MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, funneled millions of dollars to a left-wing nonprofit network that supports the nation’s most virulent anti-Israel and anti-Semitic organizations, including some that are under congressional investigation for their ties to terrorist groups, a Washington Free Beacon review found. Scott announced the grant in an essay that cites Hopi prophecy, bird flocks, and sex as inspirations for her latest round of giving.
Scott recently disclosed sending at least $5 million to the Solidaire Network, which supports what it calls “the front lines of social justice movements” by offering grants to an array of left-wing groups. That includes Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), the US Palestinian Community Network, and the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM). SJP and AMP face investigations in both the House and Senate for allegedly coordinating with the terror group Hamas to spearhead anti-Israel protests in the United States. Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) pressed the FBI to investigate the “virulently antisemitic” PYM in September after its leader, Aisha Nizar, called on supporters to sabotage the U.S. F-35 supply chain.
Scott disclosed the grants and dozens more last month in an essay, “We are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For,” the title of a Hopi prophecy “written in the year 2000.” The prophecy taught Scott the value of being “active participants in the co-creation of our communities.” Scott also offered commentary on the “murmurations” of starling bird flocks “constantly creating their direction together.”
“Generosity and kindness engage the same pleasure centers in the brain as sex, food, and receiving gifts,” wrote the billionaire divorcee.
Scott’s support for the network is part of an onslaught of spending that recently saw her surpass liberal billionaire George Soros’s lifetime donation totals. Her approach to that spending is unique—Scott allows her grant recipients to use the money “however they choose” rather than designate it for certain projects or organizations. The Solidaire Network has used that freedom to fund radical anti-Israel organizations in the United States.
In addition to her latest donation, Scott gave the network $10 million in 2021 through her organization Yield Giving. The network went on to spend $2.1 million on a campaign called “Unity & Power” that aims to promote “Palestinian freedom.”
One of its grantees is PYM, which received $75,000 from Solidaire between June 2023 and June 2024, tax filings show. The activist group is perhaps best known for releasing maggots into Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hotel during a 2024 visit to the United States.
Solidaire, according to the filings, also gave $50,000 to US Palestinian Community Network, which called Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel “justified” and part of a “self-defense operation” in response to Israeli military forces and Israeli settlers. Hamas and other terrorists slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and took hundreds of civilian hostages.
SJP, which received $25,000 in Solidaire grants, is the driving force behind anti-Israel campus protests across the country, many of which have gotten the organization’s local chapters banned for anti-Semitic activity. SJP is led by Hatem Bazian, a Berkeley professor who was forced to apologize in 2017 for anti-Semitic posts that accused Jews of harvesting Palestinian organs. In October, SJP called for “death to all collaborators” of Israel.
AMP, another Solidaire grant recipient, counts as a board member Salah Sarsour, who allegedly raised money for Hamas front groups in the 1990s.
Solidaire funneled many of the donations through WESPAC Foundation and Tides Foundation via “fiscal sponsorships,” a tax structure that allows tax-exempt groups to host nonprofits that do not have tax-exempt status from the IRS. Cotton, Rep. James Comer (R., Ky.), and other Republicans have investigated WESPAC and Tides over the funding structures and their financial ties to Hamas-linked groups.
Solidaire also contributed $135,000 to the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) through its fiscal sponsor, the Tides Center. During the Oct. 7 onslaught, AROC cheered that “Palestine is rising! Gaza is rising!” The group later organized a “direct action” to block an American military ship with supplies for Israel.
Scott has donated $26 billion to charities through Yield Giving since founding the organization in 2019, the same year she divorced Bezos. Scott, who has since married and divorced science teacher Dan Jewett, received $38 billion in Amazon stock from the Bezos divorce.
It’s unclear exactly how much Scott gave Solidaire in the latest round of donations she announced in December. Yield Giving’s grant database says the disclosure amount is “delayed for benefit of recipient.” Scott’s 2025 grants ranged from $5 million to $90 million.
Yield Giving and Solidaire Network did not respond to questions about the size of Scott’s latest donation or how Solidaire used the money. In 2021, Solidaire described Scott’s $10 million donation as an “unrestricted, not time bound gift.” The group said the contribution “emboldens us to keep working towards realizing our Theory of Liberation.”
“The timing of this gift could also not be better suited to meet the moment,” said Solidiare, which noted that it had recently created a guide for donors to “better the demand to defund police and to support work in that regard.” Susan Pritzker, the wife of Hyatt Hotels heir and liberal megadonor Nicholas Pritzker, serves on Solidaire’s board.
Scott isn’t the only billionaire philanthropist formerly married to a tech titan to donate her wealth to radical causes.
Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, donated $1.5 million from 2022 to 2024 to Community Movement Builders, an anti-Israel group that has also called to defund police departments. The group’s founder, Kamau Franklin, praised Elias Rodriguez’s assassination of two Israeli diplomats outside a Jewish event in Washington, D.C., in May, the Free Beacon reported.
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