When Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg dropped most of the cases against anti-Israel Columbia University protesters last week, the hooligans he let off the hook included some who coordinated their attack with a Cuban-trained militant at premises financed by a multimillionaire in Shanghai.
In other words, the DA who became infamous by prosecuting Donald Trump on flimsy charges has refused to pursue justice for individuals linked to a vast global web that supports the pro-Hamas protests.
It’s the same network that has sustained Black Lives Matter since it first started to tear our lives apart in 2013, as Mary Mobley and I showed this week in a new Heritage Foundation report .
Further, we’ve found that that this web of organizations, which we label the revolutionary ecosystem, is not committed exclusively to either “social justice” or the political map of the Middle East.
Its goal: to take down capitalism, parliamentary democracy and the West in general.
One of the main organisms in this revolutionary ecosystem, the Alliance For Global Justice, insists that “liberal democracy is a sham” since it is “the governing principle of the US/NATO Empire, which serves global capitalism.”
AFGJ’s links to the rest of the ecosystem tells our tale.
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It fiscally sponsors Samidoun , one of the main Palestinian activist groups, as well as BLM chapters — and also helped found another top activist group that has organized some of the biggest recent protests, the ANSWER Coalition, a front for the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
AFGJ is itself funded by George Soros’ Open Society groups, along with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
The Alliance is the ecosystem in microcosm, and it is hardly alone: Soros foundations also fund the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), one of the main BLM umbrella groups, and Jewish Voice for Peace, one of the organizers of the Columbia violence.
Another of the activist groups, American Muslims for Palestine, which also was involved in recent protests at Columbia and George Washington University, helped bring 200 Palestinian activists to the formative BLM riots in Ferguson, Miss., in 2014.
The revolutionary ecosystem contains four components: the activist groups that organize the protests, the fiscal sponsors that give the activists legal standing, the donors who fund the activists through the sponsors and the media groups that elevate the message of the entire ecosystem.
Each group aims to overthrow the American way of life.
Israel’s fight for self-defense and survival is just the latest excuse to pursue this overarching goal, just as the manipulation of George Floyd’s tragedy in Minneapolis in 2020 and the police-involved death of Michael Brown in Ferguson in 2014 were for Black Lives Matter.
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“When we defeat Israel and the US Empire, we will . . . know how to dismantle capitalism here in the United States,” Manolo De Los Santos, executive director of the People’s Forum, wrote on Instagram in December 2023.
De Los Santos is the radical leader who gave a fiery speech on April 29 , the night of the Columbia riot, to about 100 activists who had made the trek from Morningside Heights to the People’s Forum headquarters on West 37th Street.
De Los Santos told the keffiyeh-clad crowd that the Columbia students had decided that “resistance is more important than negotiations.”
He urged the activists, “Go back out. We have to be the bodies willing to stand between the police and our students.”
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DA Bragg cuts ‘em loose, again After the speech, the activists were given pointers on “resistance.” Three hours later, protesters stormed Columbia’s Hamilton Hall by breaking through its windows.
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It took a dramatic rescue operation by the New York Police Department to liberate the building 24 hours later in front of millions watching live on TV nationwide.
De Los Santos, we found, has been traveling to communist Cuba since at least 2006, apparently even receiving direct training from the Castro family’s puppet president, Miguel Diaz Canel.
In May last year, De Los Santos tweeted a photo of himself with Diaz-Canel, with a post decrying the “genocidal blockade” of Cuba and saying, “Young people in the US have great tasks ahead of them . . . a responsibility to defeat” the United States.
Who bankrolls De Los Santos and pays for the People’s Forum headquarters?
A multimillionaire named Neville Roy Singham, who has put the $785 million he made in the sale of his Chicago software consultancy at the command of Marxist groups.
Singham lives in Shanghai and has “close ties to the CCP,” according to multiple reports .
It’s just one slice of the revolutionary ecosystem — a constellation of groups that have been involved not just with the Columbia disturbances, but with many of the anti-Israel demonstrations we have seen since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7.
It’s criminals out to destroy the West that the ecosystem trains and funds — criminals who Alvin Bragg has just allowed to walk scot-free.
Mike Gonzalez is a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
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