Your Black Lives Matter Donation May Have Helped Hamas

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Your Black Lives Matter Donation May Have Helped Hamas

In addition to its direct support of Palestinian groups, BLM works closely with numerous domestic, left-wing, pro-Palestinian organizations.

BY: JOHN COHEN
OCTOBER 12, 2023

On Oct. 9, Black Lives Matter (BLM) Grassroots, a collection of BLM chapters responsible for much of the BLM movement’s heavy lifting, released a statement in support of the Palestinian people that likens Palestinian terrorism to BLM’s own activism. Some individual chapters went further in their show of support for Hamas. BLM Chicago shared a celebratory graphic of a paraglider in obvious reference to the slaughtering of at least 260 civilians by Hamas militants at an Israeli music festival. Such statements are nothing new for BLM, a “movement committed to ending settler colonialism in all forms” that advocates for “Palestinian liberation.”

Many Americans are aware that both the Obama and Biden administrations sent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to Hamas and its benefactors. A comparatively smaller number are aware that public companies donate to Palestinian organizations and their allies such as Black Lives Matter. Both are wealth transfers that drain resources from our economy to enable Palestinian barbarism like that unleashed on Israelis this past Saturday.

Recall that corporations gave more than $99 billion to the BLM movement and related causes after the death of George Floyd, as shown by the Claremont Institute’s BLM Funding Database. McKinsey and Company claims the number is far higher, about $340 billion. This wealth transfer included at least $122 million in funding for BLM itself.

Some of that money undoubtedly went to Hamas. Radical black activists have long identified with the “Palestinian cause,” BLM has a history of supporting Palestinian organizations, and delegations of BLM activists have visited the Palestinian territories on more than one occasion.

In addition to its direct support of Palestinian groups, BLM works closely with numerous domestic, left-wing, pro-Palestinian organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine and members of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. Activists belonging to these organizations celebrated Hamas’ most recent atrocities across the West, including in America’s streets and on America’s college campuses.

BLM At School, the PreK-12 educational arm of the BLM movement, devotes an entire block of its curriculum to “Black + Palestinian Solidarity.” Among its troves of Palestinian propaganda are articles such as “How the sun of Palestine reached a Black Panther in jail,” published by The Electronic Intifada, and “Our Liberation is Connected with the Palestinian People,” published in The Progressive Magazine. The curriculum, which equates “Israeli settler colonialism” to “anti-Black violence,” calls for “unified action against anti-Blackness, white supremacy, and Zionism.” BLM At School is an official partner of the National Education Association and is present in thousands of schools nationwide.

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/12/your-black-lives-matter-donation-may-have-helped-hamas/