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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLatest Fux Noise talking point, "George Soros is behind the rallies for Gaza"
Soros is Jewish you fucking idiots.
ExciteBike66
(2,418 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,277 posts)Yeah, we all know Alinsky is dead, but that doesn't stop RWers.
Ocelot II
(116,106 posts)BlueKota
(1,890 posts)If he had as much power as they think he does Trump would have never won the first time.
Jilly_in_VA
(10,045 posts)Has it occurred to any one of these negative IQ jokers that George Soros is JEWISH?
LauraInLA
(431 posts)Helping someone buy their furniture? Or something. Its an old right-wing trope about Soros.
LauraInLA
(431 posts)Quote from comments about the Humboldt protest at https://kymkemp.com/2024/04/27/cal-poly-humboldt-enforcing-hard-campus-closure-now-amid-student-occupation/ (Ive seen the same tripe on FR, other wingnut sites): Then there is the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR). The Soros-founded organization Open Society Foundations, which is now run by his son Alex Soros, has reportedly contributed $300,000 to the USCPR since 2017, while the Rockefeller Brothers Fund has given it $355,000 in the past five years. USPCR provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based fellows in return for spending eight hours a week organizing campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.
Supposedly.
LeftInTX
(25,910 posts)U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights is registered with the IRS as Education for Just Peace in the Middle East (EJP). And EJP has received grants from OSF.
The largest was $300,000, given in 2018. During that fiscal year, EJP took in just over $1 million in revenue. It spent about $1.3 million, meaning it operated at a loss. In fiscal 2019, it had net assets of about $165,000 meaning that a big chunk of that OSF grant was already spent.
EJP also received a grant from OSF for $150,000 in 2021 and a two-year grant for $250,000 in 2022. The New York Posts suggestion (echoing one published earlier in the week by the Wall Street Journal) is that this money went to those paid protesters. But money is fungible. During those years, the organization also spent $2.4 million, at least $2 million of which wasnt OSF money.
https://wapo.st/4bc4nA7
LauraInLA
(431 posts)the rationale for blaming protests on Soros was interesting
LeftInTX
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