Beijing paid the bill. Jihadis wrote the script. Hollywood supplied the useful idiots

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On Thursday, an Oscar winner, an Emmy winner, a New York City Council member, and a Democratic congressional nominee sat down on First Avenue. Around them marched communists bankrolled from Shanghai, Islamist-aligned activists, and protesters waving the flag of a terrorist organization. They called it a stand for peace. It was the Red-Green alliance on parade, and Washington should treat it as the influence operation it is.

A federal grand jury in Manhattan is examining Neville Roy Singham’s money. Singham is a Shanghai-based tech mogul whose nonprofit network members of Congress accuse of advancing the interests of the Chinese Communist Party. On Thursday, that network’s street machine delivered Hollywood’s biggest names to the curb.

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