University Gaza Camps planned with trained activist groups for months in advance: report

“There is nothing wrong with being a member of Hamas” one activist leader told students at Columbia in a “Resistance 101” course.
Sara Higdon

May 4, 2024

Left-wing activist organizations reportedly helped train many students for months before they began setting up Gaza Camps on college campuses across the country.

According to The Wall Street Journal, organizers of the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University consulted with the National Students for Justice in Palestine and other veterans of campus protests. They even had several former Black Panthers host a "teach-in" to discuss the importance of handling internal disputes within the organization.  

One of the organizers, Sueda Polat, told the outlet, "We took notes from our elders, engaged in dialogue with them, and analyzed how the university responded to previous protests."  

The National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) is an organization that has called for protests on college campuses for months and helped organize the protests as well. The organization began calling for a "day of resistance" on campuses as early as October, and more recently warned, "The Student Movement for Palestinian Liberation will not be silenced; we will escalate until our demands are met."  

The NSJP has more than 300 chapters across the United States with several of them being suspended by universities across the country. They have received significant funding from the New York-based Wespac Foundation for the last decade, which is known to support organizations that promote antisemitism.  

Organizers at Columbia University also attended a training session titled "Resistance 101" which was hosted by activist organization Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, whose coordinator Charlotte Kates taught the group "to build an internationally popular cradle to the resistance."  

She also showed her support for the Hamas terrorist organization and said, "There is nothing wrong with being a member of Hamas, being a leader of Hamas, being a fighter in Hamas." Kates added, "These are the people that are on the front lines defending Palestine.”

At the University of California, Los Angeles, protesters were trained in de-escalation tactics to be the front line against pro-Israel counter protesters. "There’s a whole set of discipline and procedures that go into it," UCLA English professor and member of the school's Faculty for Justice in Palestine Saree Makdisi told the WSJ.  

"There’s a different kind of rigor to these students that is really striking,” he added.  

Gaza Camps began popping up on campuses across the country last month, and organizers have demanded their schools divest from any organization that has ties to Israel. In many instances, protesters have clashed with police and even taken over academic buildings.

Anti-Israel activists behind Columbia University protests trained in Cuba for years

Cuban intelligence has spent decades inciting radical leftist organizations to spread hatred toward the United States and Israel

By Gelet Martínez Fragela

May 7, 2024 9:00am

Updated: May 7, 2024 9:19am

Some of the anti-Israel protests taking place at U.S. college campuses, including the recent demonstrations at Columbia University, have been supported by organizations that traveled to communist Cuba to receive resistance training, an ADN investigation has uncovered.

ADN’s investigation coincides with a recent Sunday report published by the New York Post that revealed a radical NYC based organization known as The People’s Forum familiarized anti-Israel activists with Black Lives Matter protest techniques just hours before they stormed Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, and that the group was incited by Manolo De Los Santos–a radical activist organizer with deep ties to communist Cuba.
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The People’s Forum is known for having sympathies to the Chinese and Cuban communist parties, and describes itself as “an incubator of movements for the working class and marginalized communities,” and has been a cornerstone of anti-Israel protests since Hamas' attack on the Jewish state on Oct. 7, 2023.

One day after Hamas' attack on southern Israel, TPF organized a protest in Times Square where attendees celebrated the terrorist organization and waved signs with anti-Semitic slogans and images.
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In May 2023, over 300 activists from the United States, who traveled with the People’s Forum to the island, met with Cuban-appointed president Miguel Diaz-Canel, as reported by Cuban-state press (Granma). Palestinian flags were visible in the pictures of the meeting.
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Cuba and the Democratic Socialists of America

Cuba has one of the most sophisticated intelligence services and regularly conducts influence campaigns in the U.S. One such group that has promoted U.S. protests with close Cuban ties is the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which has been running candidates in local elections to oust mainstream, moderate Democrats.

The DSA's ties with Havana are so prevalent, that its New York chapter even held a soccer match in May 2023 with Cuba’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations.

Originally Posted By tsg68:
Terrorists from an ethnic and theocratic supremacist movement trained dumb kids

Originally Posted By 77Bronc:
Watching this shit the past three weeks just confirms my thoughts that liberal fucked up in the head white women will be the down fall of this country.

These cunts are fucking this country up.  If they tried this shit overseas they would be put on a hook on the wall and left to bleed out

Originally Posted By TheLASwamp:
Nothing the left does is organic. It's all planned and war-gamed well in advance.

Originally Posted By NY12ga:
To further my point

https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/us-news/radical-anti-israel-nonprofit-urged-rampaging-columbia-occupiers-to-recreate-blm-summer-of-2020-riots/

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/120557/IMG_3948_jpeg-3206761.JPG

Originally Posted By Cypher15:
Then they can be arrested and charged with treason and if convicted... executed.

Originally Posted By MIR:
So again...who is winning the war on terrorism...?

Originally Posted By Mike_314:
"Our" government hates us.

Originally Posted By olivers_AR:
Of course they are being trained by terrorist front groups.  No one just happens to do this level of protest without training and organization.

Originally Posted By Its_Raining_Lead:
Can you imagine the FBI response if these were right wing groups with equivalent levels of disruption and organization ?

Originally Posted By Its_Raining_Lead:
Can you imagine the FBI response if these were right wing groups with equivalent levels of disruption and organization ?

Originally Posted By amendment:
What did the feds know, and when did they know it?

Originally Posted By RevDeadCorpse:
Soooo.... we're forming our own training groups to counter these?

No?

Hhmmm...

Originally Posted By 77Bronc:
Watching this shit the past three weeks just confirms my thoughts that liberal fucked up in the head white women will be the down fall of this country.

These cunts are fucking this country up.  If they tried this shit overseas they would be put on a hook on the wall and left to bleed out

Originally Posted By NY12ga:
To further my point

https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/us-news/radical-anti-israel-nonprofit-urged-rampaging-columbia-occupiers-to-recreate-blm-summer-of-2020-riots/

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/120557/IMG_3948_jpeg-3206761.JPG

Originally Posted By eolian:
Which government agency/program funded it?
DOJ
DHS
CIA

Originally Posted By MIR:
So again...who is winning the war on terrorism...?