Over 100 Anti-Israel NGOs collectively planned ‘March on the Democratic National Convention’

Jerusalem-based research organization NGO Monitor published a report revealing details about “March on the DNC.” The report includes a list of the leading NGOs involved, including known antisemitic groups CODEPINK, Samidoun, a group that advocates for the release of terrorists held by Israel, Jewish Voices for Peace, and Students for Justice in Palestine. Known funders of the organizations include Billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and The Tides Network, previously supported by Bill Gates and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

According to the report, the goal of the NGO coalition behind the “March on the DNC” is to demand that Democrats adopt anti-Israel policies including to “End U.S. Aid to Israel," and say "We must stop our government from arming and supporting this genocide.”

Other demands include “Immigrant Rights and Legalization for All!," to “Defend LGBTQIA+ & Reproductive Rights!” and “Stop police crimes!" while demanding "Community control of the police now!”

On July 22, March On The DNC posted a statement following Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race that read, “Genocide Joe Biden…His decision doesn’t change the policies of Democratic Party leadership, specifically their support of the genocide in Palestine… On August 19th we will march on the DNC for Gaza regardless of who gets nominated for the presidency. Democratic Party leadership switching out their presidential nominee does not wash the blood of over 50,000 Palestinians off their hands.”

NGO Monitor stated that “Many of the March on the DNC members have led and participated in antisemitic and pro-terror events since the Hamas-orchestrated October 7th massacre – including on US campuses.”

Groups listed by the organization included CODEPINK, Palestinian Feminist Collective, Students for Justice in Palestine Chicago, American Muslims for Palestine Chicago, National Lawyers Guild -Task Force on the Americas/San Francisco Bay Area chapter, ANSWER Coalition – Chicago, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Jewish Voice for Peace Chicago, U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), and National Students for Justice in Palestine.

One of the participating organizations is the far-left National Lawyers Guild (NLG) whose representatives regularly attend protests and riots to document and offer legal assistance to the activists. The group’s Palestine Subcommittee provides legal support to the antisemitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and works to support Palestinian terrorists in prison. The group has assisted antisemitic campus activists who created gaza camps that discriminated against Jewish students such as the one at Emerson College.

On October 7, 2023, the day Palestinian terrorists massacred over 1,200 Israeli civilians and took another 250, NLG published a statement “stand[ing] in solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle against the Settler Colonial State of Israel.”

Another involved group is American Muslims For Palestine (AMP) whose rhetoric includes false accusations against Israel of “apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing,” “genocide,” “collective punishment,” “Judaization,” and “colonization.”

On October 31, 2023, the Attorney General’s Office of Virginia announced an investigation into AMP, because there is “reason to believe that the organization may be soliciting contributions … without first having registered…. In addition, the Attorney General will investigate allegations that the organization may have used funds raised for impermissible purposes under state law, including benefitting or providing support to terrorist organizations.”

On October 8, AMP published a statement titled “Reality vs. Propaganda: Changing the Discourse on Gaza,” which downplayed the terrorist attacks saying, “First of all, this was not an attack, it was a response. Expecting a besieged, occupied, brutalized, and colonized people to remain docile in the face of nearly a century of brutal oppression and colonial subjugation is inhumane and unjust. It was inevitable that Gaza, after more than 16 years under an air, sea, and land blockade with little food or potable water, medicine, or electricity, completely cut off from the world–with Arab regimes normalizing their oppression by cutting deals with the Israelis–is now rising up to end this violent system once and for all.”

One of the most radical groups is Samidoun, which in 2021 was designated a terrorist organization by the Israeli Ministry of Defense and “a subsidiary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).” In November 2023, Germany banned Samidoun for violating its Basic Law (Article 9(2)) and its Associations Act; namely, it “impairs and endangers the peaceful coexistence of Germans and foreigners,” “advocates and calls for the use of violence as a means of enforcing political interests,” and “supports associations that initiate, advocate and threaten attacks against people or property.” The group has been involved in anti-Israel actions across the US and on American college campuses.

Before the DNC, the coalition was looking to raise $20,000 to “stand against the war machine and for the rights of working and oppressed people, using the “Action Network” platform. However, the sources of the funding are non-transparent. In the past, NGO monitor has documented that the involved groups have been funded by The Tides Network, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Open Society Foundation, the Alliance For Global Justice, and WESPAC.

Pro-Hamas activists at the DNC have been skirmishing with police in Chicago since Sunday, before the convention began. On Tuesday, the radicals clashed with police outside Chicago’s Israeli consulate as the Democratic National Convention was underway in nearby United Center. Agitators set an American flag on fire outside the consulate and attacked journalist Ben Bergquam when he attempted to remove the flag from the fire.