The ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza has spurred a proliferation of US-based “charitable” organizations fundraising to support the Israeli military and violent settlers.
For decades, New York-registered organizations have been the tip of the spear funding violent Israeli settler organizations and military units involved in war crimes against the Palestinian people. Registered as charities under New York State law, these organizations have operated with virtually no oversight and no accountability. They have sent tens of millions of dollars to fund war crimes waged by Israeli military units devastating Gaza; they have emboldened - and armed - settlers expelling Palestinians from their homes.
By allowing these groups to masquerade as charities, New York State is subsidizing Israel's illegal settlement expansion and state violence against Palestinians. The Not on Our Dime! Campaign was launched to stop this flow of money, and to hold these organizations to account.
We first introduced this bill in May of 2023, which, to that point, was the most violent year on record for Palestinians in the West Bank. At the time, the bill was exclusively focused on prohibiting NY charities from funding Israeli settler violence.
In May 2024 – one year later and amidst a devastating Israeli military assault on Palestinians in Gaza – we expanded the bill’s scope. Despite broad consensus among courts and legal experts that the Israeli military was plausibly committing genocide in Gaza, NY-based organizations were openly fundraising to support the Israeli military’s onslaught with no accountability or oversight. We amended the bill to bring that surge to a halt.
We cannot rely on the federal government. What New York based non-profits do abroad is absolutely a matter for New York state government or state oversight.
This is especially true in this moment, as the Trump administration rolls back the minimal checks previously implemented by the federal government, including at the IRS which has historically been tasked with ensuring that U.S.-based non-profits not engage in illegal activity. Instead, this President has openly embraced Israel’s policies of illegally annexing the West Bank and continues to offer unconditional support to the war crimes committed daily in Gaza. On January 20, 2025 they de-designated the few violent settler leaders that were previously sanctioned by the Biden administration. The Trump administration has also led the charge in attacking long-serving humanitarian organizations providing the few lifelines to the starving, besieged population in Gaza. Instead, they have propped up and funded U.S.-registered not-for-profit corporations working hand-in-hand with mercenaries and the Israeli military to run “aid sites” where hundreds of Palestinians seeking flour, water and medication have been gunned down by the Israeli military.
This is a mask-off moment, and the call has never been clearer for New York State: New Yorkers do not stand for funding war crimes. Not on Our dime!
Not On Our Dime! Ending NY Funding of Israeli Settler Violence Act
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The Crisis
As of July 1, 2025, more than 58,000 Palestinians – mostly civilians and nearly half of them children – have been killed by the Israeli military since October 2023. The real estimates are likely far higher.
These horrors are the latest and most egregious amidst the violence of illegal Israeli settlements and the expulsion of Palestinians from their land that has been happening for over 75 years.
The settler project in the West Bank is also intensifying. Violent Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian villages have become a daily occurrence. Prominent Israeli settler leaders, including many whose organizations have over the years received significant donations from New York State, are now in positions of significant power.
Since Israel launched its war on Gaza, the settler movement has been emboldened, threatening and expelling entire towns of Palestinians in the West Bank in record numbers. The military assault in Gaza and the intimidation and expulsion of Palestinian communities by settler groups in the West Bank are reinforcing strategies of genocide.
Rising instances of settler violence against Palestinian communities in the West Bank, with the forcible transfer of over 1,000 from their homes, often by means of brutal assault and torture and with weapons provided by the Israeli government, led the Biden Administration to impose sanctions on a number of known settlers and settler groups through measures announced in February 2024, and later expanded.
How the crisis connects to us
While it may feel far away, many of the settler organizations and military units responsible for these war crimes are actually funded by organizations here in New York State.
- Hashomer YOSH, one of the groups sanctioned under the previous administration, used New York-registered charities to fundraise.
- An Israeli drone manufacturer that developed drones that were bespoke for the Israeli military’s use in Gaza was soliciting tax-deductible donations through a New York-based non-profit.
- The Long-Island-based One Israel Fund raised over $2 million – what they typically raise in a year –in just the last few months of 2023, for thermal drones and surveillance cameras for settlers. One of the individuals, who appears in a video thanking the One Israel Fund for a drone, was named by President Biden’s sanction of violent settlers.
- NY-registered Israel Gives is conducting tax-deductible crowdfunding for Israeli armed forces, including those currently in Gaza.
