Newsom on Oct. 7 condemned the terrorist attacks on Israel and declared that “California stands with Israel” as anti-Semitic protests erupted around the state. Yet the fiscal ties between this left-wing funding operation supported by California’s governor and AROC highlight how deeply anti-Israel activism has pervaded progressive institutions. AROC stated after the Hamas attacks that it holds Israel “entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.”

The Tides Center is part of a vast Democratic financial network that includes the Tides Foundation and receives generous support from George Soros. Headquartered in San Francisco, Tides backs progressive causes and candidates through grant-making, fiscal sponsorships, and political advocacy. AROC is “incubated” at the Tides Center, which manages legal and financial red-tape for its sponsored projects so their leaders can focus on their mission.

Newsom has raised more than $1 million for the Tides Center from the Emerson Collective—the progressive funding operation of Laurene Powell Jobs, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s widow. At the governor’s request, the Emerson Collective paid $1 million to the Tides Center in June 2021 and an additional $30,000 in July, according to campaign finance records.

[Newsom is on his way to Israel now, and might already have arrived. He’s clearly trying to spruce up his image for some sort of national campaign. I wonder what that might be? — Ed]