Zohran Mamdani decried the “repression” of pro-Palestinian faculty members at U.S. universities during an appearance Saturday with Sen. Bernie Sanders at Brooklyn College.

“No faculty member should be disciplined for supporting Palestinian human rights,” he said in his opening comments during the event, part of the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour organized by Sanders, a fellow democratic socialist who has endorsed Mamdani’s campaign for mayor of New York City.

Later, Mamdani responded to a question from a student who identified herself as Jewish and asked about four adjunct faculty members whom Brooklyn College let go this year , in a move their union says was motivated by their public pro-Palestinian advocacy. Police and pro-Palestinian protesters clashed at the school last year amid a wa

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