NEW: AOC Campaign Staffer Charged With Making Terroristic Threats

A woman who worked as a youth organizer for U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been arrested and charged for allegedly making terroristic threats against a public high school.

Iman Abdul, 27, is accused of posting a screenshot on Thursday of the location of Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach on Google Maps alongside a threatening caption, according to a report from the New York Post. “If anyone needs a public school in NYC to attack for whatever reason … Lexus driving Israhell (sic) loving Zionisits (sic) all attend here,” the post, which has since been deleted, read.

The post was seen by a number of Abdul’s 25,000 followers before it was deleted.“They’ve all gone on ‘Birthright,’” she added, referring to a program that offers free 10-day trips to Israel for Jewish young adults.

Abdul was taken into custody by the NYPD at her Brooklyn home on Friday and has since been charged with making a terroristic threat, acting in a manner injurious to a child, aggravated harassment, and making a threat of mass harm.

In the summer of 2018, Abdul worked on the Democratic Party primary campaigns of AOC and State Senator Julia Salazar. She was a paid canvaser for Salazar, the lawmaker told the New York Post.

She also described herself as a student at City College of NY, majoring in childhood education, sociology and Latino studies in a 2019 interview. Abdul also worked as a director at IntegrateNYC, a youth-led organization that advocates for “desegregation” in New York City schools.

The threatening Instagram post drew the attention of activist groups that monitor threats against the Jewish community. “A map. A pin. A call to harm Jews, fellow New Yorkers, children, teachers. This isn’t just dangerous. It’s evil. Jew-hatred doesn’t stop with a threat. It escalates. We need immediate and unequivocal action,” Tova Plaut, a Department of Education staffer and activist, told the New York Post.

“I am outraged and horrified that a NYC school was publicly marked for attack simply because of its Jewish population,” she added.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the department’s intelligence unit was alerted to the threat not long after it was made, sources familiar with the investigation told the outlet. The watchdog group StopAntisemitism shared the post on X and accused Abdul of “inviting people to attack a Jewish school,” although Leon M. Goldstein is a secular public school.

“This incitement against Jews, specifically minor children, must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” the group.

Abdul responded to the post and seemed to justify her remarks in a direct message. “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.”

After her arrest, Abdul appears to have deleted both her Instagram and LinkedIn accounts.

“This kind of hate stems from years of indoctrination from CUNY and NYC schools –it isn’t born overnight,” said Moshe Spern, president of United Jewish Teachers. “The antisemitism embedded in every university protest over the past 22 months comes as no surprise to anyone.”