George Soros is paying student radicals who are fueling nationwide explosion of Israel-hating protests

George Soros and his hard-left acolytes are paying agitators who are  
fueling the explosion of radical anti-Israel protests at colleges  
across the country.

The protests, which began when students took over Columbia University's 
 Morningside Heights campus lawn last week, have mushroomed nationwide.

Copycat tent cities have been set up at colleges including Harvard,  
Yale, Berkeley in California, the Ohio State University and Emory in  
Georgia - all of them organized by branches of the Soros-funded  
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) - and at some, students have  
clashed with police.

The SJP parent organization has been funded by a network of nonprofits  
ultimately funded by, among others, Soros, the billionaire left-wing  
investor.

At three colleges, the protests are being encouraged by paid radicals  
who are "fellows" of a Soros-funded group called the US Campaign for  
Palestinian Rights (USCPR).

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USCPR provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between 
 $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based "fellows" in return for 
spending  eight hours a week organizing "campaigns led by Palestinian  
organizations."

They are trained to "rise up, to revolution."

The radical group received at least $300,000 from Soros' Open Society  
Foundations since 2017 and also took in $355,000 from the Rockefeller  
Brothers Fund since 2019.

It has three "fellows" who have been major figures in the nationwide  
protest movement.

Nidaa Lafi, a former president of the University of Texas Students for  
Justice in Palestine, was seen at an encampment at UT Dallas Wednesday  
making a speech demanding an end to the war in Gaza.

Lafi, a former legislative intern for the late Democratic Congresswoman 
 Eddie Bernice Johnson, graduated from the school last year with a  
degree in global business and is now a law student at Southern  
Methodist University in Dallas.

In January, she was detained for blocking the route of President  
Biden's motorcade after he arrived in Dallas for the funeral of  
Johnson, her former boss.

At Yale, USCPR's fellow Craig Birckhead-Morton was arrested Monday and  
charged with first-degree trespassing when SJP's branch,  
Yalies4Palestine, occupied the school's Beinecke Plaza, the Yale Daily  
News reported.

Birckhead-Morton - also a former intern for a Democrat, Maryland rep  
John Sarbanes - emerged from custody to address a sit-in blocking  
traffic in New Haven.

The most high-profile of the fellows is Berkeley's Malak Afaneh, co- 
president of the Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine.

She has been a serial speaker at an anti-Israel protest on the campus  
this week - which came after she first shot to prominence by hijacking  
a dinner at the law school dean's home to shout anti-Israel slogans,  
then accused the dean's wife of assaulting her when she asked the  
radical to leave.

The cash from Soros and his acolytes has been critical to the Columbia  
protests that set off the national copycat demonstrations.

Three groups set up the tent city on Columbia's lawn last Wednesday:  
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)  
and Within Our Lifetime.

At the "Gaza Solidarity Encampment," students sleep in tents apparently 
 ordered from Amazon and enjoy delivery pizza, coffee from Dunkin', 
free  sandwiches worth $12.50 from Pret a Manger, organic tortilla 
chips and  $10 rotisserie chickens.

An analysis by The Post shows that all three got cash from groups  
linked to Soros. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund also gave cash to JVP.

The fund is chaired by Joseph Pierson, and includes David Rockefeller  
Jr, a fourth-generation member of the oil dynasty, on its board of  
directors. The non-profit gives money to "sustainable development" and  
"peace-building."

And a former Wall Street banker, Felice Gelman, a retired investment  
banker who has dedicated her Wall Street fortune to pro-Palestinian  
causes, funded all three groups.

Both SJP and JVP were expelled from Columbia University in November for 
 "threatening rhetoric and intimidation." JVP blamed Israel for the Oct 
 7 Hamas terrorist attack that left 1,200 Israelis dead.

"Israeli apartheid and occupation - and United States complicity in  
that oppression - are the source of all this violence," JVP said in a  
statement on its website.  

SJP called the terrorist strike on Israel "a historic win."

An analysis by The Post shows how Soros and Gelman's cash made its way  
to the students through a network of nonprofits that help obscure their 
 contributions.

Soros has given billions to the Open Society Foundations which his son  
Alexander - whose partner is Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's top aide  
and the estranged wife of pervert Anthony Weiner - now controls.

In turn, Open Society has given more than $20 million to the Tides  
Foundation, a progressive nonprofit "fiscal sponsor" that then sends  
the cash to smaller groups.

Those groups include A Jewish Voice for Peace, which between 2017 and  
2022 has received $650,000 from Soros' Open Society. Its advisers  
include the academic Noam Chomsky and the left-wing feminist author  
Naomi Klein.

JVP has been a prominent part of the protests at Columbia and one of  
its student members was among a group expelled from the university for  
inviting the leader of a proscribed terrorist group, Khaled, to the  
"Resistance 101" Zoom meeting.

Soros has also donated $132,000 to WESPAC, called in full the  
Westchester People's Action Coalition Foundation.

The White Plains-based nonprofit was founded in 1974 to rally for civil 
 rights and against the Vietnam War but is now a major funder of anti- 
Israel groups, including Within Our Lifetime and Students for Justice  
in Palestine.

SJP has also received funding from the Sparkplug Foundation, a New  
York-based nonprofit run by Gelman and her husband, Yoram Gelman.

The couple funneled their $20,000 donation to the group through WESPAC  
in 2022, according to public filings.

Gelman was previously on WESPAC's committee for Justice and Peace in  
the Middle East in 2009 when she was invited to Gaza by the United  
Nations Relief and Works Agency, according to the group's website.

The UN group has been slammed for its support of Hamas.

Gelman is on the board of the Bard Lifetime Learning Institute, an  
offshoot of the infamously progressive college, as well as the Jenin  
Freedom Theatre, located in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.

WESPAC president Howard Horowitz, a former Orthodox Jew, is a member of 
 the New York chapter of JVP, which says it works for "advocacy and  
public education for Palestinian human rights."

Horowitz said he embraced the Palestinian cause after time spent living 
 in Israel, according to a report in the Israel Times.

WESPAC has also given money to Within Our Lifetime, founded by the  
ubiquitous anti-Israeli protester Nerdeen Kiswani.

Within our Lifetime uses a loophole in the law to avoid declaring how  
much it receives from donors by not being a 501(c)(3) nonprofit,  
meaning it is unknown how Kiswani has benefited.

However, WESPAC is named as a fiscal sponsor of Within Our Lifetime.

After The Post published our story, an Open Society Foundations  
spokesperson said: "For the record, Open Society Foundations has a long 
 history of fighting antisemitism, islamophobia and all forms of racism 
 and hate.

"Open Society has funded a broad spectrum of US groups that have  
advocated for the rights of Palestinians and Israelis and for peaceful  
resolution to the conflict in Israel and the OPT.

"This funding is a matter of public record, disclosed on our website,  
fully compliant with US laws, and is part of our commitment to  
continuing open debate that is ultimately the only hope for peace in  
the region.

"The Open Society Foundations proudly support the right of all citizens 
 to peaceful protest - a bedrock principle of our democracy."

None of the other groups responded to requests by The Post for comment.

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