Louder with Crowder - June 03, 2024


Campus Jihad: The Dark Money Behind the Hamas Protests

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Hatem Bazyan Bazian Kingdom Hearts Hamilton Hall Salah Sarsour Necma Day A.M.P. George Washington University Massoud Hamad Al-Thani Osama Abu Orshid Jason Meares Claudio Pergolisi Howard Horowitz Manu Shafiq Shakira Shabbat Shafik Jamil
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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.

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00:00:18.000 who have entered the camp.
00:00:20.000 We walk and take a step forward.
00:00:23.000 Yeah, I absolutely feel threatened.
00:00:25.000 So that we can So that we can
00:00:29.000 start to push them start to push them
00:00:32.000 out of the camp.
00:00:34.000 out of the camp.
00:00:36.000 crowd shouting.
00:01:26.000 Where is security?
00:01:26.000 Where are the police?
00:01:28.000 Where are these people?
00:01:30.000 Where are, where is authority here?
00:01:32.000 Get back! Get back over! 0.98
00:01:34.000 Back off! Back off! Back off! 1.00
00:01:36.000 You're under arrest! Stop!
00:01:38.000 No, stop that! 0.91
00:01:40.000 Get away! Get away! 1.00
00:01:42.000 Get away! 1.00
00:01:44.000 No, I got her.
00:01:46.000 Hey! 0.99
00:01:48.000 For an end to police brutality and an end to the racist
00:01:52.000 UWPD, they send them in to violently arrest
00:01:56.000 Now what you're watching is by no stretch of the imagination
00:02:00.000 a grassroots or organic social movement
00:02:04.000 Oh 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.
00:02:22.000 April 17th, 2024.
00:02:23.000 Okay.
00:02:25.000 Columbia University President Manoush Shafiq appears before Congress to address the concerns that anti-Semitism is running rampant on her campus.
00:02:35.000 When we know that events will happen, we have moved toward requiring Columbia University IDs to access our campus.
00:02:43.000 That 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.
00:02:55.000 On the very same day, students at Columbia Campus set up what they call the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
00:03:03.000 Now, the students pledged to occupy that space at Columbia until, quote, the university divests from companies with ties to Israel.
00:03:13.000 The next morning, at the direction of President Shafik, NYPD officers arrest 120 protesters and clear the encampment from the campus.
00:03:23.000 However, 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.
00:03:47.000 The campus and police response to our Necma Day memorial is deplorable.
00:04:17.000 It's not just about the memorial, it's about the people.
00:04:18.000 The people who came to the memorial, the people who are going to be there, and the people
00:04:19.000 who are going to be there to protect Necma Day.
00:04:20.000 The people who are going to be there to protect Necma Day.
00:04:23.000 And the question is that what are we doing?
00:04:25.000 How come we don't have an incubator in this country?
00:04:28.000 So to understand this wave, we need to go back to the beginning.
00:04:38.000 Columbia, the school, not the country, though, Shakira.
00:04:42.000 So 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.
00:05:03.000 The first demand is divestment.
00:05:05.000 Columbia needs to divest.
00:05:06.000 Divest and take out all of their money that they're contributing.
00:05:10.000 What students are saying is, this is our institution too, and we don't want it to be part of continuing this oppression.
00:05:19.000 A university is an important place to do these kinds of actions because students are a part of what the history of the university will be.
00:05:30.000 Let me say in the outset, people can have problems with Israel and its government and not be anti-Semitic.
00:05:37.000 Okay, these protesters though, they're not pro-Palestine.
00:05:40.000 They are pro-Hamas. 1.00
00:05:42.000 They have to be because they are funded by them.
00:05:46.000 So a favorite rallying cry of this pro-Hamas crowd is disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest. 0.54
00:05:55.000 And 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.
00:06:04.000 They 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.
00:06:20.000 And the media, at least initially, tried to convince you that the Columbia protests were peaceful.
00:06:28.000 I think that the encampment was honestly one of the beautiful forms of solidarity.
