Platforms that process the majority of Democratic campaign contributions work with groups that have expressed their support for Hamas terrorist attacks, or tried to justify them citing Israel’s alleged abuses of human rights.

ActBlue, a fundraising platform favored primarily by Democratic politicians and groups on the left, processes donations for Black Lives Matter Grassroots (BLMG), Palestine Legal (USPCN), and several chapters of Democratic Socialists of America. These groups have released statements either blaming Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel or calling them a “desperate self-defense”, “legitimate”, and promoting a terror group designated by Israel.

USPCN released a statement the day of the terrorist attacks calling them “self-defense operations” that constituted a “legitimate response to unending violence from Israel’s extreme right-wing, racist, white supremacist, zionist [sic] government.” The statement accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing and claims that “Palestinians have an internationally-recognized right to resist illegal military occupation.”

According to its website, ActBlue is responsible for processing donations on behalf of USPCN. USPCN is the fiscal project of WESPAC, which also fundsraises via ActBlue.

Hamas has killed 1,400 people in its attacks against Israel, including 30 Americans. Hamas terrorists have raped and murdered women, as well as children.

According to its website, ActBlue received $3.5 billion from 7,4 million donors in the cycle 2022. The New York Times called the platform “Democrats’ non-so secret weapon.”

Palestine Legal, a second organization that also uses ActBlue for fundraising, called Hamas attacks “one the most significant acts in Palestinian resistance against Israel’s nearly 8 decade long colonial settlement project in Palestine” and accused Israel of planning to commit genocide. There is no moral or other equivalence between Israel’s eight decades of colonial violence and the resistance it has generated, the statement said.

On Oct. 9, Black Lives Matter Grassroots published a statement on its website stating that they “stand in solidarity with our Palestinian Family who are currently resisting 57 Years of settler colonialism, and aparthied (sic)”.

The group said that “when a people has been subjected to decades of Apartheid and inconceivable violence, their resistence must not be condemned but understood as an act of desperate self-defense.”

On Oct. 16, the organization posted its statement again on social media.

The donation link found on the main page of Black Lives Matter Grassroots redirects you to a donation site maintained by ActBlue. The Tides Foundation’s fundraising portal is redirected when you click the donation link in the statement section of the website.

According to InfluenceWatch, the Tides Foundation is a major grant-making organization of the center-left and a major funder for many left-leaning non-profits.

In the days after Hamas’ attack, Democratic Socialists of America chapters in Boston, Baltimore and San Francisco released statements in support of Palestine. ActBlue processes donations for all three groups.

The San Francisco DSA said that “violent oppression produces resistance” and “socialists support all peoples’ right to resist and to fight for their liberation.” This weekend’s events were no different.

The statement urges individuals who share DSA’s vision “to join the fight to decolonize Palestine from the river to sea” and to “end the occupation.”

Two days after the attacks, the Greater Baltimore DSA declared that “it is unwavering [in] [its] support for the Palestinian people in their decades-long struggle to end the occupation” and achieve national liberation. The Boston DSA chapter issued a statement a day after the attacks, saying it “stands by Palestine”, accusing Israel for various human rights violations and asserting that from the river to sea, Palestine would be free.

Tzipi Heatovely is the British ambassador to Israel. She said that “from the River to the Sea” was a call for “ethnic cleaning of Jewish people out of their homeland.” Austrian officials banned a demonstration for using the phrase on promotional material, calling it a a “clear appeal to violence,” and noting it had been adopted Hamas.

The Movement For Black Lives retweeted a joint statement that included Al-Haq. This group was designated by the Israeli government as a terror organization in 2021.

In a statement released on October 8, Hamas identified “Israeli colonialism, Apartheid and illegal occupation” among the “root causes of its attacks on October 7”.

Israel has designated Al-Haq as a terrorist group because of its members’ ties with the Popular Front for Palestinian Liberation. According to the U.S. Office for the Director of National Intelligence, the PFLP, a terror group designated by the United States, has hijacked airplanes, fired rockets at Israel, and carried out suicide bombings.

Palestine Legal quoted Al-Haq as a source in its statement about the conflict.

The Movement For Black Lives (MFBL) has described Israel’s defensive actions as genocide on numerous occasions.

The DCNF has not received any comments from the DCNF or the organizations listed above. This includes ActBlue.