The top financiers of the U.S. Intifada

In the past 18 months, a network of U.S.-based nonprofit organizations has emerged as a critical support system for groups publicly aligned with Hamas.  This pro-Hamas Intifada has openly praised the terrorist organization or defended its actions in public statements and messaging. 

At the center of this network are fiscal sponsors: tax-exempt nonprofits that provide legal and financial infrastructure to smaller, often more radical, groups that lack their own 501(c)(3) status. By allowing these groups to fundraise under their umbrella, fiscal sponsors enable them to operate within the nonprofit system—granting them access to donor networks, institutional legitimacy, and financial cover with minimal public transparency or oversight. 

This article investigates 10 such fiscal sponsors that play a central role in sustaining the anti-American and, at times, violent anti-Israel movement operating across American campuses, city streets, and online platforms. Leading this list is an organization with outsized influence and minimal accountability.

1. Westchester People’s Action Coalition

Westchester People’s Action Coalition (WESPAC) stands out as the fiscal sponsor most responsible for fueling the wave of hate sweeping across the country.

It reportedly sponsors a wide range of pro-terrorism groups—including Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Within Our Lifetime, U.S. Palestinian Community Network, Palestinian Youth Movement, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, and the Palestinian Feminist Collective. The full extent of its sponsorship remains unclear, as WESPAC keeps its client list secret, offering little information on its website or in public filings. 

At the helm is Board President Howard Horowitz, who is also a member of the Westchester chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace. While he condemned the Hamas-led terrorist attacks on October 7, 2023, Horowitz quickly shifted blame onto Israel and cast the attackers in a sympathetic light—likening the assault to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising with the phrase, “fighters broke out from the ghetto wall.” 

In fairness, WESPAC did condemn the killing of two Israeli diplomats and claims to oppose all violence, but this stands in sharp contrast to the actions of the groups it sponsors. 

For example, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) not only celebrated the October 7 attacks but declared itself part of the terrorist coalition behind them. In response, nine American and Israeli victims have filed a lawsuit accusing SJP and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) of actively supporting Hamas—not just abroad but by “intentionally extending their aid to foment chaos, violence, and terror in the United States.” 

Similarly, Within Our Lifetime openly supported the October 7 attacks, stating: 

Supporting Palestinian liberation is supporting whatever means necessary it takes to get there… we must defend the Palestinian right to resist zionist [sic] settler violence and support Palestinian resistance in all its forms. By any means necessary. With no exceptions and no fine print. 

They went further, calling for a broader campaign of destruction within the United States: 

Our duty as people here in the belly of the beast is to use all available means to support the Palestinian resistance and degrade the capabilities of the United States to wage war not just on Palestine but on oppressed people all over the globe. 

The U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) echoed these militant sentiments after October 7: “Our people are waging an anti-colonial, anti-occupation, and anti-Zionist liberation struggle!” 

Its leader, Hatem Abudayyeh—who has a documented history of supporting terrorism—was among 23 activists targeted in FBI counterterrorism actions in 2010. 

Other WESPAC-sponsored groups have expressed similarly extreme positions. The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) responded to the attacks by affirming: 

We continue to stand alongside our people in Gaza and across Occupied Palestine in their legitimate resistance against the occupiers. In our Martyrs’ names, the struggle for liberation and return continues. Palestine will be free. 

The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAZN) coauthored a July 8, 2024, Instagram post justifying the October 7 atrocities, asserting “Resistance is not terrorism.” Its charter explicitly condemns U.S. laws banning material support to Middle Eastern terrorist groups and celebrates attacks on Israel. 

Finally, the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC) celebrated the October 7 attacks by sharing an image of a Hamas bulldozer tearing down the border fence—an act that directly enabled the assault.

2. Alliance for Global Justice

Alliance for Global Justice (AGJ) is the fiscal sponsor for Samidoun (Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network), designated by both the U.S. and Canadian governments as a terrorist organization. Samidoun operates as a thinly veiled front group for the Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which took part in the October 7 atrocities and maintains alliances with Hamas and the Iranian regime. Samidoun is tied to numerous anti-Semitic and pro-terrorist groups in the U.S., including several nonprofits. 

AGJ is the fiscal sponsor for other pro-terrorism and anti-American groups, including United National Antiwar Coalition, Popular Resistance, the Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance, and the Immigrant Solidarity Network, which promotes the Chinese Communist Party through its  U.S.-China Solidarity Network. 

AGJ stops short of condemning Hamas and the October 7 atrocities, saying openly that it seeks the overthrow of the U.S.’s “liberal democracy” and “global capitalism.”     

