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Adalah Justice Project

Website:

www.adalahjusticeproject.org/
Status:

Fiscal Project, Tides Center
Executive Director:

Sandra Tamar

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Also see Adalah-NY, a New York-based group promoting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel and fiscally sponsored by WESPAC Foundation

Adalah Justice Project is a grassroots advocacy group that promotes itself as an anti-Israeli organization asking supporters to, “stand with the Palestinian people’s right to defend themselves.” 1 The group is a fiscal project of the Tides Center, a left-of-center “dark money” organization that is part of the Tides Nexus collection of “pass-through” nonprofits towards funding center-left causes. 2 3 4

Activities

Shortly after the attacks against Israel by terrorist organization on October 7, the Adalah Justice Project sent out an online pledge asking signers to, “stand with the Palestinian people’s right to defend themselves.” 5

Adalah Justice Project executive director Sandra Tamari praised the Hamas terror attacks, which led to the deaths of over 1,400 Israelis and led to over 230 being taken hostage back in Gaza, calling the attacks, “the oppressed rising up.” 6 In an interview with Yes! magazine on October 11, she claimed that, “Violence didn’t begin with Hamas’s attack. Hamas’s attack was resistance to an intolerable situation that has been taking place in the Gaza strip.” 7

Members of the organization took part in a series of protests on October 18, 2023, in which hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the rotunda of the Cannon U.S House of Representatives Office Building demanding a ceasefire in ongoing Israel-Gaza war. According to the Washington Free Beacon, protesters from the group also occupied the offices of Democrat House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (NY-8) and Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17). 8 9

Adalah Justice Project has partnered with MPower Change, a self-described “Muslim grassroots” organization led by controversial Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour, who has made Anti-Israeli and Anti-Sematic remarks in the past and is a leader of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. 10

Adalah Justice Project’s Communications Director Sumaya Awad is a member of the far-left Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and helped set up a chapter of the National Students for Justice in Palestine on her college campus; the National Students for Justice in Palestine is an anti-Israeli organization that praised the terrorist attack by Hamas as a, “historic win for the Palestinian resistance.” 11

Financials

The Adalah Justice Project is a fiscal project of the Tides Center, a left-of-center “dark money” organization that is part of the Tides Nexus collection of “pass-through” nonprofits towards funding center-left causes. 12 13 14 According to the Washington Free Beacon, Tides helps maintain at least 160 “fiscal sponsorships” are not required to register their nonprofit status with the Internal Revenue Service. 15 Tax records show that between 2018 and 2023, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund has donated roughly $710,000 through the Tides Center earmarked for Adalah Justice Project. An additional $2.7 million was funneled by Rockefeller Brothers Fund towards other anti-Israeli organizations since 2018 including the Defense for Children International-Palestine, which was designated a terror organization by the Israeli government in 2021. 16 17

In addition, in 2019 the Open Society Foundations donated roughly $225,000 to the Tides Center for the purpose of, “further solidarity, equality, and justice for Palestine/Israel,” 18 as well as, “legal support in the movement for Palestinian rights.” 19 According to the Washington Free Beacon it is unknown if Adalah Justice Project received any of these funds. 20 21

