‘Squad’ Rep. Jamaal Bowman accuses pro-Israel group backing opponent of being racist: ‘They want to call me the N-word’
NY Post
“Squad” Rep. Jamaal Bowman claimed a pro-Israeli group backing his Democratic primary opponent is racist.
“That is why AIPAC’s [ American Israel Public Affairs Committee] is coming after us, coming after us with hate, coming after us with bullying, intimidation, and fear. You should see what they’re doing in my district,” Bowman said during a virtual town hall meeting on Monday.
After he claimed AIPAC members are lying about his record and calling him antisemitic, Bowman said, “They don’t like my style, I’m a little too radical, I’m a member of the ‘Squad.’ They want to call me the N-word, but they know they can’t get away with that, so they say everything else.”
Pro-Israel advocates such as AIPAC are backing Westchester County Executive George Latimer to topple the controversial two-term incumbent in the June 25 primary in the 16th Congressional District taking in southern Westchester and parts of the northeast Bronx.
Bowman, who is black, previously called Israel an “apartheid state” and initially claimed at a rally last year that reported rapes and child murders during Hamas’ October terror attacks in Israel were a “lie.” He later backtracked.
He’s accused Israel of “genocide” in the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 invasion of the Jewish state.
