The group, Betar US, gained attention last year after claiming it had compiled the names of campus protesters against the war in Gaza and submitted them to Trump administration officials, urging deportation. In one incident noted by James’ office, a member of Betar last year repeatedly urged pro-Palestinian protesters at a New York campus to take beepers — a reference to Israel’s detonation of thousands of electronic pagers to kill and wound members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia. “We urge everyone to bring dogs, borrow a pit bull,” the group posted before a February 2025 protest in New York against the sale of land in the West Bank.
Author: ADAM GELLER Associated Press
Published at: 2026-01-13 23:09:42
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