Mark

🌹🍉 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!

Just In: Federal authorities are planning a “summer surge” aimed at reducing crimes committed by young people in D.C. sources tell News4. nbc4dc.com/45WcQqP