There’s a fresh terror organization growing rapidly in the United States. We must outlaw it as a matter of national security.
Unity of Fields is an offshoot of the UK organization Palestine Action, whose affiliation with Iran, promotion of violence, and spread of anti-American ideologies undermines U.S. values and interests.
Though there are an abundance of reasons the United States needs to follow suit with the United Kingdom in designating Unity of Fields as a terrorist organization, the most obvious and pressing is their promotion of violence that endangers American citizens.
Following the murder of two Israeli Embassy staff members at an American Jewish Committee event that had convened to discuss getting more aid into Gaza, Unity of Fields took to their channels to praise the DC shooting. A pamphlet they produced read “bring the war home” below an image of a gun — a heinous statement following the brutal, unprovoked slaughter of a young couple, and an open admission to the organization’s goals in the United States: to incite Hamas’s war in the US.
In addition, their framing of the killing as an act of resistance is an indicator of a twisted mindset that could justify the targeting of many American citizens. If Israeli Diplomats are fair game because they are government officials from a country Unity of Fields dislikes, that means diplomats of other societies they do not approve of are also fair game.
Anyone, for that matter, who “resists” what their organization is against is fair game to be attacked.
So what does their organization stand for? Unity of Fields is an explicitly anti-American organization. In August of last year they were removed from social media after declaring a need “to open a new front against the US empire.” Their mission includes not just dismantling zionism, but also “US imperialism” through “militant direct actions.” They view the United States as an evil, colonial power that needs to be destroyed. Based on their own mission statement, it seems any American official in their eyes could be a target for violence.
It gets worse: Unity of Fields has also openly supported the killing of Americans. They praised the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel, that included the murder of 40 Americans and the kidnapping of 12. Though this attack occurred on Israeli soil, the point is that they see America and Israel both as imperial forces that need to be squashed. No wonder they’re elated to see violence on US soil.
Unity of Fields supporters are obsessed with the now deceased organizer of October 7, Yahya Sinwar — a US-designated terrorist who was known as “the Butcher of Khan Younis.” On their website, you can download a sticker with his face, a gun, and the saying “sometimes history needs a push…flood” — a reference to the “al-Aqsa Flood,” how Hamas supporters refer to the October 7 attacks that left 1200 dead, the largest single day attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
The message is clear: Unity of Fields wants to bring the violence of Hamas to the United States. Not just because they hate Israel, but because they hate America as well.
The violence has already started, and they are specifically targeting Gen Z to do their dirty work. They are subverting our education system, and turning college campuses into havens of intolerance and political violence.
Unity of Fields is one of the primary organizations behind the unhinged university encampments, and was largely responsible for the savagery that occurred at Columbia University last year. They participated in taking over classrooms, barring Jewish students from entering, and assaulted a custodian, who they reportedly called a “Jew-lover”.
Addressing their involvement, UoF retweeted “The only way to defeat Columbia and empire education is to join them and not let them get isolated.”
Violence as a means of political change is inherently anti-American. Americans believe breakthrough change occurs through voting and civic engagement, not bloodshed.
In UoF’s eyes, those ideals, and other American ideals such as rule of law, capitalism, and our entire political system need to be physically toppled.
Their incitement of brutality is not limited to Israel-linked conflicts either. Unity of Fields affiliates were also involved with fighting police at riots in Los Angeles. They refer to law enforcement as “amerikkkan police,” and after vandalizing a memorial for a fallen NYPD officer, wrote “In death as in life, may no cop rest peacefully.”
They only plan to escalate from here. On their website, the organization recently posted an interview titled “Doom to the Pipeline” that stated “How can we ever bring the imperial core to its demise if we don’t have a real militant underground?”
UoF has told us and shown us time and time again who they are, and it’s time we took them seriously.
Their parent organization, Palestine Action, is currently under investigation in the United Kingdom for ties to Iran, arguably the United State’s biggest enemy. After Palestine Action members broke into a UK military base, Parliament voted to designate it as a terrorist organization. The United States Government needs to do the same here.
Chloe Sparwath is an Atlanta native, a Young Voices contributor and a graduate of the University of Virginia.
