Drop Site News, a media outlet with a reputation for its left-leaning bias, was established in 2024 by two former employees of The Intercept.
The platform primarily focuses on reporting what it perceives as Israel's transgressions against the seemingly innocent groups such as Hamas.
The outlet, which claims to be "completely independent" and "reader-supported," has recently come under scrutiny. On Thursday, the Washington Free Beacon revealed that the platform's funding might not be as independent as it claims. The report suggests that the outlet received a $250,000 grant in 2024 from the Open Society Foundations, a network of political groups controlled by financier George Soros and his son Alexander.
According to Chuck Ross of the Free Beacon, the grant was channeled through the Social Security Works Education Fund, an obscure nonprofit that aims to educate the public about the benefits of protecting social security benefits. This organization serves as the fiscal sponsor for Drop Site, allowing donors to make tax-deductible contributions to the outlet, which lacks tax-exempt status from the IRS.
The grant from the Open Society Foundations was ostensibly to support the establishment of a Drop Site News desk for the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region, aiming to bridge a critical information gap in independent journalism. However, this claim raises eyebrows as there is no clear connection between Social Security reporting and the MENA region. Furthermore, Drop Site News does not appear to focus much on Social Security reporting.
Instead, the outlet seems to have a specific focus on Israel and Hamas, as evidenced by the content on their Substack publishing platform. Apart from a few stories unrelated to Israel and Hamas, the majority of their content appears to be critical of Israel and sympathetic to Hamas.
This bias is not surprising considering the founders of Drop Site News, Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill, are known for their anti-Israel stance. As reported by the Free Beacon, the outlet's first major scoop in July 2024 was a series of interviews conducted by Scahill with Hamas leaders, aiming to provide the public with deeper insight into Hamas's decision to launch the October 7 attacks in Israel.
This bias aligns with the Open Society Foundations' stance on Israel. The $250,000 grant to Drop Site News is dwarfed by the $4 million the foundation distributed to three Palestinian organizations linked to terrorism before the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led terror attacks into Israel. These organizations, Al Haq, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, are all now sanctioned by the United States.
The Soros empire has also channeled significant funds to groups that supported Hamas on American campuses. One estimate suggests that Soros has spent over $80 million on organizations that either broadly praised terror or urged violent protest.
George Soros, the patriarch of the Open Society Foundations, has a history of supporting Hamas. In a 2007 Financial Times Op-Ed, he blamed Israel and the United States for the rise of Hamas. He described Hamas as having a military wing, largely directed from Damascus and beholden to its Syrian and Iranian sponsors, and a political wing that is more responsive to the needs of the Palestinian population that elected it.
Soros's support for Hamas, even after Gazans elected it as the ruling party, raises questions about his understanding of the situation. He suggested that if Israel had accepted the election results, it might have strengthened the more moderate political wing of Hamas. However, his views ignore the growing danger of a regional conflagration in which Israel and the U.S. could be on the losing side.
Despite Soros's predictions, the U.S. and Israel have not ended up on the losing side. However, it is worth noting that the empire he controls has done everything possible to ensure this outcome, including funding a supposedly "completely independent" publication that provides readers with a skewed view of the conflict in the Holy Land.
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