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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    6 hours ago

    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?

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      5 hours 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.