00:06:33.000 We would be singing songs.
00:06:35.000 We had meals together.
00:06:36.000 People prayed together.
00:06:38.000 They held Shabbat yesterday.
00:06:39.000 And it's really just been a very community-centered space.
00:06:44.000 And also because of the fact that it is outside, it hadn't disrupted any classes.
00:06:48.000 It 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
00:07:04.000 protesters forcibly occupied Hamilton Hall, a building there on campus.
00:07:08.000 The protesters are demanding that Hamilton Hall be demolished.
00:07:32.000 Now!
00:07:38.000 Now!
00:07:44.000 Yeah!
00:07:45.000 Yeah!
00:07:46.000 If that's not enough, hell, they even kidnapped a janitor.
00:07:50.000 First they pulled the alarm, because the alarm was ringing, and then they put tables and chairs to block it.
00:07:57.000 Like, they stuffed that elevator with furniture.
00:08:00.000 How was I going to get out?
00:08:02.000 Through the window?
00:08:03.000 No.
00:08:04.000 It's just scary, just thinking that you're locked in with a bunch of crazies, you know?
00:08:10.000 I want to get out.
00:08:11.000 That's the only thing you're thinking of is getting out.
00:08:14.000 That'll show those Jews all of this in the name of divestment. 1.00
00:08:19.000 From a bunch of kids who largely couldn't point out the Jordan River or the Mediterranean Sea if their lives depended on it.
00:08:26.000 Are we talking Gaza, West Bank?
00:08:28.000 Is this protest considered all of Israel to be Palestine?
00:08:31.000 I just want to know what the view is of this.
00:08:33.000 From the river to the sea is where the slogan is.
00:08:35.000 Right, I mean, yeah.
00:08:37.000 Now, keep in mind, you don't see these same students scream for divestment from, let's say, I don't know, China?
00:08:50.000 China? 0.73
00:08:51.000 Gross abuses of human rights?
00:08:54.000 In the open, and yes, Columbia, and pretty much every major university in this country, has extensive relations with China.
00:09:01.000 So, this all really begs the question, why do these students, suddenly, and exclusively, care so much about this specific cause?
00:09:13.000 Moreover, how the hell did these people organize themselves, not just at Columbia,
00:09:17.000 but at hundreds of campuses all over the country?
00:09:21.000 Now, every dog has its day, every sparrow has its song, and
00:09:32.000 every radical anti-American protest
00:09:34.000 has its anti-semitic ringleaders.
00:09:37.000 So, let me introduce you to the P.T.
00:09:39.000 Barnum of this big domestic terrorism top, Students for Justice in Palestine.
00:09:48.000 So, passing a resolution or a referendum or whichever Go back to Europe!
00:09:57.000 are not actually the militants themselves, but their tactics towards killing this militant
00:10:02.000 and that's the movement for me to get settled into.
00:10:04.000 And we need to be ready to push this campaign as far as it needs to go in the future.
00:10:08.000 Thank you.
00:10:08.000 Go back to Europe!
00:10:18.000 There is only one revolution!
00:10:21.000 Go back to Europe! 0.99
00:10:23.000 A two-parter revolution!
00:10:25.000 We are not invited for this purpose.
00:10:27.000 We are talking about Ramadan and the holy month of Ramadan as Muslim students.
00:10:31.000 We refuse to break our fast on the blood of Palestinian people. 1.00
00:10:35.000 The UC has committed sending $2 billion to weapons manufacturers.
00:10:40.000 So if anything, it's safe to, I urge you, please cover up.
00:10:45.000 Cover up, tell your friends to cover up.
00:10:47.000 Your niece is injured.
00:10:49.000 We've already passed out the necessary plan.
00:10:51.000 Do not talk to anybody.
00:10:54.000 And 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.
00:11:07.000 Fair warning, it gets a little bit complicated, because it's supposed to be.
00:11:12.000 That's how they cover their tracks.
00:11:15.000 But here's the bird's eye view that makes it a little easier to follow along.
00:11:19.000 Students 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...