Birthed as the Nicaragua Network that advocated for the communist Sandinistas, AGJ continues to champion authoritarian regimes—including those in Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, and Nicaragua, where Daniel Ortega now rules as an anti-American strongman. It defended Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. 

The United National Antiwar Coalition endorsed the October 7 attacks in a statement titled, “Free Palestine! Resistance is justified when people are occupied!” 

Popular Resistance, another AGJ-backed group, distributes propaganda favoring anti-American regimes and movements it deems part of the “resistance.  After the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, it refused to condemn the violence, stating only that killing him wouldn’t stop the “cult” behind him.   

Arizona Palestine Network coauthored an Instagram post glorifying the October 7 attacks and routinely promotes Hamas and the Houthis. It also helped produce posts inciting violence against the policy, including content with instructions on how to carry out said violence.  One joint post called for a violent escalation of student protests and urged followers to “besiege the White House” and target government and corporate supporters of Israel.   

3. Tides Center

Tides Center is the fiscal sponsor several the pro-terrorism groups including Adalah Justice Project (AJP), Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), Catalyst Project, the Dream Defenders Education Fund, and Palestine Legal.      

Immediately after the October 7 attacks, AJP tweeted an image of a bulldozer breaching the border fence—signaling the start of the massacre—with the caption, “No cage goes unchallenged.” It also circulated a pledge to “stand with the Palestinian people’s right to defend themselves.”  

AJP executive director Sandra Tamari justified the violence as “the oppressed rising up,” framing Hamas’s assault as a justified response to conditions in Gaza. The group traces its roots to the Israel-based organization Adalah. 

AROC echoed this sentiment, posting a graphic of Palestinians celebrating and promoting a rally outside the Israeli consulate the following day. The caption read, “Palestine is rising! Gaza is rising!” 

Catalyst Project also glorified the attacks, despite the fact that more than 30 Americans were among the dead. It published a social media post with artwork depicting the perpetrators’ demolishment of a border fence with a bulldozer below a quote from a radical Palestinian activist that reads, “It is time we demanded that the oppressor stop oppressing, not that the oppressed stop resisting.” 

The post includes text celebrating the atrocities, saying “An historic act of resistance happened in Palestine last Saturday, as Palestinians in Gaza breached the apartheid wall that has imprisoned them for over 16 years, separating them from their land, their loved ones, their holy sites.” 

Catalyst Project’s advisory board includes Linda Evans, an anti-American activist imprisoned from 1987 to 2001 for crimes ranging from armed robbery and harboring fugitives to plotting terrorist attacks with the Weather Underground, May 19th Communist Organization, and Black Liberation Army. Authorities also found explosives in her home, along with plans to bomb the U.S. Capitol, FBI headquarters, an Israeli aircraft factory, and the New York Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. 

Despite this record, Catalyst Project’s website describes Evans as “a lifelong organizer for human rights and liberation,” highlighting her 40-year sentence for “militant actions to protest and change U.S. government policies.” The group also denies the legitimacy of the United States, referring to it as “Turtle Island.” 

Palestine Legal echoed this radical stance after the October 7 attacks, posting a six-image Instagram series that declared its support for the Palestinian movement and condemned so-called anti-Palestinian backlash. Its attorney, Dylan Saba, posted celebrating the violence: “Glory to the resistance and the people of Palestine…. I could not be more proud of my people who continue to demonstrate unthinkable bravery in their struggle for liberation.

4. Tides Advocacy

Tides Advocacy is the fiscal sponsor of the pro-terrorism group Dream Defenders. 

After the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, Dream Defenders created and distributed a “Black and Palestinian Solidarity Organizing Toolkit.” The guide has an image glorifying the October 7 atrocities.  

The guide links to materials from the anarchist-aligned Ruckus Society which promote illegal “direct actions”—including property destruction, evading law enforcement, using false IDs, occupying buildings, seizing assets, doxxing government agents, and disrupting industrial and governmental operations.  

Despite this, Dream Defenders (DD) claims to be non-violent, even as it calls for dismantling capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy.

5. Americans for Justice in Palestine Educational Foundation

Americans for Justice in Palestine Educational Foundation (AJP) serves as the fiscal sponsor for American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), a pro-Hamas group that publicly supported the October 7 attacks. Congressional testimony describes AMP as “arguably the most important sponsor and organizer” of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). 

Following the attacks, nine American and Israeli victims filed a lawsuit against both AMP and SJP, alleging the groups are not merely supporting Hamas’s campaign abroad but are actively aiding efforts to incite chaos, violence, and terror within the United States. 

