As Hamas terrorists slaughtered civilians across southern Israel on October 7, posts celebrating the attack began trending online as militants crossed the border and began attacking civilian communities. Among those who liked those posts was the wife of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The next day, Mamdani publicly criticized a rally in New York for “making light” of the massacre.
The October 7 attack left roughly 1,200 Israelis dead, and more than 250 people taken hostage and dragged into Gaza. The killings marked the deadliest attack on Israeli civilians in the country’s history.
One of the posts Mamdani’s wife liked came from a left-wing activist organization, The Slow Factory, and spread widely online that same day. It included images pulled from video showing Hamas militants breaching Israel’s border fence and riding atop a captured Israeli military vehicle as the attack unfolded.
The post read:
“Breaking the walls of apartheid and military occupation. Resisting apartheid since 1948. Systemic change for collective liberation.”
The caption warned that if Israel retaliated, Gaza would be “punished for wanting freedom from apartheid.”
While those messages were spreading online, Hamas gunmen were massacring civilians at a music festival, murdering families in their homes, and dragging hostages into Gaza.
Screenshots of the reporting show Mamdani’s wife also liked other posts describing the assault as “resistance” rather than terrorism. Another post she liked described the massacre as “decolonization” and argued that Israel itself was the source of the violence.
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Those posts circulated widely enough to trigger backlash online and renewed scrutiny of Mamdani’s own comments in the days after the attack.
At the time, Mamdani condemned a pro-Palestinian rally in New York that critics said appeared to celebrate the massacre.
The criticism came as posts praising the attack were already spreading online.
“Any demonstration that makes light of the murder of civilians or celebrates the killing of innocent people is wrong and has no place in our city.”
When asked about the posts, Mamdani said he is not responsible for his wife’s social media and noted that the two maintain separate online presences.
A spokesperson for the mayor issued a similar response.
“The mayor has been clear and consistent in condemning the horrific Hamas terrorist attack on October 7 and the killing of civilians.”
Mamdani says he condemns the October 7 massacre and the killing of civilians.
But while Hamas gunmen were murdering civilians, burning homes, beheading babies, and dragging hostages into Gaza, the posts his wife liked were calling the attack “resistance,” praising it as “decolonization,” and blaming Israel for the violence.
Those posts were spreading across social media while the October 7 massacre was still unfolding.
And the next day, Mamdani condemned a rally in New York for “making light” of that same massacre.
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