NYC First Lady Scrubs X After Terror Praise Posts Resurface
Reports say Rama Duwaji deleted an old X account after posts praising Palestinian terrorists, attacking American troops, and using racial slurs resurfaced.
New York City first lady Rama Duwaji deleted an old X account after reports resurfaced showing praise for Palestinian terrorists, attacks on American troops, and ugly racial language. City Hall has stayed quiet. Her husband, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, says she is a private person. That defense gets a lot harder when the private record looks like this.
What resurfaced
According to reporting from the Washington Free Beacon, New York Post, TMZ, and The Western Journal, Duwaji's old social media activity included praise for figures tied to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. One Tumblr post featured plane hijacker Leila Khaled with the caption: "If it does good for my cause, I'll be happy to accept death."
The reports also say Duwaji reposted praise for Shadia Abu Ghazaleh, a PFLP figure involved in attacks against Israelis, and amplified imagery celebrating the First Intifada. Add in anti-American commentary aimed at U.S. service members, plus old racial slurs, and you get a picture that is not remotely easy to shrug off.
That is why the deletion matters. People do not usually wipe accounts in the middle of a controversy because everything was taken out of context.
The problem for City Hall
Mamdani's defense is that his wife holds no formal role in City Hall. Fine. But New Yorkers are not being asked to ignore a random anonymous account. They are being asked to ignore the public record of the mayor's spouse in the largest city in America.
That matters for at least three reasons:
The mayor represents a city with one of the largest Jewish populations in the world outside Israel.
The posts reportedly included sympathy for causes and figures tied to terrorism, not just generic foreign policy criticism.
The same digital history included contempt for the U.S. military and language Democrats usually claim is disqualifying.
And there is the hypocrisy. If a Republican mayor's spouse had praised plane hijackers, used racial slurs, and then quietly deleted the account after being caught, you already know what the media cycle would look like. Panels. outrage. demands for resignations. probably a special segment with dramatic music.
Instead, the political class seems desperate to pretend this is all very complicated.
It is not that complicated.
What the reports actually say
The Washington Free Beacon reported that Duwaji's Tumblr and X activity stretched back to her teens and early 20s. The outlet said it tied the accounts to her through multiple identifiers, including name variants, birthday references, pet details, and tagged photos. Among the reported posts:
A 2017 post featuring Leila Khaled, who participated in airline hijackings in 1969 and 1970
A 2015 repost praising Shadia Abu Ghazaleh on International Women's Day
A repost attacking American soldiers as agents of "American hegemony"
Retweets saying Tel Aviv "shouldn't exist in the first place"
An old post using the N-word
The New York Post separately reported that Duwaji deactivated the X account after the story broke and noted that her public Instagram remained active. TMZ also reported the account was taken down after the resurfaced posts drew wider attention.
That is multiple outlets, multiple reported examples, and one very obvious cleanup move.
Why this hits harder in New York
This is not happening in a vacuum. New York has seen rising anxiety over antisemitism, rising tensions around Israel and Hamas, and nonstop political theater from the activist left. In that environment, the mayor's household does not get to wave away terror-linked rhetoric as ancient history and expect everyone to move on.
You cannot demand moral seriousness from everyone else while treating your own side's extremism like a personal inconvenience.
And yes, age matters in judging old posts. A teenager saying something stupid is different from a grown adult running a government office. But this story did not revolve around one dumb joke or one edgy phrase from middle school. The reports describe a pattern. Terror icons. anti-Israel radicalism. anti-American rhetoric. racial slurs. Then deletion when the spotlight arrived.
Because of course it was deletion.
The larger lesson
Grassroots conservatives have been warning for years that the activist left keeps excusing radicalism so long as it points in the approved direction. Call America evil. Attack Israel. romanticize "resistance." smear the troops. Use ugly language. Then claim nuance when somebody notices.
That game only works if the public agrees to be played.
Here is the plain reading:
If these reports are accurate, the first lady of New York publicly celebrated terror-adjacent figures, trashed American service members, used racial slurs, and only scrambled when the receipts came out.
New Yorkers can decide for themselves what that says about the political culture around this mayor. But nobody should pretend the story is trivial. When leaders and their inner circle treat extremism as fashionable, ordinary people pay the price in distrust, division, and cowardly public silence.