Columbia University IDs to access our campus.
That has prevented outside forces to come and cause trouble, and I think that's a very important reason why most of our demonstrations, in fact the vast majority, have been safe.
On the very same day, students at Columbia Campus set up what they call the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
Now, the students pledged to occupy that space at Columbia until, quote, the university divests from companies with ties to Israel.
The next morning, at the direction of President Shafik, NYPD officers arrest 120 protesters and clear the encampment from the campus.
However, this intervention by the police does not mark the end of the protests, but the beginning of a radical, violent, anti-Israel, and more importantly, anti-American movement That will sweep college campuses from New York City to Los Angeles, and of course, places like Ann Arbor to Austin.
The campus and police response to our Necma Day memorial is deplorable.
It's not just about the memorial, it's about the people.
The people who came to the memorial, the people who are going to be there, and the people
who are going to be there to protect Necma Day.
The people who are going to be there to protect Necma Day.
And the question is that what are we doing?
How come we don't have an incubator in this country?
So to understand this wave, we need to go back to the beginning.
Columbia, the school, not the country, though, Shakira.
So the entire purpose of these protests, according to the students of Columbia, was, is, to ransom the university, effectively, to cut ties with any investments linked to Israel in any way, because, according to them, Israel is an oppressive colonizer of the Palestinian people.
The first demand is divestment.
Columbia needs to divest.
Divest and take out all of their money that they're contributing.
What students are saying is, this is our institution too, and we don't want it to be part of continuing this oppression.
A university is an important place to do these kinds of actions because students are a part of what the history of the university will be.
Let me say in the outset, people can have problems with Israel and its government and not be anti-Semitic.
Okay, these protesters though, they're not pro-Palestine.
They are pro-Hamas.
They have to be because they are funded by them.
So a favorite rallying cry of this pro-Hamas crowd is disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.
And when they say divest, we'll be using that term quite a bit, they don't just mean from weapons contractors like Lockheed Martin, which would be reasonable.
They actually put forward a proposal in December 2023 calling for the university to divest completely from companies including, but not limited to, Microsoft, Airbnb, Amazon, Alphabet, that's Google and YouTube.
And the media, at least initially, tried to convince you that the Columbia protests were peaceful.
I think that the encampment was honestly one of the beautiful forms of solidarity.
We would be singing songs.
We had meals together.
People prayed together.
They held Shabbat yesterday.
And it's really just been a very community-centered space.
And also because of the fact that it is outside, it hadn't disrupted any classes.
It had really been a very isolated kind of moment where the zone in which we were actually protesting in is the demonstration zone that we are allowed to technically Now that story became a much tougher sell when the
protesters forcibly occupied Hamilton Hall, a building there on campus.
The protesters are demanding that Hamilton Hall be demolished.
Now!
Now!
Yeah!
Yeah!
If that's not enough, hell, they even kidnapped a janitor.
First they pulled the alarm, because the alarm was ringing, and then they put tables and chairs to block it.
Like, they stuffed that elevator with furniture.
How was I going to get out?
Through the window?
No.
It's just scary, just thinking that you're locked in with a bunch of crazies, you know?
I want to get out.
That's the only thing you're thinking of is getting out.
That'll show those Jews all of this in the name of divestment.
From a bunch of kids who largely couldn't point out the Jordan River or the Mediterranean Sea if their lives depended on it.
Are we talking Gaza, West Bank?
Is this protest considered all of Israel to be Palestine?
I just want to know what the view is of this.
From the river to the sea is where the slogan is.
Right, I mean, yeah.
Now, keep in mind, you don't see these same students scream for divestment from, let's say, I don't know, China?
China?
Gross abuses of human rights?
In the open, and yes, Columbia, and pretty much every major university in this country, has extensive relations with China.
So, this all really begs the question, why do these students, suddenly, and exclusively, care so much about this specific cause?
Moreover, how the hell did these people organize themselves, not just at Columbia,
but at hundreds of campuses all over the country?
