Jim Banks Takes Square Aim At Left-Wing Activist Group Code Pink

3/31/2025

At a Senate Health Committee hearing on antisemitism on college campuses last week, Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) questioned witnesses about the left-wing activist group Code Pink.

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00:00Senator Banks. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dr. Small, this week the Americans for Public

00:08Trust released a report that documented that China has donated over $175

00:16million this year, over the last year alone, to U.S. colleges. And I wonder what

00:21connections you have found between the influence campaigns of the Chinese

00:26Communist Party, that money that's being sent to U.S. colleges, and to groups like

00:31Students for Justice in Palestine. So thank you for your question. It's an

00:36important issue. And in our circles we sort of joke that the Chinese government

00:40steals IP from the United States and the Qataris buy it. And these are both

00:46important issues. So the Chinese Communist Party is connected, for example,

00:52in our assessment, to Code Pink, for example. We have people like Mr. Roy

00:58Singham supporting kind of the extreme left in the United States and some of

01:03these issues on campus that we're confronting in terms of anti-Semitism.

01:07Radical Islamist organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and the

01:12Palestinian Islamic Jihad have long cooperated and trained together with

01:16radical Marxist organizations such as the PFLP and the Democratic

01:22Front for the Liberation of Palestine. And this sort of

01:27exploded on our campus on October the 7th. So U.S. groups echoing these

01:32narratives and these type of kind of extreme groups, violent groups on campus.

01:37I got a lot I want to get through. You can't establish a link between the Chinese influence campaigns and

01:46Students for Justice in Palestine. We call it the Red-Green

01:50Alliance. So on campus the Red-Green Alliance. I want to get to that because

01:55the connections between China and the radical Islamists like Hamas are no

02:00coincidence. It's called the Red-Green Alliance, as you said. And the socialists

02:04left and radical Islamists are coordinating to undermine the United

02:06States and Israel. And Code Pink is a big part of it. And it's too bad that our

02:11Code Pink guests had to leave because I really want to get into that. Dr. Small,

02:16Code Pink isn't just a far-left anti-war protest group anymore. It has

02:21become a direct tool of the Chinese Communist Party and the CCP influence

02:28in the United States funded by CCP intermediaries. Code Pink is defending

02:33the Communist Party's internment of the Uyghurs. It's really crazy but

02:38Code Pink is defending the human rights abuse against Uyghur Muslims. Code Pink

02:44says that Taiwan is a part of China and they even accused the U.S.

02:48of being the invader during the Korean War. Isn't that correct?

02:52Code Pink calls America the arsenal of genocide. And just yesterday

02:59they interrupted a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing shouting anti-Israel

03:05slogans. Dr. Small, what links are you aware of between the CCP and Code Pink

03:11and other pro-Hamas organizations? So our colleagues have done some research on

03:15this. There definitely is links. There's links to Hamas. There's links to the

03:19Iranian revolutionary regime as well. The Code Pink people have visited Gaza and

03:24Iran on various occasions. So there is this sort of, this is the, they embody the

03:30red-green alliance. They're anti-American, anti-democratic, anti-Semitic.

03:35Yeah, I'm really sorry they left because I wonder like do they even know that? Do

03:40they understand that? Do they understand that they're being, do they agree with

03:44that or are they taking taken advantage of by Code Pink organizers and

03:48financiers? I think they take advantage of the free speech that we

03:52have here. And I think in a way a lot of this conversation was framed with as

03:56free speech. But I also think in terms of anti-Semitism and what's taking place on

04:01campus is intimidation, violence, and criminal activity. So I wish there would

04:07be somebody from a police force here. We've spoken to NYPD. I want to get to

04:11that. Mr. Chairman, I'd like to enter a letter into the record that I sent to

04:15the Attorney General Pam Bondi yesterday requesting an investigation of Code Pink

04:18for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Without objection. And

04:23Dr. Small, do you think Code Pink's leaders may fit the definition

04:28of foreign agents and should they be investigated? I think they should

04:32definitely be investigated. And Dr. Small, you mentioned this already. The New York

04:35Times reported in August 2023 that Code Pink's founder is now married to Neville

04:40Roy Singham, a multi-millionaire who lives in Shanghai and funds a whole

04:46network of pro-CCP and anti-Israel protest groups. Mr. Chairman, I would like

04:51to also enter that record for that article from the New York Times into the

04:56record. Without objection. If American-backed organizations

04:59protested like this in China, they would be locked up and shut down immediately.

05:05That's the fact of it. Dr. Small, what should the U.S. government be doing to

05:08stop this flow of subversive money into our country? So in my

05:13submission, we call for various recommendations including the Department

05:18of Education and other government entities should do thorough

05:20investigations into foreign funding and its impact on our higher education. We

05:25believe our higher education is young people come to universities to learn how

05:29to be citizens and they're being miseducated on many important issues

05:33that guarantee our freedoms such as freedom of speech and other democratic

05:37freedoms that we have here. Thank you. I yield back.

Jim Banks Takes Square Aim At Left-Wing Activist Group Code Pink

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