- JGives, a US- and NY-registered nonprofit, has also run fundraising campaigns for the IDF, including a fundraiser for the Yahalom unit fighting in Gaza.
Despite being in direct violation of international human rights laws, these organizations masquerade as charities, funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to fund war crimes. By allowing them non-profit status, New York State is effectively subsidizing these atrocities.
We must refuse this charade and interrupt funding for human rights violations overseas.
It is within our power to put an end to this. Join us in uplifting the Not on Our Dime!: End NY Funding of Israeli War Crimes campaign to ensure not another dollar is spent on subsidizing Israel's illegal settlement expansion and state violence against Palestinians.
The Legislation
The bill (A6101/S606), held by Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani and Senator Jabari Brisport, clarifies that funding Israeli settlement activity and any violations of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court by NYS charities is illegal. As such, it prohibits NY-based organizations claiming non-profit status from abusing this status to reinforce and further Israeli war crimes.
The legislation also supports the enforcement of any violations by allowing the Attorney General to dissolve the nonprofit status of and fine organizations that knowingly fund settler activity a sum no less than 1 million dollars. It also explicitly empowers Palestinians who have been harmed by the violence funded by these New York-based charities to file a lawsuit against them.
Not on Our Dime! makes clear that New Yorkers do not support violations of international law. By explicitly naming war crimes in the West Bank and Gaza, this legislation responds to the crucial financial support for Israeli settler and military violence provided by New York registered charities, signals New Yorkers’ values, and directs enforcement priorities. This is a first-in-the-nation bill and would be a first under New York law.
Supporting the campaign also signals to those who currently have the power to stop these groups - like the New York Attorney General - that they should use that power, regardless of whether the bill passes.
Who We Are
We are a group of individuals and organizations who believe that our state should not be complicit in genocide or apartheid. For decades, Palestinians have called on the international community to identify the various ways jurisdictions are financially supporting Israel’s military occupation of Palestinian land, and to end them. Researchers and journalists have identified that money flows directly from U.S. organizations, including those based in New York State, to violent Israeli settler groups and military operations. New Yorkers heeded this call and launched Not on Our Dime!
The scope of the bill was expanded in May 2024 to reflect the additional fundraising for escalating war crimes in both the West Bank and Gaza.
For decades, New York-registered organizations have been the tip of the spear funding violent Israeli settler organizations and military units involved in war crimes against the Palestinian people. Registered as charities under New York State law, these organizations have operated with virtually no oversight and no accountability. They have sent tens of millions of dollars to fund war crimes waged by Israeli military units devastating Gaza; they have emboldened - and armed - settlers expelling Palestinians from their homes.
By allowing these groups to masquerade as charities, New York State is subsidizing Israel's illegal settlement expansion and state violence against Palestinians. The Not on Our Dime! Campaign was launched to stop this flow of money, and to hold these organizations to account.
We first introduced this bill in May of 2023, which, to that point, was the most violent year on record for Palestinians in the West Bank. At the time, the bill was exclusively focused on prohibiting NY charities from funding Israeli settler violence.
In May 2024 – one year later and amidst a devastating Israeli military assault on Palestinians in Gaza – we expanded the bill’s scope. Despite broad consensus among courts and legal experts that the Israeli military was plausibly committing genocide in Gaza, NY-based organizations were openly fundraising to support the Israeli military’s onslaught with no accountability or oversight. We amended the bill to bring that surge to a halt.
We cannot rely on the federal government. What New York based non-profits do abroad is absolutely a matter for New York state government or state oversight.
This is especially true in this moment, as the Trump administration rolls back the minimal checks previously implemented by the federal government, including at the IRS which has historically been tasked with ensuring that U.S.-based non-profits not engage in illegal activity. Instead, this President has openly embraced Israel’s policies of illegally annexing the West Bank and continues to offer unconditional support to the war crimes committed daily in Gaza. On January 20, 2025 they de-designated the few violent settler leaders that were previously sanctioned by the Biden administration. The Trump administration has also led the charge in attacking long-serving humanitarian organizations providing the few lifelines to the starving, besieged population in Gaza. Instead, they have propped up and funded U.S.-registered not-for-profit corporations working hand-in-hand with mercenaries and the Israeli military to run “aid sites” where hundreds of Palestinians seeking flour, water and medication have been gunned down by the Israeli military.
