Pro-Palestinian campus protests organized by groups with terrorism ties: Report

The pro-Palestinian protests and encampments that wreaked havoc over universities across the country this spring are connected to professional activism networks and terrorist organizations, according to a new report.

The report from Restoration News, a project of conservative Restoration of America PAC, connected the dots between encampments, national organizations pushing the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement, sympathetic faculty, and designated terrorist organizations.

“The astroturf movements have their roots in Big Philanthropy, the same leftist organizations that have funded anti-free speech demonstrations, incoherent riots in our cities, and cancel culture that attempts to remove ‘Wrongthink’ from our society in the form of sponsor boycotts and protests at people’s homes and places of business,” the organization said in the report, obtained by the Washington Examiner.

Many of the same groups behind other major disruptions, such as the 2020 riots following George Floyd’s death and 2011’s Occupy Wall Street movement, were also backing the encampments, the report said, with report author Jeffrey Reynolds calling them “anything but grassroots.”