Mamdani loved Bowdoin. Why does the College not reciprocate?

Bowdoin Orient ^ | November 7, 2025 | Zahir Janmohamed

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I started receiving the photos and videos not long after Zohran Mamdani ’14 was announced as the winner of New York City’s mayoral race. In one, a nine-year-old Pakistani American in Virginia leaps for joy, his mother desperately guarding the TV for fear he might crash into it. In another, a Jewish friend in Seattle holds her wife as they dance the salsa and proclaim Mamdani to be their mayor.

“This is what it means to be seen,” a Palestinian American friend in Los Angeles texted me, he and his wife beaming as they watched the results.

Those faces: all of them beautiful. All of them doing things I hadn’t seen in some time, especially since Israel’s genocide of Palestinians started: smiling, embracing, exhaling. I stayed up late and watched Mamdani’s victory speech, fully expecting myself to cry, but it was the photos I kept receiving all night of loved ones—in India, in East Africa and all across the US—that shattered me.

My former professor, the late June Jordan, used to tell us that if you want to bury something, if you want to hide, use abstract language and conceal your face. Zahir Janmohamed is an assistant professor of English and director of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program.

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[PGR88]

Bowdoin is another New England leftist puppy mill that once educated America’s Yankee blue-bloods, but has turned into a globalist, woke, marxist indoctrination camp.

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

And I admit I’ve met one of the most famous student-athletes who came from their programme. (Photo and autograph too)

Most Americans who are 50 or order probably know her.

[17th Miss Regt]

a Jewish friend in Seattle holds her wife

I see why they are so happy about him being elected. They are true stereotypes.

[nickcarraway]

remember the Maine.

[AppyPappy]

I wonder what else didn’t happen

[nickcarraway]

Juan Benoit or Franklin pierce?

[PfromHoGro]

Here’s a link to the National Associations of Scholars’ critical 2013 report on “What Does Bowdoin Teach?”

https://www.nas.org/reports/the-bowdoin-project/full-report

Hint- It has to do with how to destroy Western Civ.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Typical pathology: can never be happy and must always point out their “suffering” and victimhood. The professionally aggrieved.

[Steven Scharf]

It is Joan Benoit Samuelson, not Juan. I suspect he is referring to her. Franklin Pierce was neither an athlete nor alive in our life times.

I know several mostly older folks who are Bowdion graduates all of them center right. Steven Robinson, editor of the conservative publication is a graduate.

[irishjuggler]

“a Jewish friend in Seattle holds her wife as they dance the salsa and proclaim Mamdani to be their mayor.”

Jewish dyke in Seattle thrilled about Muslim militant running a city 2500 miles away? For at least 20 years, Michael (Weiner) Savage has been telling anyone who’d listen that leftism is a mental disorder. For a long time, I considered that just a rhetorical flourish. No, he’s got it right. These people are legitimately nuts.

[BFW]

You have to remember that pal’s, palestinians have the lowest average IQ of of all the arabs, semitic people. They have the highest incidences of birth defects due to inter marring.

They are universally hated and not wanted, most mid-east countries have banned or bared them from immigration.

They basically turn any place they are allowed in to a shit hole.

The pal’s are irans dogs, they lap what ever bloody gangreneish vitriol their masters throw on the ground because they are carrion eaters.

So don’t be surprise about their antics, even sick vicious diseased animals may look silly or cute or do funny things be for that attack.

[FlipWilson]

My daughter has an offer from this school. Not happening.

[BlueStateRightist]

A few years ago, during an interview visit to Bowdoin, we were walking around the campus right after a tour led by a stereotypical lesbian guide who seemed very woke. My daughter looked at me and said, “This place is not for me.” At that point I figured I had raised her well.

[FlipWilson]

“A few years ago, during an interview visit to Bowdoin, we were walking around the campus right after a tour led by a stereotypical lesbian guide who seemed very woke. My daughter looked at me and said, “This place is not for me.” At that point I figured I had raised her well.”

Bates also extended an offer. She loved the campus but found out that they had just passed a requirement that each student take two full courses on race, privilege and colonialism.

And that was the end of that one too.