Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) on Friday formally petitioned the IRS to investigate the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)—a “virulently antisemitic” activist group that released maggots into Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hotel room last year—for potential violations of the U.S. tax code, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
Cotton, chair of the Senate Republican Conference, wrote in a letter to acting IRS commissioner Scott Bessent that the PYM has flouted U.S. law by receiving tax-exempt donations through a third-party nonprofit called Honor the Earth.
“PYM receives funding from Honor the Earth, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization,” Cotton wrote. “PYM’s website states, ‘We also accept checks payable to ‘Honor the Earth’’ and says U.S.-based donations are tax deductible. I believe PYM’s activities, particularly its support for terrorist organizations such as Hamas, should prevent it from receiving tax exempt donations.”
The activist group, the senator alleged, “is clearly operating outside of the acceptable scope of activities” permitted under U.S. tax code, “as is Honor the Earth by sending funds to PYM.” Consequently, Cotton contended, the IRS must immediately probe the PYM’s “funding sources for violations.”
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