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Samidoun, a group that the United States Treasury described as a “sham charity” that serves as a fundraiser for terrorists, had some thoughts on the recent D.C. leftist terrorist attack.
It reposted an open letter to its Telegram group declaring that “Elias Rodriguez’s act was fully justified” when he shot Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim in the back. “It is justice.”
“May it redound to teach a lesson and set an example,” the letter wrote of the brutal murders while describing Islamic terrorist supporters as “struggling behind enemy lines, inside the US”.
Samidoun leaders described the killings as a “natural consequence” and warned that “genocide has to have consequences.”
There is no shortage of terrorist supporters in this country, but this group of terrorist supporters continues to benefit from tax-exempt donations despite years of reporting by the David Horowitz Freedom Center and even sanctions being imposed by the Treasury Department.
Samidoun was designated as an arm of the PFLP terrorist group by Israel in 2021, by Germany in 2023 after its members handed out candy after terrorist attacks, and in the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands in 2024. In 2023, the Freedom Center’s report predicted that despite the growing crackdown, the IRS would continue to allow it to benefit from tax-exempt status. The same government agency that spent six years harassing the David Horowitz Freedom Center has spent four years refusing to stop tax-exempt donations from going to a terrorist front group.
The Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Samidoun last year declaring that it “provides financial support to the sanctioned PFLP” and stating that “all property and interests in property” are “blocked and must be reported” and finally prohibited all “transactions by U.S. persons or within (or transiting) the United States that involve any property or interests in property of designated or otherwise blocked persons.” The sanctions extended to a ban on the “making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to” at risk of “civil sanctions” and “secondary sanctions” on those providing funding to the terrorist front group.
Those would potentially include George Soros, Ben & Jerry’s and the IRS.
How does a front for a terrorist group get tax-exempt donations anyway? Through a dubious practice known as fiscal sponsorship in which yet another front group accepts tax-exempt donations for it making it the front group for a front group for a terrorist organization.
The Alliance For Global Justice was created to support Marxist Sandinista terrorists in Nicaragua, but it has served as a fiscal sponsor for over 140 groups including a major BLM umbrella group, a Cuban front group and a bail fund that sprang an assassin from prison in Louisville, Kentucky, and for Samidoun.
AFGJ describes itself as the “Accounting Department for the Movement”, solicits for groups to ‘fiscally sponsor’ and even solicits donations to subsidize its fiscal sponsorship program for various radical groups. After extensive reporting by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, House members and IRS employees are well aware of the situation and have been for years.
Why has nothing been done? One answer may be that the AFGJ’s role as the “Accounting Department for the Movement” provides it with impunity because of its role in sponsoring major leftist organizations including, for a time, the Movement for Black Lives, one of the two big BLM umbrella groups, and the money that has come through it including from George Soros, the Tides Foundation, the Ben and Jerry’s Foundation, and other wealthy leftists and foundations.
Its last available IRS form for 2022 reported over $10 million in contributions and grants.
Take down a mob accountant and you take down the mob. Taking down AFGJ may take down too much of the ‘movement’ with it. And so the AFGJ still retains its nonprofit status, the IRS continues to list it as a legal non-profit, despite receiving complaints, and the AFGJ still continues to solicit tax-exempt donations even when everyone else has cut it off.
AFGJ’s sponsorship of Samidoun led credit card companies and PayPal to stop processing donations to it, but the IRS continued to stick with the leftist organization. Even though the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control had sanctioned Samidoun, the IRS, an agency of the same department, continues providing nonprofit status to Samidoun’s sponsor.
One part of Treasury is sanctioning a terrorist front group while another is helping to fund it.
Samidoun’s statements in defense of the D.C. terrorist attack shows all too clearly why the United States and other countries cracked down on it. Private financial institutions appear to be in compliance with sanctions. The only organization still not in compliance is the IRS.
That raises the question of whether the United States government can sanction the IRS?
The David Horowitz Freedom Center’s ‘Internal Radical Service’ project had previously documented IRS complicity in allowing not only Samidoun, but domestic terrorists, pedophiles pirates, and even crackhouses to benefit from nonprofit status. The refusal of the IRS to act is undermining foreign policy and even existing terrorist sanctions by the Treasury Department.
That’s why bills such as the ‘No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act’ and the ‘Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act’ have been introduced only to be blocked by Democrats and some Republicans. And so for now a terrorist front group that praised a terrorist attack in D.C. is able to continue taking tax-exempt money thanks to bureaucrats and politicians in Washington D.C.