Hawley presses Garland to probe dark money's role in fueling anti-Israel agitators on campus

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is demanding answers from Attorney General Merrick Garland astir which left-wing groups are backing anti-Israel demonstrations causing "chaos" crossed campuses nationwide.

"Across the country, campuses are successful chaos. It is clip for you to unfastened an probe into the crushed why, and who’s backing it," Hawley wrote successful a missive to Garland connected Tuesday.

"In university aft university, antisemitic radicals person taken implicit full buildings and ample tracts of outdoor space. They are vandalizing property, blocking students from moving astir their ain campuses, and terrorizing Jewish students. All the while, galore administrators person failed to instrumentality enactment to beforehand information connected campus," helium wrote. 

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Sen. Josh Hawley, left, and Attorney General Merrick Garland. (Getty Images)

Last month, Fox News Digital reported that progressive anti-Israel agitators crossed the country, including those who mobilized astatine New York City’s Columbia University, are associated with groups tied to far-left groups with extremist associations backed by acheronian wealth and wide mega-donor George Soros.

National Students for Justice successful Palestine (NSJP), a nationalist enactment affiliated with much than 300 autarkic chapters advocating for "Palestinian liberation," operates nether Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation, a fiscal sponsor, whom Fox News Digital antecedently reported received a six-figure donation from a nonprofit bankrolled by the George Soros network.

The foundation, whose backing is mostly unknown, has accused the Israeli authorities of "apartheid," "ethnic cleansing," "collective punishment" and "war crimes," according to NGO Monitor.

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Hundreds of students protestation extracurricular the Palestine Solidarity Encampment connected the field of UCLA successful Los Angeles connected Wednesday May 1, 2024.  (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)

"Crucially, this is not conscionable spontaneous pupil unrest. It is coordinated and funded by a almighty web of anti-Israel advocates," Hawley wrote. "This signifier is disturbing. It is besides astir surely illegal."

The Internal Revenue Service deems that immoderate "organization formed to beforehand satellite bid that planned and sponsored protestation demonstrations astatine which members were urged to perpetrate acts of civilian disobedience" doesn't suffice for tax-exemption status. 

As such, Hawley wrote, "by supporting amerciable acts portion enjoying tax-exempt status, dark-money groups and foundations are defrauding the American radical and putting Jewish students and faculty astatine risk."

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Anti-Israel protesters stitchery successful Washington Square Park successful New York City connected Friday, May 3, 2024. NYU’s Palestine Solidarity Coalition is hosting the objection arsenic field protests proceed to expanse the country. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

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Another radical progressive astatine Columbia, Jewish Voice for Peace, has brought successful astatine slightest $650,000 from Soros-linked groups since 2016.

JVP has besides taken successful hundreds of thousands from the billionaire-fueled Rockefeller Fund, which is boosted by millions of dollars from adark wealth backing network.

"The Open Society Foundations has a agelong past of warring antisemitism, Islamophobia and each forms of racism and hate," a spokesperson for George Soros' Open Society Foundations antecedently told Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Garland's bureau for comment.

Fox News Digital's Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.