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He is Jewish, and his terrorist parents were Weathermen (Weatherpersons?), not Al-Qaida or their ilk.

• scarface74 4y ago
  So we are judging people by what his parents supposedly did?
  • fmajid 4y ago
    Not supposedly did, they were both convicted of felony murder and spent decades in prison (his father being only recently being released as one of Andrew Cuomo's last acts in office). He was raised by the leaders of the Weather Underground, who were smarter and left the actual murdering to underlings and so were never prosecuted. As for Boudin himself, he's the one who keeps bringing up his parents during his original campaign and all the puff pieces whenever he is interviewed. His stance is that his parents' imprisonment was the grave injustice, not that they were responsible for the murder of two policemen (including the first Black officer in Nyack, NY) and a security guard. It's worth noting his privileged mother got the best legal defense you can get (her lawyer father's partner) and was sentenced to far less than her husband, the latter got 75 to life and she 20 years to life. When she was released, she was promptly hired as an assistant professor by Columbia and got her own department to manage, clearly the difficulties felons face in finding employment did not apply to her.