{"id":2630417,"date":"2026-07-16T06:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/foreign-marxist-terrorist-group-spent-years-cozying-up-to-us-activists\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T06:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:07:12","slug":"foreign-marxist-terrorist-group-spent-years-cozying-up-to-us-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/foreign-marxist-terrorist-group-spent-years-cozying-up-to-us-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Marxist terrorist group spent years cozying up to US activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fforeign-marxist-terrorist-group-spent-years-cozying-up-to-us-activists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2630417&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A report from George Washington University reveals that a foreign Marxist group behind decades of terrorist attacks has subtly embedded itself within American activism. Several pro-Palestinian organizations in the U.S. have connections to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist association as 1997, linked to various attacks including hijackings, bombings, and shootings that have resulted in American casualties. These groups have shared event spaces with PFLP, supported its members, and echoed its narratives, portraying figures like PFLP leader Ahmad Sa\u2019adat as political prisoners. the report highlights the relationship between U.S.-based activists and organizations such as samidoun, which is sanctioned as a terrorist fundraising front, and notes that some leaders have openly expressed support for Hamas and other terrorist groups during public events. Despite sanctions and designations, these organizations continue to promote narratives that legitimize terrorism and foster alliances supporting Marxist and Islamist militants, representing a strategic shift from past tactics to influence campaigns, propaganda, and transnational support networks. The four main American organizations involved did not respond to requests for comment.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A foreign <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/marxism\/\">Marxist<\/a> group behind decades of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/terrorism\/\">terrorist attacks<\/a> has quietly embedded itself in American activism, an academic report finds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several groups leading pro-Palestinian protests in the United States have shared event spaces with the violent Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, echoed its narratives, or defended its members in recent years, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs5746\/files\/2026-07\/The%20Forgotten%20Threat..pdf\">paper<\/a> released <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/forgotten-threat\">Monday<\/a> by George Washington University. The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/state-department\/\">State Department<\/a> designated the PFLP <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/foreign-terrorist-organizations\">a foreign terrorist organization<\/a> in 1997, and authorities have linked it to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/02\/12\/university-hosts-speakers-denying-hamas-rapes-praising-terrorism-antisemitism-probe\/\">plane hijackings<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/02\/11\/georgetown-university-investigates-anti-israel-group-that-invited-terrorist-to-campus\/\">deadly<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/2001-2009.state.gov\/p\/nea\/ci\/israel\/79006.htm\">bombings<\/a>, a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/hamass-october-7-attack-visualizing-data\">1972 mass shooting<\/a>, a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/families-of-rabbis-killed-in-2014-israel-synagogue-attack-ask-10th-circuit-to-revive-palestine-liberation-organization-suit\/\">2014 synagogue massacre<\/a>, and further <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/ngo-monitor.org\/reports\/pflp-involvement-in-the-october-7-atrocities\/\">bloodshed<\/a> during <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/ecfr.eu\/special\/mapping_palestinian_politics\/abu_ali_mustafa_brigades_pflp\/\">Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7, 2023, invasion<\/a> of Israel. The organization\u2019s attacks have <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecoi.net\/en\/document\/2101666.html\">killed dozens<\/a> of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecoi.net\/en\/document\/2101565.html\">Americans<\/a> globally.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4647573\/cuban-activists-protest-plan-trump\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Cuban government-linked activists form \u2018rapid response\u2019 protest plan in case Trump attacks island<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4647987\/pro-palestinian-activists-organized-ro-khanna-israel-trip\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Pro-Palestinian activists working to stop \u2018settler violence\u2019 organized Ro Khanna\u2019s Israel trip<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/videos\/4644564\/veteran-brian-stewart-tennessee-gop-primary-incongruent-marine-corps-standards\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>USMC flags candidate in Hegseth\u2019s district as \u2018incongruent with Marine Corps standards\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/2001-2009.