{"id":156545,"date":"2026-03-08T01:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156545\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T01:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:46:18","slug":"what-the-new-york-times-cant-bring-itself-to-say-about-mamdanis-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156545\/","title":{"rendered":"What the New York Times can’t bring itself to say about Mamdani’s wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

On March 4, the New York Times ran a piece about Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) being put on the defensive<\/a> over his wife Corinne Levy Goldman\u2019s social media feed. At issue was her engagement with posts that \u201cused insensitive or hateful language directed at Palestinians and groups or people who supported them or criticized Israel\u201d in the weeks following the Oct. 7, 2023, <\/a>terrorist attacks in southern Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

TRUMP AND MAMDANI\u2019S UNLIKELY POLITICAL ALLIANCE: \u2018A NEW YORK CITY SOAP OPERA\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

She liked one post mocking \u201cJews<\/a> for Palestine\u201d supporters by comparing them to chickens voluntarily walking into a KFC. She also liked a post from Matt Walsh in which he called Black Lives Matter<\/a> \u201ca terrorist organization.\u201d Walsh was reacting to the Chicago BLM chapter\u2019s decision to celebrate the Oct. 7 attacks by posting a picture of a paraglider with a Palestinian flag attached to it, captioned \u201cI stand with Palestine. That is all that is it!\u201d<\/p>\n

The Goldman family had been in Israel during the attacks and was forced to take shelter. Rep. Goldman is a staunch supporter of Israel and receives funding from AIPAC<\/a>, while his primary opponent, former city comptroller and Zohran Mamdani <\/a>campaign surrogate Brad Lander, has been sharply critical of Israel in recent years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then on March 6, the New York Times ran a piece about the social media activity of a different notable New York spouse: Rama Duwaji, wife of Mamdani. Earlier in the week, Jewish Insider reported that Duwaji had liked several posts that outwardly celebrated the Oct. 7 attacks. One post showed a bulldozer breaching the fence between Israel and Gaza with the caption \u201cBreaking the walls of apartheid and military occupation.\u201d Text beneath the post characterized the attacks as a part of \u201csystemic change for collective liberation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The following day, Olivia Reingold of the Free Press found that Duwaji had also liked a post that cast the rapes of Israeli women on Oct. 7 as a hoax, along with many others that appeared to celebrate and legitimize the terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

The New York Times, whose coverage of Duwaji has been overwhelmingly flattering \u2014 in February, they ran a glowing fashion profile on Duwaji, framing her wardrobe choices as a form of intentional political expression \u2014 also picked up the story.\u00a0 But the headline made clear their hearts weren\u2019t in it: \u201cMamdani Defends Wife Amid Criticism of Her Support for \u2018Palestinian Cause.’\u201d<\/p>\n

To a casual New York Times reader skimming headlines, the message was clear: Duwaji was being made to defend her righteous support of Palestinians to hectoring Zionists. The headline obfuscated the real issue: that the first lady of New York City had repeatedly liked posts celebrating a terrorist massacre.<\/p>\n

An internet uproar caused the New York Times to change its headline. Now it reads, \u201cAfter Social Media Scrutiny, Mamdani Says His Wife Is a \u2018Private Person\u2019\u201d. The new version still conveniently fails to capture the story in a fair and accurate manner. But at least it no longer equates the \u201cPalestinian cause\u201d with the worst terrorist attack on Jews since World War II.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is, of course, good reason to support the \u201ccause\u201d of Palestinian people \u2014 goodwill should be extended to all people on Earth striving to live in peace and prosperity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NYC VIGIL FOR AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI TURNS VIOLENT AS PROTESTERS CLASH<\/a><\/p>\n

But if that \u201ccause\u201d involves the indiscriminate and brutal execution of 1,200 Israelis, supporting it is inherently immoral \u2014 and a real problem for the first lady of a city with the largest Jewish population outside Israel.<\/p>\n

One hopes the New York Times doesn\u2019t view the Oct. 7 attacks as a legitimate component of the \u201cPalestinian cause\u201d as Duwaji appears to, but was only attempting to shield a figure it otherwise openly admires. Because if they do equate the attacks with the cause, they have a much bigger problem than a bad headline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On March 4, the New York Times ran a piece about Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) being put on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64701,13243,1442,1208,9,11,10,2070,4015,82],"class_list":["post-156545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-aipac","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-mayors","tag-media","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-october-7","tag-social-media","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156545","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=156545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}