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A New York-based Zionist group that is taking credit for the Trump administration’s arrest of Columbia University student organizer Mahmoud Khalil may be raising funds without being registered as a charity, a violation of the law.

As a New York-based charity, Betar USA is required to register with the state before it can solicit donations from the public.

But despite being based in New York, the organization cannot be found in the state’s charities database.

Betar USA is notorious for spreading hatred against Palestinians and has explicitly and directly incited the mass murder of Palestinian babies.

In a now-deleted tweet, Betar USA gave this blood-curdling response: “Not enough. We demand blood in Gaza.”

The group is so explicit in its hatred of Palestinians that even the Anti-Defamation League, one of the leading anti-Palestinian lobby groups in the United States, has added Betar USA to its “extremism database.”

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[–] Placebonickname@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Law Enforcement arrested that poor man without a cause or a warrant. This is the sorta shit that makes me sad and afraid for our non-white American neighbors.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're coming for white Americans sooner than later; going after the more vulnerable first is just what fascists do.

[–] Placebonickname@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m afraid for people with disabilities too. Cutting SSI (Social Security money given to people who cannot work but are under the age of retirement). I’m worried that Trump will label these people as a drain on our communities and they took will be harassed, laid off, marginalized, imprisoned…and so fourth.

Sadly, this is another page out of the Nazi play book where men and women who could not contribute to the slave labor camp were executed.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m worried that Trump will label these people as a drain on our communities

Isn't that basically what the pulling yourself by your bootstraps stuff is all about?

[–] Placebonickname@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have a really great friend who deployed with me so Iraq the second time, while we run patrol near Baghdad, he stepped on some sort of explosive device, and it blew both his legs below the knee off, and he lost three of the five fingers on his left hand. He gets 100% VA disability and SSI from Social Security but he’ll never be able to pull his own boots straps up again. those are the kind of people. I’m most worried about when they talk about eliminating and cutting Social Security. 

[–] DonJefe@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who would have thought that Jewish people would resort to Nazi tactics?! Zionism has become a cancer in US society

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago

Who would have thought that Jewish people would resort to Nazi tactics?!

Anybody who paid attention to Palestine at any point in the past 80 years?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

“Happy is the one who seizes your infants and smashes them against the rocks” - Psalm 137:9

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Betar USA is notorious for spreading hatred against Palestinians and has explicitly and directly incited the mass murder of Palestinian babies.

It's ironic that the headline charge against this group of Zionists is based their speech. Their possible role in Khalil's kidnapping, and their likely illegal activity is burred below the flimsy accusation of "incitement" which I'll remind you is also the rational behind the recent Luigi censorship.