Mamdani’s Wife Admits ‘Shame’ Over Social Media Posts From Her Teens

Rama Duwaji, the wife of Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City, apologized in an interview published on Wednesday by the art site Hyperallergic for using the N-word as a 15-year-old in social media posts that a conservative news site recently unearthed.

The news site, The Free Beacon, also reported that when Ms. Duwaji was 15, she had tweeted an abbreviation of a slur for gay people.

“When a tabloid recently published old tweets I wrote as a teenager, I felt a lot of shame being confronted with language I used that is so harmful to others,” she said. “Being 15 doesn’t excuse it. I’ve read and seen a lot of what others have had to say in response, and I understand the hurt I caused and am truly sorry.”

As a teenager, Ms. Duwaji also shared social media posts that said Tel Aviv “shouldn’t exist in the first place,” and celebrated armed “freedom fighters of Palestine,” according to The Free Beacon. Another post that she shared glorified a member of PFLP, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is considered a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union.

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