Hillel reports a 700 percent leap in anti-Semitic incidents since October 7
One of the standard tropes of anti-Semites is that a Jewish cabal controls the world. Yet far from controlling the world, it would be more accurate to say that Jews and Israel are the targets of a group of some of the world’s richest people.
Park MacDougald does yeoman work unraveling the tangled skein of major fortunes behind the campus unrest and pro-Hamas demonstrations across America since October 7 in “The People Setting America on Fire” (Tablet Magazine, May 6, 2024). And Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute follows up in the June Commentary with “The Antisemitism Money and Power Network — and How to Smash It.”
The list of foundations funding radical Islamist groups and campus unrest includes such famous names as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, heirs of the RJ Reynolds tobacco empire, and Peter Buffett’s NoVo Foundation. Sadly, much of that money is supplied by Jews or the descendants thereof: George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, of course; Rachel Gelman, an heir of the Levi Strauss fortune; Sheldon Kaplan’s Kaplan Foundation; the Elias Fund created by investor James E. Mann and his wife; and a foundation funded by Hyatt Hotel heir Nick Pritzker and his wife.
MACDOUGALD AND PLETKA point to the existence of a loose amalgamation of radical left and Islamist groups. Like the Iranian mullahs, they hate both Israel and America, and seek to undermine both by creating widespread chaos. Many of those manning campus pro-Hamas encampments are not students at all but professional agitators. At the University of Texas, 45 of the 79 arrested when the campus encampment was dismantled were non-students, as were 134 of 282 at the City University of New York, 20 out of 30 at the University of North Carolina, and 21 out of 33 at George Washington University.
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