Is American billionaire funding LA, pro-Palestine campus protests?
(NewsNation) — The Trump administration and Republican lawmakers are launching an investigation into who is providing funding for anti-ICE protests that are taking place in Los Angeles as well as campus pro-Palestine demonstrations that have taken place across the country.
That has led the FBI and IRS to American billionaire Neville Roy Singham, who is currently living in Shanghai. Members of the House Oversight Committee have told NewsNation that Singham will be called to testify before the committee about his ties to the Chinese Communist Party as well as his funding of anti-Israel groups and his connections to other groups that are believed to be behind the Los Angeles protests.
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NewsNation has found that Singham sold his company in 2017 for close to $1 billion, and reports indicate that Singham has since provided funding to groups such as the People's Forum. The organization, which is based in New York City, also has ties to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a communist political party that is said to be behind the large-scale, anti-ICE protests that are taking place in Los Angeles.
Alex Goldenberg, a senior adviser with the Network Contagion Research Institute, told NewsNation that Singham has a footprint in India, South Africa and London and remains active in the United States. Goldenberg said that Singham is funding a large network of nonprofit groups, providing them with tens of millions of dollars.
'He's not just funding activism. What we find is that he is funding and exporting an authoritarian-aligned ideology under the banner of American nonprofit legitimacy,' he said.
Goldenberg said that in addition to pushing anti-American sentiments, the groups allegedly funded by Singham promote and glorify terrorism and violent revolutions.
'What is being built here is not a protest movement,' Goldenberg told NewsNation. 'I really view it as infrastructure for a deeply un-American campaign to destabilize the country from within.'
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