The New York Times clearly loves Mayor Zohran Mamdani more than Democrat Rep. Daniel Goldman — because they’re more sympathetic to Hamas terrorists than they are to Israel. Look no further than two stories by local political reporter Jeffrey Mays.
Mamdani’s wife Rama Duwaji engaged with offensive social media posts celebrating the October 7, 2023 massacre of Israeli Jews by Hamas, as exposed by Jewish Insider. The Free Press found more, including one that referred to the attack as a “mass rape hoax.” Meanwhile, Goldman’s wife Corinne Levy Goldman was put on the defensive by the left over his wife’s pro-Israel “likes” on social media.
On March 4, the New York Times ran a piece by Mays claiming Mrs. Goldman engaged with posts “that used what some saw as insensitive or hateful language directed at Palestinians and groups or people who supported them or criticized Israel,” after the Hamas terrorist invasion of Israel on October 7.
That story, headlined “Dan Goldman Faces Questions About Wife’s Social Media Stances on Israel,” made the Times’ March 5 print edition.
Some of the supposedly “hateful” posts? Take it away, Mays:
In one instance, she liked a post from @EndWokeness that showed people holding a “Jews for Palestine” sign with the message, “Chickens for KFC.” She also liked posts suggesting that people supporting “Free Palestine” be sent to Gaza, to live under its rules.
Yes, those were apparently the very worst examples Mays could find.
The next day Mays, writing with Sally Goldenberg, covered the controversy over Instagram “likes” by Zohran Mamdani’s wife Rama in support of the vicious murders, kidnappings, and rapes of October 7. Yet those posts weren’t characterized as “hateful” or even offensive, but whitewashed as merely “supportive of the Palestinian cause” under the headline “Mamdani Defends Wife Amid Criticism of Her Support for Palestinian Cause.”
The headline currently reads: “After Social Media Scrutiny, Mamdani Says His Wife Is a ‘Private Person.’”
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday sought to create a wall between his leadership of New York City and the private views of his wife, Rama Duwaji, after being asked about her social media activity surrounding the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Ms. Duwaji liked posts on Instagram that were supportive of the Palestinian cause immediately after the attacks, in which roughly 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage, according to the Israeli authorities. Israeli military forces responded with military action in Gaza that has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
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“My wife is the love of my life and she’s also a private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my City Hall,” Mr. Mamdani said during an unrelated news conference Friday morning….
(The same “private person” who posed for the cover of the fashion magazine The Cut.)
Mr. Mamdani was responding to a Jewish Insider article that highlighted a handful of instances in which Ms. Duwaji had liked Instagram posts supportive of the Palestinian cause immediately after the Oct. 7 attacks.
One post, shared by an account called The Slow Factory, a social justice nonprofit, on the day of the Hamas attack, showed a bulldozer that appeared to breach the barrier between Israel and Gaza. The caption read, “Breaking the walls of apartheid and military occupation” with the date of the attack beneath.
Mays quoted only leftist Jewish sources, who naturally defended Duwaji.
Sophie Ellman-Golan, director of strategic communications at Jews For Racial & Economic Justice, a progressive organizing group for the Jewish left, said that Mr. Mamdani has been clear about his views regarding Israel and the war in Gaza.
Using identical language from his hostile story on Rep. Goldman, Hays again took the anti-Israel side by smearing Corinne Levy’s benign social media posts in support of Israel as “hateful or insensitive toward Palestinians.”
Mays’ article on Duwaji ended with a defense of its subject, using left-wing Ellman-Golan as his mouthpiece.
Ms. Ellman-Golan said it was unfair to equate Ms. Duwaji’s social media likes with those of Ms. Goldman’s, in part because Mr. Goldman’s wife serves as his campaign treasurer while Ms. Duwaji had no official role in Mr. Mamdani’s campaign for mayor.
It is true that the “likes” cannot be equated. After all, Duwaji was liking posts celebrating murder, rape and massacre of Jews by Hamas.
Conservatives on social media recalled that the Duwaji-excusing Times tried to make a huge scandal of Mrs. Sam Alito’s choice of flags in 2024. They were more upset by the Alito flags than the foiled Brett Kavanaugh assassination plot.
Wall Street Journal movie critic Kyle Smith took to X to vent outrage over the Times’ framing of Duwaji’s social media acts: “This framing….it’s breathtaking. I’m speechless. Hamas murdered over 1000 people on Oct. 7.”
