Skin Deep: Mamdani Discussed “Woke” Concerns Amid Rapes in Egypt

New York City mayoral contender Zohran Mamdani has depicted himself throughout his career as a staunch advocate of women’s rights.

But a 77 WABC review of Mamdani’s writings has revealed that when he could have personally intervened as a private citizen and a man to stop a series of brutal rapes and sexual assaults, he declined to do so because of “woke,” political correctness concerns.

Mamdani, who is now 33, was a student in Cairo in 2013, when protests broke out against Egypt’s then-Islamist Muslim Brotherhood regime.

Large numbers of women were involved in the protest, and according to Human Rights Watch, up to 91 women were raped or sexually assaulted in just four days.

The wave of attacks was documented at the time by major news media, including PBS Newshour and Euronews.

In a piece for his college newspaper about his time studying in Cairo, Mamdani wrote that at those protests, women “had to contend with the very real threat of sexual harassment and assault, especially at night.”

He namechecked two groups of civilian volunteers engaged in blocking, stopping, and reporting rapes, and said he “thought of volunteering.”

However, Mamdani declined to intervene to stop rapes and sexual assaults not because of concerns about his own personal safety, or legalities, but rather because he concluded that “that the last thing Egyptians needed was a well-meaning foreigner’s assistance.”