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\t\t\t\tBy signing up, you agree to the terms<\/a><\/p>\n In the old posts, she had also shared images praising female Palestinian terrorists who participated in plane hijackings and bombings in the 1960s and early 1970s. In 2015, she shared a post in which someone else wrote that Tel Aviv was occupied Palestinian land and \u201cshouldn\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/p>\n Her apology did not specifically mention her posts about Israel, which included, more recently, \u201cliking\u201d a post that celebrated the October 2023 Hamas onslaught.<\/p>\n Duwaji also provided an illustration for an essay by an author who described the October 7 attack as \u201cspectacular,\u201d called Jewish Israelis \u201crootless soulless ghouls,\u201d and has attacked Jewish Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI told her that, as an Israeli, I was disappointed in seeing the kind of rhetoric that she was promoting online, but I told her that part of my ideology as an Israeli is to have productive dialogue in which one side is not constantly dehumanized,\u201d Shiraz said. \u201cDespite the setting being calm, the moment she found out I was Israeli, she refused to have a conversation.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \u201cIf you can publicly apologize for dehumanizing Israelis but you can\u2019t actually get yourself to humanize one when you come face to face with them in real life, what does that say about you?\u201d Shiraz said. \u201cWhat does that say about the state of our politics, considering that that is the wife of the mayor of New York City?\u201d<\/p>\n There was no immediate comment from Duwaji or City Hall.<\/p>\n Mamdani has previously defended his wife as a \u201cprivate person\u201d who does not hold a formal position at City Hall, although Duwaji maintains a high profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n Agencies contributed to this report.<\/p>\n
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