The Republican-led House Oversight and Education Committees have called on the Treasury Department to reveal any suspicious financial activity involving nearly two dozen groups involved in ongoing protests on college campuses over the war in the Gaza Strip.
“The Committees are investigating the sources of funding and financing for groups who are organizing, leading, and participating in pro-Hamas, antisemitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American protests with illegal encampments on American college campuses,” Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Education Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) wrote in a May 14 letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
“This investigation relates both to malign influence on college campuses and to the national security implications of such influence on faculty and student organizations.”
- Students for Justice in Palestine
- Jewish Voice for Peace
- Within Our Lifetime
- American Muslims for Palestine
- IfNotNow
- Open Society Foundations
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund
- Tides Foundation
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Solidaire Action
- Libra Foundation
- Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation
- Muslim Community Network
- Council on American-Islamic Relations
- Center for Popular Democracy
- Peace Action New York State
- People’s Forum
- Samidoun
- Adalah Justice Project
- Palestine Legal
Comer Says Protests Don’t Appear ‘Organic’
Several groups of activists have set up encampments at college campuses and even taken over university buildings as part of their demonstrations. Complaints have also emerged of activists harassing people, including Jewish and Israeli students and faculty, amid the campus protests.
“The antisemitic and illegal protest encampments occupying colleges across the country are disturbing and appear to be anything but organic,” Mr. Comer said on May 14. “ Reports now indicate multiple leftist organizations are leading efforts to fund and encourage these hateful and unlawful encampments.”
The Oversight Committee chairman said that his and Ms. Foxx’s committees plan to “follow the money trail” and “expose these radical groups funding this hate to the American people.”
“It’s no coincidence that the day after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack, antisemitic mobs began springing up at college campuses across the country,” Ms. Foxx said. “These protests have been coordinated and well organized, indicating that outside groups or influences may be at play. American education is under attack.”
Ms. Foxx said the ongoing campus protests are “tearing apart our institutions,” and it’s important that Congress reveals how the groups are being funded “before it’s too late.”
The Republican lawmakers gave Ms. Yellen and the Treasury Department until May 28 to provide the requested SAR records.
“As we have stated many times, AMP looks forward to demonstrating in any jurisdiction that it operates wholly within the laws of the United States, compliant with all laws and regulations governing U.S. nonprofit entities,” AMP spokesperson Christina Jump wrote. “AMP operates completely within the United States, raises funds completely within the United States, and utilizes those donations completely within the United States to support its mission of educating American Muslims and the American public on the rich history and culture of Palestine.”
NTD News reached out to the other organizations named in Mr. Comer and Ms. Foxx’s letter but did not receive any additional responses by press time.
Lawmakers Raise Pressure for Protest Organizers, Universities
Ms. Foxx and the Republican-controlled House Education and Workforce Committee have pressed universities throughout the country to account for how they’re dealing with the contentious atmospheres on their campuses. Her committee hosted the presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania at a hearing on Dec. 5, 2023, during which the university officials drew bipartisan condemnation for their comments about how their respective universities would handle calls for genocide against Jews.
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