New York Attorney General Letitia James has reached a settlement with Betar US, the far-right Zionist group, forcing it to end its ‘campaign of violence, harassment, and intimidation’ targeting Arab, Muslim, and Jewish New Yorkers who supported Palestinian rights.
United Voices applauds Virginia Sen. Mark Warner for using his Senate floor address to demand that colleagues loudly and resolutely condemn Islamophobia and anti-Arab hate — calling it the kind of moral clarity public officials must show as harassment and violence against Muslim and Arab communities continues to rise.
On January 9, Rep. Hillary Cassel withdrew her “No Shari’a Act” and filed HB 1471 — a sweeping bill that absorbs the anti-Shari’a provisions and adds the power to designate domestic terrorist organizations, expel students, cut off school vouchers, and prosecute supporters. A companion bill makes the process secret. It is exactly what DeSantis called for one month earlier.
A UK medical tribunal has cleared Palestinian surgeon and Glasgow University Rector Ghassan Abu-Sittah of all charges of antisemitism and professional misconduct — charges brought by UK Lawyers for Israel after he wrote a political opinion piece criticizing Palestinian elites.
United Voices is calling on Virginia public schools to reject outgoing Attorney General Jason Miyares’ push to adopt the controversial IHRA definition of antisemitism — warning that using it to punish students who criticize the Israeli government would violate the First Amendment and trigger legal action.
Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir is advancing a bill that would require government permits for mosques to use loudspeakers for the Muslim call to prayer — framing a thousand-year-old religious practice as a noise violation requiring police enforcement.
Greta Thunberg was arrested in London under the UK Terrorism Act for holding a sign reading ‘I support Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide’ — part of a wave of 2,700+ arrests under a designation that a High Court would later rule unlawful.

ICE Is Using Tactics Developed by the Israeli Occupation Military — and That’s Not a Metaphor
The killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis is part of a broader pattern: ICE has formal training relationships with the Israeli occupation military, and pro-Israel doxxing groups are directly supplying names of activists for targeting by federal agencies.