Pro-Palestinian groups like those spreading hate at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting this week, have been lavishly funded by the Rockefeller family’s main charity.
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has links to two groups designated by the Israeli government as “terrorist organizations,” a review of public records by The Post shows.
Founded in 1940, the famous clan fund is worth $1.3 billion — of which Justin, Wyatt and David Rockefeller Jr. sits on the board of trustees — has given more than $2.6 million since 2018 directly or indirectly to at least six anti-Israel organizations, some of them which openly celebrated the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on the Jewish state.
The Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, whose logo was emblazoned on an ad promoting Wednesday’s rally, is a “fiscally sponsored project” of the nonprofit Alliance for Global Justice.
Pro-Palestinian protesters at the “Tree Lighting Flood For Gaza Protest” near the Rockefeller Center tree lighting ceremony on November 29, 2023. James Keivom
In August 2022, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund gave the Alliance $100,000.
Israel designated Samidoun as a terrorist organization in February 2021 and Germany banned it last month.
Samidoun, founded in 2011, condemned the United Kingdom in 2021 for classifying Hamas as a terrorist organization, and cheered the terrorist invasion on Oct. 7:
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund funds several pro-Palestinian groups. Getty Images
“Resistance is increasing throughout occupied Palestine. . . against the occupiers by land and air, occupying Palestinian lands, seizing settlers and occupation forces and launching thousands of missiles as Palestinian resistance forces fight for the return and liberation of Palestine,” Samidoun said on the day Hamas terrorists killed more than 1,200 people. Israeli civilians.
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has awarded at least $215,000 to Defense For Children International-Palestine, according to their website and IRS tax forms.
The Israeli government declared the group a terrorist organization in October 2021.
Undeterred, the fund is issuing a new $50,000 grant to the organization in 2022.
“This is unfortunately a case of reaping what is sown. They might be fine with this group of lefties, protesting other people,” said City Councilman Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island). “The lesson we can all take from this is that the awakened are not our friends.”
The fund has given at least $490,000 in “public support” to Jewish Voice for Peace, according to public grant disclosures on its website since 2019.
Rockefeller Center’s Christmas lighting was disrupted by pro-Hamas protesters this week. Getty Images The Rockefeller Brothers Fund defended their donation, citing their commitment to DEI. Getty Images
Despite its name, the group is a notoriously anti-Israel organization and a front to mainstream antisemitic ideas, critics say.
A Grand Central demonstration organized by the group in October led to more than 300 arrests.
“Jewish Voice for Peace is a radical anti-Israel and anti-Zionist activist group that supports the boycott of Israel and the elimination of Zionism. The JVP does not represent the mainstream Jewish community, which it sees as bigoted because of its association with Israel,” according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The group has been banned by Columbia University for repeatedly holding “threatening” campus events, the school said last month.
Many groups funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund have publicly expressed their support for Hamas terrorism. James Keivom
The fund has also donated at least $515,000 to The Tides Center, which is specifically earmarked to support Palestine Legal, a pro-Palestinian advocacy group, records show. The nonprofit called the Oct. 7 attack “one of the most important acts of Palestinian resistance.”
“There is no parallel – moral or otherwise – between almost eight decades of relentless Israeli colonial violence, and the resistance it has engendered,” Palestine Legal said on Oct. 10.
“It is the height of irony that the Rockefeller Foundation supports the anti-Israel, Soros-funded Tides Foundation and many other Israel-bashing Israeli antisemitic groups, which are now staging an ugly, disgusting, vile display of Jew-hatred at the Christmas Tree event at Rockefeller Center,” Mort said. Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America. “Just dessert I said.”
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund also sent at least $710,000 to The Justice Project Is and $605,000 to Middle East Policy Network (also known as Al-Shabaka).
Both organizations celebrated the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in public statements.
The fund defended the grant and noted that it donates to more mainstream Israeli groups as well, such as J-Street and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
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“We categorically reject any allegations that our recipient organizations support, materially or ideologically, acts of terrorism,” said spokeswoman Sarah Edkins “Advancing diversity, equity and inclusion for all races, ethnicities and genders is central to our mission, and RBF takes it very seriously heavy on the growing signs of antisemitism.”
Edkins added, “The Fund’s only relationship with the Alliance for Global Justice is as a fiscal sponsor for one recipient of our Sustainable Development program, South Bronx Unite.”
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