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When some liberal Jews tried to participate in the ‘No Kings’ protests, they encountered Hezbollah and other Islamic terrorist flags in New York City, while in Wisconsin, Jews were kicked out of the local Facebook group. While the anti-Trump rallies had the usual movement organizations, there was a notable absence of mainstream liberal Jewish figures in their ranks.
The ‘Jewish’ partner organizations of No Kings include anti-Israel organizations like JVP and Bend the Arc, headed by the younger Soros, but no mainstream liberal Jewish groups.
In New York City, the ‘Jewish’ contingent of the pro-Mamdani ‘Interfaith Coalition’ of Episcopalians, liberal Catholics and Muslims at the No Kings rally was represented by Ayelet Cohen, a veteran of various anti-Israel groups and signatory to various anti-Israel letters, who had been appointed as a dean of the formerly mainstream Jewish Theological Seminary.
Liberal Jews might have thought that No Kings would be a friendlier space for them. After all the public faces of the movement are Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin out of Indivisible. But behind Greenberg and Leah is George Soros who has pumped millions into the Indivisible group.
And Indivisible and its leaders have been militant in their opposition to Israel.
Days after the Hamas massacres of Oct 7, Indivisible issued a statement condemning both Hamas and Israel and blaming “the Israeli occupation and blockade.” Two weeks later, Indivisible was already accusing Israel of killing thousands of innocent people and calling on Biden to stop Israel from attacking Hamas. Over the following months, Indivisible would falsely accuse the Jewish State of “mass starvation” and “genocide”.
On the latest anniversary of Oct 7, Leah Greenberg, speaking on behalf of Indivisible, issued a statement accusing Israel of “genocide” and annihilation” and called for an arms embargo on the Jewish State. Earlier this year, Indivisible produced a call script urging its supporters to call congressional offices to push Hamas propaganda about a fake famine that has been disproven.
Ezra Levin, Indivisible’s co-founder and Greenberg’s husband, accused Israel of “massacring civilians.”
Indivisible is not only anti-Trump, it’s also opposed to Democrats who aren’t in line with its radical agenda. Including militant opposition to Israel. Indivisible claimed that by initially supporting Israel’s campaign to defeat Hamas, Biden had “betrayed our values, undermined U.S. and international law” and members of the administration had “discredited themselves and the United States on the world stage”.
Not only was Indivisible militantly opposed to Israel, but it repeatedly accused Jews of “weaponizing” antisemitism when allies of the radical group celebrated the murder of Jews.
Indivisible and Greenberg supported the pro-terrorist and antisemitic campus riots, and opposed any action to protect Jewish students and community members who had been assaulted by Hamas and Hezbollah supporters.
Many of the Democrats and liberals attending No Kings rallies did not understand that behind them was a radical leftist group that condemned Israel (and similarly condemned America for “occupying” Afghanistan), and represented the radical leftist hijacking of the Democratic Party.
Indivisible was not actually an anti-Trump group, but a leftist pressure group trying to pull the Democratic Party leftward while hollowing it out from the inside. A month after the Oct 7, Indivisible joined radical groups like Sunrise, the WFP and J Street (the anti-Israel lobby) to face off against the mainstream Democratic Majority for Israel and AIPAC in primary races.
Indivisible backed Marie Newman in a congressional race in Illinois. Indivisible continued partnering with her even after she lost the race and J Street had dropped the endorsement after an ethics investigation emerged involving a bribe being directed to a potential challenger.
All of this is less surprising when examining the history behind Indivisible and its founders.
Leah Greenberg had started out as a staffer for Rep. Tom Perriello in Virginia and worked on his gubernatorial campaign. While Perriello pretended to be moderate as a congressman, his gubernatorial bid was largely funded by George Soros who provided $500,000 for his campaign. Greenberg followed Perriello into Kerry’s State Department under Obama. By the time he ran for governor, Perriello was being backed by Bernie Sanders and the extreme far left.
Greenberg became the policy director for Perriello’s campaign which was heavily funded by Soros. After losing the primary, Perriello became the head of programs for Soros’ Open Society Foundations. That same year, Open Society provided $500,000 to Indivisible. Even as Leah Greenberg launched Indivisible, her old boss had gotten a top position handing out Soros cash.
Indivisible initially pretended to be a more moderate booster for Hillary’s campaign and was staffed by ex-Clinton people, it drifted into becoming a part of the machine that Soros and his radical billionaire allies had built to radicalize the Democratic Party. The story of Indivisible emerging as a ‘grass-roots’ venture between former congressional staffers who wanted to start a populist movement is a press release, in reality there was nothing organic about it.
The big money donors like Soros were less interested in funding a Hillary fan shop or even the ‘anti-Trump resistance’ that Indivisible pretended to be, but in hijacking the Democratic Party.
By 2017, Ezra Levin was focused less on fighting Trump than on a “theory of change is working to ensure Democrats in Congress have spines.” This wasn’t about fighting Trump, it was about tilting the party far leftward. And that eventually meant Indivisible would come after Israel.
No Kings is not actually an anti-Trump movement: it’s a leftist radicalization movement disguised as an anti-Trump movement, and the most obvious tell is in its partners. If No Kings were primarily anti-Trump, its partners would consist of Democratic Party organizations, yet there’s only one official partner group with ‘Democrats’ in its name. The rest of the contingent draws on Sanders allied radical groups, unions and assorted movement organizations.
Have the ‘No Kings’ rallies done anything to stop Trump? Obviously not. Rallies never do. Their actual purpose is to further consolidate the leadership in the hands of a radical movement funded by a few influential billionaires and foundations, and to define ‘resistance’ to Trump as embracing an extreme leftist political agenda: including opposition to the Jewish State.
No Kings is really No America and, of course, No Israel.
