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 candidate Zohran Mamdani shed light on the surging candidate s early views on a variety of topics including his promotion of an anti-Israel boycott and concerns about white privilege a Fox News Digital review determined Mamdani wrote articles for the Bowdoin Orient during his four years studying at Maine s presitigous Bowdoin College from to including an article his senior year promoting an academic boycott of Israel This academic and cultural boycott aims to bring under scrutiny the actions of the Israeli ruling body and to put pressure on Israeli institutions to end the oppressive occupation and racist policies within both Israel and occupied Palestine wrote Mamdani who co-founded his college s Students for Justice in Palestine organization Students for Justice in Palestine has become one of the biggest drivers of anti-Israel protests on college campuses since the Oct Hamas massacre with particular going so far as to celebrate the attack THE PLOT TO STOP MAMDANI DEMOCRATS SCRAMBLE TO BLOCK FAR-LEFT TAKEOVER IN NEW YORKMamdani was taking issue in his article with Bowdoin College s president Barry Mills opposing the boycott Lastly Mills regrettably makes no mention of Palestinians or Palestine Mamdani wrote The call for the boycott comes in response to more than 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 schooling which various Palestinians are denied under Israeli rule In a op-ed Mamdani responded to a White trainee who took issue with criticism of the school s editorial page being too White by accusing him of holding white privilege White males are privileged in their near-to-exclusive featuring as figures of authority in print on television and around us in our daily realities Mamdani wrote We the consumers of these media internalize this and so believe in the innate authority of a white male s argument and the need for its publication So white privilege is both a structural and an individual phenomenon the former propelling the latter Therefore even when the individual is silent the structures continue to exist and frame our society through their existence MAMDANI CAMP SILENT WHEN CONFRONTED WITH CALLS TO 'RADICALIZE' HIGH SCHOOLERS 'DISMANTLE' USMamdani stated the pervasive male whiteness of the school s opinion pages builds on the sadly still-present white male monopolization of both discourse and understanding Mamdani explained 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 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 In another post titled Bearded in Cairo Mamdani discussed his time studying abroad in Egypt as the Muslim Brotherhood was violently toppling President Morsi s regime He explained that before arriving he had grown a beard mostly as a symbolic middle finger to the stereotype that pervades America that brown individuals with beards are a terrorist Mamdani discussed privilege again saying that he had arrived in a society where privilege was a different color Gone was the image of the white Christian male that I had grown accustomed to and in its place was a darker more familiar picture one that for the first time I fit brown skin black hair and a Muslim name Mamdani wrote With the right clothing several took me for an Egyptian and the bulk thought I was Syrian either identity allowed me unrestricted access to exploring Cairo In a article titled On the th anniversary of MLK s visit to campus let's acknowledge what we still need to achieve Mamdani lamented that his school which doubled its diversity trainee population over the previous years was still behind where it should be He wrote that the school had prematurely achieved a satisfaction with the level of diversity I have been forced to personally grapple with these inconsistencies during my time here Mamdani wrote RESURFACED MAMDANI PHOTO SPARKS SOCIAL MEDIA FIRESTORM OUTRAGE FROM KEY VOTING BLOC 'SHAMEFUL' I sit in class not knowing whether to correct everyone s mispronunciation of an Indian woman s name I usually do but at present I m tired I m tired of being one of a sparse non-white students in a classroom if not the only one I bring up race in discussions only to see the thought flicker in my peers eyes and on their tongues They sigh without a sound I ve brought up race again I ve sidetracked the discussion I ve chosen to make an issue out of it In the same post Mamdani who was born in Uganda to Indian parents outlined his struggles feeling uncomfortable being a non-white participant 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 Mamdani continued While I am now assured in my own skin I can remember wishing for whiteness my first year when I thought certain types of girls were impossible to talk to due to my skin being more kiwi than peach Months later I remember thinking that attraction might only be attainable when a girl had a thing for brown guys Mamdani explained that he has unveiled solidarity with particular students on campus but that still too insufficient people acknowledge that race is an issue on our campus or that it has ever been one But if people say they are color blind do they even see me Mamdani wrote Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani's campaign for comment Mamdani burst onto the national political scene last month when he won a surprising achievement in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary despite facing criticism for his far-left policies which included city-run grocery stores defunding police safe injection sites and raising the minimum wage to Mamdani's domination has sparked a civil war of sorts within the Democratic Party between those pushing to moderate since VP Kamala Harris's defeat in November and those embracing a progressive shift toward the mold of Rep Alexandria-Cortez D-N Y who endorsed Mamdani Mamdani thanks to his primary mastery is the clear frontrunner in the general electoral process in a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a roughly six-to-one margin Fox News Digital's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this analysis