Zohran Mamdani’s wife is an artist named Rama Duwaji who was born in Houston to Syrian parents. This week several outlets have looked into her social media history and discovered that she supported the 10/7 attack on Israel by Hamas. It started with this article by Jewish Insider:
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent the mayoral campaign distancing himself from the most radical anti-Israel elements of his leftist movement, but an examination of his wife’s social media activity reveals she liked multiple Instagram posts cheering on Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, assault.
The posts liked by Rama Duwaji, a Syrian-American artist, unambiguously celebrated the terrorist attack, which saw nearly 1,200 Israelis and foreign workers killed, thousands wounded, 251 civilians and military personnel kidnapped and numerous episodes of sexual assault…
The Instagram post shows stills from participants’ livestreamed footage of the attack: first of a bulldozer that terrorists used to breach the barrier separating Israel from Gaza, the second of attackers riding on a captured IDF vehicle. Printed on the former are the words “Breaking the walls of apartheid and military occupation,” and on the latter “Resisting apartheid since 1948,” and on both the slogan “Systemic change for collective liberation.”
The day after the attack, the DSA announced plans for a pro-Hamas rally in New York City. That rally featured speakers who described Hamas murderers as “freedom fighters.” There were lots of chants of “from the river to the sea.”
Chants of “Free Free Palestine!” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” in Times Square. pic.twitter.com/T5LjNAUOkP
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) October 8, 2023
Cheering on terrorists and the murder of more than 1,000 Israelis was too much for most people. The rally was condemned by Gov. Kathy Hochul and others. Even AOC eventually condemned it.
“The bigotry and callousness expressed in Times Square on Sunday were unacceptable and harmful in this devastating moment. It also did not speak for the thousands of New Yorkers who are capable of rejecting both Hamas’ horrifying attacks against innocent civilians as well as the grave injustices and violence Palestinians face under occupation,” she said.
The rally was also criticized at the time by a New York Assembly Member named Zohran Mamdani:
“My support for Palestinian liberation should never be confused for a celebration of the loss of civilian life,” Mamdani said in a statement. “I condemn the killing of civilians and rhetoric at a rally [on Sunday] seeking to make light of such deaths.”
Meanwhile, his girlfriend at the time, Rama Duwaji, was liking posts on Instagram about the rally.
Both captions feature the slogan “from the river to the sea” — often understood as calling for the total elimination of Israel from the lands between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea — and one includes a clip of the crowd chanting, call-and-response style: “Every colonized people, every occupied people has the right to self-defense.”
Surely the woman who liked those posts and the man who got into politics because of the Palestinian cause were talking about this when it happened. It makes you wonder if they really disagreed about this or if Mamdani was already thinking about his future run for office.
Today, the Free Press has done some more digging and found some more dirt.
In February 2024, a few months after The New York Times published an investigation into the sexual violence that occurred on October 7, 2023, Rama Duwaji, the wife of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, liked an Instagram post referring to the “mass rape” hoax that was “fabricated” by the paper.
That was just one of more than 70 Instagram posts uncovered by The Free Press in which the First Lady of New York City cosigned extreme positions against Israel. A sampling of the posts say Israel is waging a “vile land grab,” and the protesters who took over a Columbia University building in April 2024 were “on the right side of progress.” Another post liked by Duwaji, who identifies as Syrian but was born in Houston, Texas, calls for the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu—which Mamdani has said he would honor if the Israeli leader steps foot in New York City on his watch. One post she liked referred to then-President Joe Biden as “Butcher Biden,” and said, “Your legacy is genocide, Joe.”…
She also follows a number of anti-Israel accounts, including the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter for her alma mater, the School of Visual Arts, and an account by the name “Gaza_Shaheed” that describes itself as documenting the “martyrs of the Gaza massacre.” She liked more than a dozen posts alone from Bisan Owda, a Palestinian activist accused of being a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department.
She would fit right in with the far-left, pro-Hamas protesters at Columbia. Again, this isn’t some side issue to Mamdani. This is the core of his political life. Does he actually disagree with any of this or is he just saying what he thinks is publicly acceptable? Mamdani has condemned the 10/7 attack but he could never bring himself to call for disarming Hamas. I pointed out here how, at the mayoral debate, he carefully dodged the question.
Mamdani was asked directly about his wife’s extremist views and he dodged that question also, saying she wasn’t part of his team as mayor.
🚨 Zohran Mamdani responds after posts surface showing his wife liked content celebrating the October 7 attacks, saying:
“My wife is the love of my life… she’s a private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my city hall.”pic.twitter.com/bxyfJa02xL
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) March 6, 2026
Earlier this week, before the news about Duwaji’s social media activity broke, the NY Times devoted an article to social media posts by the wife of Rep. Dan Goldman:
Corinne Levy Goldman, who serves as her husband’s campaign treasurer, either liked or recirculated a series of social media posts — several from right-wing accounts — that used what some saw as insensitive or hateful language directed at Palestinians and groups or people who supported them or criticized Israel.
Most of the activity came in the days and weeks following the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, when the Goldman family was in Israel and forced to take shelter while there. In one instance, she liked a post from @EndWokeness that showed people holding a “Jews for Palestine” sign with the message, “Chickens for KFC.” She also liked posts suggesting that people supporting “Free Palestine” be sent to Gaza, to live under its rules.
Having set this standard, the Times must have felt obligated to cover the social media posts by Mamdani’s wife as well. The tissue-thin distinction here is that Goldman’s wife served as his campaign treasurer while Mamdani’s wife had no role on his campaign. But that’s really just a lame excuse. As the story about Godlman’s wife made clear, the real issue was how it might impact his re-election:
…the congressman’s staunch support of Israel and the strong support he receives from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobbying organization, may cost him votes in his progressive Democratic district…
It may cost him votes if he’s seen as too pro-Jewish. That’s paragraph two of the story about his wife’s social media activity. But the same is true of Mamdani, whether or not his wife was part of his campaign (and whether or not they were married at the time as opposed to just dating for 2 years). The issue is how this reflects on Mamdani. He’s made efforts to appear evenhanded but his wife is a pro-Hamas extremist who cheered on the 10/7 attack. Many of his current constituents might find that problematic. It’s a shame none of this came out before the election, but you can bet the NY Times would never have reported this at all if they hadn’t jumped in on that story about Rep. Goldman’s wife earlier this week.
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