(Free Beacon) 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.”
