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FIRST ON FOX: Sara Mahmoud, who served as a social media manager for the far-left Senate nominee in Florida, has a digital footprint spanning multiple accounts with different aliases that include wishing that Zionists, supporters of the state of Israel, would "die."
"Can Zionists die already?" Mahmoud said in one post to X from an account that was recently deleted.
She also made posts that expressed support for Hamas, the terror organization that launched the deadly Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel that left roughly 1,200 people dead.
"Glory and honor to our freedom fighters. Praying for their safety and success," Mahmoud posted on Nov. 18, 2018 — the same day Hamas fired as many as 400 rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
Later that same year, she also re-posted a celebration of the organization's 31st anniversary since its founding in 1987.
"Palestine is the land of the Arab Palestinian people, from it they originate, to it they adhere and belong, and about it they reach out and communicate. #Hamas31 #WhatsHamas," the post read.
Those comments, and dozens of others like them were cataloged by antisemitism watchdog Canary Mission, outlined Mahmoud’s thinking as she worked with Angie Nixon, a candidate backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), in pursuit of a U.S. Senate seat. The posts also further illustrate the overlap between support for DSA and opposition to Israel.
In addition to posting about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, many of Mahmoud’s posts are directed at White Jews, especially those supporting the Israeli state.
"Wow, white Jews are so entitled lmfaoooo please die," Mahmoud said in a 2016 post.
"Zionism is a form of white nationalism, period. I’m really sick of seeing folks contesting this fact. Folks who try arguing either a.) conflate Zionism and Judaism or b.) employ race science to define ‘white’ and ‘whiteness,’" she wrote in a separate post.
"Zionism = white supremacy. PLZ get this! Zionism wasn’t made for all Jewish people and doesn’t represent all Jewish people!"
"Twitter banned me for saying zios [sic] should ch*ke but here’s my cute a-- nails," Mahmoud wrote in 2017.
Despite the comments, some dating back to 2015, Mahmoud was brought on as a social media manager for the Nixon campaign as recently as June. According to the latest FEC filing, Mahmoud has received at least $8,400 for her services between June and July. Fox News Digital could not confirm if there were additional payments in the third-quarter filings that will be released next month.
Mahmoud is no longer employed by the Nixon campaign.
A campaign spokesperson did not say whether it was aware of the posts when it hired Mahmoud and declined to comment on whether the campaign thought they were appropriate. They also noted that Mahmoud is no longer working for Nixon, stating that she had found another employment opportunity.
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Like Mahmoud, Nixon has also expressed alarm at the U.S. partnership with Israel but has couched her criticisms as strictly limited to the Israeli government.
"Caring about thousