U.S. Issues Sanctions Against Foreign Organization that Aided Violent Pro-Abortion Group “Jane’s Revenge”

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Above: Arsonists firebombed the Wisconsin Family Action office in Madison on Mother’s Day in 2022. The pro-abortion domestic terror group Jane’s Revenge took credit for the attack. In 2023, Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury pleaded guilty for the firebombing.

Last month, the federal government imposed sanctions on a left-wing terrorist organization accused of aiding violent groups like Jane’s Revenge.

In May of 2022, a draft opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked to the media. After the leak, the domestic terror group Jane’s Revenge fueled violence against dozens of pro-life organizations and claimed credit for attacks like the 2022 firebombing of Wisconsin Family Action.

In response, more than 100 congressmen — including all four congressmen from Arkansas — urged the U.S. Department of Justice to take action against Jane’s Revenge, and U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R – AR) wrote a letter urging the DOJ to investigate Jane’s Revenge as a domestic terror group.

Four members of Jane’s Revenge were eventually brought to justice. Now the United States government is issuing sanctions against a foreign terrorist group it says supported Jane’s Revenge, Antifa, and other violent organizations.

On August 26, the U.S. Department of State designated Autistici/Inventati (A/I Collective) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.

In a statement, the department said, “The A/I Collective is an Italy-based extremist group that supplies the digital infrastructure for Antifa cells and other radical left-wing networks in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere across the world.”

The State Department says A/I Collective provided encryption tools and digital infrastructure to anarchist terror cells in Europe and the United States — including Jane’s Revenge — writing:

“The violent far-left extremists, ‘Jane’s Revenge,’ who waged a firebombing campaign against crisis pregnancy centers across the United States, relied on A/I Collective tools and services to publish official communiqués and claims of responsibility for violent and criminal acts and to incite copycat attacks. Four members of the group were later charged for violating federal law and engaging in a ‘conspiracy against rights’ through threats of force and intimidation.”

It’s taken a long time to reach this point, but the federal government is finally taking action not only against Jane’s Revenge, but also against the other people who aided and abetted the violence Jane’s Revenge caused.

Hopefully, this means we will never again see the kind of pro-abortion violence that we did in 2022.

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Antisemitism on the Rise, Again: Guest Column

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As antisemitism rises around the world, Christians must be unequivocal in rejecting hatred of Jews.

According to a new report from the J7 Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism, “In both the number of lethal attacks and the number of casualties, 2025 was the deadliest year for antisemitic attacks . . . in more than 30 years.” As a CBS article describing the report pointed out, this includes 15 people who were shot dead at Bondi Beach in Australia, two who were killed at a Manchester, UK synagogue, two who were gunned down at a Jewish museum in DC, and an 82-year-old Boulder, CO woman who died a month after being hit with a Molotov cocktail.   

While the attackers responsible often claim vengeance against Israeli actions in the Middle East, the attacks are not against Israeli military or government sites. Instead, as has been the case for much antisemitic violence throughout history, the targets are random people around the world who happen to be Jewish. 

In fact, Jews have been the target of irrational hate and violence since at least the fifth century BC, when Haman was bested by Mordecai. According to the historian Josephus, some 50,000 Jews were killed in the AD 60s when an ethnic riot broke out in Alexandria, Egypt. The harassment and murder of Jews in the Russian Empire was so common it’s portrayed as an ordinary fact of life in the musical “Fiddler on the Roof.” Most evil, of course, was the Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis in the 1930s and 40s, a mass murder so horrific that there are still fewer Jews alive in the world today than there were before it. 

One reason this demon has returned is that history has moved on. The memory of the Holocaust is fading, and the world is less familiar with names like Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Nearly everyone that was involved—victim, villain, or liberator—is now dead. Without the power of eyewitness testimony, the lessons of “Never Again!” are lost.  

Another factor is a quirk of this cultural moment, in which skepticism is considered a virtue (not to mention profitable). Like the dwarfs in C.S. Lewis’ The Last Battle, many are convinced they are too informed to be “taken in” by commonly held ideas. Their cynicism is not the result of newly surfaced facts, but a posture of dis-believing all accepted narratives. This posture is the pop-intellectual version of what philosopher Philip Rieff called a “deathwork.” Rather than pursuing truth, it’s more popular to join the knee-jerk disbelief crowd who claim that the “postwar consensus” is just what “They” want you to believe. 

In other words, the new antisemitism is as irrational as it is evil. There’s nothing Christian about it.  

In 1943, before the world learned of the Holocaust, apologist Francis Schaeffer responded to Jew-hatred: 

Considering anti-Semitism, the first thing that fixes itself in my thinking is the fact that Christ was a Jew. When we open the New Testament to Matthew 1:1, we find the very first claim made concerning Christ is that he sprang from Abraham and was a descendant of David. The Bible does not say that Jesus just happened to be a Jew, but the Word emphasizes over and over again that he was a Jew. 

Hatred of Jews has no place whatsoever for the Christian. This is about more than even the biblical call to love our neighbors, though that should be enough. Jesus’ Jewishness is at the center of His identity because at the center of God’s plan to bless all the nations of the earth was His making a chosen people of the descendants of Abraham. To hate “the Jews” is to scorn the most important Jew of all.

Copyright 2026 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission.

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Family Council Joins Amicus Brief Defending Parental Rights Before 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

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Last week, Family Council joined an amicus brief defending parental rights in a federal lawsuit currently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

The case is Mirabelli v. Bonta. Parents and teachers are challenging a school district policy that requires teachers to deceive parents about their child’s gender transition at school.

On September 2, Advancing American Freedom filed an amicus brief on behalf of Family Council and dozens of other pro-family organizations urging the 9th Circuit court to affirm parental rights and stop a California school district’s secret social gender transition policy.

The brief argues that “the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is essential to liberty and is deeply rooted in American tradition and practice,” and that schools undermine parental rights when they deceive parents about a child’s gender dysphoria or social transition at school.

Unfortunately, the school policy in California is not an isolated incident. Pro-LGBT activists have used public schools to promote transgender ideology and gender confusion to kids in many different ways.

Our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom have spoken out about how schools are hiding important information about students from their parents. But policymakers, legal experts, and parents are pushing back.

Last year, the U.S. Department of Education announced it was investigating four school districts in Kansas for secret gender transitions after a complaint alleged that school officials let male students into females’ private spaces and sports at school and hid students’ sexual identity confusion from their parents.

Family Council joined dozens of other pro-family organizations from across the country last year in an amicus brief regarding a New York school district that treated a middle-school girl as if she were a boy without her mother’s knowledge or consent.

Arkansas has enacted good laws to help prevent schools from socially transitioning children or promoting radical pro-LGBT ideology in the classroom. These are good laws that protect children and affirm parental rights.

But federal court cases like the one in California could affect schools nationwide. That’s why it’s important for us to stand up for students and parents in this case.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

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