Republicans are fairly quick to disavow their own if there’s negative media coverage. Lefties never do.
A ‘Squad’ member could be a 9/11 truther who committed a crime in Congress, have praised racists and a cop killer, toured with a Holocaust denier, and they’d still campaign for Rep. Jamaal Bowman.
The only surprise about the latest chapter of Bowman’s career is that the media is digging it up.
It turns out, unsurprisingly, that Rep. Bowman’s personal YouTube channel follows every crazy rabbit hole from UFOs to conspiracy theories to time travel. Among them is black nationalism and straight-up racism.
For instance, one called Afripost—where recent video titles announce “Vatican Angry as PUTIN Declares Russia will Only Worship THE BLACK JESUS” and “African Historian Reveals hidden Secret: God did NOT CREATE WHITE: The Bible is all about BLACKS” (capitalization original)—was created in April of last year, just a few months after Bowman started his second term.
Afripost also frequently shares speeches by controversial Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan, known for his antisemitic rhetoric. The most recent such video asserts, falsely, “BLACKS ARE THE TRUE J£WS [sic].”
Least surprising thing ever. This stuff is being taught in colleges now. Multiple members of the Biden administration were into it.
But there’s China which has figured out how to infect woke brains much the way Russia and Hamas did.
Bowman also subscribes to an account called Thinkers Forum, created in late 2021, toward the end of his first year representing parts of the Bronx and Westchester County in the House. Thinkers Forum is a project of The China Academy, which bills itself as “one of China’s most influential current affairs and intellectual content outlet [sic],” and boasts ties to an array of Chinese state-backed institutions. Recent videos posted to the Thinkers Forum channel include “Why the West ‘takes pleasure’ in seeing the genocide in Palestine?” “Why NATO is collapsing like the Soviet Union, by the same mistake,” and “How the US Keeps Fighting China, Knowing It Won’t Win?”
Rep. Jamie Raskin, who sees foreign agents everywhere except in his own party, can’t be reached for comment.
A few months earlier, in July 2021—six months into Bowman’s stint on the Hill—another channel was born called Middle Nation, which the congressman at some indeterminate point followed. Middle Nation belongs to Shahid Bolsen, a Colorado-born Muslim convert who used his prior social media accounts to urge Islamist militants to attack so-called “corporate crusaders” that had set up shop in Egypt. Bolsen, previously imprisoned on a manslaughter conviction in the United Arab Emirates for killing a German engineer
What does a Squad member’s brain look like? Here we get a sneak peek into a horrifying mess of racism, terrorism, antisemitism and treason.
It’s not just Rep. Jamaal Bowman. It’s his whole movement.