“Squad” member Jamaal Bowman allegedly maintained a personal YouTube account that subscribed to users pushing outrageous conspiracy theories — many with roots in antisemitism.
As recently as last month, the Bronx and Westchester Democrat was creating playlists of videos using the screen name “Inner Peace,” according to the Daily Beast.
The outlet reported that the Bowman channel followed troves of accounts peddling bonkers claims about aliens, flat earth theory, UFOs and the Illuminati.
The Post could not locate the “Inner Peace” account Thursday, and it was unclear whether it had been taken down. The Daily Beast reported that “Inner Peace” included images and footage from the Bronx middle school that Bowman founded and served as principal for 10 years.
Some of the channels purportedly followed by Bowman, such as BreakThrough News, have been known to disseminate Chinese and Russian propaganda.
“The American Takeover: How 2 Years of War Made Ukraine a US Colony,” one video from that channel is titled.
BreakThrough News is also rife with anti-Israel content, much of which appears to be in keeping with Bowman’s views of the Jewish state’s war against Hamas.
Other channels, including DiEM25, Free Will, PoliticsJOE, and Real News Network, have featured interviews with pro-terror professor Norman Finkelstein, who Bowman lauded at a panel discussion on the Israel-Hamas war this past January.
Still another channel reportedly embraced by Bowman, Afripost, repeatedly shares speeches by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has referred to Jews as “termites” and “the synagogue of Satan.”
A recent Farrakhan video is titled “BLACKS ARE THE TRUE J£WS [sic],” referring to an antisemitic conspiracy theory pushed by the fringe Black Hebrew Israelite sect.
Other accounts promoted content that was out of this world.
“6 Signs You’re Leaving The Matrix For The New Earth,” reads the title on a video from Wired Mind posted some three months ago.
“Signs You Might Not Be from This World,” reads another video from that account, which promotes content from the late Dolores Cannon, an author and New Age leader who trafficked in dubious claims about aliens, the mythical island city of Atlantis, and alternate realities.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, I don’t know these accounts, and I haven’t watched any of these videos,” Bowman claimed in a statement to the Daily Beast.
“There is a war going on that has killed tens of thousands of innocents and people here can’t afford rent and groceries, I think people care more about that than some convoluted story about videos that I haven’t even watched.”
However, Bowman dropped hints that he was an avid YouTube consumer when he introduced Finkelstein at a Westchester event.
“I’m a bit starstruck,” Bowman said of the disgraced prof’s work, per Jewish Insider. “I watch them all the time on YouTube.”
Many of the channels in question have tens of thousands of subscribers.
Earlier this year, Bowman was engulfed in controversy after the Daily Beast dug up his old blog from the early 2010s, which featured a poem that included a conspiracy theory about the 9/11 attacks.
“2001/Planes used as missiles/Target: The Twin Towers,” it read. “Later in the day/Building 7/Also Collaspsed [sic]/Hmm…/Multiple explosions/Heard before/And during the collapse/Hmm…”
The congressman later distanced himself from those writings.
“Well over a decade ago, as I was debating diving into a doctoral degree, I explored a wide range of books, films, and articles across a wide swath of the political spectrum and processed my thoughts in a personal blog that few people ever read,” Bowman said in a statement earlier this year.
The Post contacted Bowman’s office and campaign for comment.
The two-term rep is facing a difficult primary challenge from Westchester County Executive George Latimer.
