Mamdani’s support for boycotting israel stretches back for his entire adult life Founding ties to students for justice in palestine in 2014, mamdani helped found bowdoin college’s chapter of sjp In an interview with the bowdoin orient, he defended politicizing academics, stating “many people say ‘we can’t mix academia with politics…’ but the problem is these classrooms in israel are built on political issues… Mamdani also wrote a column in the student newspaper urging bowdoin to shun israeli academics in solidarity with the bds campaign. The same people who used to walk by me in the student union when we were organizing for an academic boycott—those same people have reached out to me since to say they wish they had gotten involved, that they feel differently now.
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