ADN America reported on Tuesday that some of the protesters in protests against the jihadist group Hamas ‘ targets on American college campuses received training and support there.
Manolo De Los Santos, a far-left advocate alleged to have caused the late-April marching of Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall, was identified by ADN America as having close relationships to the Castro regime and its leader leader, Miguel Diaz-Canel, with a long history of political activism in Cuba that spanned several years.
The Women’s Forum, a far-left firm that shows strong support for the Cuban and Chinese Communist Parties and describes itself as” an incubator of activities for the working class and marginalized areas,” is led by De Los Santos as professional director.
ADN America noted that its record coincides with a statement the New York Post published on Sunday that stated that The Women’s Forum has been urging anti-Israel activists to “rekindle the terrible Black Lives Matter protests of summer of 2020.”
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The Women’s Forum is one of several far-left companies that stood in for the start of the anti-Israel protests that erupted after Hamas ‘ unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7 that left more than 1,200 people dead and hundreds taken prisoner.
One day after the October 7 attack, The Women’s Forum held a rally in Times Square, New York, where participants waved racist banners and images while chanting” Hamas!”
According to a 2015 discussion, De Los Santos was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to the South Bronx, New York, with his home when he was five years old. The far-left activist reportedly made his first trip to Cuba in 2006 through Pastors for Peace, a group that is a part of the National Network on Cuba ( NNOC), a group of pro-Castro regime organizations.
At Cuba’s Matanzas Evangelical Seminary, De Los Santos conducted Communist- driven liberation theology studies — an philosophy that experts  , describe , as a design of the Russian KGB” to engage Latin leaders” in the hapless Soviet Union’s espionage operations.
De Los Santos has visited Cuba since at least 2009, according to ADN America, and has been featured prominently in the country’s press for about ten years.
” Studies indicate that, back in the U. S., he organized gatherings in the U. S. to help the Cuban government and that he is a ardent admirer of Fidel Castro”, the statement continued.
” Fidel, for us, is a great example”, De Los Santos said in 2016. ” I wish all leaders had the same level of dignity and integrity as him, and many of them did.”
Cuba’s figurehead president, Miguel DÃaz- Canel, received De Los Santos and other far- left activists in July 2022 with the aim of “elaborating a new consensus, based on theory and according to the different experiences of social movements and countries, on the path of socialism”.
El taller” El Socialismo y la Juventud” inaugurated the second day of the first International Competition for Television Publications and Movies in Izquierda.
Panelistas: Manolo de los Santos y @mpvaldes1
Moderador: @YoerkySanchez, director de @JuventudRebelde pic. twitter.com/Nq0w8Qlb4q— Partido Comunista de Cuba ( @PartidoPCC ) February 11, 2023
In May 2023, more than 300 activists from the United States traveled to Cuba with The People’s Forum to meet with DÃaz- Canel as part of Cuba’s communist” May Day” activities. Palestinian flags can be seen in the photos of the event that the Cuban Communist Party’s official newspaper,  , Granma,  , published.
Leaving Cuba after 10 days learning with its people &, President Miguel Diaz- Canel.
Young people in the U. S. have great tasks ahead of them. We have a responsibility to defeat, once &, for all, this genocidal blockade for the survival of the Cuban people &, the future of humanity! pic. twitter.com/XG8ensZtyd
— Manolo De Los Santos ( @manolo_realengo ) May 3, 2023
De Los Santos stated in a conversation at the time that” we will always be by Cuba’s side” and that our goal will be to raise our voice and to organize a different political project in the United States.
The far- left People’s Forum received a$ 12- million donation from pro- China tech mogul Neville Roy Singham , through the People’s Support Foundation ( PSF). Singham has been a significant financial supporter of the ongoing anti-Israel protests in the US.
Founder of CODEPINK, Jodie Evans ( L), and founder of Thought Works, Neville Roy Singham ( R ), attend V20: The Red Party, at Carnegie Hall on February 14, 2018, in New York City. ( Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for V- Day )
Onyesonwu Chatoyer, a member of both the Castro Regime-linked Venceremos Brigade and the All African People’s Revolutionary Party ( APRP ), is mentioned by ADN Cuba in addition to De Los Santos.
In a March interview, Chatoyer said,” There has never been a time when we have questioned the necessity of a struggle to eradicate Zionism.”
At another point in the interview, she asserted that” solidarity with Palestine and all peoples fighting against settler-colonialism and imperialism” is the key to our opposition to Zionism.
ADN noted that the Peace Action Network, another far- left organization currently organizing anti- Israel rallies, has  , taken some of its activists to” solidarity trips” to Cuba in the past.
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