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Many have protested the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, an activist who led the anti-Israel protests at Columbia University last year. But did you know that the group behind many of these protests is openly Marxist and has ties to the CCP?
From Just the News. Protests against the arrest of a pro-Palestine Columbia graduate student are being organized by a Marxist revolutionary group that is pro-Communism, anti-Israel, and has potential links to the Chinese Communist Party.
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Mahmoud Khalil, a leader in the pro-Palestine and anti-Israel encampments at Columbia University, was detained earlier this month by the Trump administration, with the Department of Homeland Security arguing that he “led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.” The People’s Forum helped organize some of the campus chaos and is now organizing protests to free Khalil.
Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) is the pro-Palestine and anti-Israel group that sparked many of the student encampments at Columbia University. Khalil was a lead “negotiator” for CUAD as the group occupied buildings on Columbia’s campus in the wake of the deadly Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023. …
“Following my previously signed Executive Orders, ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student on the campus of Columbia University,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social last week. “This is the first arrest of many to come.” …
Khalil’s large legal team is fighting his detention and deportation, writing in federal court that “this case concerns the government’s targeted, retaliatory detention and attempted removal of a student protestor because of his constitutionally protected speech.”
The Forum and Khalil
The People’s Forum has been a driving force behind protests condemning the detention and possible deportation of Khalil. There are scores of videos posted by the forum on social media detailing the group’s role in organizing, promoting, attending, and leading the pro-Khalil protests, including a rally outside a NYC courthouse and a “sit-in at Trump Tower.” Khalil’s legal team addressed the crowd at a protest organized by the forum. There is no indication that Khalil himself is involved in the protests by The People’s Forum.
The communist group has connected its pro-Khalil efforts to its broader “Shut It Down For Palestine” street protest campaign and to its fight against ICE being allowed on campus. …
“Zionist harassment campaigns”
The forum’s leader, Manolo De Los Santos, has also personally tweeted multiple times to promote the forum-led protests for Khalil.
The forum immediately promoted a petition the day after Khalil was arrested, with the petition contending that “Khalil has been the target of various zionist harassment campaigns.” Another petition by the forum — signed by a host of leftwing celebrities and activists — lamented that “Mahmoud is just the first target of the Trump Administration’s newfound Anti-Semitism Task Force.” …
The Forum’s “Marxist Comrade”
A major patron for The People’s Forum is wealthy communist businessman Neville Roy Singham.
“For months we’ve been the target of a campaign that alleges our funding comes from ‘dark money.’ A few years ago we met Roy Singham, a Marxist comrade who sold his company & donated most of his wealth to non-profits that focus on political education, culture, & internationalism,” The People’s Forum tweeted in December 2021.
Singham married Jodie Evans, the co-founder of the radical left-wing group Code Pink, in 2017. Her group touts itself as antiwar and has become increasingly pro-China in recent years.
The New York Times reported that Singham works in Shanghai, that his efforts there are linked to the CCP, and that he has attended at least one CCP workshop on promoting the party globally. The outlet also reported that Singham provides backing for The People’s Forum. …
The Free Press reported that Singham and Evans “have donated over $20.4 million to The People’s Forum from 2017 to 2022 through a series of shell organizations and donor advisory groups — accounting for nearly all of the group’s funding.” …
Praising the CCP
The forum is openly pro-China and has produced dozens of what it describes as teaching materials, many of them pro-CCP.
A multi-part series titled “China75” from October praised the Communist revolution in China, celebrating that “the Chinese Revolution triumphed and millions of Chinese people ‘stood up’, signaling the beginning of a long journey of building socialism.” The advertisement for the course prominently featured a quote by Mao on how “we have stood up.”
The information in the “student portal” is almost universally laudatory toward Mao and the CCP. …
In reality, the CCP’s shambolic “land reform” movement, the massive famine resulting from the disastrous Great Leap Forward, and the torture and executions during the Cultural Revolution resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese people. The CCP’s “One Child Policy” was marked by surveillance, propaganda, and forced sterilizations and abortions, resulting in tens of millions of children — most of them girls — never being born. …
“Challenging U.S. aggression on China”
The forum also launched a petition claiming: “McCarthyism Is Back: Together We Can Stop It. We stand together against the rise of a new McCarthyism that is targeting peace activists, critics of US foreign policy, and Chinese Americans.” And the forum has also promoted pro-CCP propaganda films.
The People’s Forum has repeatedly collaborated with a group called the Qiao Collective on events aimed at softening the image of the CCP and China. …
Tiananmen Square called a “myth”
The collective praised “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” as being “the second great innovation in the Sinicization of Marxism-Leninism, the first being those advances enshrined under Mao Zedong Thought.” …
The collective also calls the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989 “a touchstone of a Western mythology spun to challenge the fundamental legitimacy of the Communist Party of China.” The State Department during the first Trump administration said that “we honor the heroic protest movement of the Chinese people that ended on June 4, 1989, when the Chinese Communist Party leadership sent tanks into Tiananmen Square to violently repress peaceful demonstrations.”
