George Soros Foundation Funds Slavery Reparations Campaign Against Britain, By Will Jones
George Soros's Open Society Foundations is funding the slavery reparations campaign against Britain. The Telegraph has the story.
The Open Society Foundations (OSF), established by Hungarian investor George Soros and now led by his son, Alex Soros, has donated vast sums from its $23 billion (£17.2 billion) endowment to progressive causes.
The foundation has provided hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups seeking to claim reparations from Britain for slavery and colonialism.
The OSF helped to found a joint Caribbean and African campaign, and supported organisations that are now considering international litigation that could heap pressure on the British Government.
The formal reparations campaign began in 2014, when the Caribbean Community (Caricom) unsuccessfully presented demands to Britain and other European nations. In 2023, the movement was expanded to include the African continent.
The OSF helped bring together Caribbean and African campaigners and policymakers for a 'study tour' in Barbados, which has become a hotbed of the reparations movement under Mia Mottley, its Prime Minister.
This trip was co-hosted by the University of the West Indies, whose Vice-Chancellor, historian Prof Sir Hilary Beckles, is leading the Caribbean reparation demands.
The University of the West Indies received $350,000 from the OSF in 2023 to "to increase global consciousness and action on reparatory justice and to strengthen Caribbean-Africa engagement".
Several months later, the OSF hosted a pivotal summit of politicians and activists in Ghana, an event which led African Union leaders to join Caribbean nations in the campaign against former colonial powers in Europe.
A joint proclamation from the event in Accra stated that governments on both sides of the Atlantic would pursue "remedies for historical mass crimes, including slavery, the trade and trafficking of enslaved Africans, colonialism and racial segregation".
The OSF gave $300,000 to Ghana's foreign ministry in 2023. At that time, it was led by Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, a staunch supporter of reparations and now the secretary-general of the Commonwealth.
A further summit was convened in New York with the help of the OSF in 2024, an event which Mottley used as a platform to insist that the Church of England should pay reparations for its involvement in slavery.
The OSF also participated in two "UK Reparations Conference" events organised by Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Afrikan Reparations.
After pledging to join the reparations movement, the African Union began developing its own campaign, and instructed officials working in its Economic, Social and Cultural Council (Ecosocc) to develop strategies that could secure payments.
Following one strategy idea, legal experts are now planning to seek a slavery ruling from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which can be used to pressure Britain into paying reparations.
This is an attempt to replicate the successful legal strategy that pushed the Labour Government to hand over the Chagos Islands, a decision taken at the urging of judges in The Hague.
Insiders have described the OSF as a "key partner" for Ecosocc, and the organisation has worked with the African Union department to convene reparations experts from around the world.
