NYC’s Mamdani considers controversial ex-Rep Bowman for schools chief

New York City According to what was stated, the socialist candidate for the municipality mayor Zahran Mamdani, former Democratic Deputy Jamal Buman, is studying as his choice to lead the city’s schools despite Buman’s controversial record in a variety of issues.

Bowman can become a school consultant in New York City if Mamdani has become a mayor in November, in a position in which he oversees more than 1000 schools with nearly a million students, the New York Post I mentioned last month.

Bowman, a progressive democratic and a former “team” member of the congress, Once called Unified tests in public schools “a form of modern slavery” when he was the director of the Bronx Public School in 2015.

Bowman said: “Slavery, Jim Crowe, Redlining, Cocaine and Unified Tests are all all … designed to destroy the mind, body and spirit of the black and brown people.”

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According to New York Post report On Friday, Bowman runs a root public school without a license for about two years.

Bowman, from It gained a national reputation In 2023 to withdraw a fire alarm in Congress in the middle of the vote of the House of Representatives dramatic hall, which led to censorship, he has sparked hot criticism in recent years due to controversial comments.

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The mayor of New York City, Zahran Mamdani, speaks shortly with journalists, leaving the Derken office building in the Senate on July 16, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Hota by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Bowman defended the chanting of Palestine “from the river to the sea”, which many in Jewish society see as a call to eliminate Israel.

He has been a strong critic of Israel, especially since the beginning of its ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza. Last year, it is He attended the collection of donations He was hosted by an Islamic leader who said he was “happy to see” the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians.

Bowman was also forced to apologize for denying that Hamas had raped women and committed other atrocities during the massacre of the terrorist group on October 7 in Israel.

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Zahran Mamdani, New York City mayor’s candidate, speaks to the media at the headquarters of 32BJ Seiu after a mass shooting in Manhattan, who claims the life of a police officer at the New York Police Department (NYPD) and others in Manhattan, New York, the United States on July 30, 2025. (Getty)

Buman ignited the anger of the Jewish groups in 2024 to defend the Louis Varjhan mural, who made with clouds with reputation comments on the Jews, including describing them as “Satan’s synagogue” and “termites”.

He was also shot in the same year when he showed him a non -discovered video, honoring an extremist black activist and a convicted killer during a special project in a middle school in New York City while working as his director before he was elected to Congress.

The 2014 video project, which focuses on the Cornerstone Academy of Social Acts (CASA) at the time, shows the “Wall of the Labor” explains Bowman, which extends to the various historical black and Latin figures that are honored on the wall, including Asa Shakur, who was convicted of the killing of a New Jersey state soldier in 1973. Bowman referred to the people on the wall as “enormous, enormous characters.”

Shakur, whose real name was Joan Chisiman, was a member of the Black Black Investigation Army, and was serving a deadly prison sentence for the deadly shooting of the officer before escaping from prison in 1979 with the help of Motolo Shakur, another black radical activist highlighted by Bowman in the video. She fled to Cuba, where a local terrorist remains required today.

Radical Black Liberation Activist, convicted murderer, Aska Shakur (left), and MP now, Jamal Buman, DN.Y. (right) (Getty Images)

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Mamdani faced criticism of many positions against Israel, who dates back to his university studies when he called for academic sanctions against Israel. He often spoke in favor of BDS, describing sanctions against Israel, which affects Watch as “an international campaign for the state of Israel as an expression of the right of the Jewish people to self -determination by isolating the country economically by boycotting consumers, commercial withdrawal and government of investment, and legal sanctions.”

Mamdani also criticized her refusal to condemn the phrase “globalization of the uprising”, and Fox News Digter said this week that Mamdani said in 2023 that Israel is “not a place” and “not a country.”

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

“I am not thinking about it,” Bowman told the New York Post in early July about the possible appointment. “I want to help my brother to elect. I am exceptional in dividing it. Now I want to help Zahran win the general elections.”

Brandon Gilsby in Fox News contributed to the report.