00:11:32.000 American 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.
00:11:57.000 Okay?
00:11:58.000 Okay.
00:11:59.000 So, SJP is now operating in, give or take, 250 linked chapters nationwide.
00:12:06.000 These 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.
00:12:15.000 So, of course, SJP is not the only culprit, but They are the hub to which all the spokes connect, the mainframe, if you will.
00:12:25.000 Let me give you a bit of the SJP origins.
00:12:28.000 Was created in 1992 by Doctor of Near Eastern Studies, Hatem Bazyan.
00:12:34.000 Bazyan has been spotted, in fact, at these protests, including the encampment at U Penn.
00:12:41.000 So we say that Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism is big into the policing and big into our elite political systems.
00:12:53.000 Baachian is a professor at the University of California and he serves as the executive director for the Islamophobia
00:13:01.000 study center in Berkeley.
00:13:03.000 No surprise there.
00:13:04.000 Just so you have an idea of who this gentleman is, he just has a bit of a tendency to dabble or paint If you will, in anti-Semitism. 0.97
00:13:18.000 He's a hate artist.
00:13:19.000 Like in 2017, when he retweeted these little on-the-nose posts.
00:13:24.000 Or when he said this.
00:13:26.000 It's about time that we have an intifada in this country, the United States. 0.69
00:13:30.000 We've been watching intifada in Palestine.
00:13:33.000 We've been watching an uprising in Iraq against American soldiers.
00:13:37.000 And the question is that.
00:13:40.000 What are we doing?
00:13:41.000 How come we don't have an intifada in this country?
00:13:45.000 To those still confused, he wants an Intifada in the United States.
00:13:51.000 Hope that clears it up.
00:13:52.000 Or you can check out any of these anti-Israel ramblings.
00:13:56.000 And we need to increase our participation politically.
00:13:59.000 We need to take one neighborhood at a time.
00:14:02.000 You need to count your days because the corruption that Israel represents will come to an end. 1.00
00:14:08.000 We need to translate our strength into harassment of the political leadership.
00:14:13.000 We've been watching intifada in Palestine.
00:14:16.000 We've been watching an uprising in Iraq.
00:14:19.000 And the question is that what are we doing?
00:14:22.000 How come we don't have an intifada in this country?
00:14:26.000 Now, I know you could argue that those are not technically anti-Semitic.
00:14:30.000 It's just critical of Israel, sure. 0.64
00:14:33.000 But that's not all Bazian is about.
00:14:36.000 He's also a member of two organizations, the General Union of Palestine Studies and the Muslim Students Association.
00:14:45.000 Organizations directly affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:14:49.000 Spoiler, for those not in the know, the Muslim Brotherhood isn't too fond of the Jews.
00:14:55.000 Bazian also founded the now-defunct Kind Hearts, which was, in fact, a Hamas front group.
00:15:03.000 In 2006, Bazian also founded American Muslims for Palestine, AMP, and is its national chairman.
00:15:10.000 Now, like Bazian, AMP's executive director, Osama Abu Irshaid, has popped up at these organic protests in places like Columbia and George Washington University.
00:15:21.000 2008, the AMP created AJP Educational Foundation Inc.
00:15:25.000 to be the fiscal sponsor for AMP.
00:15:28.000 Now, the fiscal sponsor designation is important because this is how organizations like AMP can claim that they do not receive any foreign funds.
00:15:38.000 How?
00:15:39.000 Okay.
00:15:39.000 The 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.
00:15:50.000 Because 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.
00:16:04.000 and A.J.P.
00:16:04.000 A.M.P.
00:16:05.000 are so intertwined, they have identical leadership structures, and they even share the same business address.
00:16:12.000 64047 Corners Place, Suite N, Falls Church, Virginia.
00:16:17.000 AJP is a 501c3, which means that they have to make certain disclosures on their IRS Tax Form 990, like its sources of funding.
00:16:28.000 Except, notably missing from AJP's filings were key financial disclosures and audits per Charity Watch Dogs, Charity Navigator, and Influence Watch.
