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New York Metropolis organizers embedded within the world intifada to destroy the state of Israel moved Friday to hitch the controversial “No Kings” protests deliberate for right now, regardless of the peace deal reached between Israel and Hamas.
“UAW Labor for Palestine” and “NYC Labor for Palestine” quietly posted a call-to-action for the “Palestine Labor Solidarity Contingent” to fulfill Saturday at 11 a.m. at Duarte Sq. on the nook of Grand Avenue and Canal Avenue in midtown Manhattan after which circulation into the #NoKings protests deliberate to protest President Donald Trump.
They’re not alone. Across the nation, anti-Israel blocs are slotting themselves into the “No Kings” protests as a “Palestine Contingent” and “Socialist Contingent,” positioning their messages “entrance and heart,” as Seattle activists put it, “from Windfall to Palestine.”
‘NO KINGS’ ORGANIZER DISCOURAGES VIOLENCE FOLLOWING COAST-TO-COAST ARRESTS
Washington, Aug. 16 — Protesters gathered in Dupont Circle and marched to the White Home to oppose President Donald Trump’s federalization of the Washington police division and the deployment of federal companies and the Nationwide Guard. (Fox Information Digital/Emma Woodhead) (Fox Information Digital/Emma Woodhead)
The alignment underscores a strategic pivot within the world intifada’s subsequent part, consultants say, carrying the anti-Israel message into any high-energy civic protest, even after Hamas agreed to a ceasefire by linking “Free Palestine” to home fights like ICE, police and “fascism.”
Billionaire donor George Soros is reportedly funding most of the organizations main the “No Kings” protests, like Indivisible, whose co-founders, Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin, acquired a $3 million two-year grant final 12 months from Soros’s Open Society Foundations for “social welfare actions.” Particulars in regards to the “Palestine Contingent” weaving into the “No Kings” protests raises new questions on the way in which massive Democratic donors like Soros are funneling nonprofit {dollars} into an expert protest business that’s fractious, divisive and partisan, probably in violation of tax and nonprofit legal guidelines.
‘NO KINGS’ MOVEMENT AND WHAT IT WANTS: INSIDE THE MESSAGE DRIVING SATURDAY’S NATIONWIDE PROTESTS
Anti-Israel protesters display in NYC on Oct. 5, 2024, forward of the anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas assault. (Adam Grey for Fox Information Digital)
Behind the emotion and patriotic imagery of the protests, a Fox Information Digital investigation revealed that the motion’s polished “pro-democracy” branding masks a coordinated community of Democratic tax-exempt nonprofits and labor unions, political motion committees, coalitions and for-profit protest consultants that embody among the most virulent activists in opposition to Israel, together with self-declared socialist teams just like the Social gathering for Socialism and Liberation, Democratic Socialists of America and College students for a Democratic Society.
In response to a public database of the protest’s organizers, compiled by the Pearl Venture, a journalism initiative, the protest’s “companions” embody 265 principally nonprofit organizations, together with some anti-Israel teams, like Jewish Voice for Peace, exploiting their nonprofit advantages to wage a political battle in opposition to the sitting president. Their nonprofit standing shields them from paying taxes on most of their whole annual revenues of $2.9 billion, even whereas they interact in partisan work they aren’t purported to be doing. Critics say they’re allegedly skirting, if not violating, tax and nonprofit legal guidelines. Occasion organizers didn’t return requests for remark.
“They name it ‘No Kings,’ however what they’ve constructed is an empire of tax-exempt organizations doing the Democratic Social gathering’s work on the taxpayer’s dime,” mentioned Jennica Kilos, a pc scientist who runs a platform, DataRepublican.com, following the cash on these organizations. “They’re utilizing each excuse within the e book, from immigration to Israel, to rage-bait America. There’s nothing ‘charitable’ about their skilled protest enterprise, and they need to be investigated for fomenting a lot hate in America behind the protect of ‘charity work.’”
Folks march throughout a “No Kings” motion protest in Los Angeles, California, on June 14, amid ongoing demonstrations in opposition to a sequence of federal immigration raids. (David McNew/Getty Pictures)
Already, Trump has mentioned that he has directed the Justice Division to research potential violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has opened an investigation that follows the cash to anti-Israel teams, together with among the teams who will probably be bringing their protest indicators to the “No Kings” demonstrations.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, informed Fox Information Digital, “The Trump administration and the Republican Congress are dedicated to countering this community of left-wing violence.”
Final week, Home Speaker Mike Johnson known as the protests a “hate America rally.” Certainly, on June 14, on the “No Kings” protest in Philadelphia, activists from the “Palestinian Contingent,” together with activists from the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Democratic Socialists of America, hissed as a girl sang the nationwide anthem.
“Booooo! Boooooo!” they yelled, overlaying their faces in keffiyehs, carrying Palestinian flags and heckling bystanders, “Zionist!”
Professional-Palestine protestors wave flags all through midtown Manhattan in New York Metropolis on Friday, November 17, 2023. The demonstrators marched via town to demand a ceasefire from Israeli troops inside Gaza. (Stephen Yang for Fox Information Digital)
Whereas organizers insist the motion transcends celebration traces, its construction tells a special story.
