{"id":156279,"date":"2026-03-07T17:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156279\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:19:10","slug":"new-yorks-first-lady-liked-post-calling-october-7-rapes-a-mass-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156279\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s First Lady Liked Post Calling October 7 Rapes a \u2018Mass Hoax\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK CITY \u2014 In February 2024, a few months after The New York Times published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/28\/world\/middleeast\/oct-7-attacks-hamas-israel-sexual-violence.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an investigation<\/a> 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 \u201cmass rape\u201d hoax that was \u201cfabricated\u201d by the paper.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cvile land grab,\u201d and the protesters who took over a Columbia University building in April 2024 were \u201con the right side of progress.\u201d 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\u2014which Mamdani <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/12\/nyregion\/mamdani-arrest-netanyahu-nyc-mayor.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has said<\/a> 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 \u201cButcher Biden,\u201d and said, \u201cYour legacy is genocide, Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY \u2014 In February 2024, a few months after The New York Times published an investigation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-156279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}