00:16:39.000 Matter of fact, when we looked at AJP's IRS 990 filing, we could not find any Listed sources of funding.
00:16:48.000 And per the IRS rules, not a big fan, but rules is rules, AJP would be required to disclose any individual contributions over $5,000.
00:16:56.000 However, despite receiving over one and a half million in contributions in its latest filing, AJP claims it's exempt from this requirement entirely.
00:17:08.000 Matter of fact, the last time AJP claimed they were required to disclose their sources of funding, it was in 2017.
00:17:16.000 However, rather than listing any donors and amounts, you just see the word restricted.
00:17:23.000 Well, that should about cover it.
00:17:25.000 Next time you file a tax return, just write restricted.
00:17:29.000 And we are, of course, not the only ones who found this complete lack of information whatsoever to be suspicious.
00:17:37.000 On October 31st, 2023, Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares announced an investigation into AJP about using funds to benefit terrorists.
00:17:50.000 The Attorney General will investigate allegations that AJP Educational Foundation Inc.
00:17:54.000 may have used funds raised for impermissible purposes under state law, including benefiting or providing support to terrorist organizations.
00:18:05.000 Now, I know what you're thinking.
00:18:07.000 State law?
00:18:08.000 That should be a federal thing.
00:18:11.000 Kind of is?
00:18:13.000 Either way, we had no luck finding any disclosures by AMP.
00:18:17.000 Now, 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.
00:18:25.000 However, 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.
00:18:47.000 Six members of AMP's core leadership were Islamic Association of Palestine, IAP, lots of acronyms.
00:18:55.000 They were board members.
00:18:57.000 Or we're active and the Holy Land Foundation, HLF, both proven verifiably to be financiers of Hamas.
00:19:06.000 AMP is essentially a successor group to these three now defunct groups shut down by the government specifically for being Hamas terror sponsors.
00:19:20.000 On to Islamic Association of Palestine.
00:19:23.000 Founded 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.
00:19:37.000 Found to have funneled money to Hamas in 2002 and had its assets frozen by the Treasury Department.
00:19:43.000 It was shut down in 2008.
00:19:46.000 The Islamic Association of Palestine and CARE were unindicted co-conspirators.
00:19:51.000 Now, Kind Hearts, the next organization, founded just after HLF was shut down.
00:19:57.000 Their assets were frozen in 2006 for, you guessed it, funneling money to Hamas-linked groups, if you're noticing a trend.
00:20:05.000 The organization was dissolved in 2012 after a settlement agreement with the United States Treasury.
00:20:11.000 Board 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.
00:20:26.000 According to statements given to Israeli investigators by his brother Jamil, Sarsour was personally involved in fundraising for Hamas.
00:20:35.000 In 2010, AMP founded the National Students for Justice Palestine, NSJP.
00:20:41.000 Again, like AMP, NSJP is not a registered 501c3, so we don't have the public disclosures, but in Funding for NSJP.
00:20:51.000 We could find WESPAC.
00:20:53.000 NSJP's official fiscal sponsor is a New York-based non-profit, Westchester's People's Action Committee Fund.
00:21:02.000 WESPAC, fun to say.
00:21:04.000 As a fiscal sponsor, WESPAC receives and administers donations on behalf of groups like NSJP.
00:21:11.000 WESPAC then keeps a percentage of the donations and remits the rest to the group that it sponsors fiscally.
00:21:17.000 So this whole arrangement allows NSJP to collect and distribute funds without any
00:21:23.000 transparency.
00:21:24.000 The financial interactions between WESPEC and its anti-Israel clientele is deliberately opaque,
00:21:33.000 largely to shield from public view the flow of funds amongst all of them.
00:21:39.000 WESPAC is believed to be a conduit for money from abroad to the United States pro-Palestine causes.
00:21:45.000 So in 2019 to 2023, WESPAC revenue doubled.
00:21:51.000 In fact, in 2023, they reported assets of $1.6 million.
