It’s picked up speed and popularity as a phenomenon, and from the outside looking in, it’s pretty interesting.
A Columbia student, identified on social media as Johannah King-Slutzky, a paid instructor and PhD candidate studying “theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens,” demanded “basic humanitarian aid” for her fellow protesters, claiming the school was “blocking their access to food and water.”
King-Slutzky, who describes herself as an “expert for progressive and leftist causes,” crumbled after reporters pointed out the irony of asking for food and water from the school whose rules they were breaking.
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The anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protesters are getting paid to protest. Not all of them. But enough of them — enough to raise concerns about the “reality” of what we are seeing on our TV and computer screens, says the evidence and experts.
This newspaper first revealed in January that Israel-hating protesters were getting paid to show up. We detailed how a group called the Plenty Collective in Victoria, B.C. was paying out $20,000 a month to people to attend carefully stage-managed anti-Israel protests in and around that city. The “protesters” were actors, in effect, and were being given food, drink and professionally-produced signs and banners.
We also reported that it was happening in bigger cities like Montreal as well. There, the city has been divided up into precincts by paid organizers, each acting as a “captain” responsible for quickly putting together protests in select neighbourhoods. Sources there told us protesters were getting $150 per event.
Then, in the past week, other media published similar reports. The New York Post revealed that anti-Israel “fellows” at three U.S. colleges were getting paid via the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights — in some cases getting as much as C$5,000 a week in exchange for just eight hours of agitating.
That revelation was followed by the Daily Mail detailing a report authored by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). That report showed that the main group behind the occupation of Columbia University and other campuses had received more than US$3 million a year from charities linked to Hamas.
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In the 73-page report, ISGAP revealed that Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — with chapters in Canada and the United States — had been funnelled millions via myriad non-profits like the Westchester People’s Action Coalition (WESPAC), Tides, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), its parent organization Americans for Justice in Palestine (AJP), and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).
In their report, ISGAP said: “It is clear that individuals who previously worked for Hamas-linked charities are now a driving force behind (campus protests). The Department of Education (DoE) should carry out an immediate investigation into which universities are funding and/or supporting SJP activities and instruct those universities to cease such funding and/or support … ISGAP calls for SJP (and its affiliated organizations) to be banned and for Jewish students to be protected.”
In any scandal, that’s the rule: Follow the money. When you see who is paying, and who is benefiting, you learn plenty.
On Wednesday, this newspaper followed the money, and broke some news: Anti-Israel protesters are getting paid to protest.
After the horrors of Oct. 7 — and after the pro-Hamas crowd started showing up in big numbers, with professional-looking organizers and signage — suspicion grew. In the past, anti-Israel protests were rag-tag efforts, and few and far between.
The post-Oct. 7 protests were anything but. They were big, they were noisy, and they were causing chaos from the island of Manhattan to the island of Vancouver. They looked like the sort of rallies that professional political parties put together.
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The pro-Hamas, anti-Israel types would have you believe that all of this — this coordinated, organized global blockade “to free Palestine” — was all grassroots. It was just a group of unaffiliated groups and people coming together, magically, to shut down points and facilities across the West. It was just a few folks coming together to, you know, protest.
Well, that’s impossible.
This writer has been involved in politics for a long time. Organizing a political rally in a single city takes weeks of preparation and a lot of hard work. It takes money.
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A pro-Hamas activist at the heart of Canada’s anti-Israel movement, has been arrested by Vancouver police on suspicion of hate speech.
That day, at a protest on the front steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Charlotte Kates addressed the crowd.
“We demand a free Palestine from the river to the sea,” Kates said. “We stand with the Palestinian resistance and their heroic and brave action on October 7.”
She then led the crowd in a chant of “Long live October 7.”
Kates is the co-founder of the extremist anti-Israel group Samidoun along with her husband Khaled Barakat. Israel’s security service Shin Bet has long maintained that Barakat is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a group considered a terrorist organization in Canada.
Samidoun has often acted a direct conduit for PFLP statements and literature. Samidoun is banned outright in Germany and is closely affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terror organization in Canada. Israel considers Samidoun a terrorist entity, while in Canada it enjoys not-for-profit status.
April 26 was far from the first time that Kates has praised October 7 or terrorism generally in a public forum. Earlier last month, she was an invited speaker at Al Quds Day demonstrations in Toronto, where she told cheering crowds, “on October 7, we saw the potential for a Palestine liberated from Zionism by the forces of the resistance.”
In March, she was a featured speaker at a Palestine Liberation 101 event at New York’s Columbia University where she similarly framed October 7 as showing “the potential of a future for Palestine liberated from Zionism.”
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A Columbia student, identified on social media as Johannah King-Slutzky, a paid instructor and PhD candidate studying “theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens,” demanded “basic humanitarian aid” for her fellow protesters, claiming the school was “blocking their access to food and water.”
King-Slutzky, who describes herself as an “expert for progressive and leftist causes,” crumbled after reporters pointed out the irony of asking for food and water from the school whose rules they were breaking.
