SR campaign about Eva’s knitted red hats against ICE linked to Soros

This week, Samnytt reported that the national radio considered a woman who knits red hats in protest against the federal American border police ICE interesting enough to make an entire segment about it. Upon closer investigation, it turns out to be an activity connected to the notorious businessman George Soros.

The focus of P4 Halland’s report was Eva Kilander from Halmstad, who knits hats in protest against United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the agency’s work to clean up after years of open borders and an unprecedented flow of illegal immigration.

Kilander got the idea from the USA, where similar women knit in protest against what they perceive as injustices in the world.

Earlier in February, The Forum, the largest newspaper in Fargo, North Dakota and the surrounding region, reported on 70-year-old Cheryl Rostad, who “makes red hats as part of a protest against ICE operations and the Trump administration.”

The hats are modeled after the knitted red caps worn by Norwegians during the Nazi occupation as a form of protest in World War II, something that has now become a symbol of “resistance.”

Rostad is part of a group of 75-80 active members in Red River United Indivisible, which Lyn Dockter-Pinnick helped to found.

Ten dollars

The group has organized protests in the Fargo-Moorhead area since Donald Trump took office for his second term as president.

– In Norway, Norwegians used to wear knitted red caps. Now, these aren’t knitted, but they are red. But the red knitted caps were to show resistance to the Nazi occupation, and it was their way of making a statement without words, says Rostad.

For a donation of at least ten dollars, the group sells the hats via its Facebook page. Half of the proceeds go to the Immigrant Defense Network and the rest to support mutual aid programs.

Connections to Soros

Indivisible is a progressive movement that started in 2016 as a reaction to the election of Donald Trump as president of the USA. Ezra Levin, an activist who has organized demonstrations against Trump, is a co-founder, and Indivisible was one of the groups behind nationwide Trump protests last year.

– We are not a branch of the Democratic Party. My goal is not to help the Democratic Party. My goal is to build a unified opposition to an authoritarian takeover of our country, says Levin.

In April 2025, The Hill reported that the Indivisible Project had received over 7.6 million dollars from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations since 2017.