00:21:57.000 A little more about WeSpec.
00:21:59.000 It was founded by an anti-Zionist, a Jewish leftist.
00:22:03.000 Very leftist.
00:22:05.000 Howard Horowitz.
00:22:06.000 So they've received funding from foundations, donor-advised philanthropic funds.
00:22:11.000 Some examples include the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
00:22:15.000 It was created in 1940.
00:22:16.000 It states that it's committed to becoming an anti-racist and anti-sexist institution.
00:22:22.000 Okay.
00:22:24.000 Donated $90,000 to WESPAC in 2022.
00:22:26.000 The Tides Foundation was founded in 1976.
00:22:30.000 Supports leftist social justice causes.
00:22:34.000 Gave $35,000 to WESPAC in 2022.
00:22:35.000 WESPAC is directly linked to funding other anti-Zionist organizations like, Within Our Lifetime, Palestine Youth Movement.
00:22:45.000 You've probably seen them all over Instagram.
00:22:47.000 US Palestine Community Action Network.
00:22:50.000 You get the picture.
00:22:51.000 Now on, To AFER Foundation.
00:22:54.000 AMP has also received funding from the AFER Foundation, an organization based out of Southfield, Michigan.
00:23:02.000 One organization registered to the AFER Foundation, their offices, is actually the Muslim Arab Youth Association, MAIA for short.
00:23:11.000 Now an FBI investigation showed that MAIA directly helped finance and promote Hamas, again, in the United States.
00:23:22.000 So in May of 2023, this whole funding network started drawing the attention of congressional investigators.
00:23:29.000 The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the Committee on Education and the Workforce started demanding information from the U.S.
00:23:36.000 Treasury regarding the funding sources for 20 pro-Palestinian organizations like AMP, WESPEC, and That's right, Students for Justice in Palestine.
00:23:50.000 So I know I said it may get complicated.
00:23:52.000 Allow me to recap here.
00:23:53.000 The structure underpinning Students for Justice in Palestine.
00:23:57.000 Students 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
00:24:12.000 its fiscal sponsor, Americans for Justice in Palestine, both of which are
00:24:16.000 founded by SJP founder Hatem Bazyan, who recruited board members from the now defunct Muslim
00:24:21.000 Brotherhood, Hamas supporting groups, Holy Land Foundation, Islamic Association of Palestine, and
00:24:27.000 Kind Hearts.
00:24:36.000 Now if.
00:24:37.000 Love.
00:24:39.000 The organization portion of this upset you.
00:24:43.000 I apologize in advance because NGOs are not the only backers of this radical anti-American so-called revolution.
00:24:54.000 More disturbingly, so are foreign governments.
00:24:59.000 Namely, one's known for their active support of terrorism.
00:25:05.000 Let's take, for example, the oil-rich state of Qatar.
00:25:09.000 Here's a fun fact.
00:25:11.000 Qatar donates more money to American universities than any other country in the world.
00:25:17.000 That bears repeating.
00:25:20.000 Did you know that?
00:25:22.000 From 2014 to 2019, Qatar gave $2.7 billion.
00:25:24.000 I didn't misspeak.
00:25:25.000 Not million.
00:25:26.000 other country on Earth.
00:25:30.000 Did you know that?
00:25:32.000 From 2014 to 2019, Qatar gave $2.7 billion.
00:25:38.000 I didn't misspeak.
00:25:39.000 Not million.
00:25:40.000 From 2014 to 2019, Qatar gave $2.7 billion to American universities.
00:25:49.000 That figure, for context, is double what third place China has given.
00:25:56.000 Some schools receiving Qatari money include Cornell, Virginia Commonwealth University, Texas A&M, Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern University, Georgetown University.
00:26:07.000 Oh, and speaking of Georgetown, they even have their own campus in Qatar.
00:26:15.000 Hi, I'm Claudio Pergolisi.
00:26:17.000 I'm a sophomore at Georgetown University in Qatar, and today I'll be giving you a tour of the male housing dorms.
