The Department of the Interior (DOI) is directing the public to the websites of extremist activist groups that express support for terrorist sympathizers and condone violence against the United States and Israel.

“The world’s majority will rise up. Empires will pay for their crimes,” said Jeanine Yazzie, director of policy and advocacy at the NDN Collective, in response to video footage of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. , he wrote on his Instagram Story on September 30th. NDN Collective is a nonprofit organization based in South Dakota. march Supports Hamas and Hezbollah and is listed under DOI’s Environmental Justice web page as an “engagement resource.”

“These links provide critical information to help deepen understanding of environmental justice issues, build capacity to effectively participate in local decision-making opportunities, and transform communities.” says the DOI. I wrote We support the NDN Collective and other groups listed on the Environmental Justice Resources webpage.

Republican leaders say DOI Secretary Deb Haaland continues to indulge in pro-Hamas extremism following a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation that finds the DOI chief is giving a platform to activist groups conducting anti-Israel advocacy efforts. He expressed his anger at what was being done.

“The Biden-Harris administration is not doing enough to support our allies and fight terrorism,” said Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. he told the DCNF in a statement. “I urged Secretary Haaland to protect federal lands and property from domestic terrorist sympathizers, but instead the department is pushing for it.”

“We witnessed the aftermath of the desecration of the American flag, hateful rhetoric emblazoned on historic monuments, and assaults on police officers during violent protests on DOI land near the Capitol this summer. No wonder DOI continues to entertain its supporters after “Hamas and anti-Israel activities,” Republican Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Arkansas), chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, told DCNF. said in a statement. “These despicable groups should be called out for the terrorists they support, not given a platform by extremists in the federal government.”

Mr. Barrasso spoke in response to the June 8 incident near the White House in which a pro-Hamas mob defaced government property and attacked U.S. Park Police (USPP) on DOI land in Washington, D.C. , harshly criticized Haaland for not taking more decisive action.

“I question whether political sympathies with the instigators influenced your department’s response to these acts of violence and vandalism.” Barrasso I wrote In a June 13 letter to Haaland, he said: “Your failure to take meaningful action or public condemnation only emboldens the agitators. Your failure to act critically jeopardizes the safety of federal employees and violates the law. It reduces public confidence in the DOI’s ability to protect its control.”

Barrasso wrote a follow-up letter to Haaland in August. Continue The USPP failed to prevent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from desecrating government property and burning the American flag outside Union Station on July 24 during his speech to Congress. (Related: Republican lawmaker restores American flag burned at Union Station by pro-Palestinian vandals)

Haaland has not yet condemned the actions of pro-Hamas protesters, nor has she condemned the rebel uprising. tide Anti-Semitism in the United States, fueled in part by anti-Israel activist groups like the NDN Collective. a report The Washington Free Beacon reported that Haaland’s daughter is employed by an activist group known as the Pueblo Action Alliance, which praises Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel. Pueblo Action Alliance Continue Participate in anti-Israel advocacy.

The NDN Collective’s relationship with DOI, including Haaland, extends beyond the agency’s decision to give a platform to the activist group’s radical ideas.

haaland spoke At the NDN Collective’s watch party held on her behalf on the day the Senate met. Confirmed She will take over the position of DOI on February 23, 2021.

Members of the NDN Collective have met with DOI officials at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., at least three times since Haaland was appointed to lead the agency, according to open source information obtained by DCNF. DOI did not respond to DCNF’s investigation into whether Haaland participated in these meetings.

In the months surrounding DOI’s meeting with the NDN Collective, activist groups continued to promote anti-Israel advocacy.

March 31, 2022, NDN Collective published The manifesto on Palestine denied Israel and the United States the right to exist, and called for “resistance against colonialism and Zionism.”

A few months later, members of the NDN Collective met During a visit to Washington, DC in July 2022, he met with DOI staff as well as White House staff and offices on Capitol Hill. “We are here to hold these systems accountable, give voice to our struggles, and share what we are fighting to protect and the future we aspire to.” The same is true for NDN Collective,” said Nick Tilsen, CEO of NDN Collective. I wrote This was stated in a press release commemorating the visit.

Tilsen is currently facing In June 2022, he was charged with a felony for allegedly assaulting a police officer during an argument. NDN Collective too defender For defunding the police and the U.S. military.

NDN Collective returned To the capital in November 2023 meet With DOI staff, including USPP Director Charles “Chuck” Sams. During that visit, members of the NDN Collective stood outside Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan holding “Native Palestinian” signs and met with Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri. House Republicans are making a strong case condemned Reps. Tlaib and Bush promoted anti-Semitism and condoned the actions of pro-Hamas supporters.

October 19, 2023, NDN Collective released In response to Hamas’ brutal invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, a statement asserting that “settler colonialism is at the root of the violence in Gaza.”

December 25, 2023, NDN Collective called Israel releases all Hamas terrorists in Israeli prisons. Activist groups have remained largely silent about the innocent Israeli and American hostages captured in Gaza by Hamas during the October 7 attack.

NDN Collective too deployed ‘Tactical media units’ dispatched to at least five pro-Hamas student encampments columbia university and harvard universityin April and May of this year.

“The graphic videos of police and Zionist violence against fighters in the encampments are difficult to watch, but they serve as a spotlight to shine a light on the carnage currently occurring across the country,” the NDN Collective said. I wrote In a blog post from May 7th. “Zionism, settler colonialism, and the United States are losing the battle of narrative.”

This September, a delegation from the NDN Collective returned to Washington, D.C., and met with DOI officials, the White House, other federal agencies, and the offices of more than a dozen Democratic members of Congress.

“Untangling the complex colonial web that surrounds us all requires multifaceted resistance,” says Eva Cárdenas, organizing director of the NDN Collective. I wrote He said this in a press release commemorating the visit. “We will continue to resist using all means possible.”

Next week, NDN Collective I participated At a pro-Hezbollah march in New York City on September 24, participants chanted, “From Gaza to Beirut, we salute all our martyrs.”

DOI and the NDN Collective did not respond to DCNF’s requests for comment on this matter.

NDN Collective received congressional scrutiny in July from Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, who said the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would It was discovered that it had selected radical activist groups to support its spending. As part of the Inflation Control Act’s $3 billion Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant provision, $1 million in taxpayer dollars will go to “community-based organizations.” (Related: The good, the bad, and the ugly: Biden’s climate bill, two years on)

“As we monitor Democrats’ anti-inflation law, we know that the law is secretly funding extremist groups like the NDN Collective, which openly advocates anti-American, anti-police, and anti-Semitic causes. It has nothing to do with environmental protection,” Capito said. press release Along with committee oversight report Regarding the anti-Israel activities of the NDN Collective.

EPA did not respond to DCNF’s request for comment on whether the agency requires these two rulings.

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