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NY Post
New York Post
18 Jan 2024


NextImg:Anti-Israel org leader refuses to apologize for ‘Nazi rhetoric’

An anti-Israel organization that has received “millions” in donations from the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund refused to apologize for a video riddled with what critics called “Nazi rhetoric” that went viral this week.

Executive director of The People’s Forum, Manolo De Los Santos, said that to label the group as “antisemitic” is a “propaganda trick by apologists for genocide” adding that “we will not apologize.”

A video of De Los Santos making which was decried as a “chilling” speech calling for a “blow to destroy” Israel sent the internet into a tailspin on Monday. 

“When we finally deal that final blow to destroy Israel, when the state of Israel is finally destroyed and erased from history, that will be the single most important blow we can give to destroying capitalism and imperialism in our lifetime,” De Los Santos said in front of a cheering crowd.

De Los Santos, however, said Thursday that calls to dismantle Israel were not dissimilar to attacks on Apartheid in South Africa, adding that “for us, Zionism is synonymous with colonialism and racism.”

“Did any US corporate-owned publication ask Netanyahu to apologize for presenting a map at the United Nations that showed the total erasure of Palestine?” he said. 

“These are forces with state power who are actually perpetrating a literal genocide and engaging in actual genocide denialism.”

Executive director of The People’s Forum, Manolo De Los Santos (pictured), said to label the group as “antisemitic” is a “propaganda trick by apologists for genocide” adding that “we will not apologize”

Shortly after the video of De Los Santos went viral, it was revealed that close to $20 million in donor advised funds were funneled into the organization from the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund.

South Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres ripped into the company urging the president of the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, Karey Dye, to immediately “cut ties.”

“Thousands of Israelis were massacred, maimed, mutilated, abducted, raped, and tortured at the murderous hands of Hamas,” Torres wrote in a letter to Dye obtained by the Post.

“[Hamas] espouses the kind of genocidal ideology that The People’s Forum has been caught promoting as ‘the final blow,’ which is strikingly similar to Nazi rhetoric about a ‘final solution,’” he continued.

Goldman Sachs washed their hands of an affiliation with the group, stressing that the Philanthropy fund is not company money.

Protestors gather outside Brooklyn College during a CUNY Wide Student Walkout for Palestine
The People’s Forum has been vocal about the Israel and Palestinian war since it erupted Oct 7 and organized a number of anti-Israel protests (pictured) James Keivom

“Goldman Sachs has no relationship with The People’s Forum and does not share its values,” Global Head of Corporate Communications, Tony Fratto told the Post.

An insider with knowledge of the fund revealed to the Post that the last donations to the People’s Forum were made in 2019 and the person who advised these payments is no longer a client with Goldman Sachs.

The People’s Forum has been vocal about the Israel and Palestinian war since it erupted Oct. 7 following vicious and bloody attacks launched by Hamas terrorists on Israel and organized a number of anti-Israel protests since then.

It’s called for “more marches, walk-outs, sit-ins, and other forms of direct action directed at the political offices, businesses, and workplaces that fund, invest, and collaborate with Israeli genocide and occupation” as part of their anti-Israel agenda.