It Looks Like Zohran Mamdani's Been Caught in a Pretty Significant Lie

Late last week, we learned that Rama Duwaji, wife of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, illustrated a book for Palestinian-American author and journalist Susan Abulhawa, who has a troubling history of antisemitism, including calling Jews "cockroaches," "rootless parasites," and "rabid demons." 

That revelation came on the heels of the news that Duwaji liked dozens of social media posts celebrating the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack in Israel. Mamdani once again ran interference for his wife, claiming she got the freelance illustrating gig through a third party and didn't know it was for Abulhawa. He called Abulhawa's remarks "rephrensible," which tracks with Mamdani's habit of throwing friends and allies under the bus, it seems.

And we say "friends and allies" because it turns out Mamdani's family has ties to Abulhawa, and many of them.

The New York Post has details:

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s family has crossed paths with the anti-Israel activist who called Jews “cockroaches” and “vampires,” despite his attempts to distance himself from her.

Susan Abulhawa, 55, is a member of the Advisory Policy Council of the Gaza Tribunal along with Mamdani’s Columbia University professor father, Mahmood Mamdani.

The group, which features just 29 members, was established in London in 2024 and describes itself as an independent “people’s tribunal” that collects evidence against Israel in Gaza. British Member of Parliament Jeremy Corbyn is another prominent figure within it.

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But Abulhawa was a featured speaker at Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies which Mamdani Sr. — a professor in the school’s Department of Anthropology — has long been associated with, appearing in a bio on their website.

Abulhawa was also among the prominent signatories to a 2018 open letter to members of the Saudi royal family to urge them to release professor and women’s rights activist Hatoon al-Fassi. Mamdani’s filmmaker mother, Mira Nair, as well as his father were also among the signatories.

This follows a pattern of Mamdani being acquainted with controversial people and denying the connections. Last fall, we learned that Mamdani's family had ties to an Ugandan politician who wanted to jail gays for life, despite denying knowing her.

When you marry someone, you make sure you're compatible on big issues. Supporting Islamic terrorism is one of those big issues in the Mamdani marriage, it seems.

So weird, right?

New Yorkers were warned. They chose to ignore it.

Color us shocked.

We're sure it's just a coincidence.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/03/17/mamdani-family-has-close-ties-to-antisemitic-author-n2672960

Why Trump's National Counterintelligence Chief Just Resigned

Operation Epic Fury is going well. Iran’s regional capabilities are being degraded. Its supreme leader is dead; its new one might be unacceptable (he might be gay); its navy is annihilated; and the political and military leadership is virtually wiped out. The head was decapitated in Tehran. Its nuclear ambitions were halted, and its ballistic missile capacity and infrastructure are being dismantled. Their proxies cannot retaliate in any meaningful way. We’re winning this war. 

As for the Strait of Hormuz, that will reopen. It’s not a matter of if but when. Still, Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned today over the operation, saying he couldn’t, in good conscience, continue working with the Trump administration. He posted his letter on Twitter earlier today: 

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. 

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. 

Oh, of course, it’s Israel, right? A nation seeking nuclear weapons and one that chants ‘death to America’ daily isn’t a threat? Tehran has been at war with us since 1979. Anyone on either side of this fence knows this to be true. Scores of Iranian operations have led to the deaths of hundreds of Americans. 

They were within striking distance of acquiring a nuclear bomb. They admitted it during negotiations, so this departure is what it is.  

But Joe could’ve left quietly and chose not to—now, former officials are calling him out for pretty much working against the president.  

And no, this isn’t evidence of a MAGA split. 

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to Kent's post:

There are many false claims in this letter but let me address one specifically: that "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation."

This is the same false claim that Democrats and some in the liberal media have been repeating over and over.

As President Trump has clearly and explicitly stated, he had strong and compelling evidence that Iran was going to attack the United States first. 

This evidence was compiled from many sources and factors. President Trump would never make the decision to deploy military assets against a foreign adversary in a vacuum. 

Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.  

The Iranian regime is evil. It proudly killed Americans, waged war against our country, and openly threatened us all the way up to the launch of Operation Epic Fury. 

Iran was aggressively expanding their short-range ballistic missiles to combine with their naval assets to give themselves immunity – meaning they would have a degree of a capabilities that would give them immunity to hold us and the rest of the world hostage. 

