Jodie Evans, the wife of technology tycoon Neville Roy Singham, marched through the streets of Manhattan on Thursday alongside activists tied to the People's Forum in a four-hour anti-Israel protest — as her husband faces a federal probe into his financial backing of left-wing activist organizations.
Evans marched alongside People's Forum activists in the demonstration, which moved through Manhattan over four hours, Fox News Politics reported.
The husband, Neville Roy Singham, is a British-born tech billionaire who made his fortune founding the software firm ThoughtWorks. He has been a major financier of a network of activist groups, including the People's Forum and The Progressive International, according to previous reporting. His funding operation is now the subject of a federal investigation.
Evans, a longtime anti-war organizer, co-founded the group Code Pink and has for years been a prominent figure in the anti-Israel wing of the activist left.
Evans also co-chairs The People's Forum's advisory board, which is the group whose activists she marched alongside at Thursday's protest.
Critics have argued that the groups funded by Singham are instruments of anti-American and anti-Israel activism masquerading as grassroots movements — with the funding coming from a single billionaire's checkbook rather than the working-class Americans these groups claim to represent.
The federal probe into Singham's funding is examining whether his financial network has violated federal laws that prohibit foreign agents from operating in the United States without disclosure, according to prior reporting.
The investigation touches the same networks that have organized protests across the country since the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, and that have helped spur the anti-Israel demonstrations on college campuses and in major cities over the past three years.
Thursday's protest comes amid renewed concern from conservatives over the funding behind the anti-Israel protest movement and its ties to groups hostile to American interests. The People's Forum has faced scrutiny for its connections to Cuban and Venezuelan government-aligned causes and for its celebration of foreign authoritarian leaders.
Evans's marriage to Singham ties the two strands together: government scrutiny of the money and street-level activism financed by it. The Manhattan march, staged by the same group she helps lead, comes at a moment when both her husband's finances and the causes they bankroll are under a federal microscope.
Republicans in Congress have pushed for greater transparency around the funding of the anti-Israel protest networks, with some calling for investigations into whether the groups receive foreign backing. The People's Forum did not respond to a request for comment. Evans could not be reached.
Neither Evans nor the People's Forum has been charged with any crime, and the status of the probe into Singham is not publicly known.
Our Take
On the same day Washington is asking who is paying for the anti-Israel network — and what they get in return — the wife of the man at the center of that question is on the street with the group his money built. That is not a coincidence. It is the whole story in one picture.
Patriots have long suspected that the "grassroots" anger on display at these demonstrations was manufactured — that the signs, the buses and the organizers were underwritten by a billionaire with an agenda, not by ordinary Americans with a grievance. Thursday's march gives that suspicion a face and a location: Manhattan, four hours, Jodie Evans walking with the People's Forum.
Remember what this network is. Not a church group. Not a neighborhood association. A project of a tech tycoon under federal investigation, staffed by activists who have spent years cheering on regimes that despise this country. That is who organized the anti-Israel protest the American media will describe as "demonstrators."
If it turns out that foreign money or undeclared foreign agents were behind this operation, the consequences should not stop with a fine. Congress should demand a full accounting of every dollar routed through the People's Forum, Code Pink and their affiliates — and every elected official who took their calls.
So here is the question every American should be asking tonight: If the anti-Israel movement in this country is truly grassroots, why does it need a billionaire's fortune to buy the signs, the buses and the crowd?
