Several staff members, who work for a left-leaning nonprofit that targets private equity-owned companies, have engaged in anti-Israel protests, some of which led to their arrest, and made statements sympathetic towards Hamas in the months following the October 7 terrorist attack in Israel.
At least five staff members from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, a nonprofit organization described as ‘an activist group that is critical of the social impact of private equity firms” by Influence Watch, took part in anti-Israel protests or promoted radical claims related to the conflict, a FOX Business review found.
PESP, which is also known as the Financial Services Stakeholder Project, has been previously funded by the Soros-backed Foundation to Promote an Open Society, the Ford Foundation, and Surdna Foundation, among other left-leaning groups, according to Influence Watch.
On the day of the Hamas attack on Israel, where over 1,200 people were murdered and hundreds more taken hostage, PESP senior research coordinator Abhilasha Bhola liked a post on X that included the phrase “from the river to the sea” which is widely understood as a call for the elimination of the state of Israel.
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