Alliance for Global Justice
Profile
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Activity
- Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) is an American non-profit that acts as a “fiscal sponsor to over 90 economic, social justice and human rights projects around the world that do not have their own tax-exempt status.” AFGJ’s “parent organization, the Nicaragua Network, was founded to support an armed revolution.”
- The organization supports “locally-based grassroots organizing by sharing political analysis, mobilizing for direct action, monitoring the centers of corporate and government power… and sharing skills and infrastructure.”
- According to the “Our Principles” webpage, AFGJ defines itself as “anti-capitalist,” “anti-imperialist,” and supportive of “participatory democracy as opposed to Western-style liberal democracy,” and states that “we do not criticize the strategies and tactics of authentic organizations of the oppressed.”
Funding
- In FY 2022-2023, total income was $10.7 million; total expenses were $8.9 million.
- According to its website, AFGJ is an “independent, nonprofit organization…does not receive funding from any state, local or federal government the state of Arizona, or the counties or cities where its employees are located… Every dollar raised comes through earned revenue (fiscal sponsor fees, delegations), donations, bequests and special events.”
- In 2020, Alliance for Global Justice received $250,000 from the Open Society Foundation.
Links to Terror-Tied NGOs
- In February 2023, AFGJ announced that Salsa Labs, the company that handled its credit card transactions, had blocked its ability to process donations. In September 2023, Stripe and PayPal also severed ties with AFGJ. This followed several Washington Examiner reports that exposed the links between Samidoun, one of AFGJ’s fiscally-sponsored NGOs, and the PFLP.
- In August 2021, Discover shut down credit card donations to the Alliance for Global Justice after the Zachor Legal Institute pressured the credit card company, citing Alliance for Global Justice’s relationship with Samidoun.
- Alliance for Global Justice has supported convicted terrorists. Its website lists a number of “Political Prisoners” that AFGJ supports, including convicted murders, as well as terrorists affiliated with Hamas, PFLP, Al-Qaeda, FARC, and other groups.
Political Advocacy
- In March 2023, Alliance for Global Justice endorsed the “International Campaign to Liberate the Remains of Palestinian Martyrs.” According to the campaign, “These martyrs gave their lives in the Palestinian resistance movement, and their bodies remain imprisoned even after their death.”
- In July 2021, Alliance for Global Justice endorsed a campaign urging the “immediate freedom of imprisoned Palestinian students and the protection of Palestinian students’ right to education, right to political expression and involvement and right to determine their own futures.” The campaign called for “Boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, including Israeli academic institutions, which are fully complicit in the systematic deprivation of Palestinian rights,” as well as “Ending all military and economic aid, military transactions, joint projects and direct funding to the Israeli occupation regime by governments around the world.”
- A variety of fringe organizations are listed among the national, local and international fiscal sponsorship projects, including Occupy Wall Street, US Labor Against the War, Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox, and End US Wars.
- Of 26 “International” fiscally sponsored projects, 9 are radical Israeli and Palestinian NGOs, some of which are involved in violent demonstrations, anti-Israel BDS campaigns, and advocating for one-state formulas that would eliminate Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.
- Samidoun
- In February 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense declared Samidoun a terrorist organization and “a subsidiary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).” According to the Ministry, Samidoun was founded by “members of the PFLP in 2012”; Khaled Barakat, identified by the PFLP as “coordinator” of Samidoun, “is involved with establishing militant cells and motivating terrorist activity in Judea & Samaria and abroad.”
- French NGO Collectif Palestine Vaincra (CPV) raises funds via AFGJ, through Samidoun.
- CPV’s’ website, Twitter handle, and Facebook accounts appear on the Israel National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF) lists of “Terrorists Organizations and Unauthorized Associations” due to Samdoun’s close association with the PFLP.
- Since its establishment in 2019, CPV has been forced to change fundraising platforms multiple times. As reported in the media, in 2020, Paypal closed the account of CPV “because of its ties to the US and EU sanctioned terrorist organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).” Following the closure, CPV attempted to raise funding via Helloasso (France), Stripe (US), and Shopify (Canada; on file with NGO Monitor).
- Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP)
- Palestinian Popular Struggle Coordination Committee’s (PSCC)
- PSCC calls for “community resistance” to “overthrow Israel’s occupation” through “marches, strikes, demonstrations, direct actions and legal campaigns as well as supporting boycott, divestment and sanctions.”
- PSCC has organized protests that have turned violent. Footage of PSCC protests in Hebron, Kfer Qaddum, Nilin, Nabi Saleh, and Beituniya shows protestors hurling rocks, throwing sharp objects, trying to destroy the security barrier, and arson.
- Manal Tamimi, a board member of PSCC frequently utilizes antisemitic and violent rhetoric and imagery on social media. In August 2015, Tamimi tweeted, “I do hate Israel, i (sic) wish a thrid Intefada (sic) coming soon and people rais (sic) up and kills all these zionist settlers everywhere.”
- Ta’ayush
- Ta’ayush is “a grassroots movement for Arabs and Jews working to break down the walls of racism and segregation by constructing a true Arab-Jewish partnership.” They claim to use “non-violent actions of solidarity to end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.” These two organizations organize confrontational demonstrations in the West Bank, and are not registered as legal entities in Israel.
- In May 2022, Ta’ayush published an article stating that “Israel’s rule in the occupied territories is a version of apartheid, based on domination by one privileged ethnic group over another population that is deprived of all elementary human rights.”
- In September 2021, Ta’ayush referred to the Israeli army as “Judo-Nazis.”
- Zochrot
- Supports a “One State Solution” or a “de-Zionized Palestine,” and refers to Israel as having an “ethnicized and racialized Zionist” system.
- In October 2023, Zochrot tweeted, “The pain we’re experiencing now is part of a trail of pain traced back at least 75yr ago. Truth telling & pointing out colonial structures of power & dispossession has been and remains our an integral part of our mission.. What happened on 7/10 and what continues to happen in #Gaza should be a reminder of that truth and an eye opener to the #Nakba that never ended and continues to be more present and resemble what happened in 1948.”
- In September 2021, Zochrot launched a campaign to “stop funding the JNF” and to “expose the role of the JNF in the colonization of Palestine and the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.”
- In June 2020, Zochrot held a webinar titled “Annexation 2020: Resisting one more chapter in the ongoing Nakba,” discussing the “implications of further Israeli colonization and to develop corresponding resisting strategies and actions.” During the webinar, a Jerusalem-based activist stated that Israelis should resist as “some sort of human shields…[and] disrupt and disturb the fake peace and order.”
- In 2016, Zochrot published an educational kit “Shuruch- Cracks in Israel Historiography,” intended to serve as a supplement to the history curriculum for Israeli 11th graders. Chapters deal with a Palestinian “right of return,” “the ongoing Nakba,” Jewish terrorism, and “The 1929 wave of violence: The Jewish provocation that led to the escalation and mutual acts of violence, as opposed to the Zionist narrative which presents Jews exclusively as victims and Palestinians exclusively as perpetrators.”
- In one chapter, similarities are drawn between BDS campaigns and pre-state Zionist movements in the 1930s and 40s.
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