BETAR USA has been on a harassment spree, claiming to have provided the Trump admin with a list of names of students on visas to deport and, more recently, offering cash to anyone who tries intimidating Within Our Lifetime chair Nerdeen Kiswani by harassing her at a vigil for Hind Rajab and— - ThreadSky

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taliajane.bsky.social • 85 days ago

BETAR USA has been on a harassment spree, claiming to have provided the Trump admin with a list of names of students on visas to deport and, more recently, offering cash to anyone who tries intimidating Within Our Lifetime chair Nerdeen Kiswani by harassing her at a vigil for Hind Rajab and—

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taliajane.bsky.social•85 days ago

offering her a beeper, which is understood by both parties to be a terroristic threat of violence.

In response, Kiswani posted some public information: A 2019 New York Post article about Betar USA executive director Ross Glick, who systematically used revenge porn to silence women.

taliajane.bsky.social•85 days ago

Almost no one showed up to harass the vigil aside from four of the usual far-right nutters who were left ranting at a bored line of cops a firm distance away, a fact which was put on blast directly to Betar and which thoroughly humiliated their efforts at seeming bigger than they are.

taliajane.bsky.social•85 days ago

Betar has since scrambled to claim Glick has no affiliation with them in light of the resurgence of the NYPost article (from 2019: https://nypost.com/2019/02/25/the-disturbing-story-behind-nycs-revenge-porn-perpetrators/)

Kiswani linked to several recent sources — including Betar — identifying Glick as the executive director of the group. https://x.com/NerdeenKiswani/status/1885846927821996438

taliajane.bsky.social•85 days ago

The whole situation is terrible: Terrible that such a repugnant person/group can hold any kind of space (& 501c3 status as of 2024), that a voice for human rights has to face such harassment, that there’s a cottage industry for revenge porn, that purportedly “good” politicians ignore all of it—

taliajane.bsky.social•85 days ago

It is also an exceptional example of how effective simply holding a mirror to the actions of fascist extremists can be.

The article about Glick isn’t new. It’s not terribly hard to find.

And yet just pointing it out, Kiswani packed him the fuck up.

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