Surprise, Surprise: Iran Has Been Funding the Anti-Israel Protests

The Biden administration’s coddling of far-left demonstrators has, however unwittingly, aided a hostile foreign power.

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Pro-Palestinian protestors demonstrate in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 18, 2024.

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Sure, maybe the anti-Israel demonstrators who have spent the last nine months disrupting parades, blocking bridges and thoroughfares, imperiling air traffic, and laying violent siege to the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters have a few ideas “I absolutely reject,” Kamala Harris recently conceded. But they “are showing exactly what the human emotion should be, as a response to Gaza. I understand the emotion behind it.”

That sympathy for the protesters’ motives if not their means has been a feature of the Biden administration’s schizophrenic approach to the challenge presented by pro-Hamas demonstrations for months. But if Harris understands the “emotion behind” the anti-Israel convulsions on America’s streets and college campuses, she doesn’t seem to understand the money behind them. Fortunately, America’s intelligence community does. And according to it, the movement to which the Biden administration has wasted so much political capital genuflecting is funded, at least in part, by Iran.

Noah Rothman

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Noah Rothman

Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.

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