Mamdani's wife Rama Duwaji apologizes for tweets sent as teenager |
Mamdani’s wife Rama Duwaji apologizes for tweets sent as teenager
Rama Duwaji, the wife of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, has apologized in an interview published Wednesday over tweets she made as a teenager.
Duwaji was criticized after old tweets unearthed in March showed her using the n-word and a gay slur, and hurling insults at Israel.
“This experience has absolutely changed my life. I am still figuring out how it applies to me as an artist and as a person, both thinking of the future and the past. It has forced me to confront how much I’ve changed, even before this moment,” Duwaji said in an interview with Hypoallergic.
“When a tabloid recently published old tweets I wrote as a teenager, I felt a lot of shame being confronted with language I used that is so harmful to others; being 15 doesn’t excuse it. I’ve read and seen a lot of what others have had to say in response, and I understand the hurt I caused and am truly sorry,” she added.
The posts were made when she was 15 years old.
In one June 16 post reported by The Free Beacon, she said: “Whyyyyyy are all these fgts folllowing [sic] meeeeeeeee.”
In a separate post, Duwaji wrote, “Hey @Snapchat show them children locked in cages overnight, burned alive and starved to death in Palestine. #TelAviv”
When Mamdani was asked about his wife’s remarks, he said she is a “private person, who has held no position in my campaign or in my city hall…”
Race and religion have been at the forefront of Mamdani’s administration.
Mamdani, who is Muslim, has received backlash from Republicans for participating in religious ceremonies at city hall. Duwaji, who is Syrian-American, has been frequently called out for issuing statements in support of Palestine.
In her Wednesday interview, the first lady of New York said, “Everything is political: what we choose to show, what we choose to omit, the stories we highlight and the ones we leave in the margins. It has and will continue to be important for me to reflect the times around me as an artist.”
She added, “If anything, having this position makes me more committed to being honest and attentive, to making work that is complex. It feels like it would be doing it a disservice to not be the artist that got me to this point.”
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