The regime aimed to use those ballistic missiles as a shield to continue achieving their ultimate goal – nuclear weapons. 

The President, through his top negotiators, gave the regime every single possible opportunity to abandon this unacceptable course by permanently giving up their nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief, free nuclear fuel, and potential economic partnerships with our country. 

But they would not say yes to peace because obtaining nuclear weapons was their fundamental goal. 

President Trump ultimately made the determination that a joint attack with Israel would greatly reduce the risk to American lives that would come from a first strike by the terrorist Iranian regime and address this imminent threat to America’s national security interests. 

All of this led to President Trump arriving at the determination that this military operation was necessary for U.S. national security, which is why he launched the massively successful Operation Epic Fury. 

The Commander-in-Chief determines what does and does not constitute a threat, because he is the one constitutionally empowered to do so - and because the American people went to the ballot box and entrusted him and him alone to make such final judgments.  

And finally, the absurd allegation that President Trump made this decision based on the influence of others, even foreign countries, is both insulting and laughable. President Trump has been remarkably consistent and has said for DECADES that Iran can NEVER possess a nuclear weapon.  

As someone who actually witnesses President Trump’s decision-making process on a daily basis, I can attest to the fact that he is always looking to do what’s in the best interest of the United States of America — period.  

America First.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/03/17/why-trumps-national-counterintelligence-chief-just-resigned-n2672972

“The Next 72 hours May Determine the Shape of the Middle East for the Next 50 Years”

“The next 72 hours may determine the shape of the Middle East for the next 50 years.”

This is war, and throughout history, this is how major conflicts are addressed. Iran claimed it was at war with the US for the past four decades. They kidnapped, killed, and threatened Americans. They cheered for the destruction of America. Then President Trump said no more.

The only top Iranian official alive who could represent the Islamist regime to the world was reportedly eliminated overnight.  This puts the regime without a leader.

🚨🇮🇷 Ali Larijani’s alleged death may represent the decisive moment of regime collapse in Iran.

Formally designated by Khamenei himself as emergency crisis manager, Larijani was the last senior figure with the institutional authority, political relationships, and operational knowledge to hold a fractured leadership together.

With the Supreme Leader dead, the IRGC command decapitated, and now Larijani gone… Iran faces a leadership vacuum with no clear succession, no functional chain of command, and a war still actively being fought on its soil.

What happens inside Iran in the next 72 hours may determine the shape of the Middle East for the next 50 years.

Al Jazeera, Axios , TIME

The list of top leaders of the Iranian regime killed during this war over the past few weeks is comprehensive and seemingly endless.

Khamenei was killed
Larijani was killed
Shamkhani was killed
Mousavi of the General Staff was killed
Pakpour of the IRGC was killed
Soleimani of the Basij was killed
Aziz Nasirzadeh of Defense was killed
Asadi of Intelligence was killed
Hossein Salami of the IRGC was killed
Hajizadeh was killed
Shekian of Air Defense was killed
Mohammad Bagheri of the General Staff was killed
Rashid of the Khatam Garrison was killed
Shadmaneh of the Q. Khatam was killed
Kazemi of Intelligence was killed
Mohaghegh of Intelligence was killed
Mohrabbi of Intelligence was killed
Rabbani of Operations was killed
Rezaeian of Faraja was killed
Bagheri of Missiles was killed
Shirazi of the Bit was killed
Qasem Soleimani was killed
Mohammad Reza Zahedi was killed
Abbas Nilforoushan was killed
Hossein Hemdani was killed Mazafari Nia (Atomic) was killed
Jabal Ameli (Atomic) was killed
Fakhrizadeh (Atomic) was killed
Borji (Atomic) was killed
Tehrani Moghadam was killed

And Israel has no intention on stopping.

If they weren’t so indoctrinated with their Islamic ideology, they would be admitting defeat, but that’ll never happen, so Israel and the US will just have to keep winning.

This is an incredible list. Truly truly spectacular.

And that’s not even mentioning all the Hezbollah leaders, Hamas leaders, and Islamic jihad leaders that Israel took out.

There wouldn’t be enough space for all of them on one graphic! 💪🇮🇱🇺🇸💥

By the way, the list above is accurate. I asked AI to make the collage, so there may be a few mistakes there, but everyone on the list above is now resting in many pieces!

The White House warned the regime not to mess with the US. This video from a week ago is amazing.

