One of the ironies of the left is they boast about backing democracy and then support people who despise Western civilization in its entirety. Since 2016, George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF), now run with his son Alexander, has poured over $80 million into groups tied to terrorism or extremist violence.

Ryan Mauro of the Capital Research Center and Joseph Vazquez of MRC Business discuss the Soros family has supported a violent far-left fringe, including terrorists both foreign and domestic.

Mauro found the Open Society Foundations have awarded at least $23,275,000 to seven groups that allegedly “directly assist domestic terrorism and criminality on U.S. soil”; at least $50.57 million across 41 groups that have allegedly endorsed terrorist attacks and/or are directly linked to foreign terrorist groups or their known front groups; and nearly $10 million to five nonprofits that allegedly qualify as associates of terrorist groups or pro-terrorist groups.

One heavily Soros-funded group, Al-Haq, is a nongovernmental organization (NGO) based in the West Bank that has been long accused of ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which the European Union and the United States designate as a foreign terrorist organization.

Then there's the domestic side. Since 2020, the Open Society Foundation has given $400,000 to the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO), which boasts it “threw down with people in the streets” during the George Floyd riots in 2020, and its militant partner Ruckus Society, which trained activists in property destruction and sabotage.

The report highlights the Sunrise Movement, which it says has received at least $2 million from Open Society, adding that it has “endorsed and solicited financial support” for Antifa-associated groups such as Stop Cop City/Defend the Atlanta Forest coalition. The coalition has been tied to arson and violence against law enforcement and utility workers, including an attack on the construction of a police training center by throwing Molotov cocktails, bricks and rocks, as well as setting construction equipment on fire.  

The New York Times wrote a story complaining that Mauro's report was being used by the Justice Department to spur investigations into Soros backing disorder. 

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