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Unearthed Mamdani college newspaper writings promote anti-Israel boycott, rail against ‘white privilege’
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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 found.
Mamdani wrote 32 articles for the Bowdoin Orient during his four years studying at Maine’s prestigious Bowdoin College from 2010 to 2014, 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 government 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. 7 Hamas massacre, with some going so far as to celebrate the attack.
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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.»
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Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani takes the stage at his primary election party on Wednesday, June 25, 2025 in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
Mamdani said 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, some took me for an Egyptian and most thought I was Syrian – either identity allowed me unrestricted access to exploring Cairo.»
In a 2014 article titled «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 doubled its diversity student population over the previous 13 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.
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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.
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Israelis keep suitcases packed and ready as Trump weighs potential Iran strike decision
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For more than a month, Michal Weits has kept suitcases packed by the front door of her house in Tel Aviv.
«We have our bags ready for weeks,» she said. «Three weeks ago, there were rumors that it was the night the U.S. would attack Iran. At midnight, we pulled the kids out of their beds and drove to the north, where it is supposed to be safer.»
Weits, the artistic director of the international documentary film festival Docaviv, is speaking from her own traumatic experience. During the 12-day war, an Iranian missile struck her Tel Aviv home. She, her husband, and their two young children were inside the safe room when it collapsed on her.
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Eyal, husband of Michal Weits, holds their daughter in front of the rubble of their Tel Aviv home after it was struck by an Iranian missile during the 12-day war. (Michal Weits)
«After an Iranian missile hit our home and we lost everything we had, we also lost the feeling of ‘it won’t happen to me,’» she said. «We are prepared, as much as it’s really possible.»
Weits remembers the surreal contrast of those days. Four days after being injured in the missile strike, while still in the hospital, she was told she had won an Emmy Award for the documentary she produced about the Nova massacre on Oct. 7.
«Four days earlier an 800-kilogram explosive missile fell on our home and I was injured, and four days later I woke up on my birthday to news that I had won an Emmy,» she said. «It can’t be more surreal than this. That is the experience of being Israeli, from zero to one hundred.»
Michal Weits after being injured in an Iranian missile strike that hit her Tel Aviv home during the 12-day war. (Michal Weits)
She says Israelis have learned to live inside that swing. «Inside all of this, life continues,» she said. «Kids go to school, you go to the supermarket, Purim arrives and you prepare, and you don’t know if any of it will actually happen. We didn’t make plans for this weekend because we don’t know what will happen.»
That gap — between visible routine and private fear — defines this moment. The fear she describes is now part of the national atmosphere.
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The Weits family home in Tel Aviv after it was destroyed by a direct Iranian missile strike during the 12-day war. (Michal Weits)
On the surface, Israel looks normal. The beaches are crowded in the warm weather. Cafés are full. The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange has risen in recent days. Children go to school as Israelis prepare for the Jewish holiday of Purim and costumes are being prepared.
But inside homes and across local news broadcasts, one question dominates: when will it happen? When will President Donald Trump decide whether to strike Iran — and what will that mean for Israel?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the Home Front Command and emergency services to prepare for possible escalation, with Israeli media reporting a state of «maximum alert» across security bodies.
Speaking at an officer graduation ceremony this week, Netanyahu warned Tehran: «If the ayatollahs make a mistake and attack us, they will face a response they cannot even imagine.» He added that Israel is «prepared for any scenario.»
The military message was echoed by the IDF. «We are monitoring regional developments and are aware of the public discourse regarding Iran,» IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said. «The IDF remains vigilant in defense, our eyes are open in every direction and our readiness in response to any change in the operational reality is greater than ever.»
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Four days after being injured in an Iranian missile strike, Michal Weits received an Emmy Award for the documentary «We Will Dance Again» about the Nova festival massacre on Oct. 7. (Michal Weits)
Yet the psychological shift inside Israel goes deeper than official statements.
For years, Israelis lived with rockets from Hamas. The Iranian strikes felt different.
«The level of destruction from Iran was something Israelis had not experienced before,» said Israeli Iran expert Benny Sabti. «People are used to rockets from Gaza. This was a different scale of damage. It created real anxiety.»
Iron Dome, long seen as nearly impenetrable, was less effective against heavier Iranian missiles. Buildings collapsed. Entire neighborhoods were damaged.
«People are still traumatized,» Sabti said. «They are living on the edge for a long time now.»
At the same time, he stressed that the country is better prepared today.
