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First on FOX: A university newspaper article written by New York City socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani shed light on the early views of the burgeoning candidates on a variety of topics, including concerns about anti-Israel boycotts and “white privilege.”
Mamdani wrote 32 articles for the Boudin Orient during his four years of studying at the prestigious Boudin College in Maine from 2010 to 2014, including his fourth-year articles promoting the Israeli academic boycott.
“This academic and cultural boycott aims to scrutinize the actions of the Israeli government and pressure Israeli institutions to end Israeli oppressive occupations and racist policies,” writes Mamdani, who co-founded university students for the justice of Palestinian organizations.
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Mamdani was opposed to the boycott in an article with Barry Mills, president of Boydin University.
“Finally, Mills unfortunately does not mention Palestinians or Palestine,” writes Mamdani. “The call for boycotts has come to deal with over 60 years of Palestinian Israeli colonial occupation. When Mills talks about “a free exchange of knowledge, ideas, research and open discourse,” he does so while privileged a partnership with Israeli institutions over the fundamental Creedum of Palestinians, including Palestinian responsibilities.
In the 2013 operation, Mamdani responded to a white student who was troubled with criticism that it was too white by accusing the school’s editorial page of retaining “white privileges.”
“White men are privileged to print, television and nearby being featured as figures of authority in our daily reality around us,” Mamdani wrote. “We, the consumers of these media, internalize this and believe in the innate authority of white male debate and the need for its publication. So white privilege is both structural and the former that promotes the former.
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Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani will compete in the primary party in New York on Wednesday, June 25th, 2025. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
Mamdani said that the “prevailing whiteness of men” on the school’s opinion page “is based on the sadly still existing white male monopoly of both discourse and understanding.”
“While whiteness is not uniform, white privileges are not, this privilege clearly does not have to face institutional racism in access to housing subsidies, university grants, financial institutions, or civil rights. White people can universalize their experiences,” Mamdani said.
In another post entitled “Bearded in Cairo,” Mamdani discussed his time studying abroad in Egypt as the Muslim Brotherhood surged over President Morsi’s administration. Before his arrival, he explained that he had grown his beard “mainly as an iconic middle finger” to the stereotype that “penetrating America” that brown individuals with beards were “terrorists.”
Mamdani once again discussed privilege, saying, “We have arrived in a society where privilege was a different colour.”
“There was no image of a white Christian man I’ve become accustomed to, and instead there was a darker, more familiar picture. For the first time I have brown skin, dark hair, and I fit the Muslim names,” writes Mamdani. “Some people dressed appropriately and took me to the Egyptians, but I thought I was Syrian.
In an article entitled “On the 50th anniversary of MLK’s visit to campus, let’s acknowledge what we still need to achieve,” Mamdani lamented that his school, which has doubled the diversity student population over the past 13 years, is still where it should be. He wrote that the school achieved early “satisfaction with the level of diversity.”
“I was forced to personally tackle these contradictions while I was here,” Mamdani wrote.
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New York City candidate Zohran Mamdani is of Indian descent and was born in Uganda. (Reuters/Bing Guang)
“I sit in class without knowing whether to correct the mispronunciation of Indian women’s names. I usually do that, but today I’m tired of being one of the few white students in the classroom.
In the same post, Mamdani, born to Indian parents in Uganda, outlined her struggle, finding it uncomfortable to be a non-white student.
“I grow a beard just by calling myself a terrorist,” Mamdani wrote. “I pronounce “H” in my name only to hear the muffled laughter. Clothes become exotic when they cover my body.
Mamdani continued. “I’m more comfortable with my skin, but I remember hoping for the first year when I thought it was impossible for a certain type of girl to talk because she’s more kiwi than a peach or a kiwi.
Mamdani explained that he discovered “solidarity” with some students on campus, but “still few people have admitted that race on campus is an issue or that it has been.”
“But if people say they’re color blind, will they even look at me?” Mamdani wrote.
Fox News Digital has contacted Mamdani’s comment campaign.
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Mamdani burst last month when he won a surprising victory in the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City, despite facing urban-owned grocery stores, police refunds, safe injection sites and raising minimum wages to $30.
Mamdani’s victory sparked a kind of civil war among the Democrats between those who have pushed moderately since the defeat of Kamala Harris’ VP Kamala Harris in November, and those who have embraced a progressive shift to the type of Alexandria Cortez, DN.Y., who supported Mamdani.
Mamdani is a clear frontline in the general election in cities where Democrats surpass Republicans by about 6-1 margin, thanks to his main victory.
Paul Steinhauser of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
Andrew Mark Miller is a Fox News reporter. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email him with tips to Andrewmark.miller@fox.com.
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