Radical anti-Israel nonprofit urged rampaging Columbia occupiers to recreate BLM ‘summer of 2020’ riots
NY Post
The anti-Israel protesters who stormed Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall were urged by a radical activist group to rekindle the bloody Black Lives Matter riots of the summer of 2020, a new report says.
Furiously pumping the bellows is New York City nonprofit The People’s Forum (TPF), an anti-Israel organization with known ties to the Chinese Communist Party and backed by American businessman Neville Roy Singham, a self-described socialist known for financially supporting left-wing causes.
At a Monday night meeting in Manhattan hosted by TPF — hours before the infamous building takeover — around 100 mask-wearing activists were worked into a lather by the organization’s executive director, Manolo De Los Santos, who called for a “final blow to destroy Israel” in a viral video earlier this year.
Addressing the group, De Los Santos spewed invective about Columbia’s “Zionist” administration, whom he skewered for wanting “to be more like their masters in Israel,” the Washington Free Beacon wrote.
He urged the crowd, many of them shrouded in keffiyehs, to “give Joe Biden a hot summer” and to “make it untenable for the politics of usual to take place in this country.”
He also referenced bringing back “the summer of 2020,” invoking the widespread violence that besieged major US cities from coast to coast in the weeks and months after the police-involved killing of George Floyd on May 25 of that year.
ABC News staffers are blaming a dustup over provocative Instagram photos posted by “Good Morning America 3” co-host DeMarco Morgan on a wave of layoffs last year — with casualties including executives whose duties included monitoring the social media accounts of the network’s on-air talent, The Post has learned.