The Jewish community on Long Island is concerned over the social media posts about Oct. 7 attacks liked by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s wife, Rama Duwaji.<\/p>\n
Rabbi Eli Goodman, the spiritual leader at Chabad of the Beaches, says recent comments from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife are concerning, but they\u2019re not surprising.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody recognizes what happened on Oct. 7 and there is no way at all to justify that whatsoever,\u201d Goodman said.<\/p>\n
Duwaji is facing criticism after liking a social media post that referred to Hamas\u2019 actions during the Oct. 7 attack as a \u201cmass rape hoax” and another describing the attack as “collective liberation.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact is, the mayor has been very, very vocal on his views on Israel,\u201d Goodman said. \u201cAt the same time, he has to be the mayor for all New Yorkers, and he has to make sure that everybody in houses of worship are protected and everybody feels safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mamdani addressed the issue in a press conference Friday, but many people were unhappy with his response.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere should be no other answer than \u2018I do not condone this,\u2019’ said Bali Lerner, executive director of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County. \u201cWhat happened on Oct. 7 to the Jewish people was absolutely unacceptable. And that’s it. There should be no other statement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman released a statement Sunday after New York City police had to investigate a homemade bomb during protests on Saturday.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201c[The Mamdani Family\u2019s] words don\u2019t just deny atrocities\u2014they empower extremists and help create a climate where hatred leads to real-world violence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blakeman also demanded a public apology and condemnation from Duwaji.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jewish community on Long Island is concerned over the social media posts about Oct. 7 attacks liked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[61,9113,776,22925,774,34168,9,24,55,54,56,4015,82],"class_list":["post-157604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-jewish","tag-long-island","tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","tag-nassau-county","tag-nassau-county-executive-bruce-blakeman","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-social-media","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157604","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=157604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}