After 2 years of pro-Hamas riots that included multiple assaults on Jewish New Yorkers, streets being blocked off and synagogues terrorized, including a mob chanting “We support Hamas” outside a synagogue last week, New York’s Attorney General Letitia James finally acted by… forcing the shutdown of Betar, a pro-Israel activist group, accusing it of “widespread persecution of Muslim, Arab, Palestinian(s)”

Attorney General Letitia James, an ally of Mamdani, claimed that Betar’s activism is “driven by broad hostility and animus toward several protected groups, in violation of New York civil rights laws.”

Her evidence of this was that “members repeatedly referred to keffiyehs – traditional Palestinian scarves – as “rape rags” and claimed that Muslims “hate America.” Betar publicly circulated content celebrating violence against Palestinians, including social media posts mocking civilian deaths, declaring hatred toward Gazans, and calling for further bloodshed.”