Hamas Cheerleading in the Mamdani Household

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It’s always nice, in this age when half of all marriages end in divorce, to find a husband and wife who get along so well, a couple who can bond over world affairs, and share the same deep feelings about… well, Israel, for one, and Islam for another. Zohran Mamdani’s deep anti-Israel animus is shared by his wife, Rama Duwaji, as we learn from her social media posts, including posts by others that she “liked,” that have just recently come to light. Robert Spencer wrote about this briefly here, and more on Mamdani’s wife can be found here: “Zohran Mamdani’s wife liked social media posts celebrating Oct. 7 attacks,” by Will Bredderman, Jewish Insider, March 6, 2026:

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’s social media activity reveals she liked multiple Instagram posts cheering on Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, assault.

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.

The first post, shared on the day of Hamas’ onslaught, came from The Slow Factory, which bills itself as “a school, knowledge partner and climate innovation organization” that “center[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.”

The Instagram post shows stills from participants’ 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 “Breaking the walls of apartheid and military occupation,” and on the latter “Resisting apartheid since 1948,” and on both the slogan “Systemic change for collective liberation.”

The extensive caption on the post laments that “if and when the occupation forces retaliate against this resistance” Gazans will be “punished for wanting freedom from apartheid.”

But what “apartheid” can those at The Slow Factory who wrote the original post, or Rama Duwaji who reposted it with such enthusiasm, possibly have in mind? In 2005, every last Israeli was pulled out of Gaza. It has been entirely Arab ever since. The famous Zen koan asks “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” How can there be apartheid when the population consists entirely of one group — in Gaza’s case, of Arabs? How can there be any “walls of military occupation” to break down in Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023, if there has not been such occupation for several decades?

And what “apartheid” needs to have been “resisted since 1948”? The Arabs who remained in Israel after the 1948 war were not subject to apartheid. From the very beginning of the state, on May 14, 1948, they have enjoyed the same political, economic, and social rights as the Jews in Israel. Arabs in Israel serve on the Supreme Court and sit in the Knesset. Until his recent retirement, the head of Israel’s largest bank, Bank Leumi, was an Arab. Arabs and Jews work in the same stores, offices, farms, and factories. They play on the same sports teams and in the same orchestras. Jews and Arabs are patients in the same hospitals, treated by both Jewish and Arab medical personnel. Jews and Arabs go into businesses together, everything from restaurants to florist shops to high-tech startups. Only one thing distinguishes the treatment of Israeli Jews from Israeli Arabs: Jews must, while Arabs may, serve in the military. One wonders what Mrs. Mamdani would respond if asked to supply examples of “apartheid” in Israel.

Duwaji, who met Mamdani on a dating app [something called “Hinge”] in 2021 and married him in early 2025, liked this post and others using a personal account in her own name, on which she has posted her often-political illustrations and with which the mayor has interacted in the past. She has used it also to directly criticize Israeli policy….

Her “art” is banal, vulgar, and unpleasant. Please take a look at some of it here.

She also produces Agitprop, the kind of thing that lapdogs of the regime turned out in the Soviet Union. It consists almost entirely of anti-Israel and pro-Hamas propaganda: drawings of Palestinian mothers with sad-eyed children, standing underneath a sky where an evil Israeli plane, having just dropped its bombs, is flying away, or another one, that shows a Palestinian child holding an upturned empty pot which has written on it “there is no hunger crisis.” Or a father who had to survive “under the rubble” for twelve hours after an Israeli attack.

Duwaji “likes,” and reposts, the anti-Israel posts of others. In February 2024, a few months after the New York Times published an investigation into the sexual violence that occurred on October 7, 2023, Duwaji liked an Instagram post that referred to the “mass rape hoax” that the Times had “fabricated.” But the mass rapes of Israeli girls and women carried out by members of Hamas on October 7, 2023 were no “hoax”; the rapists themselves videotaped many of them. The paper “fabricated” nothing.

“Mayor 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,” a City Hall spokesperson said in a statement to Jewish Insider.

Just one question. About Hamas, will the real Mamdani please stand up?