When Charities Betray America:
How “Pro-Palestinian” Protest Groups Promote Anti-Americanism
(full report)
Executive Summary | Methodology
Examples of Anti-American and Anti-Police Hate Speech
Chronological Analysis | Analysis of Engagement Levels
Three Organizational Examples
Prevalence of Charities among These Radical Groups
Conclusion | Endnotes
Appendix A: Organizations | Appendix B: Individuals
Endnotes
[i] Calla Walsh, X, 04/17/2024
[ii] Nerdeen Kiswani, X, 06/24/2024; Columbia SJP, X, 05/10/2024
[v] PYM NYC, Instagram, 06/12/2024
[vi] Unity of Fields, X, 11/05/2024
[vii] Unity of Fields, X, 10/08/2024
[viii] Unity of Fields, Telegram, 10/15/2024; Equality4flatbush, Instagram, 5/1/2024
[x] ADL, Unity of Fields, formerly known as Palestine Action U.S; ADL, Unity of Fields: What You Need to Know, published 12/19/2024, accessed 01/25
[xi] Unity of Fields, X, 10/15/2024
[xii] Unity of Fields, X, 10/13/2024
[xiii] Helyeh Doutaghi, X, 08/17/2024
[xiv] Samidoun Seattle, X, 08/21/2024; Unity of Fields, Instagram, 09/16/2024
[xv] Adalah Justice, Facebook, 05/10/2024; Adalah Justice, Instagram, 02/25/2024
[xvi] Calla Walsh, X, 11/25/2023; Columbia SJP, X, 07/19/2024; Helyeh Doutaghi, X, 04/18/2024
[xvii] Palestine Action US, Telegram, 09/19/2024; Palestine Action, X, 11/17/2023; PYM, Instagram, 12/15/2024; Joe Catron, Facebook, 10/25/2023
[xviii] Joe Catron, X, 04/30/2024; Palestine Action US, Telegram, 09/19/202; AMP NJ, Instagram, 04/15/2024
[xix] Ali Abunimah, X, 10/04/2024; Unity of Fields, X, 11/02/2024
[xx] USCPR, Indigenous Struggles From Turtle Island to Palestine
[xxi] Within Our Lifetime, X, 05/18/2024; SJP UMN, Instagram, 04/18/2024
[xxii] Unity of Fields, Telegram, 10/15/2024
[xxiii] Ahlam Muhtaseb, Facebook, 11/23/2023; CODEPINK, TikTok, 11/28/2024
[xxiv] JVP, Instagram, 07/04/2024
[xxv] [Students for Justice in Palestine], “Day of Resistance Toolkit – imgix,” https://dw-wp-production.
imgix.net/2023/10/DAY-OF-RESISTANCE-TOOLKIT.pdf, 10/12/2023
[xxvi] NBC News, “Who’s Behind the pro-Palestinian protests that are disrupting Biden’s campaign events and blocking city streets?”, 03/20/2024
[xxvii] New York Times, “Pro-Palestinian Group is Relentless in its Criticism of Israel, And It Isn’t Backing Down,” 10/05/2024
[xxviii] Within Our Lifetime, X, 07/19/2024; Within Our Lifetime, X, 06/06/2024
[xxix] InfluenceWatch, “WESPAC Foundation.”
[xxx] See for example this thread, which includes examples of support for Hezbollah and Hamas at WOL rallies, calls of “Death to America,” and the burning of the American flag.
[xxxii] Times of Israel, “USpro-PalestiniangroupblastedformapofJewishgroupswith‘bloodontheirhands’”, published 11/17/2023
[xxxiii] Nerdeen Kiswani, X, 03/19/2024. (NOTE: Kiswani’s X account is “protected” as of 1/15/2025).
