The wife of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Rama Duwaji, liked social media posts celebrating the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, Jewish Insider revealed Friday.
Duwaji liked a post on Instagram that showed photos of Palestinians breaching Israel’s borders and said the invasion was “breaking the walls of apartheid.”
Another post she liked showed Palestinians sitting on a captured IDF vehicle alongside the caption, “Resisting apartheid since 1948.”
Those posts were shared on the day of the Hamas attack.
Duwaji also liked two posts supporting protests against Israel the day after the attack.
On Saturday, The Free Press reported that she also liked an Instagram post calling reports of Hamas rapes during the October 7 invasion a hoax.
Duwaji liked a post that referred to The New York Times expose about sexual violence against Israelis during the Hamas attack as a “mass rape” hoax that had been “fabricated” by the newspaper, The Free Press reported.
Some of the other posts she reportedly liked accused Israel of a “vile land grab,” applauded protesters who forcibly occupied a building at Columbia University in 2024, and accused Israel of genocide immediately after the Hamas attack. Another reportedly called former US president Joe Biden “Butcher Biden” and accused him of genocide.
“My wife is the love of my life,” Mamdani said at a press conference when asked about the social media activity, “and she’s also a private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my City Hall.”
There was no immediate comment from Duwaji. The couple began dating in 2021 and married last year.
Illustrative: Anti-Israel demonstrators protest Israel’s existence in New York City, October 8, 2023, following the October 7 Hamas atrocities and before Israel launched a military operation in the Gaza Strip. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
Inflammatory social media activity by members of Mamdani’s staff and inner circle, much of it directed at Israel, has caused repeated controversy since he launched his run for mayor last year.
Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that the wife of US Representative Dan Goldman, who is Jewish, liked social media posts immediately after October 7 that criticized Jews who supported the Palestinians, suggested people supporting the Palestinians be sent to Gaza, and called Black Lives Matter a “terrorist organization” because one of its chapters celebrated the Hamas onslaught.
New York City councilmember Inna Vernikov, a Jewish Republican, criticized the New York Times report, saying, “Will the ‘paper of record’ ask [Mamdani] a single question on this? THEY WON’T.”
The New York Times later covered the issue, framing the pro-October 7 posts as “support for the Palestinian cause.”