CAMPUS CAPERS: Do anti-Israel protesters even know what they’re fighting for? — Toronto Sun
The situation in many university campuses in the United States and Canada have grown increasingly out of hand, as arrests are made during confrontations with law enforcement, and threats of suspension and expulsion from their respective schools. But that hasn’t stopped the disruptive...
This newspaper first revealed in January that Israel-hating protesters were getting paid to show up. We detailed how a group called the Plenty Collective in Victoria, B.C. was paying out $20,000 a month to people to attend carefully stage-managed anti-Israel protests in and around that city. The “protesters” were actors, in effect, and were being given food, drink and professionally-produced signs and banners.
We also reported that it was happening in bigger cities like Montreal as well. There, the city has been divided up into precincts by paid organizers, each acting as a “captain” responsible for quickly putting together protests in select neighbourhoods. Sources there told us protesters were getting $150 per event.
Then, in the past week, other media published similar reports. The New York Post revealed that anti-Israel “fellows” at three U.S. colleges were getting paid via the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights — in some cases getting as much as C$5,000 a week in exchange for just eight hours of agitating.
That revelation was followed by the Daily Mail detailing a report authored by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). That report showed that the main group behind the occupation of Columbia University and other campuses had received more than US$3 million a year from charities linked to Hamas.
KINSELLA: Charities linked to Hamas helping fund protests, report finds — Toronto Sun
The anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protesters are getting paid to protest. Not all of them. But enough of them — enough to raise concerns about the “reality” of what we are seeing on our TV and computer screens, says the evidence and experts. This newspaper first revealed in January that Israel-hating...
In their report, ISGAP said: “It is clear that individuals who previously worked for Hamas-linked charities are now a driving force behind (campus protests). The Department of Education (DoE) should carry out an immediate investigation into which universities are funding and/or supporting SJP activities and instruct those universities to cease such funding and/or support … ISGAP calls for SJP (and its affiliated organizations) to be banned and for Jewish students to be protected.”
In any scandal, that’s the rule: Follow the money. When you see who is paying, and who is benefiting, you learn plenty.
On Wednesday, this newspaper followed the money, and broke some news: Anti-Israel protesters are getting paid to protest.
After the horrors of Oct. 7 — and after the pro-Hamas crowd started showing up in big numbers, with professional-looking organizers and signage — suspicion grew. In the past, anti-Israel protests were rag-tag efforts, and few and far between.
The post-Oct. 7 protests were anything but. They were big, they were noisy, and they were causing chaos from the island of Manhattan to the island of Vancouver. They looked like the sort of rallies that professional political parties put together.
KINSELLA: Who is behind funding for pro-Palestinian protesters? — Toronto Sun
Follow the money. In any scandal, that’s the rule: Follow the money. When you see who is paying, and who is benefiting, you learn plenty. On Wednesday, this newspaper followed the money, and broke some news: Anti-Israel protesters are getting paid to protest. After the horrors of Oct. 7 — and...
Well, that’s impossible.
This writer has been involved in politics for a long time. Organizing a political rally in a single city takes weeks of preparation and a lot of hard work. It takes money.
KINSELLA: Pro-Hamas protests organized and well funded — Toronto Sun
Traffic into Chicago’s O’Hare airport, one the world’s busiest: blocked. Traffic along the busy I-880 mega-highway in Oakland, Calif.: blocked. Traffic on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge: blocked. Traffic on the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge over the Hudson River: blocked. And, here in Canada —...
That day, at a protest on the front steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Charlotte Kates addressed the crowd.
“We demand a free Palestine from the river to the sea,” Kates said. “We stand with the Palestinian resistance and their heroic and brave action on October 7.”
She then led the crowd in a chant of “Long live October 7.”
Kates is the co-founder of the extremist anti-Israel group Samidoun along with her husband Khaled Barakat. Israel’s security service Shin Bet has long maintained that Barakat is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a group considered a terrorist organization in Canada.
Samidoun has often acted a direct conduit for PFLP statements and literature. Samidoun is banned outright in Germany and is closely affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terror organization in Canada. Israel considers Samidoun a terrorist entity, while in Canada it enjoys not-for-profit status.
April 26 was far from the first time that Kates has praised October 7 or terrorism generally in a public forum. Earlier last month, she was an invited speaker at Al Quds Day demonstrations in Toronto, where she told cheering crowds, “on October 7, we saw the potential for a Palestine liberated from Zionism by the forces of the resistance.”
In March, she was a featured speaker at a Palestine Liberation 101 event at New York’s Columbia University where she similarly framed October 7 as showing “the potential of a future for Palestine liberated from Zionism.”
Activist who praised October 7 terror attacks arrested by Vancouver police — National Post
A video circulated showing a woman outside the Vancouver Art Gallery saying, 'We stand with the Palestinian resistance and their heroic and brave action on October 7'
Protesters breach U of T fence, Legault calls for police to dismantle McGill camp — National Post
Here’s what’s happening at McGill and other schools across Canada
Jonathan Kay: Just ignore Sarah Jama's keffiyeh and leave cancel culture to progressives — National Post
Serial activists flit from cause to cause, based on what’s in the news and what brings out the cameras
