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NYC's First Lady Painted a Loving Portrait of a Hamas Propagandist Who Called Anne Frank's Diary a 'Jewish Forgery'

In a video first posted in April 2024, New York City First Lady Rama Duwaji — a Syrian-born illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn — sat in front of a camera and introduced the animated portrait she had been working on. The subject was Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour. Her description of him was simple: he "inspired the work that I do."

Mansour praised Hamas leaders as "great heroes." He celebrated the October 7 massacre. He called "The Diary of Anne Frank" a "Jewish forgery." He shared Adolf Hitler's paintings on social media with apparent admiration.

The First Lady of the largest city in America painted a portrait of this man and called him her inspiration. Not in a private journal. On camera.

The Free Beacon first documented the full scope of Mansour's record, connecting Duwaji's tribute video to the Palestinian artist's long history of antisemitic statements and pro-Hamas propaganda. Mansour, who died on August 24, 2026, was not a peripheral figure whose views required investigative journalism to uncover. He was a prominent Palestinian painter and sculptor — and his positions on Hamas, the Holocaust, and the October 7 attacks were a matter of public record.

He called the terrorists who slaughtered approximately 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, "great heroes." He didn't whisper it. He used those words.

He posted Adolf Hitler's paintings on social media — not to condemn them, not for historical context. With appreciation.

And he dismissed the most widely read Holocaust testimony in history — the diary of a 15-year-old girl murdered at Bergen-Belsen — as a fabrication. "The Diary of Anne Frank is a Jewish forgery." That's a direct quote from the man Rama Duwaji chose to honor with her art and her public admiration.

This isn't a case of a politician accidentally liking the wrong post and issuing a 48-hour apology through a spokesman. Duwaji sat down, painted a portrait, recorded a video, identified Mansour by name, called him her inspiration, and uploaded it for the world to see. The deliberateness is the story.

Israel's Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism reportedly moved to ban Duwaji from entering the country — a step reserved for serious cases of antisemitic incitement. The First Lady of the city with the largest Jewish population in the world outside of Israel, banned from Israel.

Duwaji's pattern didn't begin with Mansour. The ADL's New York/New Jersey chapter previously flagged her collaboration with writer Susan Abulhawa, who called the October 7 attacks "a spectacular moment" and described Israel as a "demonic parasite." The ADL noted that working with Abulhawa "goes beyond" Duwaji's previously documented habit of liking pro-October 7 content on social media. The trajectory is clear — from passive social media engagement to active artistic collaboration with figures who celebrate terrorism.

New York City is home to approximately 1.1 million Jewish residents. Holocaust survivors still live in Brooklyn apartments. Synagogues across the five boroughs employ armed security because antisemitic threats are not hypothetical — they are daily operational realities.

The First Lady's artistic inspiration is a man who called Anne Frank a liar and Hamas terrorists heroes.

Sliman Mansour died on August 24, 2026. His legacy, according to Rama Duwaji, "inspired the work that I do." According to the historical record, his legacy includes calling the diary of a murdered 15-year-old girl a forgery and the men who massacred her people "great heroes."

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