First Lady of New York ‘liked’ 7 October – the New York Times called it a ’cause’
Rama Duwaji's support for Hamas'' barbarous attack have come to light over the past week, and it is genuinely chilling
The First Lady of New York gave a thumbs-up to the bloodiest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
Let’s bin the euphemisms. Let’s quit all the polite blather about her “controversial” social-media activity. We need to speak plainly. Rama Duwaji, the American-Syrian artist who is married to New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, expressed approval of the slaughter of Jews in the Holy Land.
Her “likes” on social media have come to light over the past week, and they are genuinely chilling. On 7 October itself, as innocents were being raped and murdered by the monsters of Hamas, she liked posts on Instagram that cheered on that historic atrocity.
She gave a thumbs-up to a post showing Gazans breaching Israel’s border fence and said they were “breaking the walls of apartheid”. She approved a post showing Palestinians sitting on a captured IDF vehicle with the caption “Resisting apartheid since 1948”.
She liked a post from a radical left group calling on New Yorkers to hit the streets the following day to show their support for “Palestinian resistance”.
On 7 October itself, as innocents were being raped and murdered by the monsters of Hamas, she liked posts on Instagram that cheered on that historic atrocity.
Think about this: Israel had just suffered its worst-ever terror attack. An army of antisemites had savagely laid waste to 1,200 lives. And here was the future First Lady of New York agreeing that people should go out and salute this act of “resistance”.
To my mind, gathering to celebrate 7 October is as repulsive as it would have been to pour on to the streets after Kristallnacht to gloat and cheer.
Some will say Ms Duwaji could not have known the full details of Hamas’s barbarism on that day. It took a while for the full scale of their fascistic assault to become clear.
Not so fast. Even months later, when we all knew Hamas’s crimes, she was engaging in 7 October apologism.
According to The Free Press, in February 2024 she liked an Instagram post that described Hamas’s rapes as a “hoax”. The post slammed the New York Times for publishing an in-depth feature on Hamas’s sexual crimes, saying the paper had “fabricated” this tale of “mass rape”.
Duwaji digitally nodded along to this vile expression of rape denialism.
Remember when the slogan of progressives was “Believe Women”? In the MeToo era, we were told that every report of sexual assault should be treated sensitively, and with good faith. That ended on 8 October 2023. That’s the day the left went from saying “Believe Women” to “Believe Fascists”. They chose to believe the Hamas brutes who denied raping women rather than the young Israelis who witnessed their misogynistic atrocities.
The twisted irony is that Ms Duwaji’s art often focuses on the plight of women, especially in the Middle East. And yet here she supported the inhuman denial of Israeli women’s experiences on 7 October. MeToo unless you’re a Jew.
Then there’s the media response to the revelations about Duwaji. This has been nauseating too. The “liberal” press has downplayed her 7 October apologism. The New York Times said she merely expressed “support for the Palestinian cause”. Actually she expressed support for the barbarous invasion of the Jewish State. And for the denial of anti-Jewish atrocities. Be honest, NYT.
Much of the media has sympathised with Mamdani’s insistence that his wife is a “private person” and should be left alone.
The satirical website, The Babylon Bee, summed up the madness of this with its mocking headline: Mamdani Clarifies That His Wife Only Celebrates Terrorism In Her Capacity As A Private Citizen.
Imagine if a First Lady had liked posts celebrating the invasion of an Islamic country by an army of avowed Muslim-haters who raped and slaughtered people whose only “crime” is that they were Muslim. Do you think the left would have been as understanding as it has been towards Ms Duwaji? Not a chance. They’d be protesting outside Gracie Mansion. “Cancel her”, the mob would holler.
That’s what this story is really about: the staggering double standards of modern-day progressives. They see racism everywhere. They love nothing more than to cancel the unwoke. Yet when a public figure is shown to have been sickeningly blasé about the murder of Jews, they shrug and say: “Meh.”
Jews don’t matter a damn to the right-on.
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