Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, expressed regret for the “hurt” caused by her past alarming social media posts – but failed to directly apologize for the troubling content praising Palestinian terrorists and bashing Israel.
The Big Apple’s 28-year-old first lady issued the mealy-mouthed mea culpa for a flurry of “harmful” posts she made on X and Tumblr in her teens and early 20s in a sit-down with Hyperallergic, an arts news outlet.
“When a tabloid recently published old tweets I wrote as a teenager, I felt a lot of shame being confronted with language I used that is so harmful to others; being 15 doesn’t excuse it,” Duwaji told the publication.
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“I’ve read and seen a lot of what others have had to say in response, and I understand the hurt I caused and am truly sorry,” she added.
Controversial posts unearthed by the Washington Free Beacon last month — linked to her partly through facial recognition — showed her inflammatory content dated back to 2013, when she was reportedly 15.
In one 2015 post, she raged that Tel Aviv “shouldn’t exist in the first place,” calling its residents “occupiers,” and dropped the N-word in another post two years earlier.
On her now-inactive Tumblr, she hailed Palestinian plane hijacker Leila Khaled and members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, while reposting a tirade accusing US service members of “mercilessly slaughtering 3rd world civilians” to maintain “American hegemony.”
A December 2015 repost also blamed white people for the creation of al Qaeda, the outlet reported.
“You can’t blame muslims for terrorism because they didn’t construct, fund nor train Al-Qaeda,” the post said. “White People did that too.”
A week before the posts were exposed, Duwaji drew backlash when it emerged she once liked Instagram posts celebrating Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack that shared images of the murderous assault on Israel.
One post included claims that the rapes carried out by the terror group against Israeli hostages and victims were a “mass hoax.”
While Duwaji remained silent amid the uproar, her socialist husband, a vocal critic of Israel, jumped to her defense, claiming she is a “private person” who holds no formal role in his administration and shouldn’t face scrutiny over her social media activity.
