Exclusive | Childrens charity funded by Singham, Soros tied to Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: report

A California children’s charity funded by billionaire George Soros stands accused of sending cash which may have ended up in the hands of a Palestinian terrorist organization, according to a new report obtained by The Post.The Berkeley-based Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) features Democratic Rep.Maxine Waters and activist academic Noam Chomsky on its advisory board and claims to provide humanitarian aid to children in the Middle East.It was founded by husband-and-wife activists Barbara Lubin and Howard Levine in 1988, but has strayed far from its original mission and has been tied to a US-designated terrorist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine through its funding of other groups, according to a new report by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI).Since the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023, MECA “emerged as a critical US charitable fundraising vehicle promoted across the pro-Palestinian activist ecosystem,” according to the report.“America built the most generous philanthropic infrastructure in human history,” said Joel Finkelstein, an NCRI senior scientist.“When American foundations bankroll groups tied to foreign terrorist organizations, when senators, members of Congress and prestigious academics endorse it … they’re turning the country’s own institutions against it,” he claimed.MECA and Soros did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment.But as MECA’s grants to foreign groups grew exponentially, their reporting became less transparent, the NCRI report claims.MECA brought in more than $18 million in revenues in fiscal 2024, according to public records.

That same year, the group’s payouts rose to nearly $11 million — nearly five times the previous year — while “grant descriptions were progressively replaced with generic labels such as ‘community projects’,” according to NCRI.By 2025, all foreign grants were described with the generic labels, obscuring their...