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/ps\/2007\/oct\/94193.htm\">Iran-funded<\/a> terrorists now have protest-organizing groups such as <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/3347063\/terrorist-tied-anti-israel-jewish-voice-for-peace-nyc-trump-tower-mahmoud-khalil\/#google_vignette\">Jewish Voice for Peace<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3096659\/anti-israel-activists-who-sought-oust-biden-disrupt-dnc-pressure-harris\/\">U.S. Palestinian Community Network<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3041013\/wol-of-sound-following-the-money-and-activism-behind-anti-israel-days-of-rage\/\">Within Our Lifetime<\/a>, and the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3097589\/pro-palestine-group-unleashed-maggots-crickets-at-netanyahus-hotel\/\">Palestinian Youth Movement<\/a> tethered to their political movement, GW extremism researchers found, citing the groups\u2019 public statements. \u201cWhat has manifested in the U.S. is a support network where Islamist-aligned, secular-left, student, prisoner-solidarity, and community actors appear in the same campaigns driving the same pro-terror, anti-imperialist, anti-Western narratives,\u201d the report concluded.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The four American organizations did not respond to the <em>Washington Examiner\u2019s<\/em> requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Palestinian Community Network, Jewish Voice for Peace, and the Palestinian Youth Movement each showed support for former Israeli prisoner <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/753963\/israel-bombing-suspect-to-face-immigration-charge\/\">Rasmea Odeh<\/a> after she was convicted in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\">Israel<\/a> for being involved in fatal PFLP bombings, the report noted. The Jewish group even <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260715144800\/https:\/\/www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org\/2017\/03\/07\/jewish-voice-peace-proud-host-palestinian-organizer-rasmea-odeh\/\">invited Odeh to speak<\/a> at a 2017 membership meeting as a \u201cPalestinian organizer,\u201d researchers found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ice\/\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> deported Odeh <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/news\/releases\/former-naturalized-citizen-deported-jordan-withholding-ties-deadly-israel-bombing\">in 2017<\/a> for fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship while concealing the criminal convictions, which linked her to two deaths. The U.S. activists portray her as a political prisoner mistreated by Israeli interrogators, the GW report found. The activist network has used similar narratives to legitimize PFLP leader Ahmad Sa\u2019adat, whom Israel is holding in prison for leading the terrorist group and for his ties to an Israeli official\u2019s 2001 assassination, according to the researchers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much of the pro-Palestinian movement\u2019s coziness with PFLP comes from collaboration with Samidoun, a \u201cPalestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network\u201d that <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3189782\/treasury-sanctions-palestinian-terrorism\/\">the Treasury Department sanctioned<\/a> in October 2024 as a fundraising front for the Marxist terrorists, the report said. Samidoun <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260715134140\/https:\/\/samidoun.net\/2024\/10\/we-keep-resisting-us-and-canada-sanction-samidoun\/\">called the sanctions<\/a> \u201can attempt to repress political organizing in support of the Palestinian people\u2019s struggle against genocide, colonialism and occupation, and the more than 10.000 Palestinian political prisoners that are being tortured and killed by the Zionist entity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4636898\/texan-armed-community-defense-for-leftists\/\"><strong>THIS TEXAN LED ARMED \u2018COMMUNITY DEFENSE\u2019 FOR LEFTISTS. NOW HE\u2019S SERVING 100 YEARS BEHIND BARS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Within Our Lifetime founder Nerdeen Kiswani also spoke in an online Samidoun event alongside PFLP leader Khaled Barakat to encourage 2024 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4622549\/darializa-avila-chevalier-advocated-pro-hamas-group-columbia-university\/\">Columbia University protests<\/a>, the report noted. Barakat told their audience about his \u201cfriends and brothers in Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the [Popular Front]\u201d at the event, titled \u201cResistance 101.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFar from being a relic of the 1970s, the [PFLP] adapted by shifting emphasis from spectacular terrorist attacks to influence operations built around propaganda, prisoner campaigns, activist alliances, and transnational support networks,\u201d GW researchers wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marxist group linked to terror now influences US activism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1239,"featured_media":2630418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP06031404902-e1784166637364.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[34579,7974,35627,6039,82782],"class_list":["post-2630417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-foreign-influence","tag-marxism","tag-political-extremism","tag-terrorism","tag-us-activists"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP06031404902-e1784166637364.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2630417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2630420,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630417\/revisions\/2630420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2630418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}