NEW YORK — Leftist lawmakers in the New York State government on Friday announced a bill targeting nonprofits linked to settlements, resurrecting a previous failed legislative effort by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Mamdani first introduced the so-called Not on our Dime legislation in 2023 while he was a state assemblymember, before becoming mayor.

Jewish groups opposed that bill because they said it would have punished charities that operate in settlements, but do not advance settlement activity, such as volunteer ambulances, and would have effectively stripped nonprofit status from a swath of Jewish organizations.

The far left has made inroads in New York since then, and Democrats have increasingly turned against Israel.

The bill, and Mamdani’s support for the effort, will likely further strain ties between mainstream Jewish organizations and the mayor and energize the anti-Zionist movement in New York.

With the new bill announced during the Shavuot holiday, there was no immediate response from Jewish groups.

The new legislation, also called Not on our Dime, is led by representatives Diana Morena in the State Assembly and Jabari Brisport in the State Senate.

Morena is a democratic socialist like Mamdani and represents Mamdani’s former district in Queens, and Brisport is a leftist ally of the mayor who, alongside him, sponsored the previous........

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