It also alleges: 

[AMP] serves as Hamas’s propaganda division in the United States. AMP was founded from the ashes of disbanded organizations created by senior Hamas officials after those organizations and related individuals were found criminally and civilly liable for providing material support to Hamas and other affiliated terrorist groups.

6. Center for Third World Organizing

Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO) has consolidated three extremist groups under its “hub”: Ruckus Society, BlackOUT Collective and the Black Land Liberation Initiative.  

Ruckus Society is a militant “direct action” group that boasts of its role in the 2020 Minnesota riots. In its own review of 2020–2021 activities, it claimed to have “trained thousands, supported over 100 organizations, and helped build movements.”  According to InfluenceWatch, its training materials openly advocate “tactics to resist the unjust system,” including illegal methods such as civil disobedience. 

The BlackOUT Collective, which brands itself a “Black direct action organization,” produced a pro-Hamas guide glorifying the October 7 attacks.  The guide incorporates Ruckus Society content promoting unlawful direct actions. 

The Black Land Liberation Initiative calls for the return of wealth and land to Black communities across the U.S. and the diaspora. It pledges to “build liberated Black spaces, institutions, and power” until what it deems stolen property is returned. 

CTWO has also fiscally sponsored the pro-terrorism group Dissenters, whose website now redirects donors to the Action Network.

7. Progress Unity Fund

PUF is the fiscal sponsor for the pro-terrorism group Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER Coalition) and maintains close ties to Marxist organizations like the Party for Socialism and Liberation and Workers World Party. 

On October 8, ANSWER backed a Times Square protest organized by the China-linked People’s Forum that celebrated the October 7 attacks. It also signed a statement from the Committee of Anti-Imperialists in Solidarity with Iran, expressing support for Hamas, the Syrian regime, and other Iranian-backed terrorists—while siding with Russia over Ukraine, the U.S., and NATO. The statement further justified Iran’s direct attacks on Israel.

8. People’s Forum

The People’s Forum, a self-described Marxist socialist group, plays a central role in pro-terrorism networks linked to the Chinese Communist Party. 

On October 8, it organized a Times Square protest explicitly supporting the October 7 attacks and their perpetrators. It also signed a declaration from the Committee of Anti-Imperialists in Solidarity with Iran, backing Iranian-aligned terrorist groups like Hamas, the Syrian dictatorship, and Russia, while endorsing Iran’s direct attacks on Israel. 

Shortly after meeting with anti-Israel students from Columbia University, the group incited a riot. Although the People’s Forum offers fiscal sponsorship services, it conceals the identities of the groups it supports—making it difficult to trace the reach of this CCP-aligned entity. 

9. Allied Media Projects

Allied Media Projects sponsors several pro-terrorism groups, including 18MillionRising and BLM Detroit. It also backs the Decolonizing Wealth Project, which funds the pro-terrorism Movement for Black Lives. 

18MillionRising framed the Hamas-led October 7 attacks as an “uprising against injustice” and later suggested that violent action on U.S. soil is equally justified—equating domestic social justice causes with Palestinian terrorism. 

The Movement for Black Lives helped develop a “Black and Palestinian Solidarity Organizing Toolkit“ that glorifies the October 7 attacks. BLM Detroit echoed this support, publishing multiple posts backing Hamas and dismissing criticism as mere “disinformation.” 

10. Community Movement Builders

Community Movement Builders (CMB) fiscally sponsors the pro-terrorism group Black Alliance for Peace, which openly endorsed the October 7 attacks and declared a duty to support Palestinian resistance. 

CMB’s X account regularly amplifies content glorifying violence and criminality, especially in connection with the Defend the Atlanta Forest/Stop Cop City movement—anarchist-linked and subject to multiple domestic terrorism arrests. 

CMB’s broader mission is to unite communist and militant-aligned activists. Its Pan-African Solidarity Network aims to mobilize Black “liberation fighters” across the U.S. and support radical groups that oppose what it calls “predatory security and colonial states.” 

Among its initiatives is the Black Panther Party Veterans Mutual Aid Fund, which aids former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army members imprisoned for violent crimes. The Panther Support Committee includes Dhoruba Bin Wahad, who served 19 years for shooting two police officers. 

Another member, Bilal Sunni-Ali, campaigns to free Jamil Al-Amin, a former imam convicted of killing two officers and the spiritual leader of the extremist group Ummah. According to the FBI, Ummah seeks to establish a sovereign Islamic state within the U.S., governed by Shariah law and led by Al-Amin—formerly H. Rapp Brown. Its leaders advocate violent jihad, including the killing of law enforcement. 

Source: https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-top-financiers-of-the-u-s-intifada/