Antisemitism has to be one of humanity’s oldest and most irrational hatreds, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t keep popping up. The latest example comes to us from Brooklyn, from a former organizer for Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) who, we should note, had nothing to do with the event. The former organizer, one Iman Abdul, took to her X account to call for an attack on a public high school attended by Jewish students.
A Brooklyn woman who worked as a youth organizer for “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was arrested Friday on charges she urged her 25,000 social media followers to “attack” a public high school because Jewish students attend it.
Iman Abdul, 27, is accused of posting a screenshot on Thursday of the location of Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach on Google Maps and a chilling caption.
“If anyone needs a public school in NYC to attack for whatever reason … Lexus driving Israhell (sic) loving Zionisits (sic) all attend here,” the since-deleted post read.
So, Iman Abdul is apparently not only a hate-ridden bigot, but is also only marginally literate. These two seem often to go hand-in-hand.
And, now, she’s in custody.
The NYPD arrested Abdul at her Brooklyn home on Friday, charging her with making a terroristic threat, acting in a manner injurious to a child, aggravated harassment, and making a threat of mass harm.
Abdul worked on the Democratic primary campaigns of socialist pols AOC and state Sen. Julia Salazar in the summer of 2018. She was a paid canvasser for Salazar, the lawmaker told The Post.
Local Jewish community members are, rightly, concerned. They’ve seen this before. Ima Abdul called for an attack on a school, after all, that may well be attended by children and grandchildren of that community.
“A map. A pin. A call to harm Jews, fellow New Yorkers, children, teachers. This isn’t just dangerous. It’s evil. Jew-hatred doesn’t stop with a threat. It escalates. We need immediate and unequivocal action,” Tova Plaut, a DOE pre-K staffer and Jewish activist, told The Post.
“I am outraged and horrified that a NYC school was publicly marked for attack simply because of its Jewish population,” she added.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who is Jewish, and the department’s intelligence unit were quickly alerted to the threat, sources said.
And, finally, Abdul tried to backpedal out of her initial remarks.
Abdul doubled down in a direct message to StopAntisemitism on her Instagram account @theinmxnabdul.
“I never called for an attack on the school in the sense of mass organization or not even individual people attacking individuals, that’s literally stupid,” she wrote in a word-salad response. “I called for an attack on the school, the Zionist institution funded by our public dollars … we have every right to verbally attack the school.”
Uh-huh.
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She wrote, “If anyone needs a public school in NYC to attack for any reason,” and it’s hard to see that as meaning, “Oh, but I only mean you should go peacefully protest.” Words mean things, and the word “attack” in this context, especially, carries a nasty connotation. More so, we presume, if you’re Jewish.
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