During U.N. Women’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, National Review is featuring 15 women’s organizations that have either supported Hamas’s violence against Israeli women or remained silent about it.
FRIDA Fund, or the Young Feminist Fund, is a Canadian feminist group that stands “in solidarity with those resisting [Israeli] oppression and fighting for justice against the Israeli settler colonial state,” the organization said on October 18. It is a project of the Soros-backed Tides Foundation.
Tides controls FRIDA’s action fund, which enables activists to “to collect and deploy donations from a diverse array of sources,” Tides says on its website. The foundation also “administers FRIDA’s grants from start to finish, ensuring that its mission is carried out efficiently and thoughtfully.”
FRIDA amassed its millions of dollars in assets in 2021 with help from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ($280,225), Foundation for a Just Society ($399,479), NoVo Foundation ($916,816), and the Ford Foundation ($1,281,720). FRIDA also listed as “Institutional Resource Allies” Soros’s philanthropy, Open Society Foundation, the anti-Israel Climate Justice Resilience Fund, and the Sierra Club Foundation in its 2020 and 2019 annual reports.
Directly after Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel on October 7 and killed an estimated 1,200 people, including women and children, FRIDA released a statement that justified Hamas’s attacks.
“For 75 years, the people of Palestine have witnessed and lived through this onslaught against their home, their beliefs, their people, and their land by a settler colonialist, white-supremacist state,” the feminists said. “It is clear to us that the ongoing Israeli campaign to displace Palestinians from Gaza — and the consequent bombing and attack on Palestinians fleeing south on Israel’s orders — is a continuation of the Nakba, a decades-old system of forced expulsion and displacement of Palestinians from their land.
“We affirm and support the right of the Palestinian people to resist settler colonialism and white supremacy,” FRIDA continued. “In line with our values and principles of believing in the ability of young feminists to speak to and against violence and oppression, and their ability to envision and carry out their own actions toward liberated and free futures, we affirm the right of all oppressed peoples to self-determine their resistance.“(Emphasis in original)
Amanda Hodgeson, FRIDA’s communications director, drafted the statement under her byline. Hodgeson focuses her attention on “women’s rights, access to health, gender-based violence, and lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) rights,” her LinkedIn profile says, and she has in the past worked with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Hodgeson, who is black, also writes. One of her recent blog posts explores what it means to have sexual relations with white people: “The politics of love: amour and f**king across race lines,” she titled the post. Rest assured that Hodgeson is “well aware that whiteness and the money and freedom it comes with are not sexually transmitted.”
FRIDA also lists as financial supporters: Channel Foundation, the Children’s Investment Foundation, Comic Relief, Foundation for a Just Society, the Kendeda Foundation, Ma Ma Cash, Mize Family Foundation, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, WE Trust, and Sigrid Rausing Trust.
Although the young feminists believe that philanthropy is “built upon an inequitable system based on colonial, patriarchal and capitalist ideals,” FRIDA does its best to only accept funds from donors who “don’t tokenize in order to pinkwash their agenda” and who “recognize their source of wealth in the context of unequal dynamics of gender, race, class, and more.”
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During U.N. Women’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, National Review is featuring 15 women’s organizations that have either supported Hamas’s violence against Israeli women or remained silent about it.
FRIDA Fund, or the Young Feminist Fund, is a Canadian feminist group that stands “in solidarity with those resisting [Israeli] oppression and fighting for justice against the Israeli settler colonial state,” the organization said on October 18. It is a project of the Soros-backed Tides Foundation.
Tides controls FRIDA’s action fund, which enables activists to “to collect and deploy donations from a diverse array of sources,” Tides says on its website. The foundation also “administers FRIDA’s grants from start to finish, ensuring that its mission is carried out efficiently and thoughtfully.”
FRIDA amassed its millions of dollars in assets in 2021 with help from the Bill and Melinda Gates........
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