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White House Releases Names of Funders of ANTIFA

Citizen Watch Report’s wrote:

White House releases names funding Antifa, protests and violence in America. We paid for our own protests with over $100 million laundered by Democrats.

We found a network of NGOs.

  • George Soros, the Open Society Network
  • Arabella Funding Network
  • The Tides FIShing Network
  • Neville Roy Singham and his network
  • Johann Georg “Hansjörg” Wyss a billionaire donor in Switzerland
  • Additional Foreign Cash

The China – Antifa Connection

The Washington Stand’s S.A. McCarthy reported:

Another Antifa funding source is ex-Microsoft executive Neville Roy Singham, who fled the U.S. and is now based in China, where he has strong links and financial ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and reportedly engages in generating CCP propaganda. Singham has distributed at least $100 million to various U.S.-based protest groups, including those linked to Antifa. Swiss pharmaceutical billionaire Hansjörg Wyss has also been linked to funding Antifa affiliates, according to Brunner. Other “Riot Inc.” investors allegedly covertly funding Antifa activism include the Democrat-aligned Arabella Advisors Network, the progressive grant-maker Tides Foundation, and foreign funding sources, such as Antifa International.

“Like any corporation, rioting has many divisions. It doesn’t just have the Antifa boots-on-the-ground division, it has PR divisions, it has marketing divisions, it has a very well-funded legal division to get these boots-on-the-ground back on the streets as quickly as possible,” Brunner told the president. “This money helps fund the decentralized crowdfunding platforms,” he added, referring to reportedly foreign-influenced crowdfunding networks that provide Antifa members and affiliates with gear and materials for riots and coverage for bail and legal fees. “Just because they don’t have LLCs or EIN numbers doesn’t mean they can’t get paid. Some of these crowdfunding platforms are funded by this network that we call Riot Inc.”

In comments to The Washington Stand, Brunner explained, “Antifa isn’t some spontaneous grassroots movement, it’s a coordinated network with funding streams that trace back to powerful interests, both foreign and domestic.” He continued, “Our research has shown that many of the same nonprofit and dark money structures that bankroll left-wing protest movements in the U.S. also support Antifa-aligned groups abroad. Money flows through cutouts: so-called ‘anti-fascist’ groups in Europe, donor-advised funds in the U.S., and even crowdfunding networks designed to obscure donors.”

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According to Discover the Networks:

The Open Society Foundations (OSF) were founded as the Open Society Institute in 1993 by the multibillionaire hedge-fund manager George Soros, and took its current name in 2010. When Soros attended the London School of Economics (LSE) beginning in 1947, he was exposed to the works of the Viennese-born philosopher Karl Popper, who taught at LSE, and whom Soros would later call his “spiritual mentor.”[1] Most notably, Popper’s 1945 book The Open Society and Its Enemies introduced Soros to the concept of an “open society,” which affected him greatly.[2]

The term “open society” had been originally coined in 1932 by the French philosopher Henri Louis Bergson, to describe societies whose moral codes were founded upon “universal” principles seeking to enhance the welfare of all mankind—as opposed to “closed” societies that placed self-interest above any concern for other nations and cultures.[3]

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Today Soros’s Open Society Foundations are active in more than 70 countries around the world.[10]  OSF is chiefly devoted to injecting capital into U.S.-based groups and causes. In his book Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism, Soros explains that the “open society” which he has consistently sought to advance by means of philanthropy, “stands for freedom, democracy, rule of law, human rights, social justice, and social responsibility as a universal idea.”[11]

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Scott Walter in his book Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Transforming America reports:

While figures like George Soros, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg are known for their hefty political donations, few Americans have heard of Arabella Advisors. Even more powerful than these standalone billionaires, Arabella is a secretive “dark money” operation that channels megadonor funds into leftist political causes via pop-up groups designed to look like innocent grassroots outfits.

The sheer quantity of money that has flowed through Arabella’s channels is staggering. In the 2020 election cycle, Arabella’s nonprofits took in $2.4 billion, more than the fundraising of the Democratic and Republican National Committees combined. In the 2022 election cycle, Arabella’s fundraising rose to $3 billion.

In this book, Scott Walter reveals the major role that Arabella has played in battles over Supreme Court nominations, abortion, women’s sports, school discipline, Medicare for All, environmental policies, fake local news outlets, “Zuck Bucks” that manipulate election offices, and much more.

This mountain of money and influence aimed at transforming America explains why even left-leaning major media are alarmed. Arabella is “the indisputable heavyweight of Democratic dark money,” warns the Atlantic. A “dark-money behemoth,” says Politico. An “opaque network,” says the New York Times, that funnels “hundreds of millions of dollars through a daisy chain of groups supporting Democrats and progressive causes.”

