Brooklyn woman arrested for encouraging attack on ‘Zionist’ public school

Campaign staff for “squad” member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) denied a media report that a woman, who was arrested after urging her social media followers to attack a public high school that she said has a Zionist student population, worked for the congresswoman in the past.

“This person was never staff on the campaign and any representation of such is false,” Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign stated . “Their comments are appalling, and we condemn threats of violence without hesitation.”

The New York Post reported that Iman Abdul, 27, of Brooklyn, worked on the primary campaigns of progressive politicians, including Ocasio-Cortez and Julia Salazar, a Democratic state senator, in the summer of 2018. Salazar confirmed that Abdul was a paid canvasser.

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