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ASRA NOMANI: Woke military retreats in D.C. protest, pivots to ‘FIGHT BACK’ for Gaza

ASRA NOMANI: Woke military retreats in D.C. protest, pivots to ‘FIGHT BACK’ for Gaza


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On the eve of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, a multi-million greenback community of socialist and Islamist organizations scaled again its plans for an enormous citywide “resistance,” retreating to a quiet park in a nook of Washington, D.C., known as Meridian Hill. They now predict a crowd of two,000, a far cry from the 50,000 initially deliberate for the National Mall, Washington Monument and Constitution Avenue NW.

But the community of well-funded organizations, which I name the Woke Army, is urgent forward with protests in 84 cities, rebranded in emails despatched Sunday afternoon to supporters with the message, “STAND WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE. WE FIGHT BACK,” following Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas. In the nation’s capital, the ANSWER Coalition, a self-declared Marxist group based mostly in D.C., secured a allow, which I obtained, for the smaller Meridian Hill protest after withdrawing its utility for the bigger citywide demonstration.

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Despite media portrayals of those protests as grassroots actions, they’re something however. The ANSWER Coalition’s operations are extremely coordinated and funded by skilled activism networks, very similar to Saturday’s “People’s March,” which my reporting revealed was organized by a for-profit skilled protest logistics firm, Movement Catalyst LLC, which executes occasions with army precision.

An electronic mail despatched out by ANSWER Coalition on Sunday exhibits how the protest plan pivoted to the Israel-Gaza conflict. (ANSWER Coalition)

These skilled organizers create a elegant veneer of “grassroots” spontaneity for protests which might be, in actuality, meticulously engineered political theater and never grassroots however slightly AstroTurf. They churned out close to equivalent emails round 4 p.m. on Sunday, summoning followers to their Monday protests.

For years now, I’ve been monitoring these organizations as a part of my reporting for the Pearl Project, a nonprofit journalism initiative named for Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was murdered in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2002 within the title of identification politics and sectarianism. Democracy thrives on transparency, and the general public deserves to know when protests are pushed by ideological agendas masquerading as grassroots actions.

Members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation created the ANSWER Coalition, brief for “Act Now to Stop War and End Racism,” after 9/11. It has persistently championed authoritarian regimes, together with socialist governments in Russia, China, Venezuela, North Korea, and Cuba. Brian Becker, the ANSWER Coalition chief who received the allow for the Meridian Hill protest, is a vocal proponent of Marxism and socialism.

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An electronic mail despatched out by The People’s Forum on Sunday, is equivalent to at least one despatched by ANSWER Coalition, indicating cautious coordination between the teams. (The People’s Forum)

The group’s historical past contains inflammatory anti-American incidents, akin to a protest this previous summer time towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the place Zaid Mohammed Mahdawi, president of the Richmond chapter of American Muslims for Palestine, spray-painted “HAMAS IS COMIN” on a statue at Union Station. The National Park Service pulled ANSWER Coalition’s allow after the protest turned violent, with demonstrators burning U.S. flags and clashing with police.

Michael Litterst, a spokesman for the U.S. National Park Service, instructed me at present that the ANSWER Coalition “canceled” its utility for the citywide protest. He directed inquiries to the ANSWER Coalition about why it canceled its utility. The ANSWER Coalition didn’t reply to a request for remark.

The allow reveals the intricate planning behind this supposed protest that the media will doubtless forged as spontaneous:

  • 7 a.m.: “Load in gear to the higher degree of Meridian Hill Park.”
  • 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: “Speeches and potential acoustic music.”
  • 12:30 p.m. to 12:45 p.m.: “Organize for march.”
  • 12:45 p.m.: “March steps off (south on sixteenth Street to H Street at Black Lives Matter Plaza),” close to the White House.
  • 12:45 p.m. to 4 p.m.: “Remove gear from Meridian Hill Park.”

The gear listing reveals the professionalism behind these protests: one stage, 20 tables, 40 chairs, 200 handheld indicators, banners, a sound system, podium, and propaganda supplies, together with literature and bumper stickers. The ANSWER Coalition allow stated it plans to carry an “opaque safe bucket for gathering donations.”

Behind the banners and bullhorns lies a well-funded operation intent on reshaping the narrative of grassroots resistance into one which serves its personal ideological objectives.

The Park Service allow reminded organizers in daring textual content: “It is prohibited to climb, take away, or in any manner injure any statue, seat, wall, fountain, gentle poles, elevator towers, or different architectural characteristic” throughout the park.

The ANSWER Coalition’s historical past raises questions on its capability to take care of order. But Litterest, the U.S. National Park Service spokesman, instructed me: “DC courts have beforehand indicated that denial of or limitations on permits for First Amendment demonstrations based mostly on contemplated acts of violence are applicable solely when and the place the menace is actual, substantial and past the affordable management of regulation enforcement.”

Last week, on a web site created simply days after Trump’s election, protest organizers stated they’d about 50 “endorsing” teams. Now, that quantity has elevated to 205 teams, and it’s clear from the names on the rising listing that their origins are removed from grassroots. I’ve added the brand new names to a public Pearl Project public database, and, in line with my new evaluation, 58 of the teams are self-described socialist organizations, 25 are Islamist, Muslim, Arab or Palestinian, and the remaining 122 are socialist and Islamist adjoining. They persistently search to destroy Israel as a state.

The “crimson” in tomorrow’s alliance contains well-funded protesters: the ANSWER Coalition; Code Pink, an anti-Israel group funded by Neville Roy Singham, a Shanghai-based American billionaire tied to China’s Communist Party, in line with the New York Times; the Party for Socialism and Liberation, advocating for dismantling capitalism and aligning the U.S. with socialist regimes; the People’s Forum, a socialist group that serves as a proxy for Singham’s pro-China agenda, as additionally documented by The New York Times; and Democratic Socialists of America, the most important socialist group within the U.S.

It additionally now contains the “Project for a Revolutionary Marxist International.”

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The “inexperienced” of this axis contains: Students for Justice in Palestine, based by University of California at Berkeley tutorial Hatem Bazian, and now fomenting most of the anti-Jew campus protests, banned now on many campuses; Palestinian Feminist Collective, dedicated to “Palestinian liberation & past“; Palestinian Youth Movement, devoted to a “technique of mobilization, agitation and confrontation“; the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, which organized days of protests in Chicago to disrupt the Democratic Party’s conference; and the Muslim American Society, which created a “Survive Pack” with a useful resource from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, whose co-founder, Nihad Awad, stated he was “completely happy” in regards to the Oct. 7 incursions by Hamas into Israel.

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The ANSWER Coalition’s acknowledged goal for the protest in Washington is to “current a preferred resistance to the Trump Administration,” however its true agenda is extra insidious: dismantling American democracy and selling authoritarian socialist ideologies. From Beijing to Caracas, the ANSWER Coalition and its Woke Army allies draw inspiration from regimes, like Hamas, that suppress dissent and curtail freedoms.

As the Woke Army marches from Meridian Hill Park to Black Lives Matter Plaza, it’s essential for Americans to stay vigilant. Behind the banners and bullhorns lies a well-funded operation intent on reshaping the narrative of grassroots resistance into one which serves its personal ideological objectives. Understanding these forces is step one towards safeguarding democracy.

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