References

  1. Kerr, Andrew and Joseph Simonson. “This ‘Grassroots’ Anti-Israel Group Is Actually Part of a Left-Wing Dark Money Behemoth.” Washington Free Beacon, October 27, 2023. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/this-grassroots-anti-israel-group-is-actually-part-of-a-left-wing-dark-money-behemoth/
  2. Kerr, Andrew and Joseph Simonson. “This ‘Grassroots’ Anti-Israel Group Is Actually Part of a Left-Wing Dark Money Behemoth.” Washington Free Beacon, October 27, 2023. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/this-grassroots-anti-israel-group-is-actually-part-of-a-left-wing-dark-money-behemoth/
  3. Walter, Scott. “The Tides Foundation and Center: Selling Foundation Philanthropy on the Idea of ‘Structural Racism.’” Capital Research Center. Capital Research Center, July 3, 2011. https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-tides-foundation-and-center-selling-foundation-philanthropy-on-the-idea-of-structural-racism/.
  4. Ludwig, Hayden. “Unearthing The Tides Nexus.” Washington, D.C.: Capital Research Center, 2021.
  5. Kerr, Andrew and Joseph Simonson. “This ‘Grassroots’ Anti-Israel Group Is Actually Part of a Left-Wing Dark Money Behemoth.” Washington Free Beacon, October 27, 2023. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/this-grassroots-anti-israel-group-is-actually-part-of-a-left-wing-dark-money-behemoth/
  6. Kerr, Andrew and Joseph Simonson. “This ‘Grassroots’ Anti-Israel Group Is Actually Part of a Left-Wing Dark Money Behemoth.” Washington Free Beacon, October 27, 2023. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/this-grassroots-anti-israel-group-is-actually-part-of-a-left-wing-dark-money-behemoth/
  7. Kerr, Andrew and Joseph Simonson. “This ‘Grassroots’ Anti-Israel Group Is Actually Part of a Left-Wing Dark Money Behemoth.” Washington Free Beacon, October 27, 2023. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/this-grassroots-anti-israel-group-is-actually-part-of-a-left-wing-dark-money-behemoth/
  8. Kerr, Andrew and Joseph Simonson. “This ‘Grassroots’ Anti-Israel Group Is Actually Part of a Left-Wing Dark Money Behemoth.” Washington Free Beacon, October 27, 2023. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/this-grassroots-anti-israel-group-is-actually-part-of-a-left-wing-dark-money-behemoth/
  9. King, Ryan. “Chaos erupts as pro-Palestinian protesters demand ceasefire at the Capitol; at least 3 allegedly assault cops.” New York Post, October 18, 2023. https://nypost.com/2023/10/18/chaos-erupts-as-pro-palestinian-protesters-take-to-the-capitol-at-least-three-arrested/
  10. Kerr, Andrew and Joseph Simonson. “This ‘Grassroots’ Anti-Israel Group Is Actually Part of a Left-Wing Dark Money Behemoth.” Washington Free Beacon, October 27, 2023. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/this-grassroots-anti-israel-group-is-actually-part-of-a-left-wing-dark-money-behemoth/
  11. Kerr, Andrew and Joseph Simonson. “This ‘Grassroots’ Anti-Israel Group Is Actually Part of a Left-Wing Dark Money Behemoth.” Washington Free Beacon, October 27, 2023. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/this-grassroots-anti-israel-group-is-actually-part-of-a-left-wing-dark-money-behemoth/
  12. Kerr, Andrew and Joseph Simonson. “This ‘Grassroots’ Anti-Israel Group Is Actually Part of a Left-Wing Dark Money Behemoth.” Washington Free Beacon, October 27, 2023. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/this-grassroots-anti-israel-group-is-actually-part-of-a-left-wing-dark-money-behemoth/
  13. Walter, Scott. “The Tides Foundation and Center: Selling Foundation Philanthropy on the Idea of ‘Structural Racism.’” Capital Research Center. Capital Research Center, July 3, 2011. https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-tides-foundation-and-center-selling-foundation-philanthropy-on-the-idea-of-structural-racism/.
  14. Ludwig, Hayden. “Unearthing The Tides Nexus.” Washington, D.C.: Capital Research Center, 2021.
  15. Kerr, Andrew and Joseph Simonson. “This ‘Grassroots’ Anti-Israel Group Is Actually Part of a Left-Wing Dark Money Behemoth.” Washington Free Beacon, October 27, 2023. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/this-grassroots-anti-israel-group-is-actually-part-of-a-left-wing-dark-money-behemoth/
  16. Kerr, Andrew and Joseph Simonson. “This ‘Grassroots’ Anti-Israel Group Is Actually Part of a Left-Wing Dark Money Behemoth.” Washington Free Beacon, October 27, 2023. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/this-grassroots-anti-israel-group-is-actually-part-of-a-left-wing-dark-money-behemoth/
  17. Kerr, Andrew. “Meet the Major US Philanthropy Financing an Israeli-Designated Terror Group.” Washington Free Beacon, October 23, 2023. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/meet-the-major-u-s-philanthropy-financing-an-israeli-designated-terror-group/
  18. “Awarded Grants.” Open Society Foundations, Accessed October 31, 2023. https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2019-60205
  19. “Awarded Grants.” Open Society Foundations, Accessed October 31, 2023. https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?grant_id=OR2019-61150
  20. Kerr, Andrew and Joseph Simonson. “This ‘Grassroots’ Anti-Israel Group Is Actually Part of a Left-Wing Dark Money Behemoth.” Washington Free Beacon, October 27, 2023. https://freebeacon.com/democrats/this-grassroots-anti-israel-group-is-actually-part-of-a-left-wing-dark-money-behemoth/
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