George Soros Funding Pro-Palestine Demonstrations at US Universities?

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A story published in the New York Post claimed Soros' Open Society Foundations were "paying student radicals."

The idea that George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist, has been funding protests in the United States is not new. It reappears nearly every time there's a major movement of left-leaning political activism.

In late April 2024, the question returned, this time about the pro-Palestinian encampments established at universities across the United States and beyond in solidarity with the residents of the Gaza Strip: Was Soros paying those protesters?

By going through the publicly available list of grants given by Soros' charity, the Open Society Foundations (OSF), Snopes found that one of the organizations involved in the protests received a grant from OSF. But it is very misleading to claim or suggest that Soros was funding the protests directly. Here's why:

The last publicly available records from the Open Society Foundations are from 2022, before the Israel-Hamas war began in October 2023. As explained in The Washington Post, the money provided by those grants is long gone — the organizations aren't just squirreling money away for two years until they need to pay people to protest. The claims spreading on social media, which originated from an article in the New York Post, used the exact same numbers that Snopes found online. This claim was based on old data.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/04/29/george-soros-funding-college-protests/