A radical anti-Zionist organization has reportedly placed cash bounties of up to $100,000 on the heads of Israeli scientists and academics across the globe — including in the United States — in an astonishing escalation of online extremism.

The website, run by a group calling itself “The Punishment for Justice Movement,” offers tiered cash rewards for the assassination of Jewish researchers, with $50,000 for killing a listed academic and double the amount for “special targets.” Even more disturbing, the site openly publishes personal information — including home addresses, phone numbers, emails and social media accounts — for at least 40 “targets.” The Jerusalem Post reported that five of the listed academics work at the renowned CERN Institute in Switzerland, home to the world’s largest particle accelerator.

In addition to offering six-figure payouts for murder, the group promises smaller cash rewards for intimidation and harassment. It advertises $2,000 for installing protest signs outside a target’s home, $5,000 for new intelligence on a target, $20,000 for burning down a target’s house or car, and $10,000 for assassinating them outright. The website briefly went offline Friday after it was exposed by Israeli media but returned Saturday night with its content intact.

The organization claims that the academics deserve death because, instead of advancing science, they supposedly “use their knowledge to kill innocent people and children by spreading weapons of mass destruction to the Israeli military.”

The Mossad has launched a probe, with Israeli outlets reporting officials suspect that Iran may be connected to the website’s creation or backing. The domain appears to have been registered in Drenthe, Netherlands, and was created sometime in August.

One of the targeted academics, Oxford University computer science professor Michael Bronstein, responded with dark humor, saying he was “profoundly disturbed and shocked that my head was valued so cheaply.” He joked that “anything below a seven-figure” bounty was offensive, adding that he was at least “in good company.”

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