Chinese Communist Party-funded nonprofit organizations have long spread radical antics by exploiting the generosity of the American taxpayer. It is time they face the public as they are held accountable by Congress.
Congress must hold a public hearing on these nonprofit organizations.
WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE PUSHES FOR TAX REVOCATIONS OF SEVERAL NONPROFITS
Nonprofit groups such as Americans for Justice in Palestine Educational Foundation, American Muslims for Palestine, Islamic Relief USA, Alliance for Global Justice, WESPAC Foundation, Tides Foundation, Palestinian Youth Movement, and People’s Media Project, also known as the Palestine Chronicle, have already been questioned by legislators over their financial ties to jihadists or executives of the CCP.
However, they have refused to respond to the lawmakers’ inquiry. A congressional hearing, however, would not give them that option.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) sent a letter to the People’s Forum about its funding from Neville Roy Singham, an American expatriate with deep ties to the CCP living in Shanghai, in August.
Shortly after the organization refused to respond to Smith’s request, the chairman sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner, urging the executive branch to revoke these organizations’ tax-exempt status. A week prior, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) sent Bessent a letter urging him to honor the same request but for the Palestinian Youth Movement.
Whether or not the Treasury Department revokes these networks’ 501(c)(3) nonprofit status, the organizations involved must appear before Congress and testify publicly about their funding sources, objectives, and operations. The public has a right to transparency.
As reported by the College Fix, a study conducted by Gunther Jikeli of Indiana University’s Social Media and Hate Research Lab found that antisemitic hate on college campuses is “highly coordinated” and could “inspire more people to target Jews or anyone who is deemed ‘Zionist’ more directly.”
Jikeli’s study found that groups listed in the letters, such as the Palestinian Youth Movement, were some of the main perpetrators behind the coordinated antisemitic movements on college campuses.
According to Hillel International, 83% of Jewish students have experienced or witnessed antisemitic harassment firsthand, while 41% of Jewish students prefer to hide their true identities.
LAWMAKERS INVESTIGATE CHINA-BACKED NGO’S
Other organizations, such as the People’s Media Project, employ terrorists directly responsible for keeping Israeli civilians hostage after Oct. 7, 2023, and continuously underreport their revenue earnings and foreign contributions.
The foreign-funded organizations have hurt the United States while operating against the interests of the public. It is time the public knows the truth about these domestic terrorist hubs.