After criticism from Mamdani, Palestinian author speaks out against him, calls American Jews ‘monsters’

Susan Abulhawa, a prominent Palestinian-American author, calls Jewish Americans “monsters” after a controversy surrounding New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, illustrated a book for Abulhawa, who has a history of antisemitism, provoking controversy last week.

Mamdani later said his wife had never met Abulhawa, had been commissioned to work for her via a third party, and said Abulhawa’s past comments were “reprehensible.”

Abulhawa pushes back in an interview with Briahna Joy Gray, a far-left commentator and the former press secretary for US Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign.

The interview is titled “Zohran throws Palestinians under the bus after Zionist hitjob.”

“There is a pattern of using Palestine and Palestinian pain for, whether it’s street cred or political gain or whatever it is,” Abulhawa says of Mamdani’s comments, “and then throwing us under the bus when whatever gain has been achieved.”

Later in the interview, she turns her fire on American Jews.

“Jewish Americans are the most privileged demographic in this country. It’s not to say that some people don’t like Jews because they’re Jews, but frankly, I think the resentment that they are seeing now is stemming from the world watching the so-called Jewish State commit a genocide,” Abulhawa says.

“We can’t ignore the fact that it’s not just Israelis, it is Jewish Americans,” due to Jewish American support for Israel, Abulhawa says.

“I just don’t have a vocabulary that’s terrible enough to describe what they’re doing and the fact that they do not possess a conscience,” she says. “I think no words, no terrible words should be spared for these monsters, because they are monsters.”