Now, every dog has its day, every sparrow has its song, and
every radical anti-American protest
has its anti-semitic ringleaders.
So, let me introduce you to the P.T.
Barnum of this big domestic terrorism top, Students for Justice in Palestine.
So, passing a resolution or a referendum or whichever Go back to Europe!
are not actually the militants themselves, but their tactics towards killing this militant
and that's the movement for me to get settled into.
And we need to be ready to push this campaign as far as it needs to go in the future.
Thank you.
Go back to Europe!
There is only one revolution!
Go back to Europe!
A two-parter revolution!
We are not invited for this purpose.
We are talking about Ramadan and the holy month of Ramadan as Muslim students.
We refuse to break our fast on the blood of Palestinian people.
The UC has committed sending $2 billion to weapons manufacturers.
So if anything, it's safe to, I urge you, please cover up.
Cover up, tell your friends to cover up.
Your niece is injured.
We've already passed out the necessary plan.
Do not talk to anybody.
And before we dive further, because this is the internet, and I know that there's a squirrel chasing a Super Bowl video you have to get to, let me just give you the layout of the players and the key groups connected to SJP and these campus protests.
Fair warning, it gets a little bit complicated, because it's supposed to be.
That's how they cover their tracks.
But here's the bird's eye view that makes it a little easier to follow along.
Students for Justice in Palestine, SJP, they represent the individual campus groups which are under the umbrella of National Students for Justice in Palestine, which oversees each campus chapter and was created by...
American Muslims for Palestine, AMP, which works in tandem with its fiscal sponsor, Americans for Justice in Palestine, AJP, both of which were founded by the SJP founder Hatem Bazyan, who recruited board members from three now-defunct Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas-supporting groups, the Holy Land Foundation, Islamic Association of Palestine, and Kind Hearts.
Okay?
Okay.
So, SJP is now operating in, give or take, 250 linked chapters nationwide.
These SJP campus protesters are all unofficially operating under the National Students for Justice Palestine, and SJP, but we'll get to that group later on.
So, of course, SJP is not the only culprit, but They are the hub to which all the spokes connect, the mainframe, if you will.
Let me give you a bit of the SJP origins.
Was created in 1992 by Doctor of Near Eastern Studies, Hatem Bazyan.
Bazyan has been spotted, in fact, at these protests, including the encampment at U Penn.
So we say that Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism is big into the policing and big into our elite political systems.
Baachian is a professor at the University of California and he serves as the executive director for the Islamophobia
study center in Berkeley.
No surprise there.
Just so you have an idea of who this gentleman is, he just has a bit of a tendency to dabble or paint If you will, in anti-Semitism.
He's a hate artist.
Like in 2017, when he retweeted these little on-the-nose posts.
Or when he said this.
It's about time that we have an intifada in this country, the United States.
We've been watching intifada in Palestine.
We've been watching an uprising in Iraq against American soldiers.
And the question is that.
What are we doing?
How come we don't have an intifada in this country?
To those still confused, he wants an Intifada in the United States.
Hope that clears it up.
Or you can check out any of these anti-Israel ramblings.
And we need to increase our participation politically.
We need to take one neighborhood at a time.
You need to count your days because the corruption that Israel represents will come to an end.
We need to translate our strength into harassment of the political leadership.
We've been watching intifada in Palestine.
We've been watching an uprising in Iraq.
And the question is that what are we doing?
How come we don't have an intifada in this country?
Now, I know you could argue that those are not technically anti-Semitic.
It's just critical of Israel, sure.
But that's not all Bazian is about.
He's also a member of two organizations, the General Union of Palestine Studies and the Muslim Students Association.
Organizations directly affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Spoiler, for those not in the know, the Muslim Brotherhood isn't too fond of the Jews.
Bazian also founded the now-defunct Kind Hearts, which was, in fact, a Hamas front group.
In 2006, Bazian also founded American Muslims for Palestine, AMP, and is its national chairman.