«There are feelings, and there are facts,» Sabti said. «The facts are that Israel is better prepared now. The military level is doing serious preparation. They learned from the last round.»
The earlier wave of protests inside Iran had sparked hope in Israel that internal pressure might weaken or topple the regime. Weits told Fox News Digital, «I am angry at the Iranian government, not the Iranian people. I will be the first to travel there when it’s possible. I hope they will be able to be free — that all of us will be able to be free.»
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Destroyed residential buildings that were hit by a missile fired from Iran is seen in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, Israel on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Despite losing her home and suffering hearing damage from the blast, she says the greater loss was psychological. «There is no more complacency,» she said. «The ‘it won’t happen to me’ feeling is gone.»
Across Israel, that sentiment resonates.
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Colombia: un fallo electoral divide a la izquierda y debilita la candidatura del “delfín” de Gustavo Petro
A poco más de tres meses de las elecciones presidenciales, la izquierda colombiana corre riesgo de una inesperada división que debilite sus posibilidades de seguir en el poder otros cuatro años ante el avance de los conservadores y la derecha radical.
No se trata de una pelea interna entre facciones rivales o la negativa a conformar una coalición fuerte que busque la reelección del proyecto encarnado por el presidente Gustavo Petro, que no puede aspirar a su reelección inmediata, prohibida por la Constitución. La izquierda simplemente fue sacudida por una decisión del Congreso Nacional Electoral (CNE).
En una polémica decisión, el CNE le impidió al senador Iván Cepeda, el candidato presidencial elegido por Petro, participar en la consulta del 8 de marzo en la que las distintas fuerzas o coaliciones elegirán a sus postulantes.
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¿El motivo? Cepeda ya participó y ganó la interna de la coalición conocida como Pacto Histórico de Petro en octubre. Por eso quedó excluido de presentarse en los comicios en que una amplia coalición de partidos progresistas y de izquierda elegirá a su candidato presidencial.
En síntesis, Cepeda puede ser candidato presidencial en las elecciones del 31 de mayo por el Pacto Histórico, pero no por el Frente de Izquierda nacional.
¿Qué va a pasar ahora con la izquierda colombiana?
En la consulta izquierdista de marzo, en la que también se renovará el Congreso, ya anunciaron su participación el exsenador Roy Barreras y el exministro del Interior, Juan Fernando Cristo. Pero Cepeda, de 65 años y figura histórica de los organismos de derechos humanos, es mucho más popular que ambos, según los últimos sondeos.
“Cepeda sale como candidato de la consulta del Pacto Histórico en octubre pasado, con algo más de millón y medio de votos por su candidatura. El Consejo Nacional Electoral considera que fue una consulta entre partidos, y no de un solo partido, que sería la consideración para que el ganador pudiera ir ahora el 8 de marzo a una consulta interpartidista para elegir el candidato del Frente de Izquierda. Así que lo sacaron de esta próxima consulta”, resumió a TN el consultor político argentino Ángel Beccassino, que reside desde hace más de 30 años en Colombia.
El presidente colombiano Gustavo Petro. (Foto: José Luis Magana/AP)
Según afirmó, “el grupo de izquierda dura que respalda a Cepeda quiso que no se hiciera esta consulta, y que los que iban a participar en ella, en particular Roy Barreras, se bajaran y adhirieran a la candidatura suya directo a primera vuelta”.
“Pero esto no pasó. Petro ha dado muchas señales de respaldar la candidatura de Cepeda, e incluso dijo que él no iba a votar por la consulta del Frente de Izquierda el 8 de marzo, sino directamente en primera vuelta”, indicó.
Beccassino aseguró que esta situación pone a la izquiera bajo el peligro de una escisión.
“Es el riesgo. La apuesta es a que si Roy Barreras saca el 8 de marzo más de 3 millones de votos, lo cual es probable, Petro va a modificar su posición y ahí es probable que Cepeda decline alegando su situación de salud”, sostuvo.
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Cepeda, hijo del asesinado dirigente Manuel Cepeda Vargas, fue sometido a una intervención quirúrgica por un cáncer de hígado hace unos años.
El candidato de Petro, una figura histórica de la izquierda colombiana, ha sido facilitador del proceso de paz con la guerrilla de las FARC y copresidente de la Comisión de Paz del Senado. “Es un exmilitante del Partido Comunista, con formación en Bulgaria durante la época del bloque soviético, con alguna cercanía en su momento con las FARC”, dijo Beccassino.
