A bipartisan bill would give the secretary of the treasury unilateral power to classify any charity as a terrorist-supporting organization, automatically stripping away its nonprofit status. The bill, H.R. 6408, already passed the House of Representatives in November, and a companion bill, S. 4136, was introduced to the Senate by Sens. John Cornyn (R–Texas) and Angus King (I–Maine) last week.
In theory, the bill is a measure to fight terrorism financing. At least, that's what sponsor Rep. David Kustoff (R–Tenn.) claimed. "I urge the swift passage of this legislation that will significantly diminish the ability of Hamas and other terrorist groups to finance their operations and carry out future attacks," he said in a November statement.
Financing terrorism is already very illegal. Anyone who gives money, goods, or services to a U.S.-designated terrorist organization can be charged with a felony under the Antiterrorism Act and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. And those terrorist organizations are already banned from claiming tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the tax code. Nine charities have been shut down since 2001 under the law.
The new bill would allow the feds to shut down a charity without an official terrorism designation. It creates a new label called "terrorist-supporting organization" that the secretary of the treasury could slap onto nonprofits, removing their tax exempt status within 90 days. Only the secretary of the treasury could cancel that designation.
More absolute insanity out of @Columbia tonight.
“Al-Qassam you make us proud! Take another soldier out!”
“We say justice, you say how? Burn Tel Aviv to the ground!”
“Hamas we love you. We support your rockets too!”
“Red, black, green, and white, we support Hamas’ fight!”
“It is right to rebel, Al-Qassam, give them hell!”
“It is right to rebel, Hamas give them hell!”
“Free, free, free Palestine!”
Jihadists are openly chanting for terrorism on the streets of New York.
You can officially stop pretending that "pro-Palestine" doesn't mean pro-Hamas, pro-terrorism and pro-Jihad. We can see for ourselves.
i don’t know about you but i certainly believe in the right to resist oppression
is it really terrorism to even try to take down an apartheid who’s taken your land, killed your family, raped and starved and abducted your people and beaten your friends?
a victim of rape is allowed to hit their rapist, hamas is rightful resistence
Mother’s farewell to son found in mass grave in Nasser Hospital
Please watch this. Please reblog, repost (not just on tumblr, but on other social medias aswell), boost the video (ie commenting, liking the video, replying, any kinds of interaction helps), and share/spread this. Stay vocal and stay active.
This. Everyone needs to be fucking talking about what’s happening not just to Jewish college students, but to Jews across the world. Antisemitism is RACING upwards right now because people feel SAFE TO BE ANTISEMITIC. There is zero backlash because if you stand up for the nation’s Jews, you’re called ‘pro-genocide’, ‘Zionist’, ‘Islamophobic.’
Antisemitism can not be permitted or tolerated at this level. STAND UP FOR JEWS. DO NOT ALLOW THIS.