Board members of a terror-linked nonprofit organization have cut dozens of checks to Democratic politicians over the past decade, campaign finance records show.

On Oct. 15, 2024, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Samidoun as “an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organization.” Employees and board members of Samidoun’s U.S. parent organization, the Alliance for Global Justice, have been frequent donors to high-profile Democratic politicians, including Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). Employees of Defense for Children Palestine, which the Israeli government has linked to the PFLP, have also cut checks to notable Democrats.

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Samidoun, which exists on paper to advocate the rights of those detained by the Israeli government, was determined to be “owned, controlled, or directed by, or having acted for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, the PFLP” by the Treasury Department in late 2024. Part of the Treasury Department’s case against Samidoun rested on Khaled Barakat, a PFLP member who serves on Samidoun’s board and has been involved in “fundraising and recruitment efforts support[ing] the PFLP’s terrorist activity against Israel.”

The United States has designated the PFLP as a foreign terrorist organization since 1997, with the Palestinian organization having hijacked planes, carried out suicide bombings, attacked synagogues, and bombed civilians, among other violent acts, according to the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Samidoun’s ties to the PFLP and the Alliance for Global Justice’s sponsorship of Samidoun were known long before the Treasury Department’s designation. For instance, the Washington Examiner reported on the link between Samidoun and the Alliance for Global Justice as early as November 2022. The Alliance for Global Justice provided Samidoun with donation processing, health insurance administration, and payroll services. It is unclear if the relationship between the two organizations is ongoing following the Treasury Department’s designation.

In the years following the Washington Examiner‘s reporting on the Alliance for Global Justice’s sponsorship of Samidoun, payment processors severed ties with the former due to its relationship with the latter. However, multiple Democrats continued to accept donations from the Alliance for Global Justice’s employees and board members.

The Washington Examiner‘s review of campaign finance records uncovered over 200 contributions from Alliance for Global Justice employees and at least three of its board members to Democratic political committees.

Links to Palestinian terrorism aside, the Alliance for Global Justice has a long history of ties to violent left-wing activity. The organization began as an offshoot of the Nicaragua Network, a group that supported the Sandinista regime as it carried out mass political killings and other human rights abuses. Alliance for Global Justice remains supportive of Nicaragua’s left-wing regime today, which international observers have criticized for its intense repression of Christianity.

Among the Democrats who accepted contributions from the Alliance for Global Justice’s employees and board members were Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), former Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Omar. The most frequent recipients of such donations were Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Tlaib. 

The House voted to censure Tlaib in November 2023 over her use of the slogan “from the river to the sea,” which some see as a call for the eradication of Israel. Tlaib spoke at a conference endorsed by a founding member of the PFLP in May 2024, and the Washington Examiner reported that same month that she paid $435,000 to a consulting firm that worked with the Alliance for Global Justice.

None of these members of Congress returned requests for comment.

Sanders also received donations from an employee of Defense for Children International Palestine, an organization that the Israeli government declared a terrorist organization in October 2021, campaign finance records show.

Israel issued its designation over the organization’s alleged ties to the PFLP. Members of Defense for Children Palestine’s leadership have been identified in PFLP materials as members, spoken at memorials of PFLP militants, edited the PFLP’s newspaper, been jailed for carrying out grenade attacks against Israelis, run in PFLP elections, and assisted in the training and recruitment of terrorists.

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Citibank and Arab Bank cut ties with Defense for Children International Palestine in 2018 after British lawyers presented them with evidence of its links to the PFLP.

The Alliance for Global Justice and Defense for Children Palestine did not respond to requests for comment.