Some activists protesting on American university campuses in support of jihadist group Hamas’ goals received support and training from ADN America, Cuba report Tuesday.
ADN America named Manolo de los Santos, a far-left activist believed to have incited the anti-government movement. storm He was appointed professor emeritus at Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall in late April because of his deep ties to the Castro regime and its representative president, Miguel Díaz Canel, and his long track record of multi-year political activity in Cuba.
De los Santos is the executive director of the far-left People’s Forum, a far-left organization that is highly sympathetic to the Cuban Communist Party and the Chinese Communist Party and describes itself as a “cultivator of movements for the working class and marginalized communities.” be.
ADN America said its report report it is new york post published The newspaper reported Sunday that the People’s Forum is calling on anti-Israel demonstrators on campus to “rekindle the bloody Black Lives Matter riots of summer 2020.”
Insane!Protesters at Columbia University break windows and barricade themselves inside the building.
The People’s Forum is one of several far-left organizations in the world. cutting edge It is part of a wave of anti-Israel protests that erupted in the wake of Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, which left more than 1,200 people dead and hundreds taken hostage.
ADN America reported that the People’s Forum organized a protest in New York’s Times Square the day after the October 7 attack, with participants waving placards containing anti-Semitic slogans and images while calling out Hamas’ actions. praised.
According to information from 2015 interview, de los Santos was born in the Dominican Republic and moved with his family to the South Bronx, New York, when he was five years old. The far-left activist reportedly first visited Cuba in 2006 through Chaplains for Peace, part of the National Network of Cuba (NNOC), a coalition of pro-Castro regime organizations in the United States.
At the Matanzas Evangelical Seminary in Cuba, de los Santos studied Marxist-led liberation theology. explain It was created by the Russian KGB to “enroll Latin leaders” in spying operations in the former Soviet Union.
“[De Los Santos] It has been trip Has been coming to Cuba since at least 2009 and has a remarkable Features “It was published in the Cuban regime’s press for almost a decade,” ADN America said in its report.
“According to reports, he returned to the United States and tidy “There have been rallies in the United States in support of the Cuban regime, and he is an ardent admirer of Fidel Castro,” the report continued.
“Fidel is a great role model for us” de los Santos Said “If only all leaders were like him, and many of them had the dignity and integrity of their commanders.”
Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuba’s iconic president, received In July 2022, de los Santos and other far-left activists launched a campaign to “build a new consensus on the path to socialism, based on theory and on the different experiences of social movements and countries.” There is.
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More than 300 activists from the United States will participate in May 2023 traveled As part of Cuba’s communist “May Day” activities, he traveled to Cuba with the People’s Forum and met with Diaz-Canel. Photos of the event published by the Cuban Communist Party newspaper show the Palestinian flag. grandmother, Published.
After 10 days of learning from the Cuban people and President Miguel Diaz-Canel, he left Cuba.
Great challenges lie ahead for America’s youth. We have a responsibility to break this genocidal blockade once and for all, for the survival of the Cuban people and for the future of humanity. pic.twitter.com/XG8ensZtyd
— Manolo de los Santos (@manolo_realengo) May 3, 2023
“Our promise when we return home is not only to speak out, but to organize a different political project in the United States. We will always be on Cuba’s side,” de los Santos said in an interview at the time. Ta.
The far-left People’s Forum received a $12 million donation from pro-China tech mogul Neville Roy Singham through the People’s Support Foundation (PSF).Singham is a major financial institution patron Regarding the ongoing anti-Israel protests in the United States.
CODEPINK founder Jody Evans (left) and ThoughtWorks founder Neville Roy Singham (right) at V20:The Attended the Red Party. (Dave Kotinski/V-Day Getty Images)
In addition to de los Santos, ADN Cuba mentions communist activist Onyesonwu Chatoyel as a member of both the Castro-affiliated Venceremos Brigades and the All African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP).
“There was never a moment when we doubted the need for a struggle to crush Zionism,” Chatoyer said. Said In an interview in March.
“Our opposition to Zionism is about solidarity with Palestine and all peoples fighting settler colonialism and imperialism,” she insisted at another point in the interview.
ADN pointed out that there is another far-left organization currently organizing against Israel, the Peace Action Network. gatheringhave was taken Some of the activists have taken “solidarity trips” to Cuba in the past.
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