[xxxiv] Within Our Lifetime website, WOL’s statement referring to the now-deleted post – “The Crackdown on Palestine: Unveiling NYPD’s Repression Tactics”, 02/02/2025
[xxxv] Free Press, “Inside Columbia University’s ‘Museum of Terror’”, 01/06/2025, [00:08-00:45]
[xxxvi] Within Our Lifetime, X, 07/24/2024
[xxxvii] Within Our Lifetime, Telegram, 11/04/2024
[xxxviii] Within Our Lifetime, Telegram, 11/02/2024
[xxxix] Within Our Lifetime, X, 09/21/2024
[xl] Within Our Lifetime, X, 07/19/2024
[xli] Within Our Lifetime website, “The Crackdown on Palestine”, 02/17/2024
[xlii] PYM, X, 02/10/2024; The Jerusalem Post, Pro-Palestine protesters charge The New York Times with genocide inside its lobby, 03/15/2024
[xliii] Unity Of Fields, Telegram, 06/21/2024; The New York Post, “Hundreds of violent anti-Israel wave Hezbollah flag, denounce Trump, Harris as mob swarms News Corp. building in Midtown where New York Post HQ is based”, 11/05/2024
[xliv] Canary Mission website, “Palestinian Youth Movement”, 02/2025
[xlv] The Funambulist, “Nadya Tannous”, 02/2025
[xlvi] The Anti-Defamation League website, “WESPAC”, 02/2025
[xlvii] NBC News, “Who’s behind the pro-Palestinian protests that are disrupting Biden’s campaign events and blocking city streets?”, 03/20/2024
[xlviii] PYM website, “Homepage”, 02/2025
[l] PYM, Instagram, 10/09/2023
[li] PYM, Instagram, 10/08/2023
[lii] Fox News, “Pro-Palestinian activists in US cheer Hamas taking hostages from music festival: ‘Honor our martyrs’”, 10/09/2023
[liii] PYM, Instagram, 10/18/2024
[liv] The People’s Forum, Instagram, 10/04/2024
[lv] PYM, Instagram, 11/24/2022
[lvi] NYC PYM, Instagram, 07/04/2024
[lvii] Jerusalem Post, “Anti-Israel activistsburn USflags, celebrateterrorist groupsonJuly4”, 07/07/2024
[lviii] NYC PYM, Instagram – the post is no longer available.
[lix] Jewish News Syndicate, “Detroit pro-Palestinian conference boasts of PFLP endorsement”, 05/22/2024
[lxi] YouTube, PYM People’s Conference for Palestine – Opening keynote, YouTube, 05/24/2025, [33:51]
[lxii] U.S. Department of the Treasury, “United States and Canada Target Key International Fundraiser for Foreign Terrorist Organization PFLP”, published on 10/15/24, accessed on 01/2025
[lxiii] Instagram story
[lxiv] Samidoun website, “22 January, Brooklyn/New York City: Speak out to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners!”, 01/18/2022
[lxv] GuideStar, “990”, 02/2025
[lxvi] CODEPINK website, Homepage, 02/2025
[lxvii] CODEPINK website, CODEPINK Cofounders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans Detained by Israeli Soldiers in the Occupied West Bank City of Hebron, published 01/27/2018; Pro Publica, CODEPINK Women for Peace
[lxviii] New York Times, “AGlobalWebofChinesePropagandaLeadstoaU.S.TechMogul”, 08/05/2023
[lxix] CODEPINK, X, 01/12/2025
[lxx] CODEPINK, YouTube, China Is Not Our Enemy with Ben Norton, 2022
[lxxi] CODEPINK, X, 10/03/2024; CODEPINK, X, 10/11/2024; CODEPINK, X, 08/07/2024; CODEPINK, X, 08/28/2024; CODEPINK, X, 05/24/2018; CODEPINK, X, 02/03/2015
[lxxii] CODEPINK, X, 06/02/2024; CODEPINK, X, 05/13/2021; CODEPINK, X, 02/20/2019
[lxxiii] CODEPINK, The truth about the DNC, 08/21/2024; Medea Benjamin, X, 08/20/2024
[lxxiv] CODEPINK, Breaking: Activists Arrested for Disrupting Hearing on “Global Threats”, 03/11/2024
[lxxv] CODEPINK, BREAKING: CODEPINK Disrupts Vice President Kamala Harris at Madison, WI Event, 09/20/2024
[lxxvi] CODEPINK, X, 02/206/2024; CODEPINK, X, 06/02/2024
[lxxvii] CODEPINK, Instagram, 05/27/2024
[lxxviii] CODEPINK, Instagram, 07/04/2024
[lxxix] CODEPINK, X, 07/08/2024
[lxxx] CODEPINK, X, 08/05/2024; CODEPINK, Instagram, 11/06/2024
[lxxxi] CODEPINK, X, 01/05/2025
[lxxxii] InfluenceWatch, “American Muslims for Palestine.”
[lxxxiii] InfluenceWatch, “Unity of Fields.”
[lxxxiv] Capital Research Center, Marching Toward Violence: The Domestic Anti-Israel Protest Movement.
[lxxxv] Daniel Greenfield, “Defund the Soros Hamas Insurrection,” Frontpage, November 8, 2023.
[lxxxvi] IRS, Revenue Ruling 75-384, 1975-2 C.B. 204.
[lxxxvii] Ibid.
[lxxxviii] Gabe Kaminsky, “Little-known charity funded by major liberal groups sponsors anti-Israel organizations aligned with BDS,” Washington Examiner, 11/12/2022.
[lxxxix] Robert Schmad, “Congressional committee demands IRS revoke tax-exempt status of group hosting terrorist fundraisers,” Washington Examiner, 11/20/2024.
In the next installment, Appendix A lists the organizational social media accounts reviewed for this study.
