The New York Instances clearly loves Mayor Zohran Mamdani greater than Democrat Rep. Daniel Goldman — as a result of they’re extra sympathetic to Hamas terrorists than they’re to Israel. Look no additional than two tales by native political reporter Jeffrey Mays.
Mamdani’s spouse Rama Duwaji engaged with offensive social media posts celebrating the October 7, 2023 bloodbath of Israeli Jews by Hamas, as uncovered by Jewish Insider. The Free Press discovered extra, together with one which referred to the assault as a “mass rape hoax.” In the meantime, Goldman’s spouse Corinne Levy Goldman was placed on the defensive by the left over his spouse’s pro-Israel “likes” on social media.
On March 4, the New York Instances ran a chunk by Mays claiming Mrs. Goldman engaged with posts “that used what some noticed as insensitive or hateful language directed at Palestinians and teams or individuals who supported them or criticized Israel,” after the Hamas terrorist invasion of Israel on October 7.
That story, headlined “Dan Goldman Faces Questions About Spouse’s Social Media Stances on Israel,” made the Instances’ March 5 print version.
A few of the supposedly “hateful” posts? Take it away, Mays:
In a single occasion, she preferred a publish from @EndWokeness that confirmed individuals holding a “Jews for Palestine” signal with the message, “Chickens for KFC.” She additionally preferred posts suggesting that folks supporting “Free Palestine” be despatched to Gaza, to dwell beneath its guidelines.
Sure, these had been apparently the very worst examples Mays might discover.
The following day Mays, writing with Sally Goldenberg, lined the controversy over Instagram “likes” by Zohran Mamdani’s spouse Rama in help of the vicious murders, kidnappings, and rapes of October 7. But these posts weren’t characterised as “hateful” and even offensive, however whitewashed as merely “supportive of the Palestinian trigger” beneath the headline “Mamdani Defends Spouse Amid Criticism of Her Help for Palestinian Trigger.”
The headline presently reads: “After Social Media Scrutiny, Mamdani Says His Spouse Is a ‘Personal Individual.’”
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday sought to create a wall between his management of New York Metropolis and the non-public views of his spouse, Rama Duwaji, after being requested about her social media exercise surrounding the Hamas-led assaults on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Ms. Duwaji preferred posts on Instagram that had been supportive of the Palestinian trigger instantly after the assaults, during which roughly 1,200 individuals had been killed and 251 had been taken hostage, in response to the Israeli authorities. Israeli army forces responded with army motion in Gaza that has killed greater than 70,000 Palestinians, in response to Gaza’s well being ministry.
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“My spouse is the love of my life and she’s additionally a non-public particular person who has held no formal place on my marketing campaign or in my Metropolis Corridor,” Mr. Mamdani stated throughout an unrelated information convention Friday morning….
(The identical “non-public particular person” who posed for the quilt of the style journal The Reduce.)
Mr. Mamdani was responding to a Jewish Insider article that highlighted a handful of situations during which Ms. Duwaji had preferred Instagram posts supportive of the Palestinian trigger instantly after the Oct. 7 assaults.
One publish, shared by an account referred to as The Gradual Manufacturing unit, a social justice nonprofit, on the day of the Hamas assault, confirmed a bulldozer that appeared to breach the barrier between Israel and Gaza. The caption learn, “Breaking the partitions of apartheid and army occupation” with the date of the assault beneath.
Mays quoted solely leftist Jewish sources, who naturally defended Duwaji.
Sophie Ellman-Golan, director of strategic communications at Jews For Racial & Financial Justice, a progressive organizing group for the Jewish left, stated that Mr. Mamdani has been clear about his views relating to Israel and the warfare in Gaza.
Utilizing an identical language from his hostile story on Rep. Goldman, Hays once more took the anti-Israel aspect by smearing Corinne Levy’s benign social media posts in help of Israel as “hateful or insensitive towards Palestinians.”
Mays’ article on Duwaji ended with a protection of its topic, utilizing left-wing Ellman-Golan as his mouthpiece.
Ms. Ellman-Golan stated it was unfair to equate Ms. Duwaji’s social media likes with these of Ms. Goldman’s, partially as a result of Mr. Goldman’s spouse serves as his marketing campaign treasurer whereas Ms. Duwaji had no official position in Mr. Mamdani’s marketing campaign for mayor.
It’s true that the “likes” can’t be equated. In spite of everything, Duwaji was liking posts celebrating homicide, rape and bloodbath of Jews by Hamas.
Conservatives on social media recalled that the Duwaji-excusing Instances tried to make an enormous scandal of Mrs. Sam Alito’s alternative of flags in 2024. They had been extra upset by the Alito flags than the foiled Brett Kavanaugh assassination plot.
Wall Road Journal film critic Kyle Smith took to X to vent outrage over the Instances’ framing of Duwaji’s social media acts: “This framing….it’s breathtaking. I’m speechless. Hamas murdered over 1000 individuals on Oct. 7.”
