🚨 The New York Attorney General Just Shut Down a Leading Jewish Organization for Terrorism & Violence Against Muslims. It Was Acting on Behalf of Israel. They Should Be in Jail.

The tactic is simple: terrorize people, claim “law,” then hide behind bureaucracy when accountability shows up.

The State of New York just did something that should’ve happened a long time ago.

The New York State Attorney General’s office just moved to stop a New York-based Jewish extremist group from using intimidation, harassment, and violence to terrorize people in our streets.

And the details are sickening — because they weren’t just targeting Palestinians and Muslims. They were targeting anyone who wouldn’t bow to their ideology, including Jewish New Yorkers who disagreed with them.

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Now let’s talk about what New York found — because this is what “extremism” actually looks like when it’s allowed to grow. Here is the official letter confirming they will be disbanded. I am sure they will just pop up in another form, though.

Betar Zionist Organization Inc Assurance Of Discontinuance 2025

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This wasn’t “politics.” This was a campaign of intimidation.
A pattern. Repeated behavior. And it was aimed at people’s religion, their national origin, their identity — and their right to protest.

According to the Attorney General’s findings, the group openly described its mission in terms that should make any decent person’s skin crawl: “get Jews armed” and “attend and disrupt” protests. Not debate. Not persuade. Disrupt. And when it came to violence, the messaging wasn’t subtle. It was essentially: we’re at war, and violence is part of the plan.

That’s not “free speech.” That’s preparing people for assault. That’s building a culture where harming someone becomes normal — even celebrated.

And the language? Dehumanizing.

The Attorney General’s filing describes repeated slurs and degrading talk about Palestinians and Muslims — including the vile way keffiyehs were referred to. That matters, because dehumanization isn’t just ugly talk. Historically, it’s the rampthat leads people to believe violence is justified.

But here’s the part many people won’t expect: the targeting wasn’t limited to Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinians.

Jewish New Yorkers who spoke up — who opposed the group’s ideology — were also targeted. The findings describe threats to compile lists of Jewish activists to share with foreign authorities to block travel. Think about how twisted that is: trying to punish Jews for being the “wrong kind” of Jew, for having the “wrong” beliefs, for refusing to fall in line.

This is what extremism does. It eats its own. It demands loyalty. It punishes dissent. It makes fear the price of speaking.

And then there’s the “pager” harassment.

If you’re not familiar with what that means, here’s the plain truth: Israel used pagers with bombs in them to injure and kill thousands of Muslim men, women, and children in Lebanon. The Attorney General’s filing describes incidents where people were approached — including students — and pressured, harassed, even physically forced, to accept “beepers.” The point wasn’t a joke. The point was threat — a reference designed to frighten people into silence. That is not protest. That is terrorizing someone in public because of what they wear, what they believe, or who they are perceived to be.

The findings also describe something else that has become a favorite tool of the far-right — because it works: threaten deportation.

Threaten to report protesters to immigration authorities. Make people wonder if speaking out will cost them their safety, their family, their future. Even when those threats are exaggerated, the intent is clear: chill speech by making the consequences feel fatal.

And it gets even darker: the Attorney General’s filing describes claims about using facial recognition and compiling lists for deportation — the kind of claim that makes people feel like the state is watching them. That is exactly the kind of fear tactic authoritarian movements use: make citizens feel hunted.

Then there are the physical incidents. The Attorney General’s filing describes harassment escalating into intimidation and assault — including stalking people, threatening them directly, and even threats that people would be followed to their homes. That isn’t “activism.” That’s organized menace.

And the Attorney General’s filing describes encouragement to bring weapons to protests — not “safety,” but pepper spray, knives, and items framed as tools to strike people. It even describes urging supporters to bring attack dogs. Think about that. In New York City. In public. Around families. Around students. Around people exercising constitutionally protected rights.

It reads like a page out of the worst eras of American political violence, where mobs felt authorized — even righteous — because they believed the state would look away.

That’s why this intervention matters. Because when intimidation becomes normal, violence follows. When violence follows, people stop showing up. And when people stop showing up, the loudest extremists win.

And I want to be very, very clear about one thing: none of this is “pro-Jewish.”
It’s not pro-safety. It’s not pro-democracy. It is pro-fear. It is pro-violence. It is pro-silencing.

And when any government lets that grow — when it shrugs at it, excuses it, rationalizes it — it teaches the public the most dangerous lesson of all:

Some people are above the law. Some people get to terrorize others and call it “patriotism.”

New York is saying: not here.

But we also have to name what this is connected to.

Because in the same season that Gaza has been pushed deeper into catastrophe, we are watching the normalization of harassment as politics, dehumanization as entertainment, violence as branding, and deportation threats as a casual tool — and it is spreading.

This is why I’m going to keep reporting. This is why I’m going to keep naming it. And this is why I need you with me.

If you believe intimidation should never win — if you believe Muslims, Jews, Palestinians, Arabs, and every neighbor in this city deserves safety — if you believe protest is not terrorism and harassment is not civic virtue — then I’m asking you to help fund the work.

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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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