Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani deflected questions Friday about his wife’s apparent endorsement of Instagram posts that celebrated Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7, 2023, assault on Israel.
Rama Duwaji, a Syrian-American artist who married Mamdani in early 2025, liked multiple Instagram posts on the day of the attack and the following day that framed the violence as justified resistance, according to Jewish Insider, which first reported the story. One post from an account called The Slow Factory showed images of a bulldozer smashing through the Israel-Gaza barrier and attackers atop a seized Israeli military vehicle.
Duwaji also engaged with content from The People’s Forum promoting a pro-Palestinian rally in Times Square on Oct. 8, 2023. Both posts featured the phrase “from the river to the sea,” Jewish Insider reported. Mamdani himself publicly condemned that same Times Square rally at the time for minimizing the massacre.