Now, like Bazian, AMP's executive director, Osama Abu Irshaid, has popped up at these organic protests in places like Columbia and George Washington University.
2008, the AMP created AJP Educational Foundation Inc.
to be the fiscal sponsor for AMP.
Now, the fiscal sponsor designation is important because this is how organizations like AMP can claim that they do not receive any foreign funds.
How?
Okay.
The fiscal sponsor, in this case, the AJP, will collect donations from anywhere in the world and then, in turn, donate those funds to the final organization, in this case, A.M.P.
Because the funds were donated by the fiscal sponsor, who is entirely contained within the United States, the organization receiving the final donations from said fiscal sponsor can claim that all of the funds were domestic.
A.M.P.
and A.J.P.
are so intertwined, they have identical leadership structures, and they even share the same business address.
64047 Corners Place, Suite N, Falls Church, Virginia.
AJP is a 501c3, which means that they have to make certain disclosures on their IRS Tax Form 990, like its sources of funding.
Except, notably missing from AJP's filings were key financial disclosures and audits per Charity Watch Dogs, Charity Navigator, and Influence Watch.
Matter of fact, when we looked at AJP's IRS 990 filing, we could not find any Listed sources of funding.
And per the IRS rules, not a big fan, but rules is rules, AJP would be required to disclose any individual contributions over $5,000.
However, despite receiving over one and a half million in contributions in its latest filing, AJP claims it's exempt from this requirement entirely.
Matter of fact, the last time AJP claimed they were required to disclose their sources of funding, it was in 2017.
However, rather than listing any donors and amounts, you just see the word restricted.
Well, that should about cover it.
Next time you file a tax return, just write restricted.
And we are, of course, not the only ones who found this complete lack of information whatsoever to be suspicious.
On October 31st, 2023, Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares announced an investigation into AJP about using funds to benefit terrorists.
The Attorney General will investigate allegations that AJP Educational Foundation Inc.
may have used funds raised for impermissible purposes under state law, including benefiting or providing support to terrorist organizations.
Now, I know what you're thinking.
State law?
That should be a federal thing.
Kind of is?
Either way, we had no luck finding any disclosures by AMP.
Now, AMP is a not-for-profit corporation, so it's not a federal 501c3, which means they don't need to file Tax Form 990.
However, in 2016, The House Foreign Affairs Committee confirmed that there is, quote, significant overlap between AMP and people who worked for or on behalf of organizations that were designated, dissolved, or held civilly liable by federal authorities for supporting Hamas.
Six members of AMP's core leadership were Islamic Association of Palestine, IAP, lots of acronyms.
They were board members.
Or we're active and the Holy Land Foundation, HLF, both proven verifiably to be financiers of Hamas.
AMP is essentially a successor group to these three now defunct groups shut down by the government specifically for being Hamas terror sponsors.
On to Islamic Association of Palestine.
Founded in 1981 by individuals directly linked to Hamas, it was dissolved after being found liable in a civil case for the death of an American citizen killed by Hamas, the Holy Land Foundation.
Found to have funneled money to Hamas in 2002 and had its assets frozen by the Treasury Department.
It was shut down in 2008.
The Islamic Association of Palestine and CARE were unindicted co-conspirators.
Now, Kind Hearts, the next organization, founded just after HLF was shut down.
Their assets were frozen in 2006 for, you guessed it, funneling money to Hamas-linked groups, if you're noticing a trend.
The organization was dissolved in 2012 after a settlement agreement with the United States Treasury.
Board members of these organizations Include people like Salah Sarsour, a Milwaukee-based member of AMP's board of directors, and was reportedly implicated in Hamas activity in the West Bank in the 1990s.
According to statements given to Israeli investigators by his brother Jamil, Sarsour was personally involved in fundraising for Hamas.
In 2010, AMP founded the National Students for Justice Palestine, NSJP.
Again, like AMP, NSJP is not a registered 501c3, so we don't have the public disclosures, but in Funding for NSJP.
We could find WESPAC.
