The Arkansas senator noted that the left-wing activist organization has partnered with a terrorist front group and receives funding from a CCP propagandist
Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) on Friday petitioned the Justice Department to open a federal investigation into left-wing activist group Code Pink for providing “material support to foreign terrorist organizations” and serving as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government, according to a letter shared with the Washington Free Beacon.
Code Pink—known for disrupting congressional proceedings with anti-Israel outbursts—has worked on behalf of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) members, calling into “question whether it has provided material support” to a United States government-designated terrorist organization, Cotton wrote. The group has also received more than $1.4 million in funding from socialist tech executive Neville Roy Singham, who is married to the group’s co-founder, Jodie Evans, and was identified in 2023 as the driving force behind a global Chinese propaganda campaign.
Cotton says Singham’s cash, which accounts for around 25 percent of Code Pink’s budget, suggests that the group is serving as an unregistered foreign agent for the communist regime. Its parallel work with PFLP-tied organizations like sham charity Samidoun, the senator added, raises “serious questions about whether Code Pink has provided material support to designated” foreign terrorist organizations.
Both issues warrant an immediate federal probe from Attorney General Pam Bondi, Cotton contended. He argued in the letter that Code Pink’s activities could amount to a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which requires advocates for foreign governments to disclose their work.
The Trump administration must determine “whether Code Pink and the individuals involved have violated FARA by failing to register as agents of the Chinese Communist Party and whether their support for designated [foreign terrorist organizations] constitutes material support in violation of federal law,” the senator wrote.
Code Pink was once a strong critic of China’s human rights record, spearheading a 2015 campaign demanding that “China stop [the] brutal repression of their women’s human rights defenders.” That posture changed once Evans and Singham married. The group launched its “China Is Not Our Enemy” campaign in 2020 and “stopped criticizing the Chinese government’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims,” Cotton wrote. It also began describing the Uyghurs as “terrorists” and even lobbied the “House Select Committee on China to advocate against evidence of forced labor in Xinjiang,” the site of Beijing’s genocide.
Evans said in a 2021 video that China is a “defender of the oppressed and a model for economic growth without slavery or war,” eliding the Chinese Communist Party’s practice of forcing the country’s Uyghur population into internment camps and using them as slave labor.
Code Pink also began partnering with Singham-funded and CCP-aligned advocacy groups after Evans married the Beijing propaganda financier, the New York Times reported in 2023.
One of Code Pink’s newfound partners, the People’s Forum, received “over $20.4 million from Singham and offers courses titled ‘Lenin and the Path to Revolution’ and ‘China75 – When the People Stand Up,'” according to Cotton. The People’s Forum is also linked to PFLP networks and helped promote pro-Hamas demonstrations on college campuses, the Free Beacon reported in June.
The connection between the People’s Forum and the PFLP terror group may explain how Code Pink came to partner in January 2023 with Samidoun, a sham charity sanctioned by the Trump administration for serving as a PFLP front. Samidoun and Code Pink led efforts to free PFLP secretary-general Ahmad Sa’adat from an Israeli prison, where he is serving a 30-year sentence for orchestrating terror attacks against Jews in Israel.
“Multiple members of Congress have called for investigations into these matters,” Cotton wrote in his letter to Bondi. “I respectfully add my name to that list.”
Cotton is no stranger to confrontation with Code Pink. He booted one of its anti-Israel protesters from a Senate hearing in October and publicly eviscerated another one last year as she paraded through the Capitol building in a keffiyeh.
“It’s a terrorist symbol, and you should be ashamed of wearing it,” Cotton told the activist.
