Pro-Hamas groups force anti-Israel agenda into ‘No Kings’ protests across America

Across the country, the anti-Israel wing is asserting itself, claiming that “what we allow fascists to do in Palestine, they will do to the entire world.”

By World Israel News Staff

What began as a nationwide day of protests against President Donald Trump’s leadership is being used by anti-Israel activists to inject their global agenda into American political unrest.

In New York, organizers tied to international anti-Israel networks announced they would join Saturday’s “No Kings” demonstrations under banners like “UAW Labor for Palestine” and “NYC Labor for Palestine,” calling for a “Palestine Labor Solidarity Contingent” to gather in lower Manhattan and merge with the larger anti-Trump protest.

While Hamas has formally agreed to a ceasefire, the movement of activists working to delegitimize Israel has only intensified.

Similar contingents are forming across the country, from Providence to Portland, in what experts describe as a deliberate strategy to embed anti-Israel messaging into any mass protest with emotional momentum, regardless of its stated cause.

The “No Kings” protests are being promoted as a patriotic defense of democracy, framed as resistance to what organizers call Trump’s “authoritarian overreach.”

Their website declares, “The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty.” Yet behind the lofty slogans lies a coalition of more than 200 national organizations, including some of the most aggressive anti-Israel and far-left groups in the United States, among them Jewish Voice for Peace, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Democratic Socialists of America.

A Fox News Digital investigation found that many of these groups operate under nonprofit umbrellas legally barred from partisan activity, even as their materials openly frame the protests as a direct stand against Trump.

“They call it ‘No Kings,’ but what they’ve built is an empire of tax-exempt organizations doing the Democratic Party’s work on the taxpayer’s dime,” said data researcher Jennica Pounds, who tracks political nonprofits. “They are using every excuse in the book, from immigration to Israel, to rage-bait America. There is nothing charitable about their professional protest enterprise.”

The funding trail adds to the concern. Billionaire donor George Soros, through his Open Society Foundations, has provided millions to core partners like Indivisible, whose co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin received a $3 million grant last year for so-called social welfare work.

Critics say the money is fueling a professional protest industry that blurs the line between activism and political campaigning while serving as a platform for anti-Israel and pro-Hamas messaging.

President Trump has directed the Justice Department to examine whether the network’s funding mechanisms violate RICO laws, while Sen. Chuck Grassley has opened a Senate probe into money funneled from political nonprofits to radical anti-Israel fronts.

“The Trump administration and the Republican Congress are committed to countering this network of left-wing violence,” said Senator Ted Cruz.

House Speaker Mike Johnson went further, warning that the demonstrations would “bring together the Marxists, the Socialists, the Antifa advocates, the anarchists and the pro-Hamas wing of the far-left Democrat Party,” calling it a “Hate America rally.”

Across the country, the anti-Israel faction within the movement is asserting itself.

In Rhode Island, “Free Palestine” activists plan to march “FROM PROVIDENCE TO PALESTINE” under the slogan “FIGHT FASCISM! FIGHT GENOCIDE,” claiming that “what we allow fascists to do in Palestine, they will do to the entire world.”

In California, labor groups like Bay Area Labor 4 Palestine and SEIU Local 1021 have pledged to bring Palestinian flags to the rallies, declaring that “the fight for a liberated Palestine is not over.”

In New York, activists from the “Palestine Labor Solidarity Contingent” issued an unapologetically militant statement: “STOP ARMING ISRAEL! FUND OUR COMMUNITIES, NOT GENOCIDE & OCCUPATION! END ICE, MILITARY & POLICE TERROR… HANDS OFF VENEZUELA!”

Even in Seattle, a known anti-Israel agitator, Tariq Ra’ouf, was celebrated as part of the official #NoKings speaker lineup, cheered by organizers who said they were “supporting the demands of Palestinians from the belly of the beast.”

Despite the Hamas ceasefire, groups such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation and Jewish Voice for Peace insist they will continue “fighting for a free Palestine.”

Republican governors have already moved to prevent unrest. Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin activated the National Guard, warning that “violence or vandalism will have zero tolerance.” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered similar security reinforcements in Austin.

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer encouraged protesters to “speak out and exercise your right to free speech,” posting on X that “Donald Trump and Republicans will not intimidate you into silence.”

Organizers insist the movement is about protecting democracy from tyranny, invoking the spirit of America’s founding revolt against kings, but behind the veneer of progressive causes and civic engagement lies a campaign that targets the very existence of a Jewish state.

“From the River to the Sea” has found its way to Main Street — shouted not in Gaza or Ramallah, but in the streets of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

What began as a rally against “kings” has become something far more familiar: a movement that cloaks hate in the language of justice, turning America’s public squares into the latest front in the campaign against Israel.

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