Zohran Mamdani Forced to Celebrate America's 250th Birthday While Wife Finds Better Things To Do At Luxury Islamic Retreat In Spain

Just another disgusting anti-American Communist [allegedly]

Nothing says "Happy 250th, America!" quite like spending Independence Day reminding everyone why America is terrible while your spouse is sipping Mediterranean sunshine at a $3,400 spiritual retreat dedicated to discovering flowers mentioned in the Quran.

As patriotic Americans celebrated the nation's 250th birthday with fireworks, flags, backyard barbecues, and enough red, white, and blue to make an eagle shed a tear, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used the occasion to deliver another lecture about capitalism, ICE, and America being an "arena of supremacy."

Meanwhile, his wife, Rama Duwaji, decided that celebrating the country her husband now governs was simply too exhausting. She boarded a flight from Newark Liberty International Airport and headed for the luxurious Spanish island of Mallorca, where she is serving as artist-in-residence for a sold-out Islamic women's retreat.

The exclusive getaway carries a price tag of roughly $3,400 per guest, because apparently spiritual enlightenment is considerably more meaningful when accompanied by Mediterranean views and boutique accommodations.

Participants spend their time exploring "Plants of the Quran" through art, botanical workshops, and Islamic reflection. Duwaji is also scheduled to headline another sold-out retreat later this month in Corsica examining "Mary in the Quran," proving that nothing complements America's birthday quite like being several thousand miles away discussing someone else's religious heritage.

Republican New York City Councilwoman Joann Ariola summed up the optics with remarkable restraint.

"Nothing says 'America 250' quite like skipping the celebration for a Mediterranean vacation," Ariola said. "I am not surprised because she has made her hatred for America very evident."

Councilman Frank Morano also questioned the decision.

"It's disappointing that the First Lady chose to be overseas instead of taking part in one of the biggest civic events our city and country will mark this year," Morano said. "No one is saying elected officials and their families can't take vacations, but this was a moment to show up for the city and for the country."

The Mayor's Office declined to answer the criticism directly, though officials did confirm one encouraging detail. Duwaji did not require members of the NYPD security detail to accompany her Mediterranean escape.

The trip also revived interest in Duwaji's previously deleted social media posts, which offered a level of enthusiasm for the United States usually reserved for America's geopolitical rivals.

Among the resurfaced posts was one claiming American soldiers "are not brave" while accusing them of "slaughtering 3rd world civilians" in pursuit of American hegemony. Other deleted posts reportedly praised Palestinian militant organizations and criticized U.S. support for Israel.

Mamdani has argued that his wife should not be judged by those posts because she holds no official position in his administration. Duwaji later apologized for several of the messages, although critics noted that deleting anti-American rhetoric is considerably easier than explaining it.

Back home, the mayor marked America's semiquincentennial from behind George Washington's former desk at New York City Hall. Faced with an opportunity to celebrate the country that has given millions of people unprecedented liberty and prosperity, Mamdani instead chose to focus on everything he believes is wrong with it.

"We see masked agents terrorizing our streets," Mamdani said, referring to ICE officers, while also criticizing what he described as monopolies and oligarchs controlling the nation's wealth.

One can only imagine George Washington listening from the great beyond, wondering whether crossing the Delaware had somehow led to Independence Day becoming an annual grievance seminar.

To his credit, Mamdani eventually concluded with "God bless America," although by then the phrase landed like an obligatory disclaimer after several minutes of cataloging the nation's alleged sins.

The mayor later attended official America 250 celebrations in New York, including the Parade of Sail and the Empire State Building's Fourth of July lighting ceremony.

His wife, meanwhile, remained comfortably overseas, reminding Americans that while millions celebrated the greatest experiment in self-government ever devised, at least one member of New York City's first family apparently found a luxury Mediterranean retreat to be the more compelling destination.

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Rama Duwaji, NYC First Lady, deletes old X account on account of it glorifying Islamic terrorists, Jew hatred and no love for USA

NYC Mayor Comrade Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, deactivated an old X account after a series of resurfaced posts showed her praising Palestinian terrorists, bashing Israel, and criticizing the US military.

The 28-year-old first lady of New York City, who has faced intense backlash over her social media history these past two weeks, removed the account a day after the Washington Free Beacon exposed a collection of disturbing posts she made on X and Tumblr during her teenage years and early twenties.

