An Israel-bashing activist who collaborated on an art project with the city’s first lady Rama Duwaji mocked Jewish people for “whining” about the Holocaust.
Susan Abulhawa unleashed an unhinged rant on social media in response to the news that Mayor Zohran Mamdani was facing backlash for not appointing one Jewish person to his 18-member judicial screening panel.
“Europe’s holocaust has lost its meaning to the point that the whole world is sick of hearing about it,” Albuhawa said in a July 31 statement on X. “These clowns invoke that genocide with every perceived slight (even as they are committing or supporting a contemporary genocide).
“There is an extreme overrepresentation of Jews in every branch of government, media, and culture, but we have to listen to more holocaust whining because ONE damn judicial panel didn’t contain enough Jews,” she added.
Abulhawa then warned if Jews don’t tone down the criticism of Mamdani something bad could happen.
“Seriously, there’s something terribly wrong with them, and if moderate Jews don’t effectively reign [sic] in these extremists, it’s not going to end well for anyone,” she said.
Duwaji, Mamdani’s wife, created artwork for an essay book compiled by Abulhawa, who has previously described Jewish people as “vampires,” “demons” and “ghouls” — and celebrated the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel.
The city’s first lady drew the lead graphic for “A Trail of Soap,” an essay Abulhawa published in the Slow Factory’s Everything Is Political magazine.
“Zohran Mamdani’s wife did artwork for Susan just a few months ago,” one X member posted.
Another responded, “@NYCMayor normal thing for your wife’s best friend to say?”
Duwaji and Mamdani didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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