State Department Uncovers Scary Antifa Ties

The State Department just uncovered disturbing ties between antifa extremists and networks linked to Hamas, Iran’s IRGC, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced sweeping sanctions against the international tech organizations and professionals (a tech collective) accused of providing encrypted tools to these radical groups.

As reported by Fox News:

A State Department memo reveals that an international technology collective, now under a U.S. global terrorism designation, provided services to overseas terrorist groups and violent far-left agitators causing chaos in American cities, according to a copy obtained by Fox News Digital.

"Far-left terrorism poses a profound threat to the United States and the broader West," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Today, the United States sanctioned Autistici/Inventati – a major far-left tech collective whose services are used by the most active and violent Antifa cells in the United States and across the world."

Autistici/Inventati, called the A/I Collective by the State Department, is an Italy-based group that builds highly sophisticated digital infrastructure used by violent left-wing organizations in the United States and Europe, along with Islamic terrorists, according to the State Department. The collective's services include encrypted chats and email, web hosting, secure video conferencing and streaming and anonymity shields, according to the memo.

"These tools are specifically designed to support the operations of far-left terrorist networks, built to enable them to organize, recruit, communicate, disseminate propaganda, share target information and tactics, and carry out violent attacks – all while remaining anonymous, untraceable, and beyond the reach of the law," says the State Department's memo.

A/I Collective has officially been deemed a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. The designation bars Americans and U.S. financial institutions from doing business with the group and freezes any assets it has under U.S. jurisdiction. Violators can face civil or criminal penalties.

The memo identifies Portland-based Rose City Antifa, known for its violent rioting and destruction, as one of the U.S. groups that relied on A/I Collective tools and services.

Rose City Antifa is listed in the memo alongside a media organization that the State Department says uses A/I Collective tools to disseminate information to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is proliferating inside the United States, Hamas, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hezbollah and others.

This technology collective provides encrypted communications, email, web hosting, secure video conferencing, streaming, and other services designed to allow users to operate anonymously. According to the State Department, those tools have been used by organizations including Hamas, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist organizations.

But what’s even more concerning is that they’re also being used by far-left extremist groups here in the United States.

That includes Rose City Antifa in Portland, the anarchist network connected to violent protests and attacks on law enforcement, and Jane’s Revenge, which claimed responsibility for attacks against pregnancy resource centers following the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

The State Department says these tools were specifically designed to help extremist networks organize, recruit, communicate, spread propaganda, share information about targets and tactics, and carry out violent attacks while concealing their identities.

And now we're seeing the same technological infrastructure being used by terrorist organizations in the Middle East and by extremist networks operating here in the United States.

For years, we’ve heard the argument that antifa isn't really an organization because there’s no central headquarters or CEO of antifa. But decentralized doesn't mean nonexistent.

In fact, decentralization can make these networks harder to disrupt. Individual cells can communicate, share information, coordinate activities, and even claim responsibility for attacks without necessarily having a traditional organizational structure.

Secretary Rubio has been warning about the rise of far-left political violence and the growing connections between extremist movements across borders. Now we’re seeing the government take action against some of the technology and networks that help facilitate that activity.

Today’s Sekulow broadcast included more discussion of this disturbing bombshell announcement from the State Department. We also marked the fifth anniversary of the disastrous Abbey Gate Bombing in Afghanistan and remembered the 13 U.S. soldiers who lost their lives that day.

Watch the full broadcast below: