CCP-linked anti-Israel campus protests ‘well funded’: NCRI

A new report from the Network Communicable Disease Research Institute (NCRI) alleges that political parties with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have been implicated in funding and organizing the anti-Israel protests that have disrupted college campuses across the United States in recent weeks. This shows that activist groups played an important role. .

report, The paper, published last week, focuses on the work of “seemingly grassroots activist movements” like Shut It Down for Palestine (SID4P), which was formed after the October 7 Israeli attack.

NCRI described SID4P as an “anti-capitalist, anti-police, anti-government protest movement.” [that] It acts as a hybrid online and real-world network to mobilize frequent demonstrations as well as incrementally scale up direct action campaigns targeting critical infrastructure and public spaces. ”

Operating under the SID4P umbrella are members of the Singham Network, a global web of non-profit organizations, financial sponsors, and related alternative news sources. Neville Roy Singham He is an American-born, Shanghai-based billionaire technology tycoon who is married to Jodi Evans, co-founder of the left-wing anti-war group Code Pink.

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NCRI described Singham as a “conduit” for the Chinese Communist Party’s geopolitical influence.

According to the report, these alternative media play a “central role in SID4P’s online mobilization and cross-platform social expansion.”

The report found that SID4P has ties to “extremist groups” including pro-Palestinian groups in the United States that promote “anti-American and anti-Semitic policies.”

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Organizations associated with the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign influence operations are partially driving the increase in direct actions targeting infrastructure and public spaces, the report found.

Although ostensibly focused on Israel, the broader protests are “part of a well-funded effort to advance revolutionary, anti-government, anti-capitalist policies, with major organizations in the US “It serves as a multi-purpose vehicle for foreign groups hostile to the United States,” the report said. Said.

Code Pink founder Jody Evans and ThoughtWorks founder Neville Roy Singham at Carnegie Hall in New York City on February 14, 2018. (Dave Kotinski/V-Day Getty Images)

The seven core organizations that make up SID4P are called “Convenors”: Al Awda, New York, National Student Movement for Palestine Justice (NSJP), Palestinian Youth Movement Net (PYM), and Palestinian American Community Center, New Jersey. (PACC), a people’s organization. Forum, ANSWER Coalition, and International People’s Assembly (IPA).

The last three groups, according to NCRI, are “conduits through which Chinese Communist Party-affiliated groups can effectively exploit pro-Palestinian activities in the United States to advance broader anti-American, anti-democracy, and anti-capitalist policies.” plays the role of According to NCRI, these convenors have close ideological and financial ties to Singham.

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The People’s Forum has witnessed several anti-Israel protests since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in which members of the terrorist group killed at least 1,200 Israelis and took more than 200 hostages from southern Israel to Gaza. played an organizing role.

Ominously, NCRI predicts that these organizations will continue to stir up fear from the summer of 2024 until the November elections.

Anti-Israel demonstrators gather in Washington Square Park on May 3, 2024 in New York City. New York University’s Palestine Solidarity Coalition organized the demonstration. (Rashid Umar Abbasi, Fox News Digital)

Liora Rez, founder and executive director of Stop Antisemitism, called the anti-Israel demonstrations “a destructive, authoritarian movement seeking to sow chaos in America and Europe under the guise of ‘social justice’ and ‘anti-Semitism.’ He compared it to a “Trojan horse that secretly promotes a certain ideology.” -Colonialism. ”

“Remember that for Islamic extremists, Israel is just a ‘little devil’ and the US is a ‘great devil,’” Rez said, adding that protests are “pre-planned and well-organized. “It is part of a well-funded, unorganized campaign.” To weaken America and Western civilization. ”

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“The tactics used by this China-linked authoritarian network remind me of the Marxist strategies my family experienced in the former Soviet Union,” said Lez, whose family fled the Soviet Union.

“It’s no surprise that both use hatred of the ultimate ‘other,’ Jews, to advance their destructive doctrines,” Rez said.

Anti-Israel demonstrators hold flags on the roof of Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall on April 30, 2024 in New York. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Ivana Stradner, a researcher at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) who studies psychological operations, told Fox News Digital that China is “using covert and coercive means to influence the United States.” He said he is adopting Moscow’s toolkit.

She argued that Chinese influence operations have long focused on building a positive image of the Chinese Communist Party and amplifying the message that the Chinese government only cares about the economy and cooperation.

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“China has taken notice of Russia’s information warfare efforts. China has adapted its strategy to exploit social divisions and polarize the United States,” Stradner said. “Beijing is not missing an opportunity to exploit the division in the United States over Hamas and promote far-left discourse. China has already deployed a similar strategy, amplifying and promoting so-called “systemic racism” in the United States. and would do the same again.”