New York City’s First Lady, Rama Duwaji, has taken down her previous X account following the emergence of controversial posts from several years ago.
The 28-year-old spouse of Mayor Zohran Mamdani is under scrutiny for allegedly posting offensive material, including racial slurs and content supporting pro-Palestinian terrorism, on social media platforms such as Tumblr and X during her late teens and early twenties.
As of Thursday, attempts to locate the account @_RamaDee reveal that it has been deactivated.
Despite the controversy, Duwaji’s Instagram profile, boasting over two million followers, remains operational.
The Daily Mail has contacted Mayor Mamdani for a statement on the matter.
The controversial posts were brought to light by the Washington Free Beacon, which claims to have used facial recognition technology to associate the content with Duwaji.
The discovery comes shortly after she made headlines for liking posts that celebrated the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, including one that called reports of sexual violence a ‘mass rape hoax.’
But it appears her history of sharing hateful content stretches back as far as 2013, when she apparently used a vile racial slur in a tweet to a friend at the age of 15.
First Lady of New York City Rama Duwaji deactivated her old X account after days of the media uncovering years-old offensive posts
The post reads: ‘Helllll yeah, n****. Super duper genius* excuse you.’
Other posts made from the account that year include blaming ‘white people’ for the creation of Al-Qaeda and claiming that Israelis should not be allowed to live in Tel Aviv.
In 2017, a Tumblr account linked to Duwaji by the Washington Free Beacon also reposted an image of plane hijacker Leila Khaled along with a quote from the infamous Palestinian.
‘If it does good for my cause, I’ll be happy to accept death,’ the caption read.
Khaled is hailed by terrorists as the first woman to hijack a plane after participating in plane takeovers in 1969 and 1970.
Duwaji’s account also appeared to praise other members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), of which Khaled was a longtime member.
The post came after she previously appeared to write on X that Tel Aviv ‘shouldn’t exist in the first place’, before adding that Israelis in the city were ‘occupiers.’
She also allegedly re-shared content that blamed the creation of Al-Qaeda on white people.
The discovery of Duwaji’s purported profile comes shortly after she made headlines for liking posts that celebrated the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel
The 28-year-old allegedly made a post to X in 2013 which used the N-word
The first lady of New York also appears to have taken aim at US troops in 2015 noting how they were not brave
‘You can’t blame Muslims for terrorism because they didn’t construct, fund, or train Al-Qaeda,’ read the upload to Tumblr. ‘White people did that, too.’
The account even took aim at US troops, noting how they were not brave and were ‘mercilessly slaughtering third world civilians to maintain American hegemony.’
In 2015, she allegedly chose to celebrate International Women’s Day by posting a tribute to PFLP’s militant leader Shadia Abu Ghazaleh.
Ghazaleh participated in several attacks and died in 1968 when a bomb she was building exploded in her home.
The content appeared to have been deleted from the accounts when the Daily Mail conducted a search.
Mayor Mamdani was previously grilled about his wife’s social media presence and dodged questions about her liking a post in support of the October 7 attack.
The post made by leftist group The Slow Factory included images of groups of people after having taken over an IDF vehicle, with ‘Free Palestine’ scrawled over it.
Another image said: ‘Breaking the walls of apartheid and military occupation’, followed by the date.
One image from the post she liked showed a bulldozer used by Hamas to break through into Israel on that day in which nearly 1,200 people died
The image showed a bulldozer used by the group to break through into Israel on that day, in which nearly 1,200 people died.
Mamdani said: ‘My wife is the love of my life, and she is also a private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my City Hall.’
But Duwaji is not as shy and retiring as her husband lets on, and recently posed for a cover feature in the prestigious The Cut, an offshoot of New York magazine.
A spokesman for the mayor told the Jewish Insider: ‘Mayor Mamdani has been clear and consistent: Hamas is a terrorist organization, October 7 was a horrific war crime, and he has condemned that violence unequivocally.’
Mamdani has also come under fire in the past after apparently using anti-Israel phrases, including ‘globalize the intifada’.
As the city’s first Muslim mayor, he has been seen with skepticism by some Jewish New Yorkers over his ardent support of the Palestinian cause.
