Sunrise Movement received massive funding from Soros-backed Democracy PAC and Sixteen-Thirty Fund in 2020
By Peter Pinedo , Cameron Arcand Fox News
Alex Soros, the son of notorious billionaire George Soros and chair of the Open Society Foundations, took aim at a left-wing climate group, saying: “All they do is talk about Palestine.”
In an interview with New York Magazine in which he detailed his plans to fund efforts to foil the Trump administration’s agenda, Soros expressed his frustration with the leftist environmentalist group “Sunrise Movement,” which is heavily funded by Soros-backed organizations.
“What the hell did they do, by the way?” Soros, who is Jewish, complained. “We gave them money, and now all they do is talk about Palestine. It’s ridiculous.”
During the 2020 election season, Sunrise Movement, whose website says it wants to “force the government to end the era of fossil fuel elites,” received nearly a third of its funding from the Soros-backed Democracy PAC and Sixteen-Thirty Fund, totaling $750,000.
Shortly after receiving these funds, Sunrise stepped into a massive controversy sparked by its Washington, D.C., chapter posting an antisemitic statement in which it vowed to boycott any events co-sponsored by “Zionist” Jewish groups.
In an October 2021 statement on “future coalition spaces with Zionist organizations,” Sunrise DC said it was declining to participate in a D.C. statehood rally specifically because of the inclusion of the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, the National Council of Jewish Women and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, which it said “are all in alignment with and in support of Zionism and the State of Israel.”