Citizens from across the political spectrum will be shocked to learn how Arabella has covertly developed the darkest of “dark money” networks.

You may purchase Arabella at Encounter Books or Amazon.

Copilot Search reports:

Neville Roy Singham, born on May 13, 1954, is an American businessman and social activist known for founding ThoughtWorks, an IT consulting company, and for his involvement in various political and social causes.

Education<

Neville Roy Singham was born in the United States to Sri Lankan father, Archibald Wickeramaraja Singham, political scientist and historian, and Cuban mother, Shirley Hune. He attended Howard University, where he pursued degree in political science, and later continued his studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In his youth, he was involved with the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Black nationalist-Maoist group, and worked at Chrysler plant in Detroit.

Career

Singham founded ThoughtWorks in the late 1980s, which was incorporated in 1993. The company specializes in custom software development and consulting services. Under his leadership, ThoughtWorks grew significantly, opening offices in various countries, including China, and employing thousands of people. In 2017, he sold ThoughtWorks for $785 million to private equity firm.

From 2001 to 2008, Singham served as strategic technical consultant for Huawei, major Chinese telecommunications company. His work with ThoughtWorks and Huawei positioned him as significant figure in the tech industry. 

Activism and Controversies

Singham is known for his socialist views and support for Maoism. He has been involved in funding media outlets and organizations that promote pro-Chinese government narratives. In recent years, he has faced scrutiny for his alleged connections to the Indian news website NewsClick, which has been accused of disseminating Chinese propaganda. In November 2023, he was summoned for questioning by the Enforcement Directorate in India regarding money laundering case linked to NewsClick. 

Personal Life

Neville Roy Singham is married to Jodie Evans, co-founder of the anti-war organization Code Pink. They married in 2017, and their wedding was attended by several notable figures. Singham has a son, Nathan Singham, who works for the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, which he funds. Currently, he resides in Shanghai, China, where he continues his business and activism.
Singham’s life and career reflect blend of entrepreneurial success and political activism, making him notable figure in discussions about technology, media, and international relations.

Discover the Networks reports:

Hansjorg Wyss was born in Bern, Switzerland on September 19, 1935. He earned an MS degree in Civil and Structural Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1959, and an MBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business in 1965. After completing his education, Wyss was employed in the textile industry in places like Pakistan, Turkey, and the Philippines. He also worked in the steel industry in Belgium, during which time he ran a side business selling airplanes. One of his buyers was a surgeon who in 1960 had co-founded the Swiss medical-device manufacturer Synthes; this encounter eventually led to Wyss becoming the founder and president of Synthes’s U.S. division in 1977.

In 1998, Mr. Wyss established the Wyss Foundation, which later became a member of the Democracy Alliance, as a philanthropy dedicated to supporting “projects in areas from conservation and education to economic opportunity and social justice.” As of March 2015, Wyss and his Foundation had donated more than $350 million to environmental causes. The recipients of those funds were largely leftist organizations that view capitalism and human industrial activity as inherently destructive of the natural world. In 2010, for instance, Wyss contributed $35 million to help the Trust for Public Land (TPL) and the Nature Conservancy purchase 310,000 acres of private timberlands in northern Montana, to protect grizzly bear and wolverine habitats from encroachment by business and industry. In 2013 he donated $4.25 million to TPL, to purchase oil and gas leases on 58,000 acres Wyoming’s Hoback Basin and thereby protect the region from development. That same year, Wyss spent $2 million to help dismantle the 100-year-old Veazie Dam and thus restore fish passage in Maine’s Penobscot River. And in 2015, Wyss Foundation funds helped the Nature Conservancy purchase 3,184 acres along the Hoh River in Washington, in an effort to increase salmon populations there.[1]

In addition, Mr. Wyss has established a number of endowed chairs in medicine; he supports research, education, and training at numerous universities and hospitals; in 2009 he contributed $125 million to Harvard University to fund the establishment of a biological institute bearing his name; in 2013 he pledged another $125 million to Harvard; and in 2014 he pledged $120 million to help two Swiss universities create a center dedicated to the acceleration of medical breakthroughs.[2]

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Explaining “Everything Leftism”

It’s a simple question: How can “Queers for Palestine,” the slogan on protest signs of pro-Palestinian (or anti-anti-Hamas) protesters, be a thing? (Homosexuality is stigmatized and criminalized in the Palestinian territories, while in Israel it is legal, and in secular spaces not stigmatized. As a practical matter, one would much rather be queer in Tel Aviv than Khan Yunis.)

To answer the question, one must consider the operating ideology of left-wing activism, which for lack of a better term might be called “Everything Leftism.”

