Israel eyes ban on Mamdani’s wife as more pro-terror comments unearthed

The first lady of New York could soon be banned from entering Israel over her denials of Hamas sexual atrocities against Israelis and her glorification of anti-Israel terrorists.

By David Rosenberg, World Israel News

The first lady of New York City could soon be banned from entering Israel over her public support for anti-Israel terrorism and her denials of sexual violence by Hamas terrorists against Israelis during and after the Oct. 7, 2023, invasion.

On Thursday, the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism submitted a request to the Interior Ministry’s Population and Immigration Authority, asking that Rama Duwaji be blacklisted, preventing her from entering Israel.

According to a report by Channel 14, Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli penned a letter recommending that Duwaji, the 28-year-old Syrian American illustrator married to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, be denied entry if she attempts to visit Israel.

On the basis of Chikli’s recommendation, Director-General of the Ministry of Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism Avi Cohen-Scali contacted the Interior Ministry to formally request an entry ban on Duwaji.

The Diaspora Affairs Ministry based its recommendation to ban Duwaji on her social media activity glorifying the invasion of Israel on Oct. 7 and denying the rapes of Israeli women by Gaza terrorists.

In February 2024, Duwaji liked an Instagram post that claimed that a New York Times investigation into the use of rape and other forms of sexual violence by Gazan terrorists on Oct. 7 was “fabricated.”

Months earlier, she liked a post that lauded the Oct. 7 invasion and featured a photograph of Hamas terrorists tearing down a border fence.

Chikli denounced Duwaji’s comments, calling them an “unprecedented moral low,” adding that Israel “will not allow people like Mrs. Mamdani to enter.”

On Wednesday, The Washington Free Beacon unearthed additional social media posts by Duwaji endorsing and glorifying terrorism.

In 2017, Duwaji posted a photograph of Leila Khaled, a terrorist from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who took part in airline hijackings in 1969 and 1970, along with a quote by Khaled: “If it does good for my cause, I’d be happy to accept death.”

Duwaji also shared an image of a postage stamp from Bangladesh that read: “We salute the valiant freedom fighters of Palestine.”

Other posts condemned American “imperialism” and said that “White People” were to blame for the establishment of the Al Qaeda terror organization.