Orgs with China ties used NYC students in anti-Israel propaganda

 An organization with ties to the Chinese Communist Party helped organize a massive anti-Israel student walkout with support from a Brooklyn parent council, and even filmed student participation to use on its propaganda channels.

The People’s Forum, an organization primarily funded by Neville Roy Singham, a China sympathizer and donor to socialist causes, co-organized the Nov. 9 nationwide walkouts, including in Brooklyn, where the Community Education Council for District 14, headed by president Tajh Sutton, promoted the event.

A toolkit with protest signs, chants and media talking points was circulated by CEC 14, which covers Williamsburg and Greenpoint.

They included templates for social media posts that recommended tagging the People’s Forum.

The media platform for the People’s Forum, BreakThrough News – which has posted YouTube videos including “Israel’s Goal Was Always Ethnic Cleansing” and “Journalist Rips Palestinian ‘Terrorism’ Narrative to Shreds” – made its way to Brooklyn for the event, filming Fort Hamilton High School students in Bay Ridge who utilized protest toolkits and participated in the walkout.

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Neville Roy Singham and his wife, Jodie Evans, have funded large pro-Palestinian protests through The People’s Forum.Getty Images for V-Day

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Among the organizations that promoted a national walkout for Palestine event in NYCwas the CCP-allied People’s Forum and CEC 14 in Brooklyn, headed by Tajh Sutton, above.tajhsutton.com

“We looked at the toolkit provided to us and we decided 11:30 would be probably the best time, and then I decided that I really wanted to make it bigger so I spread it to the clubs,” explained one Fort Hamilton High School student in the BreakThrough News video covering the protest.

The video, which was also shared by the People’s Forum, received over 1.7 million views.

Chants of, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” — which were among the toolkit slogans — left one Jewish student from Fort Hamilton too afraid to go to school the next day.

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The People’s Forum hosts classes like “Lenin and the Path to Revolution” and the mediacompany it funds posts videos including “Israel’s Goal Was Always Ethnic Cleansing.”peoplesforum.org

The anti-Israel sentiment was heightened in Bensonhurst, where students protesting at Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School yelled, “F–k the Jews!”

“If you look at the teaching materials and talking points they give students, you see that they’re telling them what to think,” said Ted Oehmke, a freelance writer currently focused on Chinese disinformation.

https://nypost.com/2023/12/02/metro/student-walkout-influenced-by-chinese-community-party-tied-org/