HATING AMERICA IS A DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC OF DEMOCRATS

Code Pink, the pink-shirted activist outfit that has spent two-and-a-half years screaming about Gaza, flew a delegation to Havana during an island-wide blackout and had nothing to say about Cuba’s political prisoners or a bankrupt regime running its own people into the dark. The same group has visited China repeatedly and stayed mute on the more than a million Uyghurs locked in camps. Funny how the moral urgency evaporates the moment the abuser isn’t an American ally.

Hasan Piker, the streamer-turned-darling of the progressive left and the subject of glowing New York Times features, called the collapse of the Soviet Union “one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century” — because it produced a U.S.-led world order. Tens of millions starved, purged, and put in gulags by communism, and his complaint is that the Soviets lost. Piker isn’t on Singham’s payroll, but this spring, he was set to headline a People’s Forum panel and flew to Cuba alongside Code Pink and the People’s Forum.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said she was “incredibly proud” that her daughter joined Code Pink’s Cuba delegation. Proud, during a blackout, in a country whose government tortures dissidents.

This isn’t a coalition that cares about oppressed peoples. If it did, the Uyghurs, the Cubans, the Ukrainians, and the Iranians hanged from cranes would lead the chants. They don’t. The pattern of selective outrage is the giveaway: These activists go loud on America’s allies and quiet on America’s adversaries.

Now follow the money.

A March Fox News Digital investigation identified roughly 500 organizations with combined annual revenues near $3 billion behind the “No Kings” protests, which crested in an estimated 8 million marchers. Ostensibly, the demonstrations targeted President Donald Trump. In practice, they doubled as something else.

In Richmond, members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation hoisted Cuban, Venezuelan, Iranian, and Palestinian flags. In Portland, demonstrators broke into an ICE facility and burned the American flag. Across the country, the rallies served as anti-war demonstrations against a U.S. campaign to dismantle the Iranian regime — a regime that has spent more than four decades killing Americans.

The funding engine is unmistakable. Singham’s money flows through the People’s Forum, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition, and Code, whose co-founder Jodie Evans is married to Singham himself. They work in lockstep with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. It’s the same operation, branded a dozen different ways. And it’s amplified by Qatari, Russian, and Chinese state media — three regimes that happen to share the activists’ chief grievance.

The intellectual giveaway is intersectionality. It is the ideology that lets a movement be against Israel, against U.S.-brokered peace deals, against police, against the dollar, and against the Trump administration all at once without ever having to explain how those things are connected. They aren’t, except by the country that anchors them all.

And it travels well past Singham’s payroll. Most of the people who carry it take none of his money. That’s what makes it dangerous, not less so.

Take someone with no connection to Singham at all: Armenian National Committee of America Policy Director Alex Galitsky, who called the Aug. 8 Peace Summit a “surrender of Armenia’s sovereign rights to a neo-colonial U.S.-backed corporate consortium.” A peace deal, opposed because America brokered it. Galitsky’s slogan is “from Artsakh to Palestine.” Translation: Every time Washington wins, somewhere a victim is being created.

Then comes the political laundering, the step that lets the worldview travel without a money trail. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) amplifies ANCA and platforms Galitsky. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) sat down for an extended interview with Piker. None of them is in Singham’s books. They don’t need to be. They carry the network’s worldview into the Democratic mainstream for free.

To be clear, the disease isn’t confined to the Left. Tucker Carlson interviewed Vladimir Putin without challenge, filmed a Moscow grocery-store tour to lecture Americans on Russian living standards, and has platformed Kremlin apologists.

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene calls aid to Ukraine “money laundering” in language indistinguishable from RT’s. And in 2024, federal prosecutors indicted two RT employees for funneling nearly $10 million through a Tennessee shell company to right-wing influencers. Different audience, same pattern: Foreign regimes shop for American mouthpieces willing to attack American leadership.

What unites all of this isn’t sympathy for Palestinians. If it were, these groups would also fight for Uyghurs, Cubans, and Ukrainians. What unites them is the target: the U.S. Palestinianism works as a rallying cry because it’s emotionally potent and morally simple in the telling. It harvests outrage. The outrage is the point.

OF COURSE WE SHOULD BE DEPORTING AMERICA-HATING NONCITIZENS

The honest version of their slogan isn’t “free Palestine.” It’s “end America.”

Americans should treat this network as what it is — not a peace movement, not a human-rights movement, but a domestic political project funded in part by a communist living in China, echoed by Doha and Moscow, and laundered through sitting members of Congress. The flag of choice is Palestinian. The fight is over Washington.

Joseph Epstein is the Director of the Turan Research Center, which is hosted by the DC-based Yorktown Institute.