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.
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.
In his first week as New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani revoked executive orders barring city agencies from supporting boycotts of Israel and rescinded the city’s adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism — prompting accusations of antisemitism from the Israeli government.
Eight days after Gov. DeSantis branded CAIR a “foreign terrorist organization” by executive order, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group filed a federal lawsuit challenging the designation as unconstitutional. DeSantis welcomed the suit, saying he looked forward to “discovery — especially the CAIR finances.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order designating CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as “foreign terrorist organizations” — a designation the federal government has not made. That same evening, he told Florida lawmakers to make it permanent law. CAIR called it unconstitutional and announced plans to sue.
United Voices warns that states cannot create their own terrorist designations and says any accusation against a civil rights organization must proceed through lawful federal processes and due process protections.
Jewish leaders and Democrats are calling Florida’s proposed Shari’a ban hypocritical and unconstitutional. The bill’s sponsor and sole Democratic co-sponsor are both Jewish and pro-Israel. Critics say the bill, filed on the Oct 7 anniversary, amounts to collective punishment of Florida’s Muslim community.

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.