Exclusive | Far-left NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani urges boycott of Cornell school with ties to Israel: Blatant antisemitism

Far-left mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has said Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island should be boycotted because of its partnership with an Israel-based school — a stance blasted as “blatant antisemitism.’’ “There are ways to make what seems to be an international battle into a local one,” the Democratic socialist said on a “Talking Palestine” podcast with Sumaya Awad shortly after getting elected to the state assembly in 2020.“If you were to look at the lens of BDS [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] and how it applies here in New York City, you would say that Cornell-Technion is something you would be talking about,” Mamdani said of the Roosevelt Island college, which is partnered with Technion University in Israel and is also referred to as the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute.“Technion University is an Israeli University that has helped to develop a lot of weapons technology used by the IDF [Israel Defense Force],” said Mamdani, as he voiced support for economic boycotts against Israel.Mamdani — who also recounted how he co-founded the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Bowdoin College when he attended the school — said a boycott campaign would scrutinize any government funds that Cornell-Technion received.“I’m sure that if we look close enough, there are either municipal subsidies or state subsidies granted to a project such as this on Roosevelt Island,” Mamdani said.The Roosevelt venture is a pet project of former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who conducted a worldwide competitive bidding process to operate the sciences and engineering campus.Cornell won the bid and opened the joint campus in September 2017, paving the way for such things as shared programs and professors.A former Bloomberg staffer told The Post it’s outrageous that Mamdani would push going after Cornell’s partnership with Technion.“Zohran Mamdani spends his days attacking Donald Trump, but it seems he’s really a fanboy,” said Mark Botnick, former...