La izquierda tendrá como principal rival a un candidato que rompe al molde de la política tradicional, el ultraderechista Abelardo de la Espriella, “el Javier Milei colombiano”, que ya anunció que se presentará solo a las elecciones y no participará en la consulta de los tradicionales conservadores colombianos.
Cepeda y De la Espriella lideran los últimos sondeos de cara a las elecciones del 31 de mayo. Un eventual balotaje entre ambos se realizaría el 21 de junio.
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India y Brasil firmaron un memorándum sobre minerales críticos y tierras raras en Nueva Delhi
India y Brasil firmaron este sábado un acuerdo sobre minerales críticos y tierras raras, según anunció el primer ministro indio, Narendra Modi, tras mantener conversaciones en Nueva Delhi con el presidente brasileño, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Modi calificó el acuerdo como “un paso importante hacia la construcción de cadenas de suministro resilientes”. Ambos mandatarios mantuvieron conversaciones en busca de un fortalecimiento en la cooperación del sector estratégico.
Brasil posee la segunda mayor reserva mundial de estos elementos, esenciales en industrias que van desde vehículos eléctricos y paneles solares hasta teléfonos inteligentes, motores a reacción y misiles guiados.
India busca reducir su dependencia de China, principal exportador global de tierras raras, por lo que impulsó la producción interna, el reciclaje y la búsqueda de nuevos proveedores. En este contexto, la alianza con Brasil adquiere especial relevancia.
Lula llegó a Nueva Delhi acompañado por una delegación de ministros y líderes empresariales para participar en una cumbre mundial. El sábado recibió una bienvenida ceremonial y rindió homenaje a Mahatma Gandhi antes de reunirse con Modi. Los funcionarios confirmaron que ambos líderes firmaron un memorando sobre minerales críticos y analizaron iniciativas para incrementar los lazos comerciales.
India ya figura como el décimo mayor mercado para las exportaciones brasileñas, con un comercio bilateral que superará los USD 15.000 millones en 2025. Ambos países se han fijado como objetivo alcanzar los USD 20.000 millones en 2030.
Ante el dominio de China en la producción de tierras raras, varias naciones buscan diversificar sus fuentes. Rishabh Jain, del Consejo de Energía, Medio Ambiente y Agua de Delhi, señaló que la cooperación de India con Brasil en minerales críticos complementa acuerdos recientes con Estados Unidos, Francia y la Unión Europea.
Si bien estas alianzas otorgan acceso a tecnología avanzada y capacidades de procesamiento, “las alianzas del Sur Global son fundamentales para asegurar un acceso diversificado a recursos locales y dar forma a las reglas emergentes del comercio global”, afirmó Jain.
Se esperaba que el primer ministro indio y el presidente brasileño también abordaran en sus conversaciones los obstáculos económicos mundiales y las tensiones en los sistemas comerciales multilaterales, especialmente tras verse ambos países afectados por los aranceles estadounidenses en 2025, lo que llevó a los dos líderes a pedir una cooperación más estrecha.
Desde entonces, Washington se ha comprometido a reducir los gravámenes sobre productos indios en virtud de un acuerdo comercial anunciado a principios de este mes.
“Lula y Modi tendrán ocasión de intercambiar puntos de vista sobre la situación mundial y, en particular, sobre los desafíos que atraviesa el multilateralismo y el comercio internacional”, afirmó Susan Kleebank, secretaria para Asia y el Pacífico de la Cancillería brasileña.
Brasil es el mayor socio de India en América Latina. Entre las principales exportaciones brasileñas hacia India destacan el azúcar, el petróleo, los aceites vegetales, el algodón y el mineral de hierro, cuya demanda se ha incrementado debido al rápido desarrollo de las infraestructuras y el crecimiento industrial de India, que podría convertirse en la cuarta economía mundial.
Empresas brasileñas también se están expandiendo en India. En enero, el grupo Adani y Embraer firmaron un acuerdo para la fabricación de helicópteros.
Durante la cumbre sobre inteligencia artificial AI Impact en Nueva Delhi, Lula reclamó la creación de un programa de gobernanza mundial multilateral e inclusivo para la IA. Tras su visita a India, el presidente brasileño viajará a Corea del Sur, donde se reunirá con el presidente Lee Jae-myung y participará en un foro de negocios Brasil-Corea del Sur.
(Con información de AFP)
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