Although her X account, under the username @_RamaDee, has now been deleted as of Thursday, Duwaji’s public Instagram page, boasting 2 million followers, remains very much active.

Some might say

The wife of the socialist comrade mayor has come under sustained fire for her past online activity, ever since it emerged last week that she had liked Instagram posts celebrating Hamas’s deadly October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, including one that dismissed as a “mass hoax” the rapes carried out by the terror group against hostages and victims.

One cannot help but notice the pattern here: a young woman who once openly admired figures like Leila Khaled, the notorious plane hijacker, and members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, now finds those youthful declarations inconveniently returning to public view, just as her husband occupies the highest office in America’s largest city. 

The deletions and the silences speak volumes, even if the words themselves have been quietly taken down.

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Mayor Mamdani busted for lying--big time

Late last week, we learned that Rama Duwaji, the wife of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, had illustrated a book for the Palestinian-American author and journalist Susan Abulhawa, a woman with a distinctly troubling record of antisemitism, including describing Jews as "cockroaches," "rootless parasites," and "rabid demons."

This revelation arrived hot on the heels of the earlier discovery that Duwaji had liked dozens of social media posts celebrating the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. Once again, Mamdani stepped forward to run interference for his wife, insisting that she had secured the freelance illustrating job through a third party and had no idea it was for Abulhawa. He described Abulhawa's remarks as "reprehensible," which, one notes, fits neatly with Mamdani's apparent habit of throwing friends and allies under the bus when the moment requires it.

And we say "friends and allies" advisedly, because it turns out the Mamdani family has rather more substantial ties to Abulhawa, and to many like her, than the mayor would have us believe. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s family has crossed paths with the anti-Israel activist who called Jews “cockroaches” and “vampires,” despite his attempts to distance himself from her.

Susan Abulhawa, now 55, sits on the Advisory Policy Council of the Gaza Tribunal alongside Mamdani’s father, the Columbia University professor Mahmood Mamdani. The group, a select body of just 29 members, was set up in London in 2024 and presents itself as an independent “people’s tribunal” dedicated to gathering evidence against Israel in Gaza. Among its other prominent figures is the British Member of Parliament Jeremy Corbyn.

But the connections run deeper still. Abulhawa was a featured speaker at Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies, an institution with which Mamdani Sr., a long-time professor in the Department of Anthropology, has been closely associated, his name appearing in a bio on their website.

Moreover, Abulhawa was among the prominent signatories to a 2018 open letter addressed to members of the Saudi royal family, urging them to release the professor and women’s rights activist Hatoon al-Fassi. Mamdani’s filmmaker mother, Mira Nair, as well as his father, were also among those who signed.

This is not an isolated incident but part of a clear pattern: Mamdani repeatedly finds himself acquainted with deeply controversial figures and then denies, or at least minimizes, the connections. Last fall, we learned that his family had ties to an Ugandan politician who wished to imprison gays for life, despite his protestations of ignorance.

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When one marries, one generally ensures compatibility on the big questions. Supporting Islamic terrorism, or at the very least declining to recoil from those who do, appears to be one of those big questions in the Mamdani marriage.

New Yorkers were warned. They chose to ignore the warnings.

We are sure, of course, that it is all just a coincidence.

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Mamdani's wife is clearly an anti-Semite and more

Last week, New York City Democrat-socialist Mayor Comrade Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, suddenly found herself getting more public attention than the administration probably wanted. It turned out she had liked dozens of social media posts celebrating the October 7, 2023 terror attacks in Israel. Not just vague political commentary either. Some of the posts cheered the slaughter of dogs and even the kidnapping of a 12 year old Israeli boy who was tied to a tree and horrible things were done to him.

Naturally, the media and Team Mamdani rushed in with the usual cleanup routine. They waved away concerns about her social media activity by reminding everyone that she is a "private citizen" who supposedly has no influence on the mayor's policies. Funny how that works. 

Why is it that nobody in the press ever seems eager to extend that same courtesy to the private spouses of conservatives like Justices Alito and Thomas.

Now we are learning that Duwaji’s antisemitism might not be some random social media hiccup. It appears to be more of a lifestyle choice. She provided illustrations for a book compiled by Palestinian American author and "journalist" Susan Abulhawa.

Abulhawa, for those keeping score at home, has quite the résumé when it comes to ugly rhetoric. She has referred to Jews with slurs like "rootless parasites." I guess Abulhawa doesn't believe that after thousands of years with roots in Israel, it doesn't count as roots.