The protest community’s official “companions” embody 24 Democratic political motion committees that make no secret of their partisan agenda, devoted to electing Democratic politicians. Amongst them are the mega-organizing group Indivisible Motion, Hollywood Democrats and the Democratic Nationwide Committee’s Washtenaw County Democratic Social gathering in Michigan, Westside Democratic Headquarters in Los Angeles, Wellstone Democratic Renewal Membership in northern California, 504 Democratic Membership and School Democrats of America.
“They name it ‘No Kings,’ however what they’ve constructed is an empire of tax-exempt organizations doing the Democratic Social gathering’s work on the taxpayer’s dime.” – Jennica Kilos, of DataRepublican.com,
The motto of Subject Workforce 6, one other political motion committee, is “Register Democrats. Save the World.” Nonetheless, these PACs are only one layer of a a lot bigger partisan infrastructure.
About one-third, or 79 teams, behind the “No Kings” protests maintain 501(c)(3) standing, that means their donors obtain tax deductions whereas the teams face strict restrictions to do “charitable” work, not political work. They’re purported to be nonpartisan. But most have clearly acknowledged political agendas.
On its donation web page, one of many protest companions, “Construct the Resistance,” states a partisan mission to “combat in opposition to autocracy, fascism, and donald [sic].” Donations go to Oil and Gasoline Motion Community, a 501(c)(3) that reported $1.9 million in revenues in its final tax submitting.
One other 100 are 501(c)(4) political nonprofits which will do restricted lobbying however nonetheless can not commit themselves primarily to political work. In the meantime, 24 are 501(c)(5) labor union nonprofits, just like the labor unions marching in opposition to Israel in New York and the San Francisco Bay Space, that even have limits on the quantity of political work they’ll do.
“No Kings” protests in opposition to the Trump administration are anticipated to be held in cities nationwide on Oct. 18, 2025. (Ringo Chiu/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
It’s clear that the protests are all about politics. The protest’s personal inside on-line “toolkit” mentions Trump 12 occasions and describes the mobilization explicitly as a direct stand in opposition to “the Trump administration,” “Trump and his enablers,” “President Trump’s authoritarian takeover” in a partisan-centered marketing campaign.
In Rhode Island, the “Free Palestine Contingent” activists will march “FROM PROVIDENCE TO PALESTINE” to “FIGHT FASCISM! FIGHT GENOCIDE.” It connects the battles in opposition to ICE regulation enforcement officers and the battles of Palestinians, noting, “Navy occupations and ICE violence are wreaking havoc in Black and brown communities in D.C., L.A., Chicago — and right here in Windfall. On the streets of U.S. cities, the identical weapons and surveillance applied sciences the Israeli army has used to devastate Gaza are being utilized in escalated methods in opposition to us. What we enable fascists to do in Palestine, they are going to do to the whole world — and it’s our obligation to withstand them and combat for a free Palestine.
In northern California, activists at “Bay Space Labor 4 Palestine” and Service Workers Worldwide Union Native 1021 introduced yesterday, “The combat for a liberated Palestine shouldn’t be over and can’t be ignored,” over a graphic for the “No Kings” protest. They instructed followers to “Carry flags, indicators, keffiyehs and artwork” to the “No Kings” march in Oakland, Calif., at Wilma Chan Park off Jackson Avenue.
In New York Metropolis, the “Palestine Labor Solidarity Contingent” mentioned its message can be very particular: “STOP ARMING ISRAEL! FUND OUR COMMUNITIES, NOT GENOCIDE & OCCUPATION! END ICE, MILITARY & POLICE TERROR…HANDS OF VENEZUELA!”
Folks march within the “No Kings” protest alongside Fifth Avenue on June 14, 2025 in New York, New York. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Pictures)
Throughout the nation, in Washington state, activists from “Seattle In opposition to Conflict” yesterday celebrated native organizers including an anti-Israel activist, Tariq Ra’ouf, to the official #NoKings speaker lineup, noting it can be a “nice alternative for us to help the calls for of Palestinians from the stomach of the beast!”
The Social gathering for Socialism and Liberation’s native chapter in Syracuse, N.Y., posted an identical poster with the native chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, which has Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as its political candidate in New York Metropolis.
In Charlotte, N.C., the native chapter of the Social gathering for Socialism and Liberation put out a name to members to assemble at 10 a.m. tomorrow for the native #NoKings protest at First Ward Park: “JOIN THE PALESTINE CONTINGENT @ THE ‘NO KINGS’ RALLY…MEET AT THE PLAYGROUND.”
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Professional-Palestine protestors wave flags as they arrive in Manhattan after marching throughout the Brooklyn Bridge in New York Metropolis on Saturday, December 19, 2023. Demonstrators started on the Brooklyn Museum, strolling to midtown Manhattan to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. (Stephen Yang for Fox Information Digital)
With native companions, together with the 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Jewish Voice for Peace, activists on the Social gathering for Socialism and Liberation famous that, post-ceasefire, they are going to “proceed to combat for a free Palestine.” Among the teams within the Palestine Contingent are a part of the broader community of publicly acknowledged companions of the protests, like 50501.
In Eugene, Ore., activists with the Social gathering for Socialism and Liberation are rallying members to fulfill the “Socialist Contingent” on the nook of Mill Highway and Eighth Avenue to “march for a free Palestine” and get ICE officers “OUT of our communities.”
In Portland, a neighborhood Palestinian American activist introduced, “The Nakba Is Nonetheless Not Over!” in a reference to the “humiliation” over the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. She summoned activists to the “No Kings” protests: “‼️SHOW UP FOR PALESTINE‼️”
