New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing new scrutiny after his wife’s social media activity reportedly tied her to posts celebrating the Hamas terror attack on Israel.
The controversy centers on Instagram likes from Rama Duwaji, a Syrian American artist married to Mamdani, that appeared on posts published just as the October 7 massacre unfolded.
The reports have thrown fresh attention on Mamdani’s attempts to distance himself from the most extreme anti-Israel voices on the far left.
According to the report, Duwaji liked a post shared on the day of the Hamas attack by The Slow Factory, an activist organization that pushes radical political messaging.
The post reportedly used images from the Oct. 7 assault and described the attack as resistance against “apartheid” and “military occupation.”
The captions and images framed the breach of the Israel-Gaza barrier and the attack itself as part of a liberation struggle rather than a terrorist atrocity.
That is a brutal contrast with the reality of Oct. 7, when Hamas terrorists slaughtered nearly 1,200 Israelis and foreign workers, wounded thousands, kidnapped 251 people, and committed acts of sexual violence.
The tone of the liked posts also clashes with Mamdani’s own public statements about the massacre.
Mamdani has previously described the Oct. 7 attack as “war crimes” and has said Hamas committed a horrific act of violence even while he continued criticizing Israel’s military response.
City Hall stuck to that line when asked about the controversy.
“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.
But the questions are not going away because the issue is no longer just what Mamdani says in public.
The problem is that the woman closest to him appears to have endorsed content that framed the bloodshed as justified resistance and praised the forces behind it.
The report also says Duwaji liked posts from The People’s Forum, another far-left group that defended a Times Square rally held one day after the Hamas massacre.
Those posts reportedly backed slogans like “from the river to the sea” and featured chants declaring that “Every colonized people, every occupied people has the right to self-defense.”
Signs shown in the posts reportedly read, “WHEN PEOPLE ARE OCCUPIED, RESISTANCE IS JUSTIFIED” and “RESISTANCE AGAINST OCCUPATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT.”
That is where the political damage starts to grow, Trending Politics reported.
Mamdani had publicly criticized that rally at the time for “making light” of the slaughter of civilians, but his wife’s online activity now undercuts that effort and gives critics a direct opening.
The scandal also feeds a broader argument from opponents who say Mamdani has tried to sound more measured in public while remaining tied to activists and rhetoric that excuse anti-Israel extremism.
That silence is only going to fuel more suspicion.
For Mamdani, this is not just a personal embarrassment.
It is a political problem that cuts straight into one of the most explosive issues in American politics, because voters are now being asked whether the mayor’s own household was quietly cheering posts that appeared to celebrate one of the worst terror attacks in modern history.
