Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s father compared Israel to apartheid-era South Africa and called Holocaust survivors “today’s perpetrator’s” in a resurfaced video of a victim-blaming 2002 university lecture. Columbia University professor Mahmood Mamdani described both Israel and South Africa as colonial settlers hostile to native populations in the unearthed comments from a Nov. 16, 2002 talk at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He said the white Afrikaners wondered how black South Africans who lived under the oppressive system would treat them if they ever took power. “That same specter must also haunt the survivors of the Holocaust in Israel — yesterday’s victims...
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