The real radical politics behind "No Kings.":
When some liberal Jews tried to participate in the ‘No Kings’ protests, they encountered Hezbollah and other Islamic terrorist flags in New York City, while in Wisconsin, Jews were kicked out of the local Facebook group. While the anti-Trump rallies had the usual movement organizations, there was a notable absence of mainstream liberal Jewish figures in their ranks.
The ‘Jewish’ partner organizations of No Kings include anti-Israel organizations like JVP and Bend the Arc, headed by the younger Soros, but no mainstream liberal Jewish groups.
In New York City, the ‘Jewish’ contingent of the pro-Mamdani ‘Interfaith Coalition’ of Episcopalians, liberal Catholics and Muslims at the No Kings rally was represented by Ayelet Cohen, a veteran of various anti-Israel groups and signatory to various anti-Israel letters, who had been appointed as a dean of the formerly mainstream Jewish Theological Seminary.
Liberal Jews might have thought that No Kings would be a friendlier space for them. After all the public faces of the movement are Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin out of Indivisible. But behind Greenberg and Leah is George Soros who has pumped millions into the Indivisible group.
And Indivisible and its leaders have been militant in their opposition to Israel.
Days after the Hamas massacres of Oct 7, Indivisible issued a statement condemning both Hamas and Israel and blaming “the Israeli occupation and blockade.” Two weeks later, Indivisible was already accusing Israel of killing thousands of innocent people and calling on Biden to stop Israel from attacking Hamas. Over the following months, Indivisible would falsely accuse the Jewish State of “mass starvation” and “genocide”.
On the latest anniversary of Oct 7, Leah Greenberg, speaking on behalf of Indivisible, issued a statement accusing Israel of “genocide” and annihilation” and called for an arms embargo on the Jewish State. Earlier this year, Indivisible produced a call script urging its supporters to call congressional offices to push Hamas propaganda about a fake famine that has been disproven.
Ezra Levin, Indivisible’s co-founder and Greenberg’s husband, accused Israel of “massacring civilians.”
Indivisible is not only anti-Trump, it’s also opposed to Democrats who aren’t in line with its radical agenda. Including militant opposition to Israel. Indivisible claimed that by initially supporting Israel’s campaign to defeat Hamas, Biden had “betrayed our values, undermined U.S. and international law” and members of the administration had “discredited themselves and the United States on the world stage”. --->READ MORE HERE
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“The Wrong ICE is Melting,” read one sign hoisted in the air by a white woman in a COVID-19 mask on the streets of Los Angeles. “Don’t Let Democracy Go Extinct,” read a poster held in Omaha, Nebraska, by a very serious liberal in an inflatable dinosaur costume. “Free Palestine, Free DC, Free Us All,” read a banner waved during a march down the National Mall in Washington.Millions of people took to the streets to protest something in mid-October. What that was, exactly, was less clear. Billed as “No Kings” protests against an American monarchy that does not exist, the demonstrations took aim at a host of things that also do not exist in America: fascism, military occupations, and a vast conspiracy to cover up an Epstein-Trump sex ring.
Just this month, violent protests erupted at the University of California, Berkeley, during a Turning Point USA event. Federal investigators are looking into whether university and police officials failed to protect attendees.
The protests encapsulated a broader problem facing Democrats, more than one year after President Donald Trump’s entirely predictable victory nonetheless shocked them. The party has nothing but fictional villains to sell to its mostly affluent base, and no direction in which to guide the bottomless resources of the elites in its pocket.
But 60 years after anti-Vietnam War protests swept the nation, many people who came of age romanticizing the righteous energy of those protests now have second homes in the country and time on their hands to reenact the glory days. And that makes them useful for the web of left-wing groups that have instructions from the billionaires who fund them to pursue radical societal change.
“The hard Left has a much more ambitious agenda than the suburban white woman who holds a No Kings sign out on the street corner,” Peter Flaherty, chairman and chief executive officer of the National Legal and Policy Center, told the Washington Examiner. “It’s really a struggle for control of what’s left of the Democratic Party.”
What’s left tends to be older, whiter, and more highly educated than the multiracial coalitions of Democrats past. Free from the concerns of the working-class voters whom they hope to rescue from the clutches of misinformation and bigotry, these affluent boomers have the privilege of worrying more about the injustice of it all than the fact that a decade’s worth of savings can no longer get a 30-something couple close to a down payment on a first home. They have democracy itself to save, anyway.
How exactly is democracy under attack, one might ask? In January, it was because Trump pardoned Jan. 6, 2021, rioters. In March, it was because super-wealthy Ivy League universities stopped getting taxpayer money. In October, it was the beginning of construction on Trump’s privately financed renovation of the White House’s East Wing.
For the groups that fuel the Left’s protest culture, the problem is that people are simply not yet angry enough about these things, and the solution is to amplify as many of them as possible in the hopes that one may spark outrage they can use for more sinister ends.
They have plenty of money and institutional support to try. No Kings was backed by a sophisticated network of liberal nonprofit organizations, led by a powerful group called Indivisible, that together have vacuumed up hundreds of millions of dollars to advance the progressive project. What that is at the moment is unclear. Whether it was ever anything more than a collection of niche left-wing grievances that were briefly astroturfed into the mainstream by dark money is also, presently, unclear.
Follow the money
Indivisible started as a 23-page Google document, drafted by married former congressional staffers Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin in 2017, that sought to instruct prospective activists how to disrupt town halls and ribbon-cutting ceremonies to pressure members of Congress. Levin said at the time that his goal was “copying the Tea Party strategies and tactics (minus the racism and violence).”
The guidelines went viral, and a progressive organizing powerhouse was born. Left-wing billionaire George Soros gave it $350,000 that year via a grant through the Tides Foundation, a massive “social justice” grantmaker that acts as a pass-through for liberal dark money, and subsequently provided it with an additional $6.7 million through 2023, according to Soros’s philanthropy, the Open Society Foundations. --->READ MORE HERE
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