Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s spouse — Rama Duwaji – as soon as favored a social media publish claiming Hamas’ rapes of Israelis throughout the Oct. 7, 2003 terror assault have been a “mass hoax,” in keeping with a brand new report.
NYC’s first girl favored a February 2024 Instagram publish by an nameless pro-Palestine influencer questioning the validity of a New York Occasions report about sexually violent assaults by Hamas on civilians, in keeping with a screenshot shared on X Saturday by reporter Olivia Reingold of The Free Press.
“If I instructed you that The New York Occasions employed a not too long ago graduated faculty pupil with solely a pair prior articles written as regards to meals and cooking to be their lead on the bottom ‘reporter’ on the ‘mass rape’ hoax they fabricated, would you consider it? That’s Adam Sella,” mentioned @zei_squirrel within the hateful publish.
The Occasions has stood by its reporting and lots of different media shops, together with The Publish, has interviewed the rape victims.
The publish was considered one of 70 Reingold mentioned she discovered the place Duwaji took excessive positions towards Israel and its supporters, in keeping with her report printed Saturday in The Free Press.
They embrace one the place the primary girl favored a publish claiming Israel is waging a “vile land seize” and one other claiming pro-Palestine protesters who took over a Columbia College constructing in 2024 are “on the best aspect of progress.”
Duwaji additionally reportedly favored a publish calling on the Worldwide Felony Court docket to problem an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – whom her husband has mentioned he’d have arrested if he got here to NYC beneath his watch.
She supported one other screed calling President Biden “Butcher Biden” and stating the Israel-friendly pol’s “legacy is genocide.””
The brand new report comes after The Jewish Insider reported Friday that Duwaji favored a celebratory Instagram publish on the day of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, which killed greater than 1,200 innocents.
The inflammatory social media posts included pictures allegedly taken from livestreamed footage of the assault, displaying a gleeful group driving on what gave the impression to be a commandeered Israel Protection Forces automobile with the phrases “resisting apartheid since 1948,” the Jewish Insider reported.
“Breaking the partitions of apartheid and army occupation,” learn one other picture on the identical publish, which the outlet reported confirmed a bulldozer utilized by terrorists to breach the barrier between Gaza and Israel that day.
The report mentioned Duwaji, 28, additionally favored a publish from the left-wing group Folks’s Discussion board NYC that referred to as for help for “Palestinian resistance,” whereas promoting a protest towards Israel the day after Hamas’ rampage which noticed 251 hostages taken.
Mamdani on Friday claimed his spouse isn’t a public determine – regardless of receiving fawning media protection up to now.
“My spouse is the love of my life, and he or she’s additionally a personal one who has held no formal place on my marketing campaign or in my Metropolis Corridor,” Mamdani instructed reporters.
“I, nonetheless, was elected to symbolize all 8.5 million folks within the metropolis. And I consider that it’s my accountability due to that position to reply questions on my ideas and my politics, and my stances.”
Mamdani’s reps additionally issued a press release, saying: “Mayor Mamdani has been clear and constant: Hamas is a terrorist group, October seventh was a horrific battle crime, and he has condemned that violence unequivocally.”
