The Antisemitic Tides Foundation Is Far Worse Than Previously Reported

Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) $200,000 in 2018-19: IMEU promotes the BDS movement against Israel and feeds anti-Israel reports to the media, with repeated false accusations that Israelis are perpetrating violence against Palestinian Arab civilians and children.

• Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) $175,500 in 2018-19: The BDS and anti-Israel demonization-group JVP’s anti-Semitic “Deadly Exchange” campaign seeks to hold Jews responsible for state violence. JVP falsely accuses Israel of teaching “worst practices” to American police forces, including extrajudicial executions, shoot-to-kill policies, police murders, racial profiling, massive spying, deportations, detention and attacks on human-rights defenders. JVP was repeatedly on The Anti-Defamation League’s “Top 10 Anti-Israel Groups” list. Even the left-wing Forward called JVP “the fringe anti-Israel group that supports the boycott of Israel.”
• Code Pink $105,400 in 2018-19: Code Pink was also on ADL’s “Top 10 Anti-Israel Groups” list. Code Pink promotes anti-Israel BDS and falsely accuses Israel of “human-rights violations” and “occupation”; absurdly calls for holding Israel and Israeli officials accountable for “war crimes” and “breaches of international law” after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad launch thousands of rockets at Israel; opposes aid to Israel; confronted U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley to hold Israel “accountable” for defending herself; and launched a campaign in 2019 to free Khalida Jarrar, the top operative of the designated terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Judea-Samaria. ZOA led the singing of “Am Yisrael Chai” to counter Code Pink when its leaders broke into and disrupted a speech by Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel shortly before his death. Wiesel, in frail health, was trying to urge the Senate to oppose the catastrophic Iran deal because it furthers Iran’s genocidal ambitions. Members also disrupted a congressional panel discussion led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Wiesel discussing hopes for peace in the Middle East.
• Bend the Arc, $160,000 in 2018-19: Last week, Bend the Arc tweeted “solidarity” with and “we will continue to rise with you” to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) after another round of Omar’s anti-Semitic, Israel-hating rhetoric. It collaborates with IfNotNow’s anti-Israel protest actions.
• Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Philadelphia and Arizona, $60,000 in 2019: Hamas-affiliated CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial for funneling millions of dollars to the terrorist Hamas. CAIR officials were sentenced to prison for funneling $12 million to Hamas. CAIR also slanders U.S. pro-Israel groups as “hate groups,” and defends Hamas and Hezbollah as “resistance movements.” Top CAIR officials have promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and blood libels, including that Jews murder Palestinians to steal their organs.
• National Lawyers Guild (NLG) $1,030,500 in 2018-19: NLG is a Marxist lawfare organization that provides legal support for BDS movements and Arab terrorists. NLG also supports JVP’s “Deadly Exchange” campaign falsely and maliciously accusing American Jewish groups of funding exchanges in which Israelis teach American police to murder African-Americans. In addition, NLG endorsed and supported Tides-supported Arab Resource & Organizing Committee (AROC)’s “Block the Boat” BDS actions to prevent Israeli-based shipper ZIM from unloading medical and other supplies needed by Americans at U.S. ports around the country.

NLG continues to honor NLG terrorist-assisting lawyer Lynne Stewart’s memory. Stewart was convicted for illegally carrying messages between terror groups and imprisoned “blind sheikh” Omar Abdel-Rahman, the mastermind of the deadly 1993 World Trade Center bombing (six dead, more than 1,000 wounded). After Stewart carried a message from the Sheikh to Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, that terror group massacred 60 people, including tourists, in Luxor, Egypt.

• NLG also closely collaborates with the Tides-supported lawfare groups “Palestine Legal” and the “Center for Constitutional Rights” (CCR) in promoting BDS and anti-Israel actions. In recent years, the Tides Center Rockefeller Bros. Fund gave $425,000 to Palestine Legal, including $150,000 last month. Tides Foundation gave $90,893 to CCR in 2018-19.

As my previous article noted, Palestine Legal promotes “mock eviction” campaigns to terrorize Jewish students on college campuses; mounts numerous anti-Israel “lawfare” campaigns; defends hate groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP); advocates against anti-BDS laws; and participates in anti-Israel “Days of Rage” in U.S. cities.