One of the largest left-wing dark money networks has funneled more than $10 million to anti-Israel causes over the past five years, according to records reviewed by The Post, as the embattled Jewish state faced calls for its destruction in demonstrations across the US during the war against Hamas terrorists.
Washington, DC-based Arabella Advisors contributes to various progressive nonprofits through the New Venture Fund, Hopewell Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, North Fund and Windward Fund, which has given a combined $10,833,396 to anti-Israel groups since 2018.
The nonprofit continues to support radical Palestinian activist groups linked to terrorism and has struggled against US support for Israel in the wake of the October 7 terror attack by Hamas jihadists that killed more than 1,400 people — including at least 33 Americans.
One of the largest liberal dark money networks has donated more than $10 million to anti-Israel causes over the past five years, according to records reviewed by The Post.AFP via Getty Images The embattled Jewish state has faced US protests and calls for its destruction amid- in the middle of his war with Hamas terrorists.AFP via Getty Images
The biggest share went to NEO Philanthropy, which raised $5,161,465 from four of five funds since 2018, and runs a project founded by antisemitic activist Linda Sarsour.
MPower Change, Sarsour project, spread false information from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry on deaths from a missile that hit a hospital last week — even as US intelligence and the Israeli military confirmed that terrorists fired the rocket.
The group also promoted a rally led by the Democratic Socialists of America in New York City this month, where protesters displayed antisemitic signs including Nazi swastikas.
Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust, which asked the IRS to investigate Arabella Advisors in August, told The Post that donors to the dark money network “should be ashamed that their money is going to an organization that is leading an overtly antisemitic, pro- terrorist rally.”
“The network should immediately demand their money back from this radical group, and Arabella’s financial backers should reconsider the cost of supporting a network that tacitly supports a disturbing hate movement directed at Jewish communities across our country,” Sutherland said.
The biggest share went to NEO Philanthropy, which raised $5,161,465 from four of five funds since 2018, and runs a project founded by antisemitic activist Linda Sarsour.MediaNews Group via Getty Images
Another activist group, One Arizona, has received $2,327,000 from New Venture Fund, Hopewell Fund and Windward Fund since 2018, according to tax filings obtained by ProPublica.
The group sponsors Arizona Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander for Equity, which called on followers in an Instagram post “to support Palestine and fight western imperialism.”
During Israel’s last conflict with Hamas in May 2021, the Alliance for Youth Action, which has taken $2,200,000 from the Sixteen Thirty Fund since 2018, refers to a rocket attack launched from Gaza as a “struggle for liberation.”
The group also promoted a rally led by the Socialist Democrats of America in New York City this month, where protesters displayed antisemitic signs including a Nazi swastika.AP
The Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which received $400,000 in 2019 and 2020, also said amid the conflict that “Israel’s occupation” and US support for “genocide” against Palestinians is “unjustified.”
The Alliance for Global Justice also took in $473,000 from the Windward Fund and the New Venture Fund, tax filings from 2020 and 2021 show, even as it sponsors Israel’s designated terrorist group, Samidoun.
“We condemn terrorism and violence against civilians in all forms and do not support any projects or provide any grants to organizations that finance terrorism,” Lee Bodner, president of the New Venture Fund, told The Post in a statement.
“The New Venture Fund is ceasing grants to any projects hosted by the Alliance for Global Justice.”
“The Windward Fund no longer provides grants for organizations sponsored by the Alliance for Global Justice,” Lynn McNair, president of the Windward Fund, also told the Post in a statement.
“Our organization does not support terrorism of any kind and strongly condemns any violence against civilians.”
The Washington Examiner first reported the terror link last year, prompting Mastercard, Visa, American Express and Paypal to block Samidoun from their payment processing services.
The Alliance for Global Justice has responded to the Hamas attack by referring to its military response as a “Zionist attack.” Alliance for Global Justice
The Alliance for Global Justice has responded to the Hamas attack by circulating a statement from Venezuelan authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro against Israel and referring to its military response as a “Zionist attack.”
Another group, Grassroots for Global Justice, has taken $110,000 since 2019 from the Windward Fund, according to tax filings, funneling the money to organizations like the Palestinian Youth Movement, which blames Israel for Hamas atrocities and holds rallies in Washington, DC, and New York City .
“They have tanks; we have hang gliders,” said a speaker for the Palestinian Youth Movement at a protest in the Big Apple, referring to Hamas terrorists who paraglidered into an Israeli music festival to kill 260 civilians.
The Palestinian Youth Movement blamed Israel for Hamas atrocities and held rallies in Washington, DC, and New York City.AFP via Getty Images
“Glory to all resistance fighters,” said the speaker.
The IfNotNow movement, which has raised $62,000 since 2020 from the Sixteen Thirty Fund, helped organize protests earlier this month at the White House and the US Capitol and has stated that the “Israeli apartheid system” fueled the terrorist attacks.
The New Venture Fund also gave $40,000 to the Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which shared a template on Instagram to help others denounce school administrators or employers who issued statements “in support of Israel.”
Muslims for Progressive Values suggests reports of Hamas raping women and burning Israeli parents and children alive are false.REUTERS
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (R-Mich.), who has refused to retract her own false statements about the Gaza hospital explosion, will also be the keynote speaker at the Arizona CAIR banquet on Nov. 18.
Other groups such as the Education Network for Liberation and Muslims for Progressive Values, which received about $60,000 from the New Venture Fund combined, have taught schoolchildren that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a “struggle against occupation” and suggested that the Hamas report rape women and burn Israeli parents and the living children are false.
Arabella Advisors reported more than $1 billion in revenue in 2020, according to its tax filing. Founded in 2005 by former Clinton administration official Eric Kessler, the for-profit firm is not required to disclose its donors, although left-wing billionaires George Soros and Pierre Omidyar have offered to donate millions of dollars voluntarily to the fund.
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