Article 74THN Man charged with US firebomb plot is linked to group whose leaders back violence against Palestinians

Man charged with US firebomb plot is linked to group whose leaders back violence against Palestinians

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Jason Wilson
from World news | The Guardian on (#74THN)

Revealed: JDL 613 Brotherhood has platformed a convicted terrorist and its video recordings display an obsessive antipathy to New York's mayor, Zohran Mamdani

A man who has been charged with plotting to firebomb a pro-Palestine activist's home is tied to a group whose leaders support violence against Palestinians and have platformed a convicted terrorist who fundraises for a violent settler movement in the occupied West Bank.

Video recordings by the group, called JDL 613 Brotherhood, also reveal its leaders possess an obsessive antipathy to New York's mayor, Zohran Mamdani. They feature the organization's founder, Yisrael Yaacob Ben Avraham, describing Mamdani as a Muslim terrorist", a cancer", and his election a harbinger" of a creeping Islamic takeover of America".

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