Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York delivered a fiery speech at a rally Saturday, criticizing U.S. involvement in Israel in a profanity-filled speech against AIPAC.
Bowman specifically called out the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which recently launched a $14 million campaign against his re-election due to his criticism of Israel.
“We’re going to show AIPAC the power of the fucking South Bronx,” Bowman told the enthusiastic audience.
REPRESENTATIVE. JAMAAL BOWMAN HIT BY ALLEGATIONS OF PLAGARISM FROM HIS 2019 THEME
Representative Jamaal Bowman, Democrat of New York, during a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing in Washington, DC, Tuesday, December 5, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“People ask me why I got such a bad face,” Bowman continued. “What am I supposed to do? You’re coming after me. You’re coming after my family. You’re coming after my kids. I’m not supposed to fight back? I’m not supposed to fight back? We’re going to show them who the fuck we are.
Bowman has long criticized the Israeli government and the ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, calling the conflict a genocide against the Palestinians.
He repeated these positions at length during his meeting, asserting that American dollars were being used to kill innocent civilians.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., finally apologized for saying accusations that Hamas raped women on Oct. 7 were “propaganda.” (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc.)
“We are not going to stand silent while American taxpayer dollars kill babies, women and children. My opponent supports genocide. My opponent and AIPAC are the ones destroying our democracy,” Bowman said.
He continued: “And it’s up to us, it’s up to all of us to save our democracy and to save our collective humanity. Because this race is about our collective humanity.”
Bowman received support from Sen. Bernie Sanders at the rally, telling the crowd they needed to vote “against the oligarchy” regardless of individual disagreements with Bowman.
“If you’re a Democrat, if you vote in the Democratic primary, you have to stand up against the oligarchy,” Sanders told the crowd. “Maybe you don’t agree with Jamaal on this or that issue. That’s not the key point of this campaign. The key point of this campaign is whether billionaires are able to buy the elections – on this issue, every person who votes for the Democratic Party must be united.
Democrat Jamaal Bowman, Ed.D., represents New York’s 16th District in the United States House of Representatives.
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Elizabeth Elkind of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
