NEW YORK — Lawyers for New York City are investigating an event that sold merchandise in support of terrorist groups, a spokesperson at the New York City Council said last week.

Vendors sold keychains, stickers and pins in support of US-designated terrorist groups during a fundraiser at the Muslim American Society youth center in Brooklyn last week, in an incident first reported by The Times of Israel.

The merchandise had the logos of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and images of the late terrorist leaders Yahya Sinwar of Hamas and Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah.

The US State Department has designated all three groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

Other items said “Death to the IDF” and “Let’s go bomb Tel Aviv,” showed Leila Khaled a PFLP member who helped hijack a plane in 1969, or had inverted red triangles, a Hamas symbol.

The New York Post reported that the Muslim American Society’s New York branch has received $265,000 in discretionary funds from the New York City Council since 2023. Council members are granted budgets for discretionary funds, which they allocate to nonprofits of their choosing to fill local needs.

The Muslim American Society of New York is a nonprofit that had........

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