Columbia University Professor Mahmood Mamdani, the father of New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, compared Israel to South Africa during the apartheid era and characterized Holocaust survivors as “today’s perpetrators” in a video of a 2002 lecture, the New York Post reported on Sunday.
In remarks delivered on Nov. 16, 2002, at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, he described both Israel and South Africa as colonial settlers hostile to native populations.
The professor, who specializes in the study of colonialism, anti-colonialism, and decolonization, said that white Afrikaners feared how Black South Africans might treat them if they ever gained political power.
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