“Squad” Rep. Jamaal Bowman claimed a pro-Israeli group backing his Democratic main opponent is racist.
“That’s the reason AIPAC’s [ American Israel Public Affairs Committee] is coming after us, coming after us with hate, coming after us with bullying, intimidation, and worry. You need to see what they’re doing in my district,” Bowman stated throughout a digital city corridor assembly on Monday.
After he claimed AIPAC members are mendacity about his document and calling him antisemitic, Bowman stated, “They don’t like my type, I’m a bit of too radical, I’m a member of the ‘Squad.’ They need to name me the N-word, however they know they’ll’t get away with that, so they are saying every thing else.”
Professional-Israel advocates akin to AIPAC are backing Westchester County Government George Latimer to topple the controversial two-term incumbent within the June 25 main within the sixteenth Congressional District taking in southern Westchester and components of the northeast Bronx.
Bowman, who’s black, beforehand referred to as Israel an “apartheid state” and initially claimed at a rally final yr that reported rapes and little one murders throughout Hamas’ October terror assaults in Israel have been a “lie.” He later backtracked.
He’s accused Israel of “genocide” within the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 invasion of the Jewish state.
“Rep. Bowman’s scurrilous and shameful assaults gained’t disguise his document of aligning with an extremist, anti-Israel fringe. We again candidates based mostly solely on their help for the US-Israel relationship, and we have now proudly endorsed dozens of pro-Israel progressives, together with almost half of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Black Caucus and Hispanic Caucus,” stated AIPAC spokesman Marshall Wittmann.
Bowman on Monday attended the digital city corridor alongside Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Pramila Jayapal of Washington with the progressive group Our Revolution, launched by allies of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
His feedback have been first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.
The congressman, a former Bronx center faculty principal, is a part of the left-leaning “squad” that features democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Omar.
Bowman additionally slammed the US as working underneath “plantation capitalism” and a “caste system” that retains minorities like him down in the course of the city corridor.
“We now have the navy industrial complicated and warmongerers [sic] aligning themselves with particular pursuits [and] racist, MAGA, election-denying Republicans to get the primary black man out of this seat,” Bowman stated.
A latest ballot claimed Latimer led Bowman by 17 factors — 52% to 35% — amongst Democratic main voters.
The survey was performed by the pro-Latimer group Democratic Majority for Israel.
Bowman’s marketing campaign dismissed the ballot as garbage.
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