Bowman pledges new campaigns to address ‘toxic public culture’

Board of Deputies presidential candidate Amanda Bowman has pledged to initiate new campaigns to address “the increasingly toxic culture in public life”.

In a manifesto published on her campaign website, she says if elected she would explore a social media campaign to “counter the normalisation of antisemitism in today’s society”.

Vice-president of the organisation and head of its defence division for the past six years, she says her mission is to “build a better Board that is transparent and accountable”.

She promises a “tangible culture change” with the introduction of a “respect and civility code”.

“I won’t tolerate attempts to exclude people just because others disagree with them,” she says.

Her platform includes pledges to pilot a “Jewish equity and inclusion benchmark” for employers and to make the chair of the Board’s under-35 observer assembly a permanent member of the organisation’s executive.

She is one of four contenders for the presidency in May’s election.