U.S. Lawmakers raised public safety alerts by approaching the Equity Division to research progressing endeavors of an enemy of American site that is purportedly advanced by Iran’s system and actuates death assaults against U.S. policing and American Jews.
Mich. Rep. Bergman, sent a letter to Merrick Garland, the US Attorney General, earlier this month. Fox News Digital only obtained the letter, which demanded immediate action.
He wrote, “The Justice Department should commission a full investigation into the origins and funding of the Mapping Project, including possible collaboration with the Islamic Republic, to protect Americans’ national security interests and religious freedoms.”
When the Mapping Project was first revealed in 2022, Fox News Digital covered it extensively, and in March, it covered the Iranian regime’s role in supporting the Mapping Project’s terrorism goals.
“I write to express my concern that the Islamic Republic of Iran is covertly supporting a purported social justice movement in the United States known as ‘the Mapping Project’ as part of a sophisticated campaign to sew social discord and undermine public faith in American institutions,” Bergman wrote in his letter to Garland.
“The Mapping Project, which was launched in 2022, maintains a website with an interactive map that pinpoints the precise geographic locations of more than 500 community, government, national security, religious, and civil society organizations in the state of Massachusetts that it claims should be “dismantled” for advancing perceived “harms” in the United States and Israel.”
“Some 271 police stations – law enforcement is a frequent target for the Mapping Project, which publicly called for the abolition of the Boston Police Department – nine U.S. military bases and installations, as well as several Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Secret Service offices are among the entities whose precise locations are shared on the Mapping Project website,” he said. The Mapping Project has mapped approximately 500 organizations, of which approximately 300 contribute to the nation’s security.
Bergman referred to the Zachor Legitimate Foundation in his letter in light of its Walk report on the Planning Undertaking. The congressman wrote that the Zachor report found “finding that Iranian elements are likely involved in the development and promotion of the Mapping Project” and was “endorsed by 17 additional and highly respected American NGOs.”
“The Mapping Project combines elements of far-left extremism with anti-Western and pro-Communist ideologies to demonize and attack organizations not aligned with its profoundly illiberal and un-American worldview,” reads the letter from Bergman. It frequently names and shames organizations that disagree with its views by employing extremist, sometimes violent, rhetoric.”
“From the mass shootings at Chabad of Poway and Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh to the recent hostage standoff at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas,” Bergman noted, “the Mapping Project is taking place at a time when there are outbreaks of deadly antisemitic attacks in the United States.”
He added, “The Planning Venture is overflowing with discrimination against Jews and hostile to Israel feeling; Jewish institutions, such as synagogues, schools, and non-governmental organizations, make up a significant portion of the organizations that the Mapping Project highlights.
“The Mapping Project was endorsed on multiple occasions by Iranian-owned media organization PressTV, which said that the Mapping Project should be expanded to additional states beyond Massachusetts, and by Al Mayadeen, which is affiliated with Hezbollah,” Bergman wrote in her letter.
Iran’s PressTV was endorsed by the U.S. government and was purportedly engaged with the torment of a Canadian-Iranian columnist for Newsweek.
Iran has been designated as the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism by the United States government, and the Lebanese-based Hezbollah has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization.