In the wake of the massive anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, a new wave of anti-Americanism is emerging on college campuses across the country. In this episode, we take a look at the origins of this new wave, and how it s been funded and organized by pro-Israel interests.
00:01:48.000For an end to police brutality and an end to the racist
00:01:52.000UWPD, they send them in to violently arrest
00:01:56.000Now what you're watching is by no stretch of the imagination
00:02:00.000a grassroots or organic social movement
00:02:04.000Oh It's a fake revolution that's been organized from the top down, tied together by dark money, connecting not only shady activists, but multinational NGOs, state actors, and actual terrorists.
00:02:25.000Columbia University President Manoush Shafiq appears before Congress to address the concerns that anti-Semitism is running rampant on her campus.
00:02:35.000When we know that events will happen, we have moved toward requiring Columbia University IDs to access our campus.
00:02:43.000That has prevented outside forces to come and cause trouble, and I think that's a very important reason why most of our demonstrations, in fact the vast majority, have been safe.
00:02:55.000On the very same day, students at Columbia Campus set up what they call the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
00:03:03.000Now, the students pledged to occupy that space at Columbia until, quote, the university divests from companies with ties to Israel.
00:03:13.000The next morning, at the direction of President Shafik, NYPD officers arrest 120 protesters and clear the encampment from the campus.
00:03:23.000However, this intervention by the police does not mark the end of the protests, but the beginning of a radical, violent, anti-Israel, and more importantly, anti-American movement That will sweep college campuses from New York City to Los Angeles, and of course, places like Ann Arbor to Austin.
00:03:47.000The campus and police response to our Necma Day memorial is deplorable.
00:04:17.000It's not just about the memorial, it's about the people.
00:04:18.000The people who came to the memorial, the people who are going to be there, and the people
00:04:19.000who are going to be there to protect Necma Day.
00:04:20.000The people who are going to be there to protect Necma Day.
00:04:23.000And the question is that what are we doing?
00:04:25.000How come we don't have an incubator in this country?
00:04:28.000So to understand this wave, we need to go back to the beginning.
00:04:38.000Columbia, the school, not the country, though, Shakira.
00:04:42.000So the entire purpose of these protests, according to the students of Columbia, was, is, to ransom the university, effectively, to cut ties with any investments linked to Israel in any way, because, according to them, Israel is an oppressive colonizer of the Palestinian people.
00:05:42.000They have to be because they are funded by them.
00:05:46.000So a favorite rallying cry of this pro-Hamas crowd is disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.
00:05:55.000And when they say divest, we'll be using that term quite a bit, they don't just mean from weapons contractors like Lockheed Martin, which would be reasonable.
00:06:04.000They actually put forward a proposal in December 2023 calling for the university to divest completely from companies including, but not limited to, Microsoft, Airbnb, Amazon, Alphabet, that's Google and YouTube.
00:06:20.000And the media, at least initially, tried to convince you that the Columbia protests were peaceful.
00:06:28.000I think that the encampment was honestly one of the beautiful forms of solidarity.
00:06:39.000And it's really just been a very community-centered space.
00:06:44.000And also because of the fact that it is outside, it hadn't disrupted any classes.
00:06:48.000It had really been a very isolated kind of moment where the zone in which we were actually protesting in is the demonstration zone that we are allowed to technically Now that story became a much tougher sell when the
00:07:04.000protesters forcibly occupied Hamilton Hall, a building there on campus.
00:07:08.000The protesters are demanding that Hamilton Hall be demolished.
00:10:54.000And before we dive further, because this is the internet, and I know that there's a squirrel chasing a Super Bowl video you have to get to, let me just give you the layout of the players and the key groups connected to SJP and these campus protests.
00:11:07.000Fair warning, it gets a little bit complicated, because it's supposed to be.
00:11:15.000But here's the bird's eye view that makes it a little easier to follow along.
00:11:19.000Students for Justice in Palestine, SJP, they represent the individual campus groups which are under the umbrella of National Students for Justice in Palestine, which oversees each campus chapter and was created by...
00:11:32.000American Muslims for Palestine, AMP, which works in tandem with its fiscal sponsor, Americans for Justice in Palestine, AJP, both of which were founded by the SJP founder Hatem Bazyan, who recruited board members from three now-defunct Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas-supporting groups, the Holy Land Foundation, Islamic Association of Palestine, and Kind Hearts.
00:11:59.000So, SJP is now operating in, give or take, 250 linked chapters nationwide.
00:12:06.000These SJP campus protesters are all unofficially operating under the National Students for Justice Palestine, and SJP, but we'll get to that group later on.
00:12:15.000So, of course, SJP is not the only culprit, but They are the hub to which all the spokes connect, the mainframe, if you will.
00:12:25.000Let me give you a bit of the SJP origins.
00:12:28.000Was created in 1992 by Doctor of Near Eastern Studies, Hatem Bazyan.
00:12:34.000Bazyan has been spotted, in fact, at these protests, including the encampment at U Penn.
00:12:41.000So we say that Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism is big into the policing and big into our elite political systems.
00:12:53.000Baachian is a professor at the University of California and he serves as the executive director for the Islamophobia
00:14:36.000He's also a member of two organizations, the General Union of Palestine Studies and the Muslim Students Association.
00:14:45.000Organizations directly affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:14:49.000Spoiler, for those not in the know, the Muslim Brotherhood isn't too fond of the Jews.
00:14:55.000Bazian also founded the now-defunct Kind Hearts, which was, in fact, a Hamas front group.
00:15:03.000In 2006, Bazian also founded American Muslims for Palestine, AMP, and is its national chairman.
00:15:10.000Now, like Bazian, AMP's executive director, Osama Abu Irshaid, has popped up at these organic protests in places like Columbia and George Washington University.
00:15:21.0002008, the AMP created AJP Educational Foundation Inc.
00:15:28.000Now, the fiscal sponsor designation is important because this is how organizations like AMP can claim that they do not receive any foreign funds.
00:15:39.000The fiscal sponsor, in this case, the AJP, will collect donations from anywhere in the world and then, in turn, donate those funds to the final organization, in this case, A.M.P.
00:15:50.000Because the funds were donated by the fiscal sponsor, who is entirely contained within the United States, the organization receiving the final donations from said fiscal sponsor can claim that all of the funds were domestic.
00:16:05.000are so intertwined, they have identical leadership structures, and they even share the same business address.
00:16:12.00064047 Corners Place, Suite N, Falls Church, Virginia.
00:16:17.000AJP is a 501c3, which means that they have to make certain disclosures on their IRS Tax Form 990, like its sources of funding.
00:16:28.000Except, notably missing from AJP's filings were key financial disclosures and audits per Charity Watch Dogs, Charity Navigator, and Influence Watch.
00:16:39.000Matter of fact, when we looked at AJP's IRS 990 filing, we could not find any Listed sources of funding.
00:16:48.000And per the IRS rules, not a big fan, but rules is rules, AJP would be required to disclose any individual contributions over $5,000.
00:16:56.000However, despite receiving over one and a half million in contributions in its latest filing, AJP claims it's exempt from this requirement entirely.
00:17:08.000Matter of fact, the last time AJP claimed they were required to disclose their sources of funding, it was in 2017.
00:17:16.000However, rather than listing any donors and amounts, you just see the word restricted.
00:17:25.000Next time you file a tax return, just write restricted.
00:17:29.000And we are, of course, not the only ones who found this complete lack of information whatsoever to be suspicious.
00:17:37.000On October 31st, 2023, Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares announced an investigation into AJP about using funds to benefit terrorists.
00:17:50.000The Attorney General will investigate allegations that AJP Educational Foundation Inc.
00:17:54.000may have used funds raised for impermissible purposes under state law, including benefiting or providing support to terrorist organizations.
00:18:13.000Either way, we had no luck finding any disclosures by AMP.
00:18:17.000Now, AMP is a not-for-profit corporation, so it's not a federal 501c3, which means they don't need to file Tax Form 990.
00:18:25.000However, in 2016, The House Foreign Affairs Committee confirmed that there is, quote, significant overlap between AMP and people who worked for or on behalf of organizations that were designated, dissolved, or held civilly liable by federal authorities for supporting Hamas.
00:18:47.000Six members of AMP's core leadership were Islamic Association of Palestine, IAP, lots of acronyms.
00:18:57.000Or we're active and the Holy Land Foundation, HLF, both proven verifiably to be financiers of Hamas.
00:19:06.000AMP is essentially a successor group to these three now defunct groups shut down by the government specifically for being Hamas terror sponsors.
00:19:20.000On to Islamic Association of Palestine.
00:19:23.000Founded in 1981 by individuals directly linked to Hamas, it was dissolved after being found liable in a civil case for the death of an American citizen killed by Hamas, the Holy Land Foundation.
00:19:37.000Found to have funneled money to Hamas in 2002 and had its assets frozen by the Treasury Department.
00:19:46.000The Islamic Association of Palestine and CARE were unindicted co-conspirators.
00:19:51.000Now, Kind Hearts, the next organization, founded just after HLF was shut down.
00:19:57.000Their assets were frozen in 2006 for, you guessed it, funneling money to Hamas-linked groups, if you're noticing a trend.
00:20:05.000The organization was dissolved in 2012 after a settlement agreement with the United States Treasury.
00:20:11.000Board members of these organizations Include people like Salah Sarsour, a Milwaukee-based member of AMP's board of directors, and was reportedly implicated in Hamas activity in the West Bank in the 1990s.
