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The Alliance for Global Justice (AGJ), which serves as the fiscal sponsor for a group the U.S. government recently determined is an arm of a Palestinian terrorist organization, has received nearly $20 million from liberal American philanthropies since 2020.

Left-of-center nonprofits like the Soros family’s Open Society Foundations and charities with ties to the Democratic Party have poured millions into AGJ in recent years, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of tax documents. Samidoun, which AGJ fiscally sponsors, took charitable contributions from donors and routed them to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, the Treasury Department announced on Tuesday.

Fiscal sponsorship is an arrangement that allows an established nonprofit, such as AGJ, to process tax-deductible donations for another group that has not registered as a charity with the Internal Revenue Service, according to the American Bar Association. Under the most common form of fiscal sponsorship agreement, the sponsor and the organization being sponsored are considered to be the same legal entity, with the sponsor being responsible for conducting oversight on its projects.

Donations from left-of-center charities to AGJ fell into roughly three categories. Some nonprofits gave AGJ funds to support its general operations, many provided donations to support its work in a given issue area and others earmarked their contribution for a specific fiscally sponsored group housed by it. In any case, AGJ collects an 8% cut of all donations intended for its various projects.

A handful of the contributions to AGJ suggest that the cash may have gone directly to Samidoun. The Soros-funded Detention Watch Network, for instance, donated roughly $127,000 to the organization to fund its “anti-detention work,” tax documents show.

Samidoun bills itself as “working to build solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in their struggle for freedom,” which is a form of “anti-detention work.”

Canada went a step further than the United States and designated Samidoun as a terrorist organization. AGJ listed Samidoun on its now-deleted page of projects as of at least late 2023, according to an archive of the organization’s website.

Many of the organizations that financially supported AGJ, beyond having a left-of-center ideological bent, also have ties to major players in the Democratic Party.

Windward Fund and New Venture Fund, two arms of the Democratic-aligned dark money network managed by the consulting firm Arabella Advisors, gave roughly $1.5 million to AGJ for non-specific programs between 2020 and 2022, tax disclosures show. The Tides Center, a component of one of the largest liberal nonprofit networks by revenue, gave about $1.4 million to AGJ between 2020 and 2022. About half of Tides’ contributions to AGJ went to non-descript “human rights” projects with the remainder earmarked for the Louisville Community Bail Fund.

“As we have said before, we condemn terrorism and violence against civilians in all forms and do not support any projects or provide any grants to organizations that fund terrorism,” a New Venture Fund spokesperson told the DCNF. “While our previous grants to Alliance for Global Justice supported domestic energy work specifically, New Venture Fund has discontinued all grantmaking to any projects hosted by Alliance for Global Justice.”

Windward Fund provided a similar statement, saying that it “does not support terrorism in any form and strongly denounces any violence against civilians” and that it “no longer provides grants for organizations that are sponsored by the Alliance for Global Justice. ”

ActBlue Charities, a charitable donation processor maintained by the company behind the largest Democratic contribution processing platform, directed roughly $56,000 to AGJ in 2021, tax documents show. The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, the charitable arm of the famously pro-Democratic ice cream brand, donated $55,000 to AGJ in 2022 for “general support.”

Prior to the Treasury Department flagging it as a terrorist front group, Samidoun had been scrutinized for its ties to the PFLP by watchdog groups and the Israeli government. The PFLP has ordered suicide bombings, hijacked planes and shot rockets at civilians, according to the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

The PFLP “uses Samidoun to maintain fundraising operations in both Europe and North America,” the Treasury Department announced Tuesday. Watchdogs had previously reported that multiple Samidoun leaders maintained ties with the PFLP and one of the organization’s cofounders called Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel “a brave and heroic operation.”

Charities linked to major Democratic donors George Krupp and Michael Moritz also funded AGJ, tax documents reveal. The Crankstart and Krupp Family foundations, the family foundations of Moritz and Krupp respectively, donated a combined total of over $200,000 to AGJ between 2020 and 2022. The Loud Hound Foundation, where Moritz serves as secretary and treasurer, donated an additional $25,000 to AGJ in 2020.

Open Society Foundations, founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros and now led by Alex Soros, gave AGJ $250,000 in 2020 to help it “catalyze Black communities into the global movement for climate justice,” grant records show. Both George Soros and his son Alex Soros are major contributors to Democratic political committees, according to campaign finance records. Open Society Foundations gave a quarter million to the Al-Haq Human Rights Organization, an Israeli-designated terrorist group, in 2023.