As Levine points out [below], Abulhawa often tries to hide behind the usual rhetorical fig leaves, directing her insults toward "Israel" or "Zionists." Sometimes, however, the mask slips and she says exactly what she means, as she does here:

Of course, the Mamdani administration quickly dismissed the concerns. A spokesperson explained, "As is common for freelance illustrators, the First Lady was commissioned to illustrate an excerpt of Abulhawa's book by an outside publisher. She has never engaged with or met Susan Abulhawa, nor had she seen the tweets in question."

That explanation did not change the basic facts. Rama Duwaji, the first lady of New York City, provided a featured illustration for an essay by an author who called Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023 attack "spectacular," has frequently decried what she describes as "Jewish supremacist vampires," and said Jewish Israelis are "rootless soulless ghouls."

Duwaji, wife of Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D-NY), created a drawing for "A Trail of Soap," an essay in the collection Every Moment is a Life compiled by Abulhawa. The essay, published last month in Everything Is Political, which is an offshoot of the self described "environmental & social justice nonprofit organization" Slow Factory, tells the story of a Gazan woman searching for a bathroom in the territory.

Abulhawa, an author and anti Israel activist, has a long record of cheering on terror and demonizing Jews. Just days after Oct. 7, she wrote an op ed in Electronic Intifada where she called the massacres "a spectacular moment that shocked the world" and suggested that Israel, the real victim, allowed the attack to happen. 

Earlier this week, Duwaji and Mamdani hosted Hamas supporter Mahmoud Khalil for dinner at Gracie Mansion.

There is definitely a theme here.

While they scream that President Trump and Republicans are "Nazis," this is who Democrats embrace and elevate: antisemites and anti Israel activists. New York is home to the largest Jewish population outside of Israel. They have every right to know whether their mayor and his wife despise them, or support people who do.

Can you guess the truth?

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Mamdani's wife "Likes" Hamas on Instagram

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's wife, Syrian-American artist Rama Duwaji, decided to spend some quality time on her personal Instagram account "liking" multiple posts that enthusiastically cheered on the barbaric Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023.

The scoop from Jewish Insider yanks the curtain off the "moderate" mask Mamdani has been polishing for public consumption. While the mayor now insists he unequivocally condemns Hamas, his wife was out there clicking those little heart buttons on photos of bulldozers smashing through the Israeli border and terrorists joyriding in captured IDF vehicles. 

One anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic gem she liked, courtesy of an outfit called "The Slow Factory," casually reframed the slaughter of 1,200 people as nothing more than "breaking the walls of apartheid."

The timing makes it sting even more. 

Back when Mamdani was still just a state assemblyman, he went public criticizing a pro-Hamas rally in Times Square for "making light" of the massacre. Meanwhile, his then-girlfriend was apparently cozy at home, digitally high-fiving the very same crowd. Duwaji reportedly hearted posts from the "People’s Forum," you know, that node in the network tied to Maoist moneybags Neville "Roy" Singham, which proudly ran the genocidal chant "from the river to the sea" and hailed the Oct. 7 atrocities as a "human right."

When cornered for comment, Duwaji went radio silent. The mayor's office, predictably, turtle-upped into full defensive crouch mode and spat out a boilerplate statement reaffirming Mamdani's "consistent" condemnation of Hamas. 

They somehow forgot to mention whether the mayor shares a dinner table with someone who sees the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust as a glorious moment of "collective liberation."

Right after the October 7 Hamas massacre of 1200 Israelis, Mamdani (then a state assemblyman) dropped a statement that mostly aimed its fire at Israel: "I mourn the hundreds of people killed across Israel and Palestine in the last 36 hours. Netanyahu’s declaration of war, the Israeli government’s decision to cut electricity to Gaza, and Knesset members calling for another Nakba will undoubtedly lead to more violence and suffering in the days and weeks to come. The path toward a just and lasting peace can only begin by ending the occupation and dismantling apartheid."

Fast-forward to the second anniversary of the October 7 massacre, and Mamdani took to his X account with another statement. This time he accused Israel of perpetrating "genocide" in Gaza, leaned on fatality figures straight from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, and wrote, "In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war.” He branded Israel’s actions “war crimes," took shots at the Trump administration, and added, "Our government has been complicit through it all. This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account."  

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