State assembly member, Zohran Mamdani, has introduced the "Not on our dime!: Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence" act to prohibit tax-deductible donations from being used to expel Palestinians from their land and other activities widely regarded as war crimes under the Geneva conventions.
The United Nations security council has called Israeli settlement construction "a flagrant violation under international law".
"This legislation makes it clear that New York will no longer effectively subsidise war crimes and the flouting of international law," Mamdani told the Guardian...
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