The Alliance for Global Justice (AGJ), the financial sponsor of the group that the US government recently determined to be an arm of a Palestinian terrorist organization, has received nearly $20 million from liberal US philanthropy since 2020.

Center-left nonprofits like the Soros family’s Open Society Foundations and philanthropic groups with ties to the Democratic Party have poured millions of dollars into AGJ in recent years. According to Contributed to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s analysis of tax documents. Samidoun, which is financially sponsored by AGJ, received charitable donations from donors and transferred them to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a US-designated terrorist organization, and to the Treasury Department. announced on tuesday.

Fiscal sponsorship is an arrangement that allows an established nonprofit organization, such as AGJ, to process tax-deductible donations to another group that does not register as a charity with the Internal Revenue Service. According to to the American Bar Association. In the most common form of financial sponsorship agreement, the sponsor and the sponsoring organization are considered the same legal entity, and the sponsor is responsible for providing oversight of the project. (Related: Activists support port ‘blockade’ by large liberal nonprofit organization, group allegedly linked to terrorists)

Donations to AGJ from centre-left charities fall into roughly three categories. Some nonprofits provide funding to support AGJ’s general operations, many provide donations to support work in specific issue areas, and others provide funding to support AGJ’s operations. We earmarked our donations to the specific financially supported groups we host. Anyway AGJ collect 8% of all donations directed to various projects will be cut.

Some of the donations to AGJ suggest that the cash may have gone directly to Samidoun. of Funded by Soros Detention Watch Network, for example, donated about $127,000 to the organization to fund its “anti-detention efforts,” tax filings show.

Samidun invoice It is itself an “action to build solidarity with Palestinian prisoners of war fighting for freedom,” and it is a form of “anti-detention work.”

Canada is one step ahead of the United States. specified Samidoun as a terrorist organization. AGJ listed Samidoun on a now-deleted project page as of at least late 2023. According to Go to the organization’s website archives.

Many of the organizations that financially supported the AGJ not only have center-left ideological leanings, but also have ties to key figures in the Democratic Party.

Windward Fund and New Venture Fund, two arms of a Democratic-leaning underground finance network controlled by the consulting firm Arabella Advisors, will be using AGJ for unspecified programs from 2020 to 2022, according to tax disclosures. He had donated approximately $1.5 million to the. The Tides Center, one of the largest liberal nonprofit networks by revenue, gave approximately $1.4 million to AGJ from 2020 to 2022. About half of Tides’ donations to AGJ went to nondescript “human rights” projects, and the rest went to donations. For the Louisville Community Bail Fund.

“As we have said previously, we condemn all forms of terrorism and violence against civilians and do not support any projects or provide any grants to organizations that finance terrorism.” New Venture Fund a spokesperson told DCNF. “While previous grants to the Alliance for Global Justice specifically supported domestic energy projects, the New Venture Fund will provide grants to projects sponsored by the Alliance for Global Justice. have all been cancelled.”

The Windward Fund issued a similar statement, saying it “does not support terrorism in any form and strongly condemns all forms of violence against civilians,” adding, “We will no longer make grants to organizations sponsored by the Alliance for Global Justice.” I won’t give you any money,” he said. ”

ActBlue Charities, a charitable donation processor run by the company that operates the Democratic Party’s largest donation processing platform, directed about $56,000 to AGJ in 2021, according to tax documents. The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the famously pro-Democratic ice cream brand, donated $55,000 to AGJ in 2022 in “general support.”

Samidoun had come under scrutiny from watchdog groups and the Israeli government for its ties to the PFLP before the Treasury Department flagged it as a terrorist front group. The PFLP ordered suicide bombings, hijacked planes, and fired rockets at civilians. According to to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

The Treasury Department announced Tuesday that the PFLP “is using Samidoun to maintain its fundraising operations in both Europe and North America.” Watch Dogs previously reported that several Samidoun leaders maintain ties to the PFLP and one of the organization’s co-founders. called The October 7 terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas was a “brave and heroic operation”.

Charities aligned with major Democratic Party donors George Krupp and michael moritz Tax documents revealed that the company also provided funds to AGJ. of crank start and krupp family The Loud Hound Foundation, Moritz and Krupp’s family foundation, donated more than $200,000 to AGJ from 2020 to 2022. serve As Secretary and Treasurer, I contributed an additional $25,000 to AGJ in 2020.

The Open Society Foundations, founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros and now led by Alex Soros, has announced plans to help “catalyze Black communities into a global movement for climate justice” in 2020. It donated $250,000 to AGJ in 2017, grant records show. Both George Soros and his son Alex Soros are major donors to Democratic political committees, according to campaign finance records. In 2023, the Open Society Foundations donated $250,000 to the Al-Haq Human Rights Group, a designated terrorist organization in Israel.

A spokesperson for the Open Society Foundations told DCNF, “There are strict anti-terrorism laws in the United States that determine which organizations foundations like OSF can fund.” “We work hard to ensure full compliance. None of our partners have been designated as sponsors of terrorism under U.S. law.”

A spokesperson clarified that the payments to AGJ “have nothing to do with Israel and Palestine.”

Mr. Samidoun’s Seattle office, along with other pro-Palestinian activists, blocked the main U.S. port in Tacoma, Washington, in November 2023 to prevent aid from flowing into Israel.

At least one of the groups funding AGJ even has financial ties to the Biden-Harris administration. The social and environmental entrepreneur donated $335,000 to AGJ in a 2022 “cooperative grant.” received In 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency will provide $50 million in “Environmental Justice Project Funding.”

“Organizations like Samidoun pose as philanthropists and claim to provide humanitarian aid to people in need, when in reality they divert much-needed aid funds to support terrorist groups. “We have a strong presence in the United States,” said Bradley T. Smith, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the Treasury Department. Said. “The United States, along with Canada and like-minded partners, will continue to thwart those who seek to fund the PFLP, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations.”

As a result of Tuesday’s sanctions, all transactions between Americans and Samidoun are prohibited.

Samidoun, AGJ, Detention Oversight Network, Windward Fund, Arabella Advisors, ActBlue, Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, Tides Center, Crankstart Foundation, and Krupp Family Foundation did not respond to DCNF’s requests for comment.

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