Beijing’s Influence

A disturbing new report has identified one of the major influences behind these pro-Hamas riots. Shut It Down For Palestine (SID4P) is an umbrella organization that has organized major protests against Israel. It works with a coalition of Islamist and Marxist organizations.

Several of these groups are bankrolled by the Singham Network, led by Neville Roy Singham and his wife, Jodie Evans, a co-founder of CODEPINK. Singham is an avowed socialist and an ardent supporter of communist China. In fact, he lives in Shanghai.

Here’s how the far-left New York Times describes Singham:

“Mr. Singham works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide. . . He and his allies are on the front line of what Communist Party officials call a ‘smokeless war’ . . .  

“The goal is to disguise propaganda as independent content. . . The result is a seemingly organic bloom of far-left groups that echo Chinese government talking points, echo one another, and are echoed in turn by the Chinese state media. . .

“Indeed, his associates say Mr. Singham has long admired Maoism, the Communist ideology that gave rise to modern China. He praised Venezuela under the leftist president Hugo Chavez. . . And a decade before moving to China, he said the world could learn from its governing approach.”

That explains why this so-called “Palestinian movement” isn’t just anti-Israel. It is also anti-American and anti-capitalism. They label America and Israel as genocidal and racist, repeating the narrative that communist China is deploying all over the Third World.

For all of the left’s hyperventilating about Russia’s alleged meddling in our elections, this is a very real example of direct foreign interference in the American political system in a way that is massively benefiting the radical left.