NYC’s Mamdani considers a controversial former Repbowman for the school’s chief

New York City Socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani reportedly views former Democrat Jamal Bowman as an option to lead an urban school, despite his controversial track record on Bowman’s various issues.

Bowman could become Mayor in November and become the prime minister of a New York school, with the capacity to oversee more than 1,000 schools with almost 1 million students. New York Post Reported last month.

Bowman, a progressive Democrat and former member of Congress’ “team”; Called once The standardized test in public schools was “modern slavery” when he was principal of a Bronx public school in 2015.

“Slavery, Jim Crow, Redlining, Crack Cocaine and now standardized tests are all… designed to destroy the minds, bodies and souls of black and brown people,” Bowman said.

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According to New York Post Report On Friday, Bowman ran a radical public school without a license for about two years.

Bowman, who? It has won the national infamy In 2023, he has attracted intense criticism in recent years for controversial anti-Israel comments after he pulled a fire alarm in Congress in the middle of a dramatic home floor vote that was condemned.

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Bowman defended The Palestinians chant “from the river to the sea.” This is seen by many in the Jewish community as a call to eradicate Israel.

He is a solid critic of Israel, especially since the ongoing war with Hamas began in Gaza. Last year, he I attended a fundraiser Islamic leaders were co-hosted by Islamic leaders who said they were “happily watching” Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israeli civilians.

So did Bowman I was forced to apologise For Hamas raping a woman and denying other atrocities during the October 7 massacre in Israel.

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Bowman It caused anger He defended Louis Farrakhan’s mural from a Jewish group in 2024, resulting in infamous comments about Jews.

He also got fired that same year An excavated video was shown to him Before being elected to Congress, he honored radical black activists and convicted murderers while serving as principal on a special project at New York City Middle School.

A 2014 video centered around Cornerstone Academy at Social Action Middle School (CASA) shows Bowman praises a variety of historic black and Latino figures respected by the wall, including Assata Shakur, who was convicted of the 1973 murder of the New Jersey State Army. Bowman called the people on the wall “awesome, incredible figure.”

Shakur, whose real name is Joanne Chesimado, is a member of the Black Liberation Army of the Black Nationalist Group, who was sentenced to life in prison for a fatal shooting of an officer before fleeing prison in 1979. She fled to Cuba. So she is still looking for domestic terrorists today.

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Mamdani faces criticism of many anti-Israel positions of his own, as he returned to college. Academic sanctions have been sought against Israel. He often spoke in favor of BDS. Sanctions against Israel affecting the clock are described as “an international campaign to represent Israeli states as expressions of national self-determination by boycotting consumers, withdrawing business and investments, and separating the nation economically through legal aquaculture.”

Mamdani also faces criticism for refusing to condemn the phrase “globalization of intifadas” and the phrase Fox. News Digital reported this week In 2023, Mamdani said Israel was “not a place” and “not a country.”

Mamdani’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment from Fox News Digital.

“I’m not thinking about that,” Bowman said in early July about the possibility of an appointment to the New York Post. “I want to help my brother get elected. I’m extraordinary in compartmentalization. I want to help Zohran win the general election now.”

Brandon Gillespie of Fox News contributed the report.