Mamdani of New York City believes the controversial former Rep Bowman

New York City Socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani reportedly believes that while Bowman has a controversial trail on various issues, former Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman is the choice to lead the city’s school.

If Mamdani becomes mayor in November, Bowman could become New York City Prime Minister Report last month.

Bowman is a progressive Democrat and a former member of the Congress’ “line-up”. Once the phone call Standardized testing in public schools is a “form of modern slavery” when he served as principal of the Bronx public schools in 2015.

“Slavery, Jim Crow, Red Line, Cocaine and now standardized tests are all… designed to eliminate the body, mind, body and soul of black and brown people,” Bowman said.

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according to New York Post Report Bowman operated an unlicensed radical public school for about two years on Friday.

Bowman, who Gained the national notorious In 2023, he was condemned by withdrawing fire alarms in Congress amid a dramatic home floor vote, which has sparked intense criticism in recent years for controversial anti-Israel comments.

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New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani had a brief conversation with reporters as she left the Dickson Senate office building in Washington, D.C. on July 16, 2025. (Michael M. Santiago/Hoto by Getty Images)

Bowman defended The pro-Palestine ode “from the river to the sea” is seen by many in the Jewish community as a call to eradicate Israel.

He has been a staunch critic of Israel, especially since the ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza began. Last year, he Participated in a fundraising event Co-chaired by an Islamic leader, he said he was “happy to see” Hamas’ attack on Israeli civilians.

So is Bowman Forced to apologize Denied that Hamas raped women and committed other atrocities in the massacre in Israel on October 7.

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New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani spoke to the media after a life-saving incident in New York, Manhattan, NY, after a mass shooting in Manhattan. (Getty)

Bowman Caused anger From 2024, the frescoes of Louis Farrakhan were defended from Jewish groups, who infamously made derogatory comments about Jews, including calling them “Satan’s synagogue” and “termites.”

In the same year, he was still there The video found showed him In a special program at New York City High School, before being elected to Congress, respected radical black activists and convicted murderers in a special program at New York City High School.

The 2014 video focused on the then “Wall of Action” project of the Social Action High School of Cornerstone Academy, showing Bowman praised the various historic black and Latino figures on the wall, including Assata Shakur, who was convicted in 1973 to kill a New Jersey soldier. Bowman calls the people on the wall “huge, huge figures.”

Shakur, whose name is Joanne Chesimard, is a member of the Black People’s Liberation Army, a black nationalist group, and was sentenced to life imprisonment for his officer’s fatal shooting for help from another radical black activist praised in the video in 1979. She fled to Cuba and is still a wanted family terrorist today.

Radical Black Liberation activist and convicted murderer Assata Shakur (left) and now Rep. Jamaal Bowman (right) (Getty Image)

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Mamdani faces criticism for his numerous anti-Israel stances Call for academic sanctions Oppose Israel. He often speaks out for support for the BDS, sanctions on Israel, and influences Israel is known as “an international movement that aims to isolate the State of Israel through consumer boycotts, investments by enterprises and governments and legal sanctions to make the Jewish right to state self-determination express as the Jewish right to national self-determination.”

Mandani also received criticism for refusing to condemn the “globalization uprising” and Fox’s comments News and digital reports Mamdani said in 2023 that Israel is “not one place” and “not one country”.

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

“I didn’t think about anything,” Bowman told the New York Post in early July. “I want to help my brother get elected. I’m excellent at zoning. Now, I want to help Zoran win the election.”

Brandon Gillespie of Fox News contributed the report.