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Congress wants to look into ‘dark money’ sources funding anti-Israel protest groups on college campuses
Congress is seeking to find out how the anti-Israel protests across the country’s college campuses are being funded. This “dark money arrangement has obscured funding sources and donations” which has spurred congressional interest.
Just The News reports the National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is a driving force in the anti-Israel protests sweeping across the country at college campuses. The national group says it supports 350 “Palestine solidarity organizations” throughout North America, primarily SJP chapters across America.
And while the “funding of the student chapters largely come from U.S. universities, however, National SJP is funded through intermediaries and it is not required to disclose its own finances.” Therefore, “this dark money arrangement has obscured funding sources and donations to the group and has spurred congressional interest.”
“I’m a member of the Ways and Means Committee, and earlier this year, we actually looked into the funding streams for Students for Justice in Palestine and some of these other groups that are now…look like they’re inciting violence, bringing out anti-semitic behavior, calling for, you know, support of Hamas, which is, you know, a terrorist organization, designated a terrorist organization by the United States,” Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., told Just the News, No Noise TV show on Monday.
“So, you know, these are these are organizations that get dark money and they use our IRS structure, whether it’s a 501(c)(3) or (4) or other other parts of the IRS Code to get around taxes and then use this for political purposes. And we need to crack down on that,” she added.
Just The News adds that several SJP chapters have been criticized recently for downplaying the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Israel last October, calling it a “historic win for the Palestinian resistance.”
“[Across] land, air, and sea, our people have broken down the artificial barriers of the Zionist entity, taking with it the facade of an impenetrable settler colony and reminding each of us that total return and liberation to Palestine is near,” its statement read.
“As the Palestinian student movement, we have an unshakable responsibility to join the call for mass mobilization,” it promised.
The group has long been criticized for creating an environment hostile to Jews. A 2016 study from Brandeis University found “One of the strongest predictors of perceiving a hostile climate toward Israel and Jews is the presence of an active Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group on campus.”
An elementary school in the suburbs of New York City has been teaching a “gender curriculum” to kindergarten children in an effort to promote “inclusion” in the school. Hillside Elementary School, part of the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free District, uses photos of children to introduce “different identities.”
The New York Post reports that the course includes showing kindergarten students photos of other children which are used to “introduce vocabulary to describe characters of different identities,” including teaching them about the terms “cisgender, transgender, and non-binary,” according to a message to parents regarding the curriculum.
“Our gender curriculum focuses on Hillside’s core value of respect and aims to center discussions on gender identity. The students will learn and discuss that there is a lot you can’t tell about a person by simply looking at them,” the kindergarten level course description reads.
“The students will look at pictures of children and talk about what they notice and what they think they know about the children just from the pictures. Using their observations, we will then take the opportunity to introduce vocabulary to describe characters of different identities,” the school writes.
The “identity” being taught to children includes discussing “gender and the pronouns that you use,” and that “as we learn and grow, the words we use to describe our gender identity can grow too,” as described by the school.
Fox News Digital reached out to the school about the curriculum, to which the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free District communications team said that the lessons have been in place for several years and are rooted in “Hillside’s core values of respect and fostering dignity for all students.”
“One 30-minute gender lesson is taught in each class one time per year. The classes are led by a certified educator, following a specific set of lessons designed to help students value the full diversity of their classmates,” Superintendent William S. McKersie said in a message to faculty and parents.
“The lessons have been created in alignment with the NYS Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework,” he wrote. The school noted that the lessons do not address sex education or sexuality. The school district said that while they usually have the courses posted publicly online, the gender lesson description has been taken off the website since going viral.
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