Medea Benjamin is easy to recognize.
She is the woman in pink disrupting congressional hearings, confronting politicians and attacking American foreign policy. Since October 7, CODEPINK, which she co-founded, has made opposition to Israel one of its most visible causes.
The image is deliberately grassroots: activists, homemade signs, street protests and women getting dragged from hearing rooms.
Follow the money, however, and a very different CODEPINK emerges.
Start with Benjamin herself.
She was born Susan Benjamin to Jewish parents on Long Island and later chose the name Medea—the mythological woman who, in the best-known version of the story, murders her own children – perhaps a tell about her intention to destroy America and the Jewish State.
“I know indeed what evils I am about to commit, but my spirit is stronger than my resolves, which is the source of all man’s worst evils.” – Euripides (480-406BCE) in “Medea”
Benjamin is president of Arc of Justice, formerly called the Benjamin Fund, a private foundation substantially capitalized by wealth from her parents, including the estate of her mother, Rose Benjamin, and money from her father, Long Island real-estate developer Alvin Benjamin.
Public filings show the foundation held nearly $48 million at the end of 2022. A 2026 investigation reported assets exceeding $51 million by the end of 2023. That foundation has funded CODEPINK.
But that’s only one fortune. The second enters through another CODEPINK co-founder: Jodie Evans.
In 2017, Evans married tech multimillionaire Neville Roy Singham of Shaghai. That same year, Singham sold ThoughtWorks in a transaction valued at $785 million.
Curiously, Evans, who had previously criticized China’s human-rights record, became increasingly supportive of Beijing. CODEPINK eventually launched its “China Is Not Our Enemy” campaign. And The New York Times reported that more than $1.4 million flowed to CODEPINK after 2017 from two organizations connected to Singham.
Investigators are following parts of his financial network. Congress is examining nonprofits associated with him, foreign influence and nonprofit financing. Lawmakers have separately sought investigation of CODEPINK for possible foreign-agent violations. [see below]
While CODEPINK presents itself as a grassroots antiwar organization, it is backed by the 0.1% of America’s wealthiest families. Much like George Soros, they are using their wealth to attack the West, and since October 7, 2023, Israel with greater frequency.
Perhaps it is time Americans should look beyond the pink shirts.
When elitists with ties to China and American adversaries, dress up as grassroot movements and start to attack America and American interests, people should investigate and demand transparency.
SOURCES
- House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-AR) led a letter to Code Pink President and Co-Founder Jodie Evans, conducting oversight into the organization’s potential ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) November 2023
- Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) urges the Department of Justice (DOJ) to assess whether The People’s Forum and Code Pink are obligated to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), due to the group’s reported Chinese Communist Party ties. April 2025
- Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) demands records from The People’s Forum, a New York-based 501(c)(3) organization, including backing of CODEPINK September 2025
- Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) requests that the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate Code Pink for potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and material support to foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs). November 2025
- A federal grand jury in Manhattan has been impaneled to investigate Neville Roy Singham, an American tech billionaire living in China, over allegations that he funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into a network of Marxist, socialist and pro-Beijing activist groups across the United States. July 2026
- Telegraph reports Chinese backing to CODE PINK August 2026
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Newton’s Second Law: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. CodePink born of rhe catastrophic Iraq war conducted irresponsibly by USA. Groups like this have enough money to hire lawyers, publicists and lobbyists to stay in business. There are dozens of them around in a free country. We (Jews and American Government) have not taken policing the excesses seriously enough. ADL has the resources to deal with CodePink, but does not. Because it doesn’t serve ADLs agenda. There is also a feeling that giving them more publicity helps them. Like rhe killer of Healthcare United CEO benefits from publicity.
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Why don’t Jews and America, at the very least, ask themselves what does CP really want?? What are their goals? More than making $$$$$ tho they have many supporters. CP has been around a while, and there’s a great vid from 2022 or something showing Rubio talking to Medea Benjamin in DC, really worth looking for!!!
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