{"id":156679,"date":"2026-03-08T06:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156679\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T06:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:30:43","slug":"zohran-mamdanis-wife-liked-social-media-posts-celebrating-oct-7-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156679\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani\u2019s wife liked social media posts celebrating Oct. 7 attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s social media activity reveals she liked multiple Instagram posts cheering on Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023, assault.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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The first post<\/a>, shared on the day of Hamas\u2019 onslaught, came from The Slow Factory, which bills itself<\/a> as \u201ca school, knowledge partner and climate innovation organization\u201d that \u201ccenter[s] the voices and ideas of the Global Majority (Black, Indigenous, and other people of color) to share their knowledge outside the boundaries of institutions & oppressive systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Instagram post shows stills from participants\u2019 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 \u201cBreaking the walls of apartheid and military occupation,\u201d and on the latter \u201cResisting apartheid since 1948,\u201d and on both the slogan \u201cSystemic change for collective liberation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The extensive caption on the post laments that \u201cif and when the occupation forces retaliate against this resistance\u201d Gazans will be \u201cpunished for wanting freedom from apartheid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duwaji, who met Mamdani on a dating app in 2021 and married him in early 2025, liked this post and others using a personal account<\/a> in her own name, on which she has posted her often-political illustrations and with which the mayor has interacted<\/a> in the past. She has used it also to directly criticize<\/a> Israeli policy.<\/p>\n

The unapologetic tone of the Slow Factory Post contrasts radically with the mayor\u2019s debate-stage messaging on the attack, which characterized Hamas\u2019 actions as \u201cwar crimes,\u201d even as he continually lambasted the Israeli military response.<\/p>\n

Duwaji did not respond to multiple requests for comment, and the mayor\u2019s office would not answer questions regarding his feelings about her online activity, or whether they had discussed the Oct. 7 attacks at the time. Rather, his team repeated his standard line on the bloody terrorist rampage.<\/p>\n

\u201cMayor 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,\u201d a City Hall spokesperson said in a statement to Jewish Insider.<\/p>\n

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It is unclear when Duwaji liked the Slow Factory post, or the materials that the People\u2019s Forum \u2014 part of Shanghai-based Maoist tech mogul Neville \u201cRoy\u201d Singham\u2019s network of nonprofits<\/a> promoting pro-China, pro-Russia and pro-Iran propaganda \u2014 posted to Instagram on Oct. 8, 2023. Duwaji, again using her personal account, liked two posts from protests the organization led alongside the Democratic Socialists of America and allied organizations in Times Square one day after the attack on Israel.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, then a state assemblymember, publicly criticized<\/a> the rally at the time for \u201cmaking light\u201d of Hamas\u2019 massacre of civilians.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the posts his then-girlfriend approved of on Instagram enthusiastically justify both the rally and the terrorist actions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Both captions feature the slogan<\/a> \u201cfrom the river to the sea<\/a>\u201d \u2014 often understood as calling for the total elimination of Israel from the lands between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea \u2014 and one includes a clip of the crowd<\/a> chanting, call-and-response style: \u201cEvery colonized people, every occupied people has the right to self-defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

The images in that post show signs and banners declaring \u201cWHEN PEOPLE ARE OCCUPIED, RESISTANCE IS JUSTIFIED\u201d and \u201cRESISTANCE AGAINST OCCUPATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThousands have taken to the streets in #NYC to stand with Palestinian resistance and call for an end to all U.S. aid to apartheid Israel,\u201d the caption on the post reads.<\/p>\n

JI\u2019s findings come amid a growing focus on political spouses: earlier this week, The New York Times<\/a> reported that the wife of Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) had liked or shared numerous controversial posts, including some attacking activists critical of Israel.<\/p>\n