The collective also published a lengthy article connecting Mao’s revolution in China in a positive light with Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israel, including attempting to put a favorable spin on the Hamas attacks of October 7th. …
Celebrating October 7th
The day of the Hamas attack, forum leader Santos made multiple posts on X celebrating the attacks. “Long Live the Palestinian Resistance! This struggle for national liberation in Palestine has entered a decisive new phase against the genocidal occupation of their land & people,” De Los Santos tweeted that day as he shared a purported video of Hamas terrorists paragliding into Israel to carry out the terrorist attack. …
He also took issue with a tweet from philosopher Cornel West, who had contended that “the vicious Israeli occupation and the ugly Palestinian retaliation results in the killing of precious innocent people on both sides.” De Los Santos replied, “Long live the beautiful resistance of the Palestinian People! The only ugly thing here is the cowardice of those who think there are two sides to this struggle!”
Santos’s forum also organized a demonstration in Times Square on October 8th — the day after the Hamas attacks — where attendees voiced their support for the attack. …
Touting Communism
The People’s Forum is openly and proudly revolutionary and communist.
The forum ran classes on the Communist International and the history of the Communist Manifesto, and held a collective reading of and posted multiple study materials for the Communist Manifesto too. The group posted in remembrance of “comrade Che Guevara” in 2021. The forum also tweeted: “Every May 19th a revolutionary constellation appears in the sky. These stars provide clarity in the long night of capitalism and guide our path to liberation.” The forum said in 2022 that “today we celebrate the birth, life & legacy of Fidel Castro, a leader of the Cuban Revolution.” …
The GOP Investigates
Congressional Republicans have called for investigations into The People’s Forum, its links to the CCP, and its role in anti-Israel protests, vandalism, and violence on campus. …
Then-senator and now Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the Justice Department that year that “it appears that organizations tied to Neville Roy Singham, a U.S. citizen, have been receiving direction from the CCP.” The Republican-led House Natural Resources Committee sent a letter directly to Santos, the leader of the communist forum. …
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(Excerpt from Just the News. Photo Credit: SWinxy – Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=161681210)
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Khalil did far more than speak, he incited others to engage in the support of terrorists, and terrorist activities. May all of his legal team’s arguments prove ineffective, and he be deported.
These ties are no surprise, because all evil comes from a common root, and that is the enemy of our souls. YHVH, please break these ungodly ties and this unholy unity. Bring confusion into the camp of the enemy, that they may longer be able to cooperate to do evil. Please destroy the weapons of lies and deception in these demonic agendas. We wage spiritual warfare against these demonic strongholds, by taking every thought captive and bringing it into submissive obedience to Yeshua. We pray that You would reveal, expose, rebuke and destroy these evil ideologies. (II Corinthians 10:3-5)
We pray that the ekklesia and the nations would recognize that we will be judged according to whether we bless Israel. We choose blessing if we do, or we choose cursing if we do not. Those who engage in anti-Semitic thought, rhetoric and/or action are poking their finger in Your eye, YHVH – because the Hebrew people are the apple of Your eye. May holy fear and it’s resulting wisdom fall upon those who oppose You. We thank You, and rejoice in You fulfilling Your covenant promises to both natural and spiritual Israel.
We agree with the Lord. that our universities will return to the Lord, that our students will come into salvation, and that America will be saved, in the name our Lord Jesus Christ.
Heavenly Father, we thank You that You continue to uncover and reveal who is funding the anti-Israel protests in this nation. Please uproot the bitterness and hate found within it. It’s display of violence, intimidation, masked faces, fists in the air, ranting and chanting are not of You. You are the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Ancient of Days. Your word is “Life” giving thru salvation offered in Jesus Christ alone. Where evil seeks to invade, let Your light reveal. Where evil and bitterness look to take root, let grace and forgiveness abound. Where wickedness attempts to rule, let Your justice break forth in righteousness for Your name sake. Amos 9:15 “I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them,” says the LORD your God. Thank You LORD, Your words remain forever. In Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.
Thus far, only God knows who in Israel is truly a Jew, and who is not. It’s not our place to make that judgment. He does command us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Father, we obey you, and believe your word is true above all other words. And we pray for the peace of Jerusalem today, in the name of Jesus!
Israel is the most evil nation on earth. They have done nothing but murder and rob Palestinians since they invaded Palestine in 1946. They are European Communists, and are NOT semites. I demand that you stop supporting these Godless butchers. Netanyahu is a liar, a thief, and a murderer.
Religion has been hijacked by masked agents of an authoritarian state.