RADICAL CHIC 2.0: The rich slacktivists backing pro-Hamas protests

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Fergie Chambers wants to set the world ablaze in a glorious rainbow revolution — and he has the dough to do it.

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Chambers, 39, inherited $250 million from his family, which owns the $34-billion Cox communications empire. Then he disowned them and ramped up the red Rolex rhetoric.

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Now that Black Lives Matter is considered passe in the smart set, Chambers is pouring his money and efforts into warring against Israel, Zionism, colonialism in general, and other trendy causes. HQ is in Tunisia.

In a Rolling Stone interview, Fergie who calls himself a “professional revolutionary” said, “we need to make people who support Israel actually afraid to go out in public.” Nice.

Also in the Trotskyite toff club are gazillionaire tech entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham and his partner Jodie Evans, both 69, who have poured at least $20 million into the People’s Forum, a radical outfit that protests everything from the unbearable whiteness of gnats to Fatties For Palestine.

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The forum also runs an international network spewing pro-China propaganda and providing big, big bucks for anti-Israel protests.

But for both, Israel is Public Enemy No. 1.

Chambers summed up the ethos when he told Los Angeles magazine: “Israel does not deserve to exist. It is a false state propped up by the West.”

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With $13.6 million in total assets and employing 13 people, the People’s Forum is based in Manhattan. Their first big-ticket pro-Hamas rally came on Oct. 8, 2023, in Times Square — the day after terrorists slaughtered 1,300 Israelis.

Oddly, the protest occurred before Israel retaliated.

In October, Singham’s better half showed up at an L.A. rally carrying a placard, saying, “Free free Palestine.”

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“Stay in the streets for our humanity — Biden has lost his heart and mind — a genocide is a crime against humanity. He must call for a ceasefire and the occupation must end,” Evans wrote that day.

And the day after the 10/7 massacre, she gleefully tweeted: “Long live self-determination! Long live resistance! Free free Palestine! Long live Palestine!”

Growing up in leafy Connecticut, Singham’s father was a lefty academic. Singham grew rich through Thoughtworks, his software consulting company. He sold it for $785 million in 2017 and became a full-time revolutionary.

He also drops all kinds of cash defending China and pushes the dictatorship’s talking points, the New York Times reported. Singham has also defended the detention of ethnic Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

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Fittingly, the Hamas hobbyist lives in Shanghai. He has denied his closer-than-this relationship with China’s strongmen.

He told the Times: “I am solely guided by my beliefs, which are my long-held personal views.”

Before Evans married Singham in a Bob Marley-themed wedding in 2017 (Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry’s was there!), the longtime activist married a wealthy data scientist.

She has called the Uyghurs terrorists.

“It appears that organizations tied to Neville Roy Singham, a U.S. citizen, has been receiving direction from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) ,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., wrote.

“Singham [has] for many years, promoted far-left causes. Mr. Singham reportedly created a dark money system that allows him to send funds to a number of far-left organizations.”

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Meanwhile, in Tunisia, Fergie Chambers, 38, is busy learning Quranic Arabic to go hand-in-hand with his “reversion” to Islam. He has a few things to say.

“The City of New York has paid me and 300+ others $24k each, for beating us & detaining us w out rights in the Bronx, during the 2020 George Floyd rebellion[.] I would like @NYCMayor Eric Adams, former chief pig and major Zionist, to know that this money is going to Palestine.”

Ironically, Chambers also attended the mind-numbingly woke Bard College where his estranged father (who owns the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks) chairs the board. His partner is a former Big Apple ‘It girl.’

Before heading on the hipster trail to Tunisia, Chambers made a lot of enemies in the ritzy Berkshires where he oversaw a sort of mini-militia that advocated for communism. Creatively, they were called the Berkshire Communists.

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The Berkshire Eagle reported that residents were afraid of the radical Richie Rich. Residents said his followers who live on the 300-acre spread are akin to a “mob” or a “cult.”

“[With] Fergie playing the dual role of guru and sugar daddy,” one local said.

Not so, Chambers says.

“I would never take myself seriously enough to be a ‘guru,’” he told the New York Post.

His scenester wife was upset and charged the couple were being “strongly condemned by those who spew hate rhetoric in our community.”

Chambers denies being anti-Semitic:  “We have Jewish members and Jewish residents, who despise Zionism, even its liberal shades, more than anyone.”

Sometimes his rhetoric can hit white-hot, ala a 1950s Cold War villain. He supports the Russian war on Ukraine and calls strongman Vladimir Putin “a great man.” He has tattoos of Stalin and Mao, and a deep-abiding love for the former Soviet Union and Red China.

But at least one committed communist questions Chambers’ motivations — and how he spends his fortune.

“Where are the free community health clinics? Where are the community schools?” asked Matthew Hunter, an organizer with the U.S. Communist Party.

“On the left, we idolize the Black Panthers and what they were able to do. Then I see Fergie, and to me, it all looks like a vanity project.”

bhunter@postmedia.com

@HunterTOSun

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