Letters to UCLA, Barnard College, The George Washington University, and Columbia University requesting information about incidents on campus involving the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The letters note that SJP is supported by American Muslims for Palestine, which allegedly have ties to Hamas.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | educational institution, Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-discrimination, anti-terrorism

Letter to American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) requesting information about the relationship between AMP, Americans for Justice in Palestine Educational Foundation, and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), as well as other information relating to AMP’s involvement on college campuses. The letter expresses concern about AMP’s engagement on college campuses in light of its alleged ties to terrorist organizations. It also describes campus demonstrations as posing “significant threats to campus safety.”

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-terrorism

Letter to DOJ and FBI asking what the institutions are doing to investigate and address “threats posed by outside groups to safety on college campuses,” whether the institutions are coordinating with the Department of Education to gather information needed to investigate antisemitic harassment and discrimination, and steps the institutions are taking to ensure that colleges and universities are “fully apprised of threats to campus safety.” The letter cites its concern for American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)’s support of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and its campus demonstrations as the impetus for the questions.

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Tags: 119th (2025-2026) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-discrimination, anti-terrorism

Letter to the IRS Commissioner reiterating a call for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke the tax exempt status of Alliance for Global Justice “due to its financial support for its fiscally sponsored project” Samidoun. The letter states that the U.S. Department of Treasury labeled Samidoun a “sham charity” that “serves as a fundraiser for terrorist organizations.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | fiscal sponsor | anti-terrorism, tax exempt status

Letter from Chairman Westerman and 7 other members of the Committee to the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) coalition in relation to an investigation of a pro-Palestine protest on National Park Service land in Washington DC on July 24, 2024. The letter alleges potential violations of the permit process and the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and potential ties to terrorist organizations. It requests several documents, including those related to the organization of the protest, the funding of the ANSWER coalition by Neville Roy Singham or any foreign entity (particularly those connected with the Chinese Communist Party), and any communications between the coalition and Iran or its terrorist proxies.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-terrorism, foreign influence, protest

Letter from the Chairpersons of the House Committees on Ways and Means, Oversight, and Education and the Workforce to the U.S. Attorney General (AG) urging the AG to investigate The Palestine Chronicle and People Media Project for providing material support to a known terrorist organization and for filing false tax returns and failing to pay estimated taxes. Palestine Chronicle had a contributor who allegedly took part in holding Israelis hostage.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-terrorism

Letter to the Executive Director for American Muslims for Palestine requesting documents and information related to funding of the National Students for Justice Palestine (National SJP). The letter cites concerns that “organizations promulgating pro-Hamas propaganda and engaging in illegal activities at institutions of higher education might be receiving funding or other support from foreign or domestic sources which support the aims of Hamas or other foreign terrorist organizations.”

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-terrorism

Follow-up letter threatening subpoena after American Muslims for Palestine communicated it did not have information on funding for National Students for Justice Palestine.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-terrorism

Letter from six U.S. Senators (Senator Ted Budd, Senator Rick Scott, Senator Roger Wicker, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Pete Ricketts, and Senator Joni Ernst) calling on the IRS to investigate Palestine Chronicle and revoke its nonprofit status for allegedly employing a freelance journalist accused of taking part in holding Israelis hostage after the October 6 attacks.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict, media | anti-terrorism, tax exempt status

Letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner calling the IRS to revoke the tax-exempt status of People Media Project, publicly known as Palestine Chronicle, for having as one of its contributors a Palestinian who allegedly took part in taking Israelis hostage. The publication also had articles that called Hamas “resistance fighters” and accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing.”

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | media | anti-terrorism, tax exempt status

Letter from 16 U.S. Senators to the IRS Commissioner demanding that they “open an investigation to determine if the supporters of the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), including the AJP Educational Foundation (AJP), the Tides Foundation, the Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation (WESPAC Foundation), and other benefactors of NSJP have engaged in conduct warranting revocation of their tax exempt statuses on the basis of their financial support of NSJP.” The letter cites a 2024 lawsuit filed against AJP and NSJP to claim that AJP serves as Hamas’s propaganda division in the United States and that both organizations responded to Hamas’s “call for mass mobilization” after the October 2023 attack. The Senators who signed the letter were Senator Joni Ernst, Senator Bill Cassidy, Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Thom Tillis, Senator Markwayne Mullin, Senator Roger Marshall, Senator Kevin Cramer, Senator Mike Crapo, Senator Dan Sullivan, Senator James Risch, Senator John Thune, Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Marsha Blackburn, Senator Mitt Romney, and Senator Katie Britt.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-terrorism, tax exempt status

Letter from ten Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to the President of Rutgers University about the Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights. The members were Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Chuck Grassley, Senator John Cornyn, Senator Mike Lee, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Josh Hawley, Senator Tom Cotton, Senator John Kennedy, Senator Thom Tillis, and Senator Marsha Blackburn. The letter claims the Center “sponsors events featuring anti-Semitic speakers, individuals who justify violence against the State of Israel, terrorist sympathizers, and advocates for domestic radicalism.” The letter asks if the Center has ever been supported by federal or state funds, either directly or indirectly, or foreign funds. It also asks if the President supports the continued existence of the Center under current leadership.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-terrorism

Letter from ten Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to the law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, which had donated to the Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights. The members were Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Chuck Grassley, Senator John Cornyn, Senator Mike Lee, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Josh Hawley, Senator Tom Cotton, Senator John Kennedy, Senator Thom Tillis, and Senator Marsha Blackburn.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | funder, Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-terrorism

Letter to the Treasury Secretary and IRS Commissioner asking, among other questions: whether they are tracking U.S. tax exempt charities with suspected ties to Hamas or affiliated terrorist organizations, whether they are investigating any U.S. charities “whose employees previously worked for an organization that was deemed a terrorist organization,” and how many tax applications for tax exempt status have been denied because of potential involvement in or risk of terrorism.

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Tags: 118th (2023-2024) | educational institution, Israeli-Palestinian conflict | anti-terrorism, tax exempt status