Columbia’s Gaza Camp organizers SJP funded by Hamas-linked non-profits: report

The report by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), said that SJP, which has over 250 chapters across the US, received millions from groups with links to Hamas.

According to the report obtained by the Daily Mail, the groups have been using pro-Hamas statements, chants, signs, and banners. ISGAP urged authorities to investigate the radical group.

ISGAP executive director Dr. Charles Small told the outlet, “It's being presented as a peace movement, that there's Jews involved, that it's not anti-semitic. But when people chant 'globalize the intifada' it's very clear.”

He added, that Hamas’ ideology “is a commitment to dismantling Israel and exterminating Jews around the world.”

According to the report, SJP is organizing protests across the US but isn’t registered as a charity or formal organization.

Activists at Columbia’s “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” received tents that cost hundreds of dollars apiece as well as expensive food and supplies that Small said warranted his think tank as well as "a group of forensic accountants and experts in terror financing" to work to follow the money funneled into protests.

Small said they found over $3 million a year going to chapters on US college campuses that come from organizations with links to Hamas including 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).

According to the report, American Muslims for Palestine is under investigation by the Virginia attorney general and has been accused of funding Hamas. AMP’s founder Hatem Bazian also founded SJP.

Bazian previously fundraised for Kindhearts, which had its assets frozen by the US Treasury for funding Hamas, and Bazian previously was a speaker for the Islamic Association for Palestine, which was found civilly liable for supporting the terrorist organization.

AMP's former and current executive directors, Abdelbaset Hamayel and Osama Abuirshaid were both board members or directors of the Islamic Association for Palestine, and AMP's national board member Salah Sarsour was a fundraiser for the Holy Land Foundation, a designated terror organization that gave over $12 million to Hamas.

AMP’s National Campus Coordinator Taher Herzallah gave a speech at a 2014 conference in Chicago saying that "Israelis have to be bombed, they are a threat to the legitimacy of Palestine, and it is wrong to maintain the State of Israel."

He also posted on Facebook that Hamas rockets are an “oppressed people's audible cry for help” and called pictures of injured Israeli soldiers “the most beautiful site in my eyes.”

The ISGAP report called for an investigation of SJP and its donors stating, “It is clear that individuals who previously worked for Hamas-linked charities are now a driving force behind AMP and hence NSJP/SJP.”

“The Department of Education (DoE) should carry out an immediate investigation into which universities are funding and/or supporting NSJP/SJP activities and instruct those universities to cease such funding and/or support,” adding that the FBI should open a formal investigation into American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), one of the founding organizations of NSJP/SJP, on the charge of potential material support for terrorism.”