Arabella Advisors: The Liberal Org That Funds Terrorism

Meet the Democratic advisors who’ve got blood on their hands

Eric Pilon
Blacklist
5 min readNov 3, 2023

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The U.S. is facing a serious threat that, for various reasons, nobody seems to be willing to tackle: Islamism and antisemitism. Perhaps the presence of mostly liberal media in the country does not help reach the truth on that matter, as those who protect Islamists are, themselves, essentially liberal. So, common sense tells us that if we want to eradicate terrorism in our own backyard, if such a thing is possible, then we’d better clean up the house first.

And in the house is a room filled by one major lobby firm close to the democrats: Arabella Advisors.

Billionaires Funding Communism

On April 13, 2021, an article in The New York Times surprised its readers and beyond, as it was openly critical of the Democrats, the Times’s darlings. The article in question referred to a network of political dark money organizations managed by a Washington consulting firm, Arabella Advisors. Not many know about Arabella Advisors, a for-profit consulting company that supports Democrats and “progressive” causes.

Yet, a 2020 report by OpenSecrets revealed that the liberal organization was involved in numerous “fake news sites”, pouring millions of untraceable dollars into advertisements and other digital content intended to influence the 2020 election to the benefit of the Democrats.

But this story was only the tip of the iceberg.

Among the sub-organizations managed by Arabella is the New Venture Fund (NVF). Perhaps the billionaires behind NVF, which includes the Gates Foundation, ignored that their funding machine gave, along with the Windward fund, $263,000 in 2021 to the Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ). AFGJ arose from the Nicaragua Network, an anti-capitalist group that supported the Communist-aligned Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.

In the aftermath of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, AFGJ released an official statement in which it argued that Russia had “a right to sovereignty and secure borders” and wrote of the “vital role” that this country “plays in support of liberation struggles.”

The height of absurdity is that AFGJ is funded by scores of center-left foundations, including not only the New Venture Fund, but also George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, Tides Foundation, and so on.

But there’s more than funding Communism, as Alliance for Global Justice has donated to another organization that should have been banned a long time ago: Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, a terrorist entity.

Billionaires and Jews Funding Terrorism

If the billionaires behind the New Venture Fund ignore that their money machine is pumping cash into a communist organization, then they likely ignore that it has also been backing organizations promoting terrorism.

Alliance for Global Justice sponsors 130 projects, among which is the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, a shadowy organization that is central to pro-Hamas demonstrations held throughout the U.S. and Canada since the October 7 attacks on Israelis.

Everything related to Samidoun is directly or indirectly linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and to Hamas. For those who don’t know it yet, both the PFLP and Hamas are considered terrorist organizations in the United States, Canada, the European Union, and Israel.

Samidoun is an expert in organizing protests honoring terrorists. In 2018, it held an anti-Israeli rally in Berlin with, as a guest star, Rasmea Odeh from the PFLP. Odeh was convicted in 1970 of facilitating two bombings in Jerusalem, one of which killed two Jewish students in a supermarket. Faced with public pressure, German authorities revoked her visa and banned her from engaging in political activities in Germany.

In October of that same year, the NGO was part of a demonstration in Gaza organized by the PFLP in solidarity with Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a criminal who is serving a life sentence in France for “complicity in the assassinations” in 1982 of Charles R. Ray, an American military attaché who was stationed in Paris, and Yacov Bar-Simantov, the second secretary of Israel’s embassy in the French capital.

A few days following that demonstration, Samidoun held a press conference in Gaza to announce a series of events and actions to demand the release of Khalida Jarrar, who was arrested alongside dozens of PFLP members after a terrorist attack in which Rina Shnerb, a 17-year-old Israeli girl, was killed in the West Bank.

In July 2020, the infamous NGO led a rally this time in Amsterdam for which the Facebook invitation called for “the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea” and glorified “the martyrs and the Palestinian resistance”, therefore, the suicide bombers. A mantra Samidoun has repeated in its protests since October 7.

Praising Terrorism in Complete Freedom

Since Samidoun relies on terrorism to achieve its ends, it is not surprising that it includes in its ranks some individuals whose records are less than stellar. As a first mention: the Canadian Khaled Barakat, who is one of the organization’s coordinators and a member of the central committee of the PFLP.

Barakat is also an international coordinator of the “Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat”, the secretary general of the PFLP. Sa’adat was sentenced to thirty years in prison for leading a terrorist organization and for being involved in planning numerous PFLP attacks, including the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi in October 2001.

In 2016, Barakat attended the funeral of Omar Nayef Zayed, a member of the PFLP who was convicted of the murder of an Israeli student in 1986. Barakat was also photographed with Leila Khaled, a terrorist who had taken part in the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 in 1969 and El Al Flight 219 in 1970.

Against all odds, Barakat nevertheless managed to have access to the European Parliament on July 10, 2019, to deliver a speech. No surprise, he had been invited by Manu Pineda, a communist MEP who is a member of the anti-Israel movement called Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS).

Barakat’s wife, Charlotte Kates, is following closely in her husband’s footsteps. Kates is the perfect example of an extremist. While a student at Rutgers University, she wrote an op-ed for the local newspaper titled “Israel Has No Right to Exist”. In December 2002, she wrote another article, this time in the far-left online media CounterPunch, in which she boasted of having helped create a toxic environment at Rutgers University, where it is now virtually impossible to publicly support Israel.

Another name to remember is the Belgian activist Mustapha Awad, who is also a member of Samidoun. In August 2018, Awad was arrested after attempting to enter Israeli territory. He was accused of joining the PFLP and participating in Hezbollah activities. Awad had been in contact with operational agents in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria, according to an Israeli government report.

Needless to say, the recent Hamas terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians have delighted Samidoun, who has called for Palestinian resistance on its Twitter/X account.

Let’s wrap this up by announcing the winner of The Dumbest Personality in the United States award: Democratic Representative Daniel Goldman (N.Y.). Goldman’s charitable foundation, the Richard W. Goldman Family Foundation, donated $1.2 million to the New Venture Fund.

Sources

Discover the Networks, Honest Reporting, Influence Watch, La Pluma, L’Echo, Middle East Monitor, NGO Monitor, Samidoun #1, #2, The Daily Caller, The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, The Washington Examiner, Townhall, Wikipedia

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