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EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep Demands Probe Into Group Tied To Alleged Pro-Palestinian Killer

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Republican Rep. Mark Alford of Missouri demanded an investigation Tuesday into a fringe political organization to which the alleged perpetrator of a shooting that killed two outside the Capital Jewish Museum belonged.

Federal authorities charged Elias Rodriguez with two counts of first-degree murder, murder of foreign officials, causing death from use of a firearm and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence in connection with the Wednesday night shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum that left Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim dead. Alford asked Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent to probe the Party of Socialism and Liberation (PSL) in a letter provided exclusively to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

We strongly condemn these heinous acts of antisemitic violence, including the murder of Kansas City area native Sarah Lynn Milgrim. These disgusting hate crimes have no place in civilized society.

The perpetrator must be brought to swift, merciless justice.

America will always… https://t.co/PFM2s4PTo6

— Rep. Mark Alford (@RepMarkAlford) May 22, 2025

“The Chicago chapter of the PSL held a gala benefiting the Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance (MECA), a California-based nonprofit with reported ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP),” Alford wrote in the letter. “The PFLP is a State Department designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and is a Marxist-Leninist group that is the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).”

“Given these deeply concerning connections, I respectfully urge you to investigate potential foreign funding sources for extremist groups that may incite acts of terrorism on U.S. soil,” Alford continued. “I am especially alarmed by individuals and organizations operating domestically that maintain ties to designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations and promote antisemitic ideologies.”

According to an affidavit submitted by a federal law enforcement officer, Rodriquez chanted “Free Palestine” while being taken away by police officers. Since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by the radical Islamic terrorist group Hamas that killed over 1,200 people in Israel, pro-Hamas protesters have occupied buildings, chanted a slogan that has connotations of wiping out Israel and blocked Jewish students from parts of campus.

“I respectfully request your responses to the following questions,” Alford wrote. “1. Are there any financial ties between the Party of Socialism and Liberation and Foreign Terrorist Organizations? 2. What steps have the State and Treasury Departments taken to monitor foreign funding, especially by FTOs, of individuals or groups organizing anti-Israel and antisemitic events in the United States? 3. What procedures are in place between the State Department and the Department of Justice to monitor non-citizens within the United States who express support for Foreign Terrorist Organizations?”

The PSL endorsed a May 2024 event known as the “People’s Conference for Palestine,” which had ties to the PFLP, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

The PSL did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.