Leigh Marcotte

@JohnRWoodJr You're listed by IMIP as a member of BMAC's Steering Team, so I'm looking forward to hearing your position.

🌹🍉 You’ll see A LOT OF HATE against Israel and Jews this weekend on the streets. Who is behind it? At @FoxNews Digital, I teamed up with my colleague @M_Dorgan to follow the money and the digital breadcrumbs. A coordinated global network of socialist, communist and Islamist groups is behind “Nakba 78” protests this weekend and today, using the metaphor of the “Nakba,” the Arabic word for “catastrophe,” to dismantle Israel’s creation 78 years ago on May 14, 1948. 🌹🍉 425 organizations with a combined funding footprint of annual revenues of about $1 BILLION are organizing an estimated 736 “Nakba 78” events across 39 countries. Full story 🔗 foxnews.com/politics/israe… ⚖️ @LeoTerrellDOJ @EliseStefanik @HarmeetKDhillon @JasonMiyaresVA and many others have warned this network has stoked much of the rising antisemitism felt by Jews. Thank you to the erstwhile @DataRepublican for her help collating the data. The coalition spans communist groups, Islamist organizations, anti-Israel activist networks and student coalitions using the anniversary of Israel’s founding to challenge the Jewish state’s legitimacy. 🌹 Socialist groups use a rose symbol. 🍉 Palestinians groups use a watermelon symbol. 💡 Brave Middle East scholar @ISGAP @DaliaZiada calls the anti-Israel network a “sinful marriage between the radical left and radical Islamism” united against Western democracies. 💡 @yudapearl, the father of my colleague and friend Danny Pearl, murdered for being an American Jew of Israeli ancestry, calls it “Zionophobia.” 🌹🍉 The investigation traces the influence of a Shanghai-based American Marxist mogul, Neville Roy Singham, who has poured $278M into activist nonprofits tied to anti-Israel organizing. 🌹🍉 Sen. @MarshaBlackburn, a strong critics of China’s “soft propaganda” campaign against the U.S., tells us that the Singham network will look to partner with any “bad actor” to sow discord in the U.S. 🌹🍉 Indeed, we used a large-language model to analyze the protest rhetoric and found 85% repeatedly frame America as “imperialist” and Israel as a “genocidal settler state, while critics warn chants like “from the river to the sea” erase Israel’s right to exist. ⚖️ @GoldsteinBrooke of @LawfareProject warns that when demonstrations cross into intimidation, obstruction, vandalism, or targeting Jewish institutions, it moves beyond protected speech. The same groups that harassed Jews at synagogues earlier this week — Within Our Lifetime, Muslim American Society, PAL-AWAD and others — will be out on the streets of New York today with the Singham network’s People’s Forum, Party for Socialism Liberation, ANSWER Coalition to send one message: they want to destroy the state if Israel. Full story below👇 and watch our coverage this weekend with our colleague @MizellPreston as we report from the streets. Why do I care? This hate killed Danny Pearl, and I don’t want to see it stoke more hate, violence or death. See you on the streets!

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.@POTUS bids farewell to Chinese officials at Beijing Capital Airport as he concludes his historic state visit to China

The 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹 (𝗕𝗠𝗔𝗖) — now the 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 (𝗕𝗠𝗖) 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹 — steers strategy for a major national bridging/depolarization network within the “Healthy Democracy” ecosystem. BMAC operates as a 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 in this ecosystem, working alongside IMIP, Mediators Foundation, Bridge Alliance, Rotary Club, and others to coordinate strategy and philanthropist funding. 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲: • John Wood Jr. (Braver Angels) • Manu Meel (BridgeUSA) • Mike Murphy (FixUS) • Nealin Parker (Common Ground USA) • Karissa Raskin & Pearce Godwin (Listen First Project = backbone of 500+ orgs) • Prabha Sankaranarayan (MBBI / TRUST Network) • Becca Kearl (Living Room Conversations), Liz Joyner (Village Square), and others. Official sources: listenfirstproject.org/bridging-movem… listenfirstproject.org/team As @DataRepublican exposed here: x.com/DataRepublican… “Braver Angels speaks two languages. To its members: depolarization, bridging, listening. Inside IMIP: Build, Block, Bridge, Belong. Kleinfeld’s five strategies. Backbone coordination. ‘Show up at Blocking events.’ One language recruits. The other one operates. BA’s 200,000 members have only ever heard the first.” This Leadership Council sets shared goals & measures (like the SCIM tool) for the entire field.

🚨🧵 THREAD: Braver Angels says they're bipartisan and just bringing people together. Their own leadership coordinates with an anti-Trump political infrastructure network.🚨 This thread is not about BA's members. Many are sincere, and I thank @wilksopinion and @JohnRWoodJr for communicating with me. This is about the infrastructure steering them: IMIP. On August 18, 2025, Harry Boyte, a former Democratic Socialists of America board member, YES, that DSA announced Maury Giles' new role as Braver Angels CEO on video and their shift in strategy from depolarization to civic action: "David has put together a featured plenary at the National Conference on Citizenship... which will be a launch of a new stage for Braver Angels that some of us have been working on for a while." IMIP is the Inter-Movement Impact Project. It coordinates BA's strategic direction. Its own May 2025 document quotes David Brooks approvingly: "Short term: Stop Trump. Foil his efforts. Pile on the lawsuits." Braver Angels' members are bipartisan. Their leadership is adjacent to anti-Trump infrastructure. This thread has all the receipts. As always, patience as I pull together the thread.👇

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