00:20:26.000According to statements given to Israeli investigators by his brother Jamil, Sarsour was personally involved in fundraising for Hamas.
00:20:35.000In 2010, AMP founded the National Students for Justice Palestine, NSJP.
00:20:41.000Again, like AMP, NSJP is not a registered 501c3, so we don't have the public disclosures, but in Funding for NSJP.
00:22:54.000AMP has also received funding from the AFER Foundation, an organization based out of Southfield, Michigan.
00:23:02.000One organization registered to the AFER Foundation, their offices, is actually the Muslim Arab Youth Association, MAIA for short.
00:23:11.000Now an FBI investigation showed that MAIA directly helped finance and promote Hamas, again, in the United States.
00:23:22.000So in May of 2023, this whole funding network started drawing the attention of congressional investigators.
00:23:29.000The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the Committee on Education and the Workforce started demanding information from the U.S.
00:23:36.000Treasury regarding the funding sources for 20 pro-Palestinian organizations like AMP, WESPEC, and That's right, Students for Justice in Palestine.
00:23:50.000So I know I said it may get complicated.
00:23:53.000The structure underpinning Students for Justice in Palestine.
00:23:57.000Students for Justice in Palestine represents the individual campus groups, which are under the umbrella of National Students for Justice in Palestine, which oversees each campus chapter and was created by American Muslims for Palestine, which works in tandem with
00:24:12.000its fiscal sponsor, Americans for Justice in Palestine, both of which are
00:24:16.000founded by SJP founder Hatem Bazyan, who recruited board members from the now defunct Muslim
00:24:21.000Brotherhood, Hamas supporting groups, Holy Land Foundation, Islamic Association of Palestine, and
00:26:17.000I'm a sophomore at Georgetown University in Qatar, and today I'll be giving you a tour of the male housing dorms.
00:26:24.000The housing is a very secure facility, which requires you to have an identification card, which gives you access to the gate.
00:26:32.000Interesting side note, at least to me, for all the hand-wringing and the screaming out there equating these violent campus protests with freedom of speech, even though these individuals support freedom of speech nowhere else.
00:26:45.000Actually, criticizing Islam in any facet is completely forbidden at Georgetown, Qatar.
00:26:52.000And relatively unsurprisingly, Two completely expected take-your-pick research shows a direct correlation between the presence of Qatari funding and... and... the presence of Students for Justice in Palestine as it relates to being on campus.
00:27:13.000More Qatari money probably means a greater likelihood that you'll have your campus infested by these nerds wearing Amazon-purchased kafeyas.
00:27:24.000Do you know where that keffiyeh comes from?
00:27:33.000So that's why I asked if you know where it comes from.
00:27:35.000Now I have to disclose that the Qatari ambassador, Massoud Hamad Al-Thani, denied, by that I mean lied, about Qatar influencing American universities.
00:27:46.000Stating on X, Qatar does not influence these universities and we have nothing to do with anything that happens on their home campuses in the United States.
00:29:38.000By the way, this includes, of course, Hamas.
00:29:43.000And so, to this day, the Muslim Brotherhood is thick as thieves with the Qatari royal family, while their mouthpiece, Al Jazeera, publicly pushes Muslim Brotherhood propaganda.
00:29:53.000And it all circles back with Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood being directly linked to...
00:30:04.000AMP was founded by Hatem Bazyan, we've told you about, who also founded Students for Justice in Palestine.
00:30:12.000So there is a very clear, linear, a direct connection between the state of Qatar and SJP, the group responsible for the outbreak of jihadi protests on American campuses.
00:30:29.000You know, the term AstroTurf is thrown around a lot to accuse any type of protest or civil unrest of being fraudulent, being disingenuous.
00:31:38.000But what we are seeing is a movement controlled, designed from the top down by massive, multi-million dollar organizations, entities, with a vested interest in exploiting young Americans who don't know any better.
00:31:59.000Moreover, foreign governments With a vested interest in continued global terrorism, donating, financing to the tune of billions of dollars, the infrastructure on American campuses across this country.
00:32:19.000It's not just that you have people out there who don't understand the conflict in the Middle East, and perhaps don't have an educated or nuanced view, that's the buzzword of the day, along with gaslighting.
00:32:32.000It's that these young people are precluded from knowing, and if they happen to find out, speaking the truth on anything happening globally in this conflict or on campus because of the funding coming from these organizations who don't just have, let's say, a bleeding heart for the Palestinian people.
00:32:59.000I think everybody can see what's going on there.
00:33:03.000If you're a decent person, your heart breaks for the innocent involved.
00:33:08.000These multi-billion dollar international governments and pseudo-national organizations have a vested interest and have disclosed support for organizations, for movements like the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.