A new report from Politico Sunday revealed that donors like Bill Gates, George Soros, David Rockefeller Jr., and Nick Pritzker are supporting organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow, which have been responsible for many of the protests at college campuses.
These groups, according to the outlet, are funded by the Tides Foundation which is funded by Soros and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Since mid-April, pro-Palestine protests at U.S. college campuses have demanded that universities divest their funds from companies connected to Israel.
Many Republicans since the beginning of the protests, which began at Columbia University, have called out Biden's lack of leadership surrounding the issue.
Nearly four days after the initial protests at Columbia, and nearly 100 arrests made at the time, Biden released a statement condemning the "Harassment and calls for violence against Jews," however, notably did not call out the school.
While the shocking news is hitting Democrats, Politico's piece was met with backlash, as users overwhelmingly agreed that the connection between the protests and far-left Democratic donors wasn't surprising at all.
During an interview with Biden's campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu, CNN host Jake Tapper pressed the Biden advisor on the connection between the donors and groups, asking if they should be funded.
"Politico has a story out this morning, noting that a lot of the multimillionaires and billionaires funding the most explicitly anti-Israel groups, ones that think Israel has no right to exist that are active on campuses, that these groups are funded by big Biden donors, the Pritzker's, the Gates', George Soros, David Rockefeller, Jr. Should they stop funding these groups? Are they causing unrest for the American people?" Tapper asked.
"Well, let me say this, I think that everybody, as the president has said, needs to kind of get focused in on the very core principles of what our Constitution allows and what our Constitution protects. And that is this, everybody has a right to protest, but they have to protest peacefully. If they're protesting violently that has to end, there's no place for that. There's no place for anti-semitism. There's no place for Islamophobia," Landrieu responded.
During an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation," Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman questioned the protesters' demands by pointing out that Hamas appeared to not be a hot topic for them.
While Biden won the primary by 81.1%, an estimated 13.3% voted "Uncommitted," with protest voters claiming he is "Funding war and genocide in Gaza.".
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