When Charities Betray America: Chronological Analysis

When Charities Betray America:
How “Pro-Palestinian” Protest Groups Promote Anti-Americanism
(full report)

Executive Summary | Methodology
Examples of Anti-American and Anti-Police Hate Speech
Chronological Analysis | Analysis of Engagement Levels
Three Organizational Examples
Prevalence of Charities Among These Radical Groups
Conclusion | Endnotes
Appendix A: Organizations | Appendix B: Individuals

Chronological Analysis: Three Anti-American Spikes in 2024

An analysis of the evolution of post-October 7 rhetoric found three sharp spikes in anti-American and anti-police speech.

The first spike occurred in spring 2024, when Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) announced its Popular University for Gaza campaign that resulted in the assembling of encampments on campuses across the country.

While SJP’s supportive reaction to the October 7 attacks received some media attention, two key features were largely missed:

1. The toolkit of information provided to its supporters for protests referred to the United States as “occupied Turtle Island,” which may incite anti-American violence because SJP’s justification for anti-Israel violence is that it is “occupied” Palestine;[xxv]
2. SJP declared itself to be a literal part of Hamas and the coalition of terrorist groups that perpetrated the October 7 atrocities. After hailing the “resistance” and “movement” responsible for the attacks—an implicit reference to the fact that “Hamas” is an Arabic abbreviation for “Islamic Resistance Movement”—the toolkit declared, “We as Palestinian students in exile are PART of this movement, not in solidarity with this movement.”

There thus appears to be a correlation in timing that links the anti-American and anti-police rhetoric of the “pro-Palestinian” movement online; the anti-American and anti-police rhetoric and acts of violence, property destruction and criminality at the protests; and the anti-American, pro-terrorism ideology of SJP as the leading organizer of the protests.

A second spike was detected on the first anniversary of the October 7 attacks and the heightened level of extremism was sustained up to and including October 17, 2024.

A third spike occurred during the last week of November 2024, coinciding with two events: the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People and the Thanksgiving holiday.

The surveyed “pro-Palestinian” groups and individuals considered the two events to be interconnected as reflecting the evils of “settler-colonialism,” imperialism, occupation, genocide, capitalism, and Western governments and systems overall.

In the next installment, an analysis shows massive increases in engagement and views of anti-American posts before and after October 7, 2023.