The regime will soon see that its days leading Iran are over.  It’s inevitable.

https://joehoft.com/next-72-hours-may-determine-shape-middle-east/

Reports: Israel Takes out Two Top Iranian Security Officials

The Israeli military killed two top Iranian security officials in separate overnight strikes, multiple reports Tuesday indicate, further eroding the Islamic dictatorship’s senior leadership and command structure.

AP reports Israeli defense minister Israel Katz said the country’s military eliminated top Iranian security official Ali Larijani in one of the deadly hits.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed the action.

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The veteran terror leader was a former nuclear negotiator for Iran and a close ally of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the war.

Larijani’s demise comes four days after he marched alongside thousands of Iranians at a Quds Day rally in Tehran where he sneered at U.S. President Donald Trump during a live interview.

Israel has killed Iran’s powerful national security chief Ali Larijani (above) in an overnight strike. His end came four days after he warned Trump: “The Ashura-loving nation of Iran does not fear your paper threats. Even those greater than you could not eliminate the Iranian nation. Watch out for yourself — lest you be eliminated!” 

He told Trump to “be careful not to be eliminated” during Operation Epic Fury, the American military engagement to neutralize the world’s most prolific terrorist state, as Breitbart News reported.

The Israeli military also announced it killed Gen. Gholam Reza Soleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guard’s all-volunteer Basij force, per AP.

Iranian state media did not immediately confirm either death of the Iranian security officials in what is fast becoming a leadless country.

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However, it said a message from Larijani’s office would published shortly.

The AP report notes the killings further strip away top leaders from the Iranian theocracy after the Feb. 28 strike that killed 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“Larijani and the Basij commander were eliminated last night and have joined Khamenei, the head of the annihilation program, along with all those eliminated from the axis of evil in the depths of hell,” Katz said in a statement.

AFP reports last week a defiant Larijani made one of the most high-profile public appearances by an Iranian official while attending a rally in Tehran.

Iran has yet to confirm whether Larijani and Soleimani have been killed.

More to come…

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/03/17/reports-israel-takes-out-two-top-iranian-security-officials/

BIG UPDATE: Sen. Eric Schmitt Teases Critical Amendment to SAVE America Act — Says He’s Working “Closely” With Donald Trump Ahead of Senate Floor Showdown This Week

 This article is thanks to Ricepaddydaddy!

The battle over election integrity and conservative priorities in Washington is heating up as Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) revealed that a major update to the SAVE America Act is expected to hit the Senate floor this week, complete with a powerful amendment crafted in coordination with President Donald Trump.

The announcement signals a major escalation in the ongoing fight between America First lawmakers and the entrenched Washington establishment that has repeatedly obstructed conservative reforms.

In an explosive video statement, the Missouri senator teased his amendment, which builds on the core protections of citizenship proof and photo ID by targeting the Democrats’ favorite fraud tool: mass mail-in balloting.

Schmitt:
“Okay, some big news on the SAVE America Act. It is finally coming to the Senate floor this week. I’ve been working with President Trump in the White House and will be introducing a substitute amendment that would include not just proof of citizenship to vote and photo ID, but also getting rid of the mass mail-in balloting scam we’ve seen in too many places.

The amendment would allow mail-in balloting only for the military, the elderly, people with disabilities, or those who are absent—reasonable situations like that. It would also ban transgender mutilation for kids and keep men out of women’s sports.

These are widely popular measures. I’ll be working with Senator Lee and many others in the Senate to get this done this week.”

WATCH:

It can be recalled that Senator Mike Lee said recent discussions with Thune and his staff have led to meaningful progress on how the bill could be debated and brought to a vote.

Lee confirmed the breakthrough in a new video clip: a HYBRID form of the talking filibuster is now set to be implemented.

Sen. Mike Lee: “Okay, important update on the Save America Act and the effort to get it passed. Look, I am guardedly optimistic. We’ve turned kind of a corner over the last few days.

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What we’re coming up with is something that I think is best described as a hybrid version of the talking filibuster. But look, let’s not get mired down in nomenclature. What matters far more than what we call it is what we do with it.

We’re going to bring it to the floor. We’re going to debate it for an extended period of time before filing cloture. And in my view—at least, I don’t want to speak for anyone else—this bill needs to remain on the Senate floor before we file cloture for as long as it takes to get it done.

Read more:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/big-update-sen-eric-schmitt-teases-critical-amendment/