NSJP's official fiscal sponsor is a New York-based non-profit, Westchester's People's Action Committee Fund.
WESPAC, fun to say.
As a fiscal sponsor, WESPAC receives and administers donations on behalf of groups like NSJP.
WESPAC then keeps a percentage of the donations and remits the rest to the group that it sponsors fiscally.
So this whole arrangement allows NSJP to collect and distribute funds without any
transparency.
The financial interactions between WESPEC and its anti-Israel clientele is deliberately opaque,
largely to shield from public view the flow of funds amongst all of them.
WESPAC is believed to be a conduit for money from abroad to the United States pro-Palestine causes.
So in 2019 to 2023, WESPAC revenue doubled.
In fact, in 2023, they reported assets of $1.6 million.
A little more about WeSpec.
It was founded by an anti-Zionist, a Jewish leftist.
Very leftist.
Howard Horowitz.
So they've received funding from foundations, donor-advised philanthropic funds.
Some examples include the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
It was created in 1940.
It states that it's committed to becoming an anti-racist and anti-sexist institution.
Okay.
Donated $90,000 to WESPAC in 2022.
The Tides Foundation was founded in 1976.
Supports leftist social justice causes.
Gave $35,000 to WESPAC in 2022.
WESPAC is directly linked to funding other anti-Zionist organizations like, Within Our Lifetime, Palestine Youth Movement.
You've probably seen them all over Instagram.
US Palestine Community Action Network.
You get the picture.
Now on, To AFER Foundation.
AMP has also received funding from the AFER Foundation, an organization based out of Southfield, Michigan.
One organization registered to the AFER Foundation, their offices, is actually the Muslim Arab Youth Association, MAIA for short.
Now an FBI investigation showed that MAIA directly helped finance and promote Hamas, again, in the United States.
So in May of 2023, this whole funding network started drawing the attention of congressional investigators.
The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the Committee on Education and the Workforce started demanding information from the U.S.
Treasury regarding the funding sources for 20 pro-Palestinian organizations like AMP, WESPEC, and That's right, Students for Justice in Palestine.
So I know I said it may get complicated.
Allow me to recap here.
The structure underpinning Students for Justice in Palestine.
Students for Justice in Palestine represents the individual campus groups, which are under the umbrella of National Students for Justice in Palestine, which oversees each campus chapter and was created by American Muslims for Palestine, which works in tandem with
its fiscal sponsor, Americans for Justice in Palestine, both of which are
founded by SJP founder Hatem Bazyan, who recruited board members from the now defunct Muslim
Brotherhood, Hamas supporting groups, Holy Land Foundation, Islamic Association of Palestine, and
Kind Hearts.
Now if.
Love.
The organization portion of this upset you.
I apologize in advance because NGOs are not the only backers of this radical anti-American so-called revolution.
More disturbingly, so are foreign governments.
Namely, one's known for their active support of terrorism.
Let's take, for example, the oil-rich state of Qatar.
Here's a fun fact.
Qatar donates more money to American universities than any other country in the world.
That bears repeating.
Did you know that?
From 2014 to 2019, Qatar gave $2.7 billion.
I didn't misspeak.
Not million.
other country on Earth.
Did you know that?
From 2014 to 2019, Qatar gave $2.7 billion.
I didn't misspeak.
Not million.
From 2014 to 2019, Qatar gave $2.7 billion to American universities.
That figure, for context, is double what third place China has given.
Some schools receiving Qatari money include Cornell, Virginia Commonwealth University, Texas A&M, Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern University, Georgetown University.
Oh, and speaking of Georgetown, they even have their own campus in Qatar.
Hi, I'm Claudio Pergolisi.
I'm a sophomore at Georgetown University in Qatar, and today I'll be giving you a tour of the male housing dorms.
The housing is a very secure facility, which requires you to have an identification card, which gives you access to the gate.
Interesting side note, at least to me, for all the hand-wringing and the screaming out there equating these violent campus protests with freedom of speech, even though these individuals support freedom of speech nowhere else.
