Zohran Mamdani during a campaign event at the NAN House of Justice in the Harlem neighborhood of New York on Saturday, June 28, 2025. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Mamdani 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 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."
In a 2013 op-ed, Mamdani responded to a White student 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' US
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is of Indian descent and was born in Uganda. (Reuters/Bing Guan)
"I sit in class not knowing whether to correct everyone’s mispronunciation of an Indian woman’s name. I usually do, but today I’m tired. I’m tired of being one of a few 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 student.
"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 comfortable 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 possible when a girl had ‘a thing for brown guys.’"
Mamdani explained that he has found "solidarity" with some students on campus but that "still, too few 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.
Zohran Mamdani is challenging incumbent Mayor Adams, who is running as an independent, in November's mayoral election. (Getty Images)
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Mamdani burst onto the national political scene last month when he won a surprising victory 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 $30.
Mamdani's victory 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 victory, is the clear frontrunner in the general election in a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a roughly six-to-one margin.
Fox News Digital's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
Andrew Mark Miller is a reporter at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.
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