Raucous protests have impacted scores of cities across the country since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war. At least one person, an elderly Jewish man, has perished thus far. Wednesday night, an unruly mob demanding an immediate cease-fire in Gaza got uncomfortably close to storming the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C. A small phalanx of police officers was all the stood between lawmakers and violent demonstrators.
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, one of the lawmakers trapped inside, said the experience rattled her more than Jan. 6 did.
“I was scared. Someone is going to get hurt at one of these things. They can get out of control,” she told The Detroit News. Indeed, six police officers were injured keeping the crowd at bay.
The far-left demonstrators in Washington aren’t operating in a vacuum. According to a new report in The Washington Free Beacon, they’re well-funded by George Soros:
Protesters with IfNotNow, Jewish Voice for Peace, and the Democratic Socialists of America gathered outside the Democratic headquarters to pressure lawmakers to support a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. According to U.S. Capitol Police, six officers were assaulted, including some who were pepper-sprayed, when they tried to prevent demonstrators from blocking an exit from the building with a dumpster. Officers arrested one man, 24-year-old Ruben Camacho, who punched a female officer in the face.
“We have handled hundreds of peaceful protests, but last night’s group was not peaceful,” Capitol Police said in a statement.
Wednesday’s violence could draw scrutiny for supporters of the left-wing groups, especially given the focus in recent years on assaults of Capitol Police officers on Jan. 6, 2021. Soros’s philanthropy, Open Society Foundations, has given $650,000 to Jewish Voice for Peace since 2017 to fund the group’s “human rights” work in the Middle East. Open Society awarded $400,000 to IfNotNow in 2019 and 2021, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Soros, the Democratic Party’s most prolific donor, has contributed $1,036,500 to the DNC since 2020, according to campaign finance records.
Open Society is calling for a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza. The Soros-founded network considers Israel’s response to the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas “indiscriminate” with great risk of “mass atrocities, including ethnic cleansing.”
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