This is a mask-off moment, and the call has never been clearer for New York State: New Yorkers do not stand for funding war crimes. Not on Our dime!
The Crisis
As of July 1, 2025, more than 58,000 Palestinians – mostly civilians and nearly half of them children – have been killed by the Israeli military since October 2023. The real estimates are likely far higher.
These horrors are the latest and most egregious amidst the violence of illegal Israeli settlements and the expulsion of Palestinians from their land that has been happening for over 75 years.
The settler project in the West Bank is also intensifying. Violent Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian villages have become a daily occurrence. Prominent Israeli settler leaders, including many whose organizations have over the years received significant donations from New York State, are now in positions of significant power.
Since Israel launched its war on Gaza, the settler movement has been emboldened, threatening and expelling entire towns of Palestinians in the West Bank in record numbers. The military assault in Gaza and the intimidation and expulsion of Palestinian communities by settler groups in the West Bank are reinforcing strategies of genocide.
Rising instances of settler violence against Palestinian communities in the West Bank, with the forcible transfer of over 1,000 from their homes, often by means of brutal assault and torture and with weapons provided by the Israeli government, led the Biden Administration to impose sanctions on a number of known settlers and settler groups through measures announced in February 2024, and later expanded.
How the crisis connects to us
While it may feel far away, many of the settler organizations and military units responsible for these war crimes are actually funded by organizations here in New York State.
- Hashomer YOSH, one of the groups sanctioned under the previous administration, used New York-registered charities to fundraise.
- An Israeli drone manufacturer that developed drones that were bespoke for the Israeli military’s use in Gaza was soliciting tax-deductible donations through a New York-based non-profit.
- The Long-Island-based One Israel Fund raised over $2 million – what they typically raise in a year –in just the last few months of 2023, for thermal drones and surveillance cameras for settlers. One of the individuals, who appears in a video thanking the One Israel Fund for a drone, was named by President Biden’s sanction of violent settlers.
- NY-registered Israel Gives is conducting tax-deductible crowdfunding for Israeli armed forces, including those currently in Gaza.
- JGives, a US- and NY-registered nonprofit, has also run fundraising campaigns for the IDF, including a fundraiser for the Yahalom unit fighting in Gaza.
Despite being in direct violation of international human rights laws, these organizations masquerade as charities, funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to fund war crimes. By allowing them non-profit status, New York State is effectively subsidizing these atrocities.
We must refuse this charade and interrupt funding for human rights violations overseas.
It is within our power to put an end to this. Join us in uplifting the Not on Our Dime!: End NY Funding of Israeli War Crimes campaign to ensure not another dollar is spent on subsidizing Israel's illegal settlement expansion and state violence against Palestinians.
The Legislation
The bill (A6101/S606), held by Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani and Senator Jabari Brisport, clarifies that funding Israeli settlement activity and any violations of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court by NYS charities is illegal. As such, it prohibits NY-based organizations claiming non-profit status from abusing this status to reinforce and further Israeli war crimes.
The legislation also supports the enforcement of any violations by allowing the Attorney General to dissolve the nonprofit status of and fine organizations that knowingly fund settler activity a sum no less than 1 million dollars. It also explicitly empowers Palestinians who have been harmed by the violence funded by these New York-based charities to file a lawsuit against them.
Not on Our Dime! makes clear that New Yorkers do not support violations of international law. By explicitly naming war crimes in the West Bank and Gaza, this legislation responds to the crucial financial support for Israeli settler and military violence provided by New York registered charities, signals New Yorkers’ values, and directs enforcement priorities. This is a first-in-the-nation bill and would be a first under New York law.
Supporting the campaign also signals to those who currently have the power to stop these groups - like the New York Attorney General - that they should use that power, regardless of whether the bill passes.
Who We Are
We are a group of individuals and organizations who believe that our state should not be complicit in genocide or apartheid. For decades, Palestinians have called on the international community to identify the various ways jurisdictions are financially supporting Israel’s military occupation of Palestinian land, and to end them. Researchers and journalists have identified that money flows directly from U.S. organizations, including those based in New York State, to violent Israeli settler groups and military operations. New Yorkers heeded this call and launched Not on Our Dime!
The scope of the bill was expanded in May 2024 to reflect the additional fundraising for escalating war crimes in both the West Bank and Gaza.
