Mamdani promoted BDS, pushed anti-Israel views in college articles

NYC mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani promoted BDS and slammed Israel in multiple college op-eds, newly unearthed articles reveal.

By World Israel News Staff

Far-left New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani penned numerous articles accusing Israel of violating the human rights of Palestinians and promoting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement in articles he wrote during his college years, Fox News Digital reported.

Mamdani, who cofounded Bowdoin College’s chapter of anti-Israel group Students for Justice in Palestine, urged the educational institution to adopt BDS policies.

“This academic and cultural boycott aims to bring under scrutiny the actions of the Israeli government and to put pressure on Israeli institutions to end the oppressive occupation and racist policies within both Israel and occupied Palestine,” wrote Mamdani in the Op-Ed for the Bowdoin Orient.

He slammed the college’s president, Barry Mills, for his opposition to the measure.

“The call for the boycott comes in response to more than 60 years of Israeli colonial occupation of Palestine. When Mills speaks of the ‘free exchange of knowledge, ideas, and research, and open discourse’ in academia, he does so while privileging partnerships with Israeli institutions over basic freedoms for Palestinians, including the rights to food, water, shelter and education, which many Palestinians are denied under Israeli rule,” Mamdani wrote.

In other articles, Mamdani bemoaned white privilege, suggesting that he suffered due to his non-white ethnic heritage, despite being born to a family of multimillionaires.

“While whiteness is not homogenous, white privilege is. This privilege is clear in not having to face institutional racism in access to housing subsidies, college grants, financial institutions, or civil rights,” Mamdani opined.

“It allows a white person to universalize his own experiences. It restricts society’s ability to understand its flaws and projects a false image of meritocracy upon a nation built on institutional racism.”

Hostility toward “whiteness” was evident in numerous pieces penned by Mamdani.

In another article, Mamdani claimed that other students at the elite liberal arts school had ostracized him due to his ethnicity.

“I grow a beard only to be called a terrorist,” Mamdani wrote. “I pronounce the ‘h’ in my name only to hear muffled laughs. Clothing becomes exotic once it clads my body. Cotton shirts are called dashikis and sandals ethnic.”

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