“There is strict U.S. anti-terrorist legislation that determines which organizations a foundation like OSF can fund,” an Open Society Foundations spokesperson told the DCNF. “We devote a lot of effort to ensuring full compliance. None of our partners have ever been designated under U.S. law as supporting terrorism.”

The spokesperson clarified that its payments to AGJ were “completely unrelated to Israel and Palestine.”

Samidoun’s Seattle chapter, in conjunction with other pro-Palestinian activists, blockaded a key American port in Tacoma, Washington in November 2023 in an attempt to stop aid from reaching Israel.

At least one of the organizations funding AGJ even has financial links to the Biden-Harris administration. Social And Environmental Entrepreneurs, which gave $335,000 to AGJ for a “collaboration grant” in 2022, received $50 million from the Environmental Protection Agency in 2023 to “fund environmental justice projects.”

“Organizations like Samidoun masquerade as charitable actors that claim to provide humanitarian support to those in need, yet in reality divert funds for much-needed assistance to support terrorist groups,” Acting Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Bradley T. Smith said. “The United States, together with Canada and our like-minded partners, will continue to disrupt those who seek to finance the PFLP, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations.”

As a result of Tuesday’s sanctions, all transactions between U.S. persons and Samidoun are prohibited.

Samidoun, AGJ, Detention Watch Network, Windward Fund, Arabella Advisors, ActBlue, the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, the Tides Center, the Crankstart Foundation and the Krupp Family Foundation did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.

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Biden’s White House hosted several ‘defund the police’ activists over the past year, visitor logs show

Biden aides have repeatedly met with anti-police activists

By Cameron Cawthorne , Joe Schoffstall | Fox News June 13, 2022:

Despite maintaining public distance from the “defund the police” movement, President Biden’s administration has quietly maintained relationships with some of the driving forces behind the far-left movement, White House visitor logs reviewed by Fox News Digital show.

Several defund the police activists have visited the Biden White House and met with top aides over the last year, White House visitor logs show.

While Biden has largely espoused pro-police rhetoric during his time in office, he has tapped left-wingers in sync with the defund movement to key positions in his administration.

In late May, he signed a sweeping police reform executive order that drew mixed reactions from police groups.

And throughout it all, anti-police activists appear to have had a direct line to the White House.

Rashad Robinson, president of left-wing racial justice group Color of Change, visited the White House last summer for what appeared to be a meeting with Cedric Richmond, a top Biden adviser who recently departed as the director of public engagement.
Both Democratic lawmakers and members of the media have pushed the movement to defund police.

Both Democratic lawmakers and members of the media have pushed the movement to defund police.

Color of Change has been among the most active groups advocating to defund the police. In 2021, they were at the forefront of the unsuccessful push to “dismantle” and replace the Minneapolis Police Department, an effort that was fueled by $500,000 from George Soros’ Open Society Policy Center.

BIDEN EXECUTIVE ORDER DEFUNDS THE POLICE BY ANOTHER NAME

“We know that policing doesn’t keep us safe, communities do,” reads a Color of Change petition calling on supporters to demand their local officials start the defunding process. “Policing doesn’t lead to thriving communities, investment does.”

“We must begin to envision the society that functions for ALL of us and we must begin by divesting from and dismantling the systems that unjustly harm Black people,” the petition says.

Robinson has also celebrated the birthday of convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur by calling for progressive groups to get “bolder” and “louder” in their demands for police abolition and their “plans for revolution.”

Shakur, a hero among anti-police activist groups, is a former Black Liberation Army leader who was the mastermind behind several armed robberies in Connecticut and New York. In 1981, the Brinks robbery resulted in the slayings of an armed guard and two police officers.

Shakur was convicted for the 1973 murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster but later escaped prison and was granted asylum in Cuba by the late Fidel Castro. Shakur, whose married name is Joanne Chesimard, is on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list and carries a $1 million reward for information that could lead to her apprehension.

Robinson is also on the board of the Marguerite Casey Foundation, a Seattle-based left-wing grantmaking group, which he joined alongside Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. After they both became governors of the foundation, the board unanimously voted to expand its anti-police efforts.

The Marguerite Casey Foundation, meanwhile, also has a member who has visited the White House, according to its visitor logs.

Carmen Rojas, the President and CEO of the Marguerite Casey Foundation and a vocal supporter of defunding the police, visited the White House in December 2021 and appeared to meet with Nia Page, a Special Assistant to Richmond before his departure last month to join the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

“We must be unwavering in our commitment to freedom,” Rojas tweeted in April 2021. “The best way to realize it is to defund the police and support abolition. Period.”