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Gabe Kaminsky, Investigative Reporter


NextImg:Israel war: ActBlue silent on letting Black Lives Matter fundraise after pro-Hamas post

The Democratic software platform ActBlue is silent on whether it will continue to allow Black Lives Matter Grassroots to fundraise through its services following the major group sympathizing with Hamas after its deadly attack against Israel.

BLM Grassroots, which says to have 26 chapters in the United States and called the deadly Hamas attack in mid-October a "desperate act of self-defense," currently pulls in cash through ActBlue Charities, a donation link shows. The organization published a statement on Oct. 9 claiming "we must stand unwavering on the side of the oppressed" Palestinians, equating the "resistance in Palestine" to efforts by black people fighting "to end militarism and mass incarceration."

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"ActBlue is the premier giving site for Democrats and liberals, and it's an ongoing embarrassment as long as BLM is on their website," CEO Peter Flaherty of National Legal and Policy Center, a conservative watchdog group, told the Washington Examiner. "The polling shows that BLM's favorability rating has gone steadily down. And it will go lower after this episode."

Over 1,400 Israelis have been killed since Hamas unexpectedly attacked the Jewish state, while 32 Americans are dead and 11 are unaccounted for, according to U.S. and Israeli officials. Hamas is considered to have over 200 hostages, the Israel Defense Forces said Thursday. Hamas alleges that over 3,700 are dead in Gaza.

BLM Grassroots, which launched in 2013 and severed ties in 2022 with the national Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation over its financial and legal woes, states on its ActBlue page that it understands "ending state-sanctioned violence against black people and building the world we all need and deserve to be our sacred duty," records show.

Various BLM chapters across the U.S. have expressed anti-Israel sentiment this month, including in Chicago, where a group has since tried to walk back its move to share an "I stand with Palestine" graphic on social media showing a terrorist in a paraglider. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Tuesday called on PayPal to shut down BLM Chicago's account, though spokeswoman Caitlin Girouard for the payment processor declined to comment.

ActBlue and its spokeswoman Morgan Hill have not replied to multiple emails since Oct. 10 from the Washington Examiner asking if it will continue to allow BLM Grassroots to fundraise. Moreover, ActBlue has not appeared to publish any statements about the Israel-Gaza conflict on either Facebook or X, formerly known as Twitter, according to a review of posts.

Meanwhile, ActBlue does not work with groups that are "at odds" with "social equality, women’s rights, LGBTQIA2S+ rights, racial justice, diversity, freedom of speech, disability rights, and respect for scientific inquiry, discovery, and data," according to its account use policy.

“ActBlue is funding a hate group," Tom Jones, president of the conservative American Accountability Foundation, told the Washington Examiner, calling it "shameful" that the entity would allow BLM Chicago to fundraise.

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BLM Grassroots did not reply to requests for comment.

Jones added, "ActBlue clients should tell ActBlue to drop BLM, or they should take their business elsewhere."