The House Judiciary Committee says it has identified new funding ties between the Biden administration and U.S.-based groups that financed anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel and on American college campuses, according to a committee memorandum obtained by Jewish News Syndicate.

The May 29 memo from Republican committee staff to members alleges that federal grants from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the State Department and other agencies flowed to non-governmental organizations that in turn underwrote demonstrations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and, in some cases, supported groups with ties to designated terrorist organizations.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Tides Network funneled more than $5 million to groups behind anti-Israel protests in the United States and Israel, the memo states. Tides alone received roughly $30 million from the Biden administration, money the memo says was earmarked for a civil development program in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific.

Committee staff argue that the foreign-aid grants freed the recipient organizations to direct other dollars toward opposing the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform push and toward campus activism in the United States.

Rep. Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who chairs the panel, told JNS that the trail raises sharp questions about how federal dollars are tracked once they reach intermediary NGOs.

“Money is fungible,” Jordan said, adding that funds appeared to be routed through one or two NGOs before “winding up on college campuses to promote all the crazy antisemitic, anti-Israel stuff.” House Judiciary Committee Republicans

Jordan told JNS that American tax dollars were being used to undermine the United States’ closest Middle East ally.

The committee memo also alleges that some of the funding reached organizations linked to terrorist groups, though the document stops short of detailing specific transactions.

Neither the Rockefeller Brothers Fund nor the Tides Network has publicly responded to the committee’s findings. Representatives for former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris also have not commented.

Republicans on the committee have signaled that the memo is part of a broader oversight effort targeting federal grants to nonprofits accused of channeling money to anti-Israel activism. The panel has not announced specific subpoenas tied to the latest findings.

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