By
Rich Calder
Published May 2, 2026, 8:52 a.m. ET
A socialist group at Bowdoin College — Mayor Mamdani’s $94,000-a-year alma mater — is defying administrators by planning to host Hizzoner’s anti-Israel father on campus, while courting toxic Marxist influencer Hasan Piker for a separate lecture.
Administrators at the posh Maine college ordered the group, Bowdoin Socialists, in February to cease publishing online content and tone down other political activity after it released a report linking two former college trustees to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
However, the group — which calls itself an “anti-capitalist and anti-fascist coalition” and organized itself after socialist Mamdani was elected mayor in November — has enlisted free speech advocates, rejected the order and is pressing ahead.
A socialist group at NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s alma mater is reportedly thumbing its nose at the college’s administrators by planning to host Hizzoner’s radical Israel-hating father Mahmood Mamdani.Getty Images
Mamdani honed his policy and advocacy skills at the liberal arts college, where he founded a chapter of the controversial anti-Israel group Students for Justice in Palestine.
His dad, Mahmood Mamdani, a chaired professor of African history and colonialism at Columbia University, will be among the Bowdoin Socialists’ guest speakers this fall for its free lecture series, the group announced.
The elder Mamdani, 80, sits on the London-based Gaza Tribunal’s advisory policy council, an Israel-hating organization that routinely accuses the Jewish state of committing “genocide” — and has expressed sympathy for suicide bombers.
Hasan Piker interviewed Mayor Mamdani during the 2025 mayoral race.@zohrankmamdani/Instagram
Hasan Piker is a controversial lefty influencer with a vile history of calling Israelis “inbred” and claiming America “deserved 9/11.”Bloomberg via Getty Images
The Bowdoin Socialists are also “currently talking” to Piker about holding a lecture at the college, one of group’s founders, Finley Rhys, told The Maine Wire.
The controversial lefty influencer has a vile history of calling Israelis “inbred” and claiming America “deserved 9/11.”
The college has alleged the group never registered with the school and is, therefore, illegitimate, The Maine Wire reported.
Mamdani, who graduated in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in Africana studies, and reps for Bowdoin, did not return messages.
The Bowdoin Socialists defended its lecture series, saying it “reflects our interest in engaging national and international debates.”
The Bowdoin Socialists are also “currently talking” to Piker about holding a lecture at the college, one of group’s founders, Finley Rhys, told The Maine Wire.
The controversial lefty influencer has a vile history of calling Israelis “inbred” and claiming America “deserved 9/11.”
The college has alleged the group never registered with the school and is, therefore, illegitimate, The Maine Wire reported.
Mamdani, who graduated in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in Africana studies, and reps for Bowdoin, did not return messages.
The Bowdoin Socialists defended its lecture series, saying it “reflects our interest in engaging national and international debates.”
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