It certainly didn’t take them long to discover and practice the first principle of communism

NYC first lady Rama Duwaji traveling to Syria, Lebanon — with taxpayer-funded NYPD security detail: sources

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife Rama Duwaji is heading to Syria and Lebanon next month – and she’s bringing along cops assigned to the First Couple’s taxpayer-funded NYPD detail, The Post has learned.

Duwaji will be jetting to the Middle East for a trip beginning Sept. 20 to the countries on the State Department’s “Do Not Travel” list for Americans because of dangerous conditions, a source said.

The source familiar with the security detail said the first lady, who’s been described by the mayor as a “private person,” requested NYPD security – after traveling overseas last month without police protection.

Duwaji, a 29-year-old Syrian-American [anchor baby] has ties to the region and refers to herself as a “Syrian Illustrator” on her website. Her parents are Syrian Muslims originally from Damascus and now living in Dubai, where Duwaji herself was raised.

Mamdani’s office confirmed the trip and that an NYPD security detail will accompany the mayor’s wife.

The source with knowledge of the trip told The Post, “It’s not official business. It’s not doing anything for the city.”

One pro-Israel Jewish advocate opposed sending members of the NYPD to Syria and Lebanon, arguing the officers, not the Israel-bashing Duwaji, will be targets.

“We’re putting the police officers in danger. They will be viewed as the bad guys. These are war zones,” said Dov Hikind, founder of Americans Against Antisemitism and a former Brooklyn Assemblyman.

“Duwaji doesn’t need security. She will get a hero’s welcome and be protected by Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis,” Hikind said, referring to Islamic terrorists and militants.

“Duwaji will be fine.”

According to a Forbes review of the his financial disclosure filings, the new mayor has estimated his net worth as $2,000 in cash and a 4-acre parcel of land (presumably gifted him by his rich parents, as he was taking in less than $12,000 annually from his career as an aspiring rap artist) in Uganda. If he feels that he and Duwaji can afford to see her off to a family get together in the Middle East well, bless their hearts, let her go, just as she fled the US last month during the city’s celebration of our 250th anniversary to attend, first, an Islamic Women’s Retreat on Mallorca, a seaside resort event that “centered on sacred plants mentioned in Islamic texts through art, botanical workshops and spiritual reflection”, before continuing on to another Islamic women’s gathering on Corsica that celebrated Mary, mother of Jesus, as the most honored woman in Islam (how Mary, a Jew born hundreds of years before ol’ Mohammed hisself invented Islam wasn’t explained, aparently, but I’m sure they worked around that difficulty).

But, while this happy couple is surely to be admired for the frugality and dedication they’ve exerted to scrimp and save to afford these junkets, some taxpayers — Islamophobic bigots, no doubt — might still wish that Duwaji and Zohran dip a little deeper into their purses and cough up the funds necessary to pay for a half-dozen or so NYC cops on overtime to accompany the city’s first lady on her latest vacation. Those whiners will be the first to be lined up against the wall, ungrateful Jew-lovers that they are, though others will surely follow as the People’s Revolution unfolds.