Anti-Zionist Mayor Mamdani’s scholar dad ripped Columbia College’s antisemitism activity pressure as a “prosecutorial company” — evaluating it to the race-based “divide and rule” method utilized by British colonists, The Publish has realized.
Mahmood Mamdani, a professor at Columbia’s Division of Anthropology, dropped the remarks throughout a College Senate assembly final month as he reacted to the launch of the ultimate bombshell report into antisemitism on the Ivy League college.
“It grew to become very clear that [the task force] noticed itself not as representing the neighborhood, however as a prosecutorial company,” Mamdani stated, based on a transcript of the Dec. 12 assembly held by way of Zoom.
Mamdani — who specializes within the research of colonialism, anti-colonialism and decolonization — went on to record the “disadvantages” of the school-led activity pressure, suggesting that one devoted simply to antisemitism may very well be seen as a type of discrimination.
“I train colonial historical past … and this is called divide and rule in British colonial historical past,” he stated, based on the transcript.
“In British divide and rule, you arrange totally different sections of the inhabitants as unbiased, as autonomous, as separate constituencies — and every begins to see the opposite as a competitor. Quickly, you may have a fragmented society like grasshoppers in a bottle.”
Elsewhere, Mamdani acknowledged throughout the assembly that he hadn’t but learn the fourth and remaining report however assumed it might carry an finish to the duty pressure, which was created to handle rampant antisemitism on campus within the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, terror assault.
“We’ve come to some extent the place hopefully this era can finish. I counsel one lesson to be drawn from this isn’t [a] activity pressure on separate grievances, of separate constituencies, however an anti-discrimination activity pressure,” Mamdani stated.
“A measure which generally is a therapeutic measure, which may get all these constituencies represented on a single activity pressure and get them to have a look at it, to have a look at discrimination from the viewpoint of others.
“The college shouldn’t play a divide and rule recreation,” Mamdani added.
A supply who attended the assembly confirmed to The Publish that Mamdani made the remarks in query.
The ultimate report, printed in December, outlined varied heinous cases the place rogue professors had turned lecture rooms into their private anti-Israel soapboxes and detailed cases of harassment towards Columbia’s Jewish neighborhood.
Some college students advised The Publish they weren’t the slightest bit stunned the professor had slammed the report.
“For those who have been stunned by Zohran Mamdani illegally deleting tweets about NYC’s antisemitism report two weeks in the past, you shouldn’t have been. His father has been attempting to delete Columbia’s antisemitism activity pressure for the final two years. Apple doesn’t fall removed from the tree,” the Columbia Jewish & Israeli College students posted on X.
Columbia grad scholar, Sam Nahins, 32, pointed to the professor’s prior writings through which he claimed the Nazis took direct cues from america’ historical past of genocide and ethnic cleaning.
“I can’t say that I’m stunned that the professors who stated that Lincoln was Hitler’s inspiration is now stating that the antisemitism activity pressure may be in comparison with British colonialism,” Nahins stated.
“I might like to know who he compares Stalin, Lenin, Ayatollah, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and even Rebecca Kadaga to. Who is aware of. Possibly he’ll declare that Kadyrov was impressed by Frederick Douglass.”
