Unearthed Mamdani College Newspaper Writings Promote Anti-israel Boycott, Rail Against 'white Privilege'

FIRST ON FOX: College newspaper articles written by New York City socialist mayoral campaigner Zohran Mamdani shed ray connected nan surging candidate’s early views connected a assortment of topics, including his promotion of an anti-Israel boycott and concerns astir "white privilege," a Fox News Digital reappraisal found.

Mamdani wrote 32 articles for nan Bowdoin Orient during his 4 years studying astatine Maine’s presitigous Bowdoin College from 2010 to 2014, including an article his elder twelvemonth promoting an world boycott of Israel.

"This world and taste boycott intends to bring nether scrutiny nan actions of nan Israeli authorities and to put unit connected Israeli institutions to extremity nan oppressive business and racist policies wrong some Israel and occupied Palestine," wrote Mamdani, who co-founded his college’s Students for Justice successful Palestine organization.

Students for Justice successful Palestine has go 1 of nan biggest drivers of anti-Israel protests connected assemblage campuses since nan Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, pinch immoderate going truthful acold arsenic to celebrate nan attack. 

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Zohran Mamdani during a run arena astatine nan NAN House of Justice successful nan Harlem vicinity of New York connected Saturday, June 28, 2025. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Mamdani was taking rumor successful his article pinch Bowdoin College’s president, Barry Mills, opposing nan boycott. 

"Lastly, Mills regrettably makes nary mention of Palestinians aliases Palestine," Mamdani wrote. "The telephone for nan boycott comes successful consequence to much than 60 years of Israeli assemblage business of Palestine. When Mills speaks of nan ‘free speech of knowledge, ideas, and research, and unfastened discourse’ successful academia, he does truthful while privileging partnerships pinch Israeli institutions complete basal freedoms for Palestinians, including nan authorities to food, water, shelter and education, which galore Palestinians are denied nether Israeli rule."

In a 2013 op-ed, Mamdani responded to a White student who took rumor pinch disapproval of nan school’s editorial page being excessively White by accusing him of holding "white privilege."

"White males are privileged successful their near-to-exclusive featuring arsenic figures of authority successful print, connected tv and astir america successful our regular realities," Mamdani wrote. "We, nan consumers of these media, internalize this and truthful judge successful nan innate authority of a achromatic male’s statement and nan request for its publication. So, achromatic privilege is some a structural and an individual phenomenon, nan erstwhile propelling nan latter. Therefore, moreover erstwhile nan individual is silent, nan structures proceed to beryllium and framework our nine done their existence."

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Democratic mayoral campaigner Zohran Mamdani takes nan shape astatine his superior predetermination statement connected Wednesday, June 25, 2025 successful New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Mamdani said nan "pervasive antheral whiteness" of nan school’s sentiment pages "builds connected nan sadly still-present achromatic antheral monopolization of some sermon and understanding."

Mamdani explained, "While whiteness is not homogenous, achromatic privilege is. This privilege is clear successful not having to look organization racism successful entree to lodging subsidies, assemblage grants, financial institutions, aliases civilian rights. It allows a achromatic personification to universalize his ain experiences. It restricts society’s expertise to understand its flaws, and projects a mendacious image of meritocracy upon a federation built connected organization racism."

In another post, titled "Bearded successful Cairo," Mamdani discussed his clip studying overseas successful Egypt arsenic nan Muslim Brotherhood was violently toppling President Morsi’s regime. He explained that earlier arriving he had grown a beard "mostly arsenic a symbolic mediate finger" to nan stereotype that "pervades America" that brownish individuals pinch beards are a "terrorist."

Mamdani discussed privilege again, saying that he had "arrived successful a nine wherever privilege was a different color."

"Gone was nan image of nan achromatic Christian antheral that I had grown accustomed to, and successful its spot was a darker, much acquainted image – ­­­one that, for nan first time, I fit: brownish skin, achromatic hair, and a Muslim name," Mamdani wrote. "With nan correct clothing, immoderate took maine for an Egyptian and astir thought I was Syrian – either personality allowed maine unrestricted entree to exploring Cairo."

In a 2014 article titled "On nan 50th day of MLK’s sojourn to campus, let's admit what we still request to achieve," Mamdani lamented that his school, which doubled its diverseness student organization complete nan erstwhile 13 years, was still down wherever it should be. He wrote that nan schoolhouse had prematurely achieved a "satisfaction pinch nan level of diversity."

"I person been forced to personally grapple pinch these inconsistencies during my clip here," Mamdani wrote.

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New York City mayoral campaigner Zohran Mamdani is of Indian descent and was calved successful Uganda. (Reuters/Bing Guan)

"I beryllium successful people not knowing whether to correct everyone’s mispronunciation of an Indian woman’s name. I usually do, but coming I’m tired. I’m tired of being 1 of a fewer non-white students successful a classroom, if not nan only one. I bring up title successful discussions only to spot nan thought flicker successful my peers eyes and connected their tongues. They sigh without a sound. I’ve brought up title again. I’ve sidetracked nan discussion. I’ve chosen to make an rumor retired of it."

In nan aforesaid post, Mamdani, who was calved successful Uganda to Indian parents, outlined his struggles emotion uncomfortable being a non-white student.

"I turn a beard only to beryllium called a terrorist," Mamdani wrote. "I pronounce nan ‘h’ successful my sanction only to perceive muffled laughs. Clothing becomes exotic erstwhile it clads my body. Cotton shirts are called dashikis and sandals ethnic."

Mamdani continued, "While I americium now comfortable successful my ain skin, I tin retrieve wishing for whiteness my first twelvemonth erstwhile I thought definite types of girls were intolerable to talk to owed to my tegument being much kiwi than peach. Months later, I retrieve reasoning that attraction mightiness only beryllium imaginable erstwhile a woman had ‘a point for brownish guys.’"

Mamdani explained that he has recovered "solidarity" pinch immoderate students connected field but that "still, excessively fewer group admit that title is an rumor connected our campus, aliases that it has ever been one."

"But if group opportunity they are colour blind, do they moreover spot me?" Mamdani wrote.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Mamdani's run for comment.

Zohran Mamdani is challenging incumbent Mayor Adams, who is moving arsenic an independent, successful November's mayoral election. (Getty Images)

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Mamdani burst onto nan nationalist governmental segment past period erstwhile he won a astonishing triumph successful New York City's Democratic mayoral superior contempt facing disapproval for his far-left policies, which included city-run market stores, defunding police, safe injection sites and raising nan minimum costs to $30.

Mamdani's triumph has sparked a civilian warfare of sorts wrong nan Democratic Party betwixt those pushing to mean since VP Kamala Harris's conclusion successful November and those embracing a progressive displacement toward nan mold of Rep. Alexandria-Cortez, D-N.Y., who endorsed Mamdani.

Mamdani, acknowledgment to his superior victory, is nan clear frontrunner successful nan wide predetermination successful a metropolis wherever Democrats outnumber Republicans by a astir six-to-one margin.

Fox News Digital's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.