Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife — Rama Duwaji – once liked a social media post claiming Hamas’ rapes of Israelis during the Oct. 7, 2003 terror attack were a “mass hoax,” according to a new report.
NYC’s first lady liked a February 2024 Instagram post by an anonymous pro-Palestine influencer questioning the validity of a New York Times report about sexually violent attacks by Hamas on civilians, according to a screenshot shared on X Saturday by reporter Olivia Reingold of The Free Press.
“If I told you that The New York Times hired a recently graduated college student with only a couple prior articles written on the subject of food and cooking to be their lead on the ground ‘reporter’ on the ‘mass rape’ hoax they fabricated, would you believe it? That’s Adam Sella,” said @zei_squirrel in the hateful post.
The Times has stood by its reporting and many other media outlets, including The Post, has interviewed the rape victims.
The post was one of 70 Reingold said she found where Duwaji took extreme positions against Israel and its supporters, according to her report published Saturday in The Free Press.
They include one where the first lady liked a post claiming Israel is waging a “vile land grab” and another claiming pro-Palestine protesters who took over a Columbia University building in 2024 are “on the right side of progress.”
Duwaji also reportedly liked a post calling on the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – whom her husband has said he’d have arrested if he came to NYC under his watch.
She supported another screed calling President Biden “Butcher Biden” and stating the Israel-friendly pol’s “legacy is genocide.””
The new report comes after The Jewish Insider reported Friday that Duwaji liked a celebratory Instagram post on the day of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, which killed more than 1,200 innocents.
The inflammatory social media posts included images allegedly taken from livestreamed footage of the attack, showing a gleeful group riding on what appeared to be a commandeered Israel Defense Forces vehicle with the words “resisting apartheid since 1948,” the Jewish Insider reported.
“Breaking the walls of apartheid and military occupation,” read another image on the same post, which the outlet reported showed a bulldozer used by terrorists to breach the barrier between Gaza and Israel that day.
The report said Duwaji, 28, also liked a post from the left-wing organization People’s Forum NYC that called for support for “Palestinian resistance,” while advertising a protest against Israel the day after Hamas’ rampage which saw 251 hostages taken.
Mamdani on Friday claimed his wife isn’t a public figure – despite receiving fawning media coverage in the past.
“My wife is the love of my life, and she’s also a private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my City Hall,” Mamdani told reporters.
“I, however, was elected to represent all 8.5 million people in the city. And I believe that it’s my responsibility because of that role to answer questions about my thoughts and my politics, and my stances.”
Mamdani’s reps also issued a statement, saying: “Mayor Mamdani has been clear and consistent: Hamas is a terrorist organization, October 7th was a horrific war crime, and he has condemned that violence unequivocally.”
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