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Beastly Boy

(13,283 posts) Sun Jul 27, 2025, 09:14 AM Jul 27

Report links US anti-Israel groups to Beijing-backed network aiding China

In November 2023, just weeks after the Hamas invasion of Israel, thousands of anti-Israel protesters rallied in Washington, DC, to call for a halt to the war in Gaza.

The crowd, the largest pro-Palestinian protest in the US capital in years, chanted for an intifada and smeared red paint reminiscent of blood on concrete posts outside the White House.

While it looked like a wholly grassroots effort reflecting growing American anger over Israel’s counteroffensive following the massacre, the protest was actually backed by a financial network linked to the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, and to pro-China propaganda, according to a report released earlier this month.

The report, “CCP Influence in US pro-Palestinian Activism,” by George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, describes a propaganda network with a central role in anti-Israel protest movements in the US.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-links-us-anti-israel-groups-to-beijing-backed-network-aiding-china/

Link to the report:
https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/2025-07/CCP%20Influence%20in%20US%20Pro-Palestinian%20Activism.pdf

The author of the report, former FBI agent Jennifer Baker, is a retired federal agent with 25 years of experience in counterintelligence, national security, and criminal investigations.

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Report links US anti-Israel groups to Beijing-backed network aiding China (Original Post) Beastly Boy Jul 27 OP

How unsurprising. DavidDvorkin Jul 27 #1

I'm trying to wrap my head around this Mossfern Jul 27 #2

China supported demonstrations in the US that helped get Trump elected DavidDvorkin Jul 27 #5

Technically, China supports pro-Hamas movements in Europe and the US. Beastly Boy Jul 27 #6

"17,000 dead kids? China bad..." David__77 Jul 27 #3

Are you insinuating that China's material support is not scandalous and discrediting to the "grass roots" Beastly Boy Jul 27 #4

DavidDvorkin

(20,368 posts)

1. How unsurprising.

Reply to Beastly Boy (Original post)

Sun Jul 27, 2025, 09:56 AM

Jul 27

Mossfern

(4,388 posts)

2. I'm trying to wrap my head around this

Reply to Beastly Boy (Original post)

Sun Jul 27, 2025, 10:36 AM

Jul 27

China supports Hamas?
Nothing surprises me anymore. Can anyone explain this for me?

Thanks.

DavidDvorkin

(20,368 posts)

5. China supported demonstrations in the US that helped get Trump elected

Reply to Mossfern (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 27, 2025, 11:22 AM

Jul 27

Trump is weakening America's position in the world and thus strengthening China's.

China has always taken the long view.

Beastly Boy

(13,283 posts)

6. Technically, China supports pro-Hamas movements in Europe and the US.

Reply to Mossfern (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 27, 2025, 12:09 PM

Jul 27

These movements subvert from within the otherwise solid democratic institutions in the West. They are not the only ones China wants to influence (just look at China's involvement in the Ukraine war), but they play a big role.

Unstable Europe and America reinforce China's influence across the world and their position as a superpower.

All things considered, funding the subversive pro-Pal forces, although comparatively secondary in their impact, is money well spent.

David__77

(24,478 posts)

3. "17,000 dead kids? China bad..."

Reply to Beastly Boy (Original post)

Sun Jul 27, 2025, 11:01 AM

Jul 27

Beastly Boy

(13,283 posts)

4. Are you insinuating that China's material support is not scandalous and discrediting to the "grass roots"