Fergie Chambers Alleges PSL-Linked Groups Suppressed Palestine Action U.S.
Chambers alleges PSL and allied organizations sought to redirect Palestine Action U.S. after its Elbit-focused campaign attracted law-enforcement attention and intensified disputes inside the protest
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James “Fergie” Chambers, a self-described communist and Cox family heir who has publicly financed direct action pro-Palestine activism, used an April 30, 2026 thread on X to accuse the Party for Socialism and Liberation of suppressing Palestine Action U.S. shortly after its launch in October 2023 and channeling activist energy into a more tightly managed protest apparatus.
The thread broadens Chambers’ earlier allegation that PSL “wholly funds, staffs, and controls” The People’s Forum, BreakThrough News, and ANSWER Coalition by adding a new claim: that PSL not only overlaps organizationally with those groups, but also intervened strategically to restrain direct action against Elbit Systems in the United States.
From Network Claims to Tactical Accusations
The new thread followed Chambers’ earlier post alleging that PSL sat at the center of a tightly managed network involving The People’s Forum, BreakThrough News, ANSWER Coalition, and the International People’s Assembly. In that earlier post, Chambers also shared a hand-drawn diagram he said was made in 2023 by BreakThrough News editor-in-chief Ben Becker and Tricontinental’s Vijay Prashad, placing PSL at the center of the ecosystem.
Fergie Chambers Alleges People’s Forum Is Controlled by Party for Socialism and Liberation
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In the April 30 thread, Chambers shifted from structural allegations to operational ones. He said that at the height of his connection to Roy Singham, PSL, and The People’s Forum, he helped launch Palestine Action U.S. in October 2023 to support direct action against Elbit and other weapons firms through media and legal backing.
The law-enforcement concern around Palestine Action U.S. was already visible in October 2023, when Los Angeles Magazine reported, citing two law enforcement officials, that federal agencies had “received intelligence” that the group could pose a homeland-security threat because it was “well-funded with Chambers money.”
Chambers Says PSL Tried to Rein In the Campaign
Chambers wrote that PSL leadership moved quickly to stop Palestine Action U.S. from developing into a sustained direct-action effort. He said leaders urged him to convince activists not to proceed and claimed local PSL chapters were instructed not to participate in or even show solidarity with Palestine Action U.S. events. He also said that before the first Cambridge action, “the Beckers/Manolo” tried to quietly fly him and Calla Walsh to New York to meet with local and national leadership at The People’s Forum in an effort to de-escalate the action.
That reference to Calla Walsh is one of the thread’s more concrete details. Walsh later became one of the most visible defendants tied to Palestine Action U.S. actions. She was among the activists arrested on the roof during the November 2023 action at Elbit’s Merrimack, New Hampshire facility, according to NBC. The case was later resolved through misdemeanor guilty pleas and jail sentences, with most of the one-year sentence deferred, according to New Hampshire Public Radio.
In March 2026, The Free Press’ Jay Solomon reported, citing U.S. officials, that Walsh had been placed on a suspicious-persons watch list over what the outlet described as her dealings with Cuba, Iran, and U.S.-designated terrorist groups; Solomon’s article also characterized her as having aligned herself with Iran’s “Axis of Resistance,” including Hamas and Hezbollah.
Merrimack as the Breaking Point
Chambers’ thread argues that the split became unmistakable after the Merrimack action. He said that when Palestine Action activists were arrested there, PSL, BreakThrough News, and their “tentacles” stayed silent, while allied influencers publicly denounced the activists as “adventurist” and accused him of conspiracy and grooming. He added that those arrested in Merrimack, along with activist Casey Goonan, “would not have been abandoned by mass movement” if PSL had used its full organizational, legal, and financial apparatus on their behalf.
NBC Boston, citing Merrimack police, reported that protesters blocked the driveway, three people were arrested on the roof, and officers found spray paint, smashed windows and skylights, HVAC damage, and smoke linked to an incendiary device or similar device.
“Shut It Down for Palestine”
Chambers claims that shortly after Palestine Action U.S. launched and began attracting attention, PSL leaders convened an emergency “direct action” meeting with select coalition partners. He says that meeting produced “Shut It Down for Palestine,” which he described as an effort to redirect enthusiasm for militant direct action into repetitive, lower-risk street mobilization.
Publicly, the campaign was being promoted by early November 2023 by The People’s Forum and partner groups including the Palestinian Youth Movement, National Students for Justice in Palestine, ANSWER Coalition, and the International Peoples’ Assembly.
Entrapment Allegation Broadens the Dispute
Near the end of the thread, Chambers added another allegation that widens the dispute beyond protest tactics. He wrote that he had not even addressed what he described as an attempted “digestion” of his land project, and claimed that one national leader in the Singham-linked network who was “former military” tried to entrap him through text messages about “illegal gun shipments.” Chambers did not identify the individual or publish the messages in the thread.
That allegation stands out because it introduces a possible security and law-enforcement dimension to what had otherwise been framed as a political and organizational dispute. At this stage, however, Chambers presented it as a personal claim without documentary evidence attached publicly in the thread.
Funding Questions Remain in the Background
Chambers also mocked The People’s Forum’s current effort to raise money for a permanent Manhattan space, writing that the organization now wants supporters to provide the $5 million needed for renovations because “Roy doesn’t want to pay for that.” The fundraiser says the group has purchased a building in New York City and needs to raise $5 million in total, with an immediate goal of $2 million from individual donors by December 2026.