00:26:24.000 The housing is a very secure facility, which requires you to have an identification card, which gives you access to the gate.
00:26:32.000 Interesting 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.
00:26:45.000 Actually, criticizing Islam in any facet is completely forbidden at Georgetown, Qatar.
00:26:52.000 And 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.
00:27:13.000 More Qatari money probably means a greater likelihood that you'll have your campus infested by these nerds wearing Amazon-purchased kafeyas. 0.99
00:27:24.000 Do you know where that keffiyeh comes from? 1.00
00:27:25.000 Yeah, Palestine. 0.58
00:27:26.000 That's not a Palestinian keffiyeh, actually.
00:27:28.000 The Palestinian keffiyeh is black and white. 0.64
00:27:30.000 Well, no.
00:27:31.000 That's a Jordanian keffiyeh. 1.00
00:27:32.000 Yes.
00:27:33.000 So that's why I asked if you know where it comes from.
00:27:35.000 Now I have to disclose that the Qatari ambassador, Massoud Hamad Al-Thani, denied, by that I mean lied, about Qatar influencing American universities.
00:27:46.000 Stating 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.
00:27:57.000 Really?
00:27:59.000 Really?
00:28:01.000 Explain this to me.
00:28:03.000 To all of us, like we're two years old.
00:28:07.000 Then why $2.7 billion to American University?
00:28:11.000 This may be more believable, this claim, if his country was not a major political and financial supporter of Hamas.
00:28:21.000 Remember, Hamas's main leadership is located in Qatar, where they bravely ordered hotel room service 0.70
00:28:30.000 while their people suffered in Gaza.
00:28:33.000 Many Americans may not know Qatar, but they have a long and well-documented history
00:29:07.000 of supporting terrorism, even providing safe haven to groups like the Taliban
00:29:11.000 and the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:29:12.000 Again, the Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 and it seeks to unite.
00:29:18.000 The Muslim world under an Islamist government. 0.91
00:29:22.000 Nearly every single major fundamentalist Sunni Islamic group can trace their roots back to the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:29:32.000 This is not in dispute.
00:29:34.000 The references...
00:29:38.000 By the way, this includes, of course, Hamas. 0.86
00:29:43.000 And 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. 0.72
00:29:53.000 And it all circles back with Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood being directly linked to...
00:30:02.000 American Muslims for Palestine.
00:30:04.000 AMP was founded by Hatem Bazyan, we've told you about, who also founded Students for Justice in Palestine.
00:30:12.000 So 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.
00:30:29.000 You know, the term AstroTurf is thrown around a lot to accuse any type of protest or civil unrest of being fraudulent, being disingenuous.
00:30:39.000 What does AstroTurf really mean?
00:30:40.000 It typically means that it's a top-down organized approach to protesting or to marching, striking,
00:30:51.000 that doesn't really come collectively from people of shared values, but a few shareholders, a few
00:30:56.000 people with interests at stake who are willingly and they're knowingly exploiting people who don't
00:31:02.000 know better. Does that apply here?
00:31:04.000 Well, I think it could be argued that it would be astroturf if you believed that these were
00:31:12.000 simply unruly, slightly violent protests with students on campus who effectively want to be
00:31:21.000 Marxists and toss their lot in with any leftist cause, who are organically coming together
00:31:27.000 under a common cause and maybe have some backers who give them a few water bottles.
00:31:33.000 and we'll see you next time.
00:31:34.000 And sandwiches every now and then.
00:31:36.000 Maybe could be argued, AstroTurf.
00:31:38.000 But 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.
00:31:59.000 Moreover, 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.
00:32:19.000 It'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.
00:32:32.000 It'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.
00:32:59.000 I think everybody can see what's going on there.
00:33:03.000 If you're a decent person, your heart breaks for the innocent involved.
00:33:05.000 Of course.
00:33:06.000 No.
00:33:08.000 These 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.
00:33:25.000 They've been caught.
00:33:26.000 It's not that they disagree with some of you.
00:33:32.000 This is a movement funded from the top down because it hates America.