WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Rama Duwaji has created illustrations for Olive Odyssey since at least October 2025, with some company offerings selling for nearly $100 per bottle.
- Olive Odyssey honors Khalil Abu Osba, whose granddaughter said he shot a British plane from the sky and escaped imprisonment.
- The company has praised PFLP founder Ghassan Kanafani and shared imagery and language celebrating Palestinian militancy and martyrdom.
- Duwaji’s associations surfaced as Mayor Zohran Mamdani launched a $30 million New York City program aimed at combating antisemitism.
New York City first lady Rama Duwaji has created artwork for Olive Odyssey, an olive oil company whose online presence celebrates Palestinian violence, promotes imagery hostile to Israel, and honors militants. Records show Duwaji has provided illustrations for the company since at least October 2025, when her husband, Zohran Mamdani, was the frontrunner for mayor.
Duwaji’s company biography describes her as a Syrian illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn, though she was born in Houston. The page says her work examines “sisterhood, closeness, and the subtle dynamics that shape our communities.”
She has supplied illustrations for at least two Olive Odyssey offerings, including one selling for nearly $100 per bottle. Elsewhere on the company’s website, Olive Odyssey markets a 2025 harvest bottle with “a hand-drawn portrait of Khalil Abu Osba, a Palestinian resistance fighter.”
That portrait is credited to company founder Aya Gazawi Faour, Duwaji’s employer. Faour is an Israeli citizen living in Haifa, but she has described Haifa as being “in Palestine,” while Olive Odyssey maintains a United States address in Casper, Wyoming.
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Olive Odyssey directed the Washington Free Beacon to an Instagram video featuring Lubna Abu-Osba, who identified Khalil Abu Osba as her grandfather. She said Faour approached her about commemorating him on a bottle and declared that she “could not be more honored” that his legacy remained alive after 75 years.
Lubna Abu-Osba described that legacy more bluntly in an August 2019 Instagram post. “My grandfather, Khalil Ahmed Abu-Osba, he fought in the resistance and shot a British plane out of the sky with his rifle; he was sentenced to death and imprisoned in Acre; he escaped with 3 other freedom fighters,” she wrote.
An Arabic language blog also quoted Abu Osba’s daughter recounting the shooting. She said her father fired at a low-flying reconnaissance plane, struck its gasoline tank, and caused it to catch fire while carrying a senior general and 16 officers.
Olive Odyssey’s social media activity repeatedly links olive farming with martyrdom and Palestinian militancy. In January 2026, farmer Basheer Al-Sous appeared in a company video and declared, “The Palestinian person and the olive tree are one.”
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“Our fathers and grandfathers watered the tree, and the land with their sweat, effort, and hard work, and the martyrs watered it with their blood,” Al-Sous added. A September 2025 TikTok post urging “strategic disruptions” for Gaza featured lyrics declaring, “The martyr's blood is fragrant with cardamom.”
The company also commemorated Ghassan Kanafani in July 2024, marking the anniversary of his 1972 assassination by Israel. Kanafani was a founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and later served on its political bureau and as its official spokesman during a period of terrorism by the organization.
Following a 1968 PFLP airline hijacking, Kanafani led a press conference boasting about the operation, according to the New York Times. Discussing bombings in a 1971 interview, he said, “I appreciate the fact that you reject bourgeois moralism and obedience to international law.”
When asked why he would not discuss peace with Israelis, Kanafani compared the idea to “a conversation between the sword and the neck.” He was killed by Mossad in July 1972 in response to his role in the Lod Airport massacre, which killed 26 people, including 17 Christian pilgrims from Puerto Rico.
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Olive Odyssey’s Kanafani post included a PFLP poster depicting a skull consuming two bodies, an image historically used to represent Israel with support from the United States and Jordan. The bodies represented members of Black September killed during fighting with Jordan in 1970, according to the PFLP magazine Al-Hadaf.
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The company’s activism also targets food and forestry. Olive Odyssey has condemned “Israeli salad” as “food appropriation,” described foraging for Za’atar as an “act of resistance,” and attacked pine trees planted by the Jewish National Fund as “soldiers of the occupation” and a “silent colonizer.”
Olive Odyssey oil is additionally used in a line of cannabis chocolate. Meanwhile, Duwaji has served as artist in residence at a luxury Islamic women’s retreat that praised Kanafani, promoted Olive Odyssey products, and called for Israel’s abolition.
The Free Beacon previously reported that Duwaji honored PFLP members Leila Khaled and Shadia Abu Ghazaleh on old social media accounts. The revelations arrived even as Mamdani rolled out a $30 million program intended to combat antisemitism in New York City.
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