Actually, criticizing Islam in any facet is completely forbidden at Georgetown, Qatar.
And relatively unsurprisingly, Two completely expected take-your-pick research shows a direct correlation between the presence of Qatari funding and... and... the presence of Students for Justice in Palestine as it relates to being on campus.
More Qatari money probably means a greater likelihood that you'll have your campus infested by these nerds wearing Amazon-purchased kafeyas.
Do you know where that keffiyeh comes from?
Yeah, Palestine.
That's not a Palestinian keffiyeh, actually.
The Palestinian keffiyeh is black and white.
Well, no.
That's a Jordanian keffiyeh.
Yes.
So that's why I asked if you know where it comes from.
Now I have to disclose that the Qatari ambassador, Massoud Hamad Al-Thani, denied, by that I mean lied, about Qatar influencing American universities.
Stating on X, Qatar does not influence these universities and we have nothing to do with anything that happens on their home campuses in the United States.
Really?
Really?
Explain this to me.
To all of us, like we're two years old.
Then why $2.7 billion to American University?
This may be more believable, this claim, if his country was not a major political and financial supporter of Hamas.
Remember, Hamas's main leadership is located in Qatar, where they bravely ordered hotel room service
while their people suffered in Gaza.
Many Americans may not know Qatar, but they have a long and well-documented history
of supporting terrorism, even providing safe haven to groups like the Taliban
and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Again, the Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 and it seeks to unite.
The Muslim world under an Islamist government.
Nearly every single major fundamentalist Sunni Islamic group can trace their roots back to the Muslim Brotherhood.
This is not in dispute.
The references...
By the way, this includes, of course, Hamas.
And so, to this day, the Muslim Brotherhood is thick as thieves with the Qatari royal family, while their mouthpiece, Al Jazeera, publicly pushes Muslim Brotherhood propaganda.
And it all circles back with Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood being directly linked to...
American Muslims for Palestine.
AMP was founded by Hatem Bazyan, we've told you about, who also founded Students for Justice in Palestine.
So there is a very clear, linear, a direct connection between the state of Qatar and SJP, the group responsible for the outbreak of jihadi protests on American campuses.
You know, the term AstroTurf is thrown around a lot to accuse any type of protest or civil unrest of being fraudulent, being disingenuous.
What does AstroTurf really mean?
It typically means that it's a top-down organized approach to protesting or to marching, striking,
that doesn't really come collectively from people of shared values, but a few shareholders, a few
people with interests at stake who are willingly and they're knowingly exploiting people who don't
know better. Does that apply here?
Well, I think it could be argued that it would be astroturf if you believed that these were
simply unruly, slightly violent protests with students on campus who effectively want to be
Marxists and toss their lot in with any leftist cause, who are organically coming together
under a common cause and maybe have some backers who give them a few water bottles.
and we'll see you next time.
And sandwiches every now and then.
Maybe could be argued, AstroTurf.
But what we are seeing is a movement controlled, designed from the top down by massive, multi-million dollar organizations, entities, with a vested interest in exploiting young Americans who don't know any better.
Moreover, foreign governments With a vested interest in continued global terrorism, donating, financing to the tune of billions of dollars, the infrastructure on American campuses across this country.
It's not just that you have people out there who don't understand the conflict in the Middle East, and perhaps don't have an educated or nuanced view, that's the buzzword of the day, along with gaslighting.
It's that these young people are precluded from knowing, and if they happen to find out, speaking the truth on anything happening globally in this conflict or on campus because of the funding coming from these organizations who don't just have, let's say, a bleeding heart for the Palestinian people.
I think everybody can see what's going on there.
If you're a decent person, your heart breaks for the innocent involved.
Of course.
No.
These multi-billion dollar international governments and pseudo-national organizations have a vested interest and have disclosed support for organizations, for movements like the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
They've been caught.
It's not that they disagree with some of you.
This is a movement funded from the top down because it hates America.
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