Haley, one other reason why Code Pink is cheerleading for the Houthis, ignoring their terrorism and brutality and appalling human rights abuses, and painting them as responsible opponents of an alleged genocide committed by Israel: Code Pink is effectively supported by the Chinese.
Code Pink is heavily funded by, as the New York Times describes him, “a charismatic American millionaire, Neville Roy Singham, who is known as a socialist benefactor of far-left causes.” Singham lives in
In a November article, the Times reported:
Mr. Singham says he does not work at the direction of the Chinese government. But the line between him and the propaganda apparatus is so blurry that he shares office space — and his groups share staff members — with a company whose goal is to educate foreigners about “the miracles that China has created on the world stage.”
Why is Singham such a big supporter of Code Pink? Well..
In 2017, Mr. Singham married Jodie Evans, a former Democratic political adviser and the co-founder of Code Pink. The wedding, in Jamaica, was a “Who’s Who” of progressivism. Photos from the event show Amy Goodman, host of “Democracy Now!”; Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream; and V, the playwright formerly known as Eve Ensler, who wrote “The Vagina Monologues.”
As the Times lays out, once Singham and Evans became an item, Code Pink stopped seeing anything to criticize about China.
Since 2017, about a quarter of Code Pink’s donations — more than $1.4 million — have come from two groups linked to Mr. Singham, nonprofit records show. The first was one of the UPS store nonprofits. The second was a charity that Goldman Sachs offers as a conduit for clients’ giving, and that Mr. Singham has used in the past.
Ms. Evans now stridently supports China. She casts it as a defender of the oppressed and a model for economic growth without slavery or war. “If the U.S. crushes China,” she said in 2021, it “would cut off hope for the human race and life on Earth.”
She describes the Uyghurs as terrorists and defends their mass detention. “We have to do something,” she said in 2021. In a recent YouTube video chat, she was asked if she had anything negative to say about China.
“I can’t, for the life of me, think of anything,” Ms. Evans responded. She ultimately had one complaint: She had trouble using China’s phone-based payment apps.
Hey, which ships are sailing through the Red Sea with few or no problems from the Houthis? China’s state-owned COSCO shipping lines. Chinese professor and military expert Yun Hua, who is a faculty member at the PLA’s National Defense University, is openly bragging about it on his YouTube channel: “China’s COSCO Shipping Holding has become the only major shipping giant able to navigate the Red Sea.”
Why is Code Pink rooting for the Houthis? Because they’re on the same side: China’s.
As we used to say in the war on terror days, they’re not pro-peace, they’re just on the other side.