An Ideology and a Structure

Everything Leftism operates on two levels, as an ideology and as an institutional structure. As an ideology, it is a corruption of or derivative from intersectionality. As intersectionality views all oppressed identities as linked in compounding dimensions, Everything Leftism views all left-of-center issues as linked in compounding dimensions.

Thus, for the Everything Leftist all issues are mutually dependent. In this view, the interests of 2SLGBTQI+ people in the United States depend on Palestinian sovereignty, which depends on radical decarbonization of the economy, which depends on widespread access to taxpayer-funded abortion, which depends on de facto open borders, which depends on every other issue in the progressive playbook.

As an institutional structure, Everything Leftism operationalizes this ideology in the philanthropic and governmental spaces. Charitable organizations and advocacy groups seeking support from left-wing institutional Big Philanthropy will be pressured to align with Everything Leftism not only on any single issue but on all issues, or at least to silence themselves on issues on which they do not align. Meanwhile, where and when administrations aligned with Big Philanthropy hold power, they will use their discretion in government grantmaking, regulatory policy, and prosecutorial decision making to carry out the tenets of Everything Leftism. The Biden administration has announced and carried out a series of “whole of government” schemes related to Everything Leftism, most notably regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and climate change.

Everything Leftism in Practice

Everything Leftism is much easier to see than to define. Groups associated with left-of-center causes sometimes just “tweet it out,” with graphics in the typical corporate-liberal pastel-style demonstrating how all issues are mutually dependent.

Consider the following image from the Drug Policy Alliance, a drug legalization group tied to George Soros and funded by him and numerous other prominent liberal institutional funders:

Sometimes the issue lists of supposedly single-issue groups show the depths of Everything Leftism. The Sunrise Movement is ostensibly a campaign group for an immediate severe cut in carbon emissions to stop the supposed “climate crisis.” But its list of “our demands” includes “union jobs for all,” “abolish the police,” and “ensuring that indigenous communities are well resourced and safe.” Sunrise Movement claims that these Everything Leftist positions are inherent to its environmental mission, but in reality they are extraneous.

In the labor-union space, this is why the United Auto Workers (UAW), driven to strike in part due to the consequences of the shift to electric vehicle production driven by the American and international governments’ war on cars, supports the “just transition” away from conventional fuels. Labor unions in many ways pioneered Everything Leftism with “social justice unionism.” After John Sweeney, a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member aligned with government-worker unions and unionism’s radical Left, replaced the George Meany-Lane Kirkland center-left Truman-LBJ regime at the AFL-CIO in the 1990s, they turned their dues-funded treasuries into general-purpose piggy banks for left-wing economic and social movements.

In a sense, the Everything Leftist intersectional politics of the DSA replaced the old industrial-class politics of Meany, Kirkland, and their turn-of-the-20th-century predecessor Samuel Gompers. Those industrial-class politics may have been left-of-center—they gave America the capital-P Progressive Movement, the New Deal, and the Great Society, which all had many political-economic problems. But they were also patriotic and recognizably American in their liberalism, as evidenced by Gompers’s resistance to European socialisms of his day and the Meany-Kirkland regime’s work against international Communism during the Cold War. But in the new post-Sweeney era, Big Labor has joined the Everything Leftists, backing causes further left than the liberalism of the Biden administration, and so the UAW demands Israel not defeat Hamas in battle.

Concluding Thoughts

Once the concept of Everything Leftism is introduced, it is easy to find examples. Blaming school choice on “racism, homophobia, and xenophobia”? Everything Leftism. Calling everything “x justice” – “racial justice,” “environmental justice,” “economic justice,” “algorithmic justice”? Everything Leftism. California offering government-funded sex changes to illegal immigrants? Everything Leftism.

Knowledge of Everything Leftism, like knowledge of the related social justice unionism, should teach that there is no prospect of long-term alignment with the Left for moderate concession on a single issue. For a real-world example, ask the Republican and conservative groups that allied with liberals for moderate relaxation of criminal justice policies whether they expected their erstwhile partners to jump headlong into defunding police and de facto legalizing mass criminality in the name of “racial justice.”

But the Permanent Revolution is the demand of the Everything Leftist, so the move to abolish the police was inevitable. That was the ultimate objective for many of the left-wing groups, and it was published in the New York Times as such.

So to answer the opening question, how can “Queers for Palestine” be a thing? Everything Leftists saw an opportunity to combine two or more supposedly oppressed identities into a novel intersectional combination and took it. This happens often and across issues.

Let any conservative seeking to work with (or worse, appease) a left-wing faction beware.

AUTHOR

Michael Watson

Michael is Research Director for Capital Research Center and serves as the managing editor for InfluenceWatch. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, he previously worked for a Washington, D.C. public relations firm.

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