India, July 8 -- A former IDF soldier's attempt to ridicule New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani's decade-old post backfired after he shared the post on X, only to be met with a wave of criticism. Eitan Fischberger, a former IDF sergeant, posted a screenshot from a 2014 blog post written by Indian-origin Mamdani during his college days. In the post, Zohran Mamdani spoke of the racial bias he experienced as one of the few non-white students in his classroom.

"I sit in class not knowing whether to correct everyone's mispronunciation of an Indian woman's name. I usually do, but today I'm tired. I'm tired of being one of a few non-white students in a classroom, if not the only one. I bring up race in discussions only to see the thought flicke...