{"id":2270741,"date":"2024-06-18T16:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T20:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jamaal-bowman-reportedly-asked-local-jewish-leader-for-photo-show-the-world-im-friends-with-jewish-people\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T16:04:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T20:04:07","slug":"jamaal-bowman-reportedly-asked-local-jewish-leader-for-photo-show-the-world-im-friends-with-jewish-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jamaal-bowman-reportedly-asked-local-jewish-leader-for-photo-show-the-world-im-friends-with-jewish-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaal Bowman Allegedly Requests Photo with Local Jewish Leader to Demonstrate Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjamaal-bowman-reportedly-asked-local-jewish-leader-for-photo-show-the-world-im-friends-with-jewish-people%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2270741&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jean-pierre-insists-white-house-not-involved-with-twitter-censorship-psaki-said-the-opposite-last-year\/\" title=\"Jean-Pierre Insists White House \u2018Not Involved\u2019 With Twitter Censorship. Psaki Said The Opposite Last Year.\">summary provided<\/a> is incomplete, so I&#8217;m unable to provide a detailed description or analysis based on the\u2064 information \u200davailable. Please provide the full text or \u2064additional details to allow for a comprehensive summary. It\u200b seems like there might \u200dbe a misunderstanding\u2014I don&#8217;t\u200d currently have access to the information\u2064 or context you&#8217;re referring to. Could you please\u2062 provide more details \u2062or clarify your request so I\u200b can \u2063assist you effectively?  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Embattled Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jamaal-bowman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jamaal Bowman<\/a> (D-NY) reportedly once asked a local Jewish leader for a photo of the two of them together so that he could \u201cshow the world I\u2019m friends with Jewish people\u201d ahead of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-michigan-rep-peter-meijer-jumps-in-race-for-retiring-dem-sen-stabenows-seat\/\" title=\"Former Michigan Representative Peter Meijer enters race for retiring Democratic Senator Stabenow's seat.\">tough primary election<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Jewish Insider\u2019s Matthew Kassel reported the story on Tuesday, teasing it with the following post on X: \u201cNew: In late spring 2022, Rep. Jamaal Bowman reached out a local Jewish leader with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-agrees-to-appoint-special-master-in-giuliani-case\/\" title=\"Judge Agrees to Appoint Special Master in Giuliani Case\">unusual request<\/a> as he faced mounting scrutiny over his record on Israel. \u2018Do you have pics of us?\u2019 he texted. \u2018So I can show the world I\u2019m friends with Jewish People.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New: In late spring 2022, Rep. Jamaal Bowman reached out a local Jewish leader with an unusual request as he faced mounting scrutiny over his record on Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you have pics of us?\u201d he texted. \u201cSo I can show the world I\u2019m friends with Jewish People.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M1YVmrtF0s\">https:\/\/t.co\/M1YVmrtF0s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matthew Kassel (@matthewkassel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewkassel\/status\/1803037076360675773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Under a headline that reads, \u201cNo more bridges to burn in Jewish Westchester,\u201d Kassel reports that the Jewish leader \u2014 who chose to remain anonymous \u2014 said that he did have such a photo, but opted not to send it for several reasons.<\/p>\n<p>First, he explained that while the alleged photo was taken at an event where Bowman had promised support for then-President Donald Trump\u2019s Abraham Accords, by the time he requested the photo, he had already walked back that support. And second, the alleged request had simply made him uncomfortable about the nature of their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was uncomfortable. I kind of joked around with him about it. I said, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m sure you guys have it. Don\u2019t worry about it,&#8217;\u201d he told Jewish Insider, later explaining, \u201cI was like, \u2018I don\u2019t want to be his court Jew.\u2019 That wasn\u2019t what I signed up for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) allegedly requested a photo with a local Jewish leader to demonstrate his friendship with Jews before his challenging 2022 primary, according to Jewish Insider&#8217;s Matthew Kassel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2270742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-1475397367-scaled-e1696352324731.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2270741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-1475397367-scaled-e1696352324731.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2270742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}