A Hunter College grad who went viral for mercilessly tearing down posters of Israelis taken hostage by Hamas ended up landing herself an internship in mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani’s state assembly office, The Post has learned.
Frances Macalimbon Hamed, whose face was plastered in The Post back in 2023 when she and another activist were busted tearing down the hostage posters, was later employed as a “constituent-services intern” in Mamdani’s Queens legislative office.
Mamdani’s mayoral campaign confirmed Tuesday that Hamed had been one of his state assembly interns but insisted he wasn’t aware of the footage when she was hired.
“This individual is and has never been employed by the Mamdani campaign,” Mamdani’s spokesperson said.
“She was not employed by the Assembly office when this occurred nor did they know of this video or this incident when she was hired.”
The Bronx native worked in the democratic socialist’s office from February to May, providing case-management services — including for unemployment and housing concerns — for residents in the district, according to a bio on Hunter’s website.
Hamed noted she was eyeing working within the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs or the Mayor’s Office of Asylum-Seeker Operations in the future, the profile stated.
The college grad landed the role in Mamdani’s office some two years after she and another baby-faced activist, Jonathan Isla Rampagoa, were caught-on-camera ripping down the posters of the Israeli hostages that were taped up near the Upper East Side campus after the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack.
“What is your name? Are you from Hunter?” a person in the viral clip can be heard asking the pair before Hamed repeatedly tried to shield her face from view.
Their antics quickly went viral after watchdog nonprofit group StopAntisemitism blasted out the footage and social media sleuths quickly identified them.
The Post’s efforts to reach Hamed were unsuccessful.
Hamed is the second Mamdani intern that has been tied to anti-Israel activism.
City College student Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik — who interned for Mamdani prior to his mayoral campaign — was once caught on camera berating a Muslim police officer over his career choice at a pro-Palestinian protest.
Malik, too, worked in Mamdani’s Assembly district office as a communications, outreach, policy and constituent services intern during the Summer of 2024, according to her LinkedIn.
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