Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon highlights recent nefarious activity from high-dollar left-wing groups.
A European nonprofit that promotes economic boycotts of Israel and U.S. companies that do business within the Jewish state received funding from a network of left-wing nonprofits that includes the Ford Foundation and George Soros’s Open Society Institute and Foundation to Promote Open Society, a Washington Free Beacon review of financial records found.
The Amsterdam-based Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, known by its Dutch acronym SOMO, took in a total of almost $5.5 million from the Ford Foundation and Soros-backed groups between 2019 and 2023. The cash has empowered SOMO to pursue its mission of “eradicating the dominant corporate logic of ‘maximising shareholder value,’” a vision that seemingly dovetails with its efforts to drive international businesses away from Israel, which it accuses of “committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”
Though the organization claims it is primarily dedicated to “restraining corporate power and championing social equity,” its website currently features a banner declaring, “End genocide now in solidarity with Gaza.”
SOMO’s annual report includes a section outlining its priorities, which include “Gaza genocide.” The blurb states that the group “exposed the supply chain of military jet fuel and, subsequently, the energy supply chain, which has enabled Israeli military action and illegal occupation” and that its work “supported successful campaigns effectively denying ports in Spain and the U.K. to ships carrying military jet fuel bound for Israel.” Global corporations, SOMO contends, “provided goods and services that enabled Israel’s crimes under international law.”
SOMO is one of many organizations that has received money from the Ford Foundation and Soros-backed groups to wage a campaign against Israel. As the Free Beacon reported in 2024, the Ford Foundation has funneled millions of dollars to groups that celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel. Elias Rodriguez, the left-wing radical charged with the killing of two Israeli embassy staffers in May of this year, worked for a nonprofit that has received at least $1 million from the Ford Foundation since 2024.
