An anonymous Islamic website operating from Western territory has published assassination bounties of up to $100,000 targeting Jewish academics worldwide, marking what security officials describe as an unprecedented escalation in anti-Semitic terrorism that threatens American citizens on U.S. soil.
Assassination Market Targets American Academics
The “Punishment for Justice Movement” website has created a sophisticated assassination marketplace targeting hundreds of Jewish academics from prestigious institutions including Harvard University, Ben-Gurion University, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The platform publishes victims’ home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, social media accounts, and identification numbers. This represents a chilling evolution of anti-Semitic terrorism, moving beyond traditional hate crimes to organized, financially-incentivized violence against American citizens and allies.
🇮🇱 — ANTISEMITISM: An anti-Zionist extremist group has posted online bounties of up to $100,000 for the murder of Israeli academics, publishing their home addresses, phone numbers, emails, and ID numbers on its website.
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Escalating Payment Structure for Terror Acts
The website operates with a detailed bounty system that rewards increasingly violent acts. Operators offer $1,000 for installing threatening notices at victims’ homes, $5,000 for personal information gathering, and $20,000 for arson attacks on vehicles or residences. The most disturbing aspect involves $50,000 payments for murder, with “special targets” commanding doubled bounties of $100,000. This systematic approach to incentivizing terrorism represents a direct threat to American lives and constitutional freedoms.
Among the high-value targets, physicist Shikma Bressler faces specific threats with $2,000 offered for placing signs outside her home and $100,000 for her assassination. The site identifies prominent figures including Prof. Daniel Chamovitz, president of Ben-Gurion University, and Prof. Daniel Zajfman, chair of the Israel Science Foundation. These individuals are labeled as “criminals and military collaborators” simply for conducting legitimate academic research.
Western-Based Terror Operations Exploit American Freedoms
Intelligence analysis indicates the website operates from the United States or another Western country, exploiting democratic freedoms to coordinate international terrorism. The operators utilize VPNs, encrypted communication systems, and aliases while maintaining sophisticated organizational structures including “regional department heads.” This represents exactly the type of security threat conservatives have long warned about regarding inadequate immigration screening and domestic terrorism monitoring under previous administrations.
Israeli security agencies including the Shin Bet, Mossad, and National Cyber Directorate have launched coordinated responses, while multiple universities have implemented enhanced security protocols. Faculty members have been instructed to increase security awareness, avoid publishing travel itineraries, and report suspicious incidents. The scope of this threat demonstrates how global Islamic extremism directly threatens American academic institutions and constitutional principles of free speech and academic freedom.
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Islamic Website Publishes Kill Threats, $100,000 Bounties Against Jewish Academics
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