As New York approaches the 25th anniversary of 9/11, resurfaced posts reveal that Rama Duwaji, the wife of socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, praised a terrorist plane hijacker.
“If it does good for my cause, I’ll be happy to accept death.”
Duwaji paired that line with an image of Leila Khaled, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a U.S.-designated terrorist group. Khaled took part in airline hijackings and, in one case, brought a grenade onto a commercial flight and threatened to blow it up to force her way into the cockpit. This is not abstract politics but a hijacker with a grenade on a plane.
Khaled was involved in multiple hijackings tied to the PFLP’s broader campaign of international airline attacks. Those operations were designed to pressure governments by putting civilian passengers directly in harm’s way. They were not symbolic acts or distant conflicts but calculated attempts to use commercial flights as leverage, with civilians as the immediate point of risk.
The post dates to 2017 but is only now resurfacing. The timing doesn’t change what was said. It also doesn’t change that the post was deliberate, written out, and shared publicly rather than said in passing or taken out of context.
The same pattern runs through her social media: terrorists and violent extremists framed as people to admire, not condemn. She amplified praise for Shadia Abu Ghazaleh, a PFLP operative tied to a bombing plot targeting civilians in Tel Aviv, shared content celebrating the First Intifada, and reposted an image praising “valiant freedom fighters of Palestine.” The figures change, but the framing does not. Across multiple posts, the through line remains the same: elevating figures tied to violence while stripping away the reality of what they carried out.
It doesn’t stop at praise.
She also attacked the existence of Israel itself.
“F*** Tel Aviv. Shouldn’t exist in the first place. They’re occupiers.”
She reposted it during backlash to Snapchat, featuring Tel Aviv in a live story. This was not a policy dispute but a blunt declaration that a major city should not exist at all. There is no ambiguity in that position. None.
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The same logic shows up elsewhere. She also shared a message attacking American service members, describing them as “mercilessly slaughtering 3rd world civilians” and rejecting the idea they fight for anyone’s freedom, and amplified a claim shifting responsibility for terrorism away from its perpetrators, asserting that al Qaeda was effectively created by others.
The accounts tie back to Duwaji through identifying details, including her name, images, birthday references, and mentions of her cat, all matching publicly available information. The record is consistent across platforms.
That same pattern carries into more recent posts, including engagement with content dismissing reports of sexual violence during the October 7 attacks.
“Mass rape hoax.”
This is not a one-off lapse. It is a consistent record of what she chose to share, promote, and now has to answer for in the court of public opinion in full.
Editor’s Note: New York City is now facing the consequences of pro-Hamas Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist takeover.
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