Ex-AOC employee arrested for terror threats targeting Jews

Iman Abdul is facing charges that include aggravated harassment, after calling for her Instagram followers to “attack” a school attended by “Israel-loving, Zionist” students.

By World Israel News Staff

A former staffer for far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been arrested for making online posts encouraging people to attack Jewish students at a New York City public school.

Iman Abdul, 27, who formerly worked as a paid youth organizer and canvasser for Ocasio-Cortez and progressive state senator Julia Salazar, posted on Instagram urging her 25,000 followers to target a high school with a large Jewish student population.

“If anyone needs a public school in NYC to attack for whatever reason … Lexus driving Israhell [Israel] loving Zionisits [sic] all attend here,” Abdul wrote, alongside a Google Maps screenshot showing the exact location of Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach, New York.

Abdul also claimed that “all” of the school’s Jewish students had participated in Birthright, a program that sponsors trips to Israel for young Jewish adults.

Several Jewish advocacy groups raised the alarm over Abdul’s message, sending screenshots of the post to local police.

Abdul was arrested at her home on Friday and faces charges that include making a terroristic threat, acting in a manner injurious to a child, aggravated harassment, and threatening to commit mass harm, according to the New York Post.

In a private message sent to Jewish advocacy group StopAntisemitism after her arrest, Abdul claimed her post was taken out of context and denied calling for physical violence.

“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.

“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.”

Shortly afterward, Abdul deleted her Instagram and LinkedIn accounts.

“This kind of hate stems from years of indoctrination from CUNY and NYC schools –it isn’t born overnight,” Moshe Spern, president of United Jewish Teachers, told the Post.

“The antisemitism embedded in every university protest over the past 22 months comes as no surprise to anyone.”