{"id":232354,"date":"2026-05-15T03:23:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232354\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T03:23:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:23:01","slug":"father-of-nyc-congressional-candidate-alex-bores-derided-israeli-deaths-likened-zionists-to-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232354\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of NYC Congressional candidate Alex Bores derided Israeli deaths, likened Zionists to Nazis"},"content":{"rendered":"

The father of Manhattan Assemblyman Alex Bores, a leading candidate in the Democratic race to represent the NY-12th <\/a>congressional district, lauded the deaths of Israelis during the Iran war on social media while equating Zionism with Nazism, archived posts reviewed by the News show.<\/p>\n

William Bores, a technical director at ABC<\/a> and former union leader, wrote: \u201cNazis and Zionists, both better off dead\u201d about an ambush of Israeli troops in Lebanon in a post on the Threads site available for review on an internet archive.<\/p>\n

Bores, who was a leader in the Communication Workers of America, also celebrated the death of an Israeli civilian hit by shrapnel from an Iranian missile attack.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a shame, the world lost another supporter of genocide,\u201d he wrote<\/a>. \u201cFAFO,\u201d he commented on the death of an 11-year-old Israeli girl<\/a> in another Iranian attack. The acronym stands for \u201cfool around and find out,\u201d a saying seen as linking certain consequences to actions.<\/p>\n

William Bores also trashed Democratic congressional leaders<\/a> Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Chuck Schumer as \u201cbought and paid for by Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

The posts were first reported by Jewish Insider.<\/a><\/p>\n

William Bores\u2019 social media account is now private<\/a> but the posts were captured on an internet archive. He has been a public supporter of his son\u2019s campaign and is listed on much of Alex Bores\u2019 campaign literature.<\/p>\n

Alex Bores, a state assemblyman representing an Upper East Side district, did not deny his father made the posts but insisted they don\u2019t reflect his own views.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love my dad, value what I\u2019ve learned from him, and disagree with many of the things he\u2019s said,\u201d the lawmaker said in a statement Thursday. \u201cHis posts don\u2019t reflect who I am or what I believe. It\u2019s a dynamic a lot of families can recognize.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bores, 35, is locked in a crowded fight for the NY-12 seat being vacated by retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler<\/a>. The district, covering the Upper West Side and Upper East Side, includes the largest Jewish population of any in the nation.<\/p>\n

Other candidates in the June 23 primary include Assemblyman Micah Lasher, a Nadler protege; social media influencer Jack Schlossberg; and George Conway, a prominent critic of President Trump.<\/p>\n

Lasher, who is Jewish, and Bores both portray themselves as strong supporters of Israel, although they say they disagree with some policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

Bores, who is not Jewish, recently said he disagrees with cutting off military aid<\/a> to Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The father of Manhattan Assemblyman Alex Bores, a leading candidate in the Democratic race to represent the NY-12th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[85,9,24,12,63,87,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-232354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-latest-headlines","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}