Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem deep-sixed a DHS program that wasted more than $1 million and subsidized a far-left nongovernmental organization.
That money, which was wasted on the previous administration’s dopey Invent2Prevent program, accomplished nothing. But worse, it funneled money to the Eradicate Hate Global Summit. It promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion and homosexual ideology in schools, DHS reported.
Eradicate Hate is a far-left NGO — and yet another purulent vestige of the Biden administration’s profligate waste of taxpayer money. Its purpose is to stigmatize the so-called far Right, its website and advisory board show.
The archived Invent2Prevent website says that “targeted violence and terrorism tactics continue to evolve,” and “it takes all of us working together to keep our communities safe.”
It says it was a part of the
Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) experiential learning program that empowers high school and college students to design, implement, and measure the success of creative solutions to prevent threats in their schools and communities.
It even gave “students a platform to turn ideas into action, making a real, measurable difference,” the webpage continues. With Invent2Prevent, “projects don’t just remain concepts — they drive positive change and strengthen resilience across the nation.”
Canceling that program saved taxpayers $1.52 million, DHS reported.
Good thing.
For despite all that spending, Invent2Prevent “accomplished very little” in combating terrorism. Indeed, the program was merely an avenue to channel money to yet another anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-American nongovernmental organization: the “highly politicized” Eradicate Hate Global Summit, “which promoted DEI and LGBTQ ideology at K-12 schools,” DHS noted:
Under the guise of counter terrorism, this program used tax money on initiatives to foster “inclusive environments in schools,” promote DEI, and expose grade school children to sexualized topics like LGBTQ issues.
“This program was not only wasteful, it was also using public money to support an openly partisan and political organization,” DHS spokesman Tricia McLaughlin said. “Politicized NGOs like Eradicate Hate have been siphoning away taxpayer dollars for far too long. We are ending the grift.”
The Eradicate Hate Global Summit “is a unique, multidisciplinary forum to share ideas and build working relationships to drive the development and deployment of effective approaches to reduce hate-fueled violence,” its website says.
That’s the long way of saying it’s the usual collection of far-left lawyers, eggheads, and ballyhooed “experts” who get together to promote far-left ideology.
The group got started after the mass shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in October 2018, the website continues:
The Summit’s organizers refused to merely be defined as victims of hate. Instead, they resolved to use the Tree of Life attack as motivation to launch the most significant anti-hate rule of law initiative in the world. It brings together multi-disciplinary global experts and leaders who are committed to the global eradication of all forms of hate speech and violent extremism.
Whether that includes hate speech against Trump voters is unclear.
The group also sponsors something called UP End Hate, a program that “equips young people ages 12-22 with the resources and skills to prevent hate and violence in their communities.”
Shockingly, the first individual in Eradicate Hate’s list of global advisors is the notorious Heidi Beirich, formerly of the disgraced and discredited Southern Poverty Law Center. She is co-foundress of something called the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.
That project’s website claims that “Far-right extremist and hate movements motivated by white supremacy, xenophobia, anti-LGBTQ+ beliefs, antisemitism, anti-Muslim sentiment, religious discrimination, anti-woman activity, and gender bias have been growing across the globe.”
The website continues:
Today’s growing far right — from white supremacists to far-right populist movements — poses an existential challenge to a more just and fair world.
They are a root cause for why we cannot move forward on so many global challenges from racial and social justice to critical issues such as the climate crisis. This rise of white supremacy, transnational hate and far-right extremism is perhaps the greatest threat to inclusive societies and democracies worldwide. It cannot be allowed to grow unchecked.
Beirich’s Eradicate Hate biography says she
is an expert on various forms of extremism, including the white supremacist, nativist and neo-Confederate movements, as well as racism in academia.
Another advisor is the unheralded and largely unknown Dr. Tore Bjørgo, director of the Center for Research on Extremism: The Far Right, Hate Crime and Political Violence.
That outfit, at the University of Oslo, is a “cross-disciplinary center for the study of right-wing extremism, hate crime and political violence,” its website says. “It is a joint collaboration with six of the leading Norwegian institutions and four international institutions on extremism research.”
None of the advisors seems to have any interest in far-left extremism, hate crimes, or political violence. Beirich’s and Bjørgo’s advisory roles rather explain the sinistral spin of the outfit’s programs.
Unhappily, DHS delivered $962,704 to Eradicate Hate, USA Spending shows. At least while Trump is in office, Eradicate Hate will have less money with which to vilify the “far Right,” meaning anyone opposed to the far Left.
In January, Noem ended funding to all NGOs that promote illegal immigration to the United States.