MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has quietly funneled millions of dollars into a left-wing funding network that bankrolls some of the most radical and allegedly Hamas-linked anti-Israel groups operating in the United States.
According to The Post Millennial, public grant disclosures and nonprofit filings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show that Scott has directed at least $5 million to the Solidaire Network, a progressive philanthropic hub that boasts of supporting the front lines of social justice movements. Solidaire in turn has provided financial backing to a slate of organizations at the center of the countrys escalating anti-Israel agitation, including Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), the US Palestinian Community Network, and the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM).
Both SJP and AMP are now under active investigation in the House and Senate over allegations that they coordinated with Hamas-affiliated individuals or networks while organizing anti-Israel protests across the United States. Those probes intensified as pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses and in major cities surged following Hamass October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel, which left more than 1,200 people dead and over 250 kidnapped.
Scott disclosed her latest round of giving in an October essay titled We are the Ones Weve Been Waiting For, in which she framed her philanthropy in sweeping moral terms. Generosity and kindness engage the same pleasure centers in the brain as sex, food, and receiving gifts, she wrote, presenting her donations as an unqualified social good even as some recipients face serious questions about extremism and terror ties.
As reported, Scott is known for issuing large, no-strings-attached grants that allow activist groups to spend the money however they choose, rather than restricting funds to specific programs or humanitarian projects. That approach, celebrated in progressive circles, has drawn growing concern from lawmakers and victims advocates who warn that such unrestricted cash can easily underwrite radical organizing, legal defense, and propaganda operations.
The $5 million gift is not Scotts first major infusion into Solidaire; in 2021, she sent the network $10 million through her philanthropic vehicle, Yield Giving. Following that earlier windfall, Solidaire poured $2.1 million into a campaign branded Unity & Power, which it said was designed to advance Palestinian freedom, a phrase critics argue has become a euphemism for campaigns that demonize Israel and excuse or rationalize violence.
Tax filings show that between June 2023 and June 2024, Solidaire directed $75,000 to the Palestinian Youth Movement, a group that made headlines in 2024 after activists released maggots into the Israeli prime ministers hotel during a US visit. The US Palestinian Community Network received $50,000 and publicly described Hamass October 7 slaughter of over 1,200 people and abduction of more than 250 as justified and part of a self-defense operation.
Students for Justice in Palestine, which obtained $25,000 from Solidaire, has emerged as a central organizing force behind campus encampments and disruptive protests nationwide. Several university systems have moved to ban or suspend SJP chapters over repeated accusations of antisemitic rhetoric, intimidation of Jewish students, and open glorification of terrorist violence.
American Muslims for Palestine, another Solidaire grantee, has long faced allegations of ties to individuals involved in fundraising for Hamas-linked entities. Also on Solidaires roster is the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), which received $135,000 and, during the October 7 attacks, issued celebratory messaging before later organizing a direct-action protest aimed at blocking an American military ship carrying supplies for Israel.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) has urged federal law enforcement to take a hard look at these networks, formally asking the FBI in September to investigate the Palestinian Youth Movement. He labeled PYM virulently antisemitic after its leader, Aisha Nizar, publicly called on supporters to sabotage the US supply chain for the F-35 fighter jet, a core component of Americas strategic alliance with Israel.
Legal advocates for terror victims have likewise condemned Scotts patronage of groups tied to AMP and similar organizations. It is difficult to fathom that Ms. Scott would help fund the leading Hamas-supporting organization in America, said attorney Dan Schlessinger, who represents the family of 17-year-old American David Boim, killed in a 1996 Hamas attack in Jerusalem, in litigation seeking to enforce a $156 million judgment related to alleged Hamas support.
Solidaire has not only written direct checks but has also relied on fiscal sponsorships, a mechanism in which established tax-exempt nonprofits host and process donations for smaller or unincorporated groups lacking their own IRS status. Two of the most prominent fiscal sponsors in this ecosystem, the WESPAC Foundation and the Tides Foundation, have drawn congressional scrutiny over whether their structures are being used to obscure the flow of funds to Hamas-linked or extremist organizations.
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), Sen. Cotton, and other Republicans have launched investigations into these fiscal intermediaries, focusing on how donor money may be quietly routed through such networks to reach radical groups that might otherwise struggle to raise funds openly. Their inquiries reflect a broader concern on the right that progressive philanthropy has become a shadow infrastructure for movements hostile to US allies, Western values, and basic norms of civil society.
Since launching Yield Giving in 2019, the same year she finalized her divorce from Bezos, Scott has distributed an estimated $26 billion to nonprofits, making her one of the most influential private donors in the world. After the split, she received roughly $38 billion in Amazon stock, and how she chooses to deploy that fortune is now a matter not just of charity, but of national and geopolitical consequence as her money increasingly intersects with groups accused of cheering on Americas enemies and Israels destruction.
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