Posted on 04/28/2024 8:59:03 AM PDT by bitt
No one familiar with the state of modern academia can be much surprised by the wave of anti-Israel tent-city occupations sweeping US campuses — but that doesn’t make them 100% “organic.”
And The Post’s discovery that lefty philanthropists are funding student “protest leaders” may be just the tip of an iceberg.
Encampments at Harvard, Yale, UC-Berkeley, Ohio State and Emory in Georgia were organized by branches of Students for Justice in Palestine, which gets cash (some direct, some indirect) from the Soros family “charities” as well as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and retired Wall Street banker Felice Gelman.
Gelman and the Soroses also give to Jewish Voice for Peace and Within Our Lifetime, two more groups intimately involved in the protests.
At least three organizers — Malak Afaneh (Berkeley), Craig Birckhead-Morton (Yale) and Nidaa Lafi (University of Texas-Dallas) — are paid fellows of another lefty-philanthropy favorite, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights.
USCPR community and college fellows earn stipends of $2,880 to $7,800 for work organizing campaigns to demand cutting ties to Israel.
Though most of the campus occupiers are themselves plenty privileged, the “charitable giving” helps explain why the demonstrators get to protest in style: sleeping in Amazon-ordered tents, enjoying delivery pizza, coffee from Dunkin’, free sandwiches from Pret a Manger, organic tortilla chips and $10 rotisserie chickens.
Abby Hoffman, eat your heart out: Campus agitators never had it so good.
Cash and leadership tips may come from other sources, too: At least one expert suspects foreign assistance, funding and influence based on the simultaneous protests hitting at Passover, the appearance of common tents at the encampments and the use of talking points similar to those of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders.
And of course any “progressive” protest, especially in a college town or major city, is likely to attract
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Conservative AGs should be prosecuting Soros for aiding, abetting, accessory, rioting etc.
“ $10 rotisserie chickens”
I don’t know about you, but I usually find these roasted chickens to be way to dry and they stick in my throat. I hope Soros has found a high class chef who can prepare moist roast chicken.
Jewish students should sue all of the above for assault, conspiracy and violation of their civil rights. Soros’s wealth would not be enough to pay the damages I would award.
Give Soros and son the third eye!
If we know Soros and his satellite orgs are the ones funding these protests at the Poison Ivy Leagues, then why isn’t he and the rest of his minions rotting in a remote prison somewhere for sponsoring terror organizations?
Of course the answer is simple: Soros owns the DoJ, too.
Not George Soros, but Junior & his girlfriend Huma!
I got my Chinese slave labor made tent, ordered through a 1/2 trillion dollar business, my Dunkin Donuts coffee, food delivered by an international business, money from a multi billionaire...
Time to go fight the 1%, defeat capitalism, and free Isreal from those pesky Jews.
Did anyone ever trace the origins of the pallets of rocks set on sidewalks so the BLM protesters could “happen” to find them and start throwing them? 🔥🔥🏬🚒🚓
Vans with “A Soros Company” in the side lettering might be a clue.
Text to all protesters:
Make Mr.Soros Proud.📲
(kidding)
You are completely wrong.
I have been around real communists.
They live in unheated one room apartments so they can give everything to “the revolution”.
All of these people have multiple mansions.
How arrogant of you to write to me that you will “fix” what I wrote.
When have we had enough of this parasite and his family
It is another form of bribery called appeasement. That is money being siphoned out of the treasury and adding to the national debt. It's a sign of weakness that emboldens our enemies. They see it as the picador's lance goring the bull before the kill shot. It will cost us dearly.
"Buen picador!"
"Soros was a member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross, which collaborated wit the Nazis and sent Hungarian Jews to their deaths after stealing their property. Soros spent what he called the best year of his life as a member of the Arrow Cross stealing property from actual Jews."
That "George Soros was a member of 'Arrow Cross'" seems to be a rumor without evidence online.
Do you know an official Israeli source? Thanks.
https://www.book-blog.com/2023/08/book-notices-masquerade-by-tivadar-soros.html
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Tivadar Soros, Masquerade: Dancing Around Death in Nazi-Occupied Hungary
In his memoir Masquerade, Tivadar Soros (the father of George Soros) writes about his experiences during the ten-month period between March 1944, when the Nazis occupied Hungary, and January 1945, when the Russians arrived in Soros's neighborhood in Budapest.
Soros determined early on that his and his family's best chance for surviving the war would be to try to pass themselves off as Christians and live apart from one another, a plan that involved a lot of back-and-forthing with document forgers and landlords.
Soros was quick-witted and resourceful, and he managed to save his family and a great number of other people besides.
His account of the machinations that were needed to do so and his run-ins with different characters—a master forger, a 17-year-old German soldier, a woman on a park bench who had escaped from Germany—is surprisingly readable, and although one is hit in the face by details of man's inhumanity to man while reading, it is also a surprisingly hopeful book.
Soros was born Tivadar (or Teodor) Schwartz in 1893. In 1936, in an attempt to make themselves less of a target for anti-Semitism, Tivadar and his family changed their name from Schwartz to Soros, a name with meanings in both Hungarian ("the one who is next in line") and Esperanto ("will soar"). (This early attempt to camouflage themselves presages the tactics the family would adopt in 1944.)
Tivadar had learned Esperanto during World War I and founded the Esperanto journal Literatura Mondo in 1922. Masquerade was written in Esperanto and published in 1965 as Maskerado ĉirkaŭ la morto: Nazimondo en Hungarujo ("Masquerade Around Death: The Nazi World in Hungary").
Humphrey Tonkin edited and translated this English version, which was published in 2000. Tonkin also adds an excellent afterword in which he puts Tivadar's story in its larger historical context and summarizes the author's life outside the period here described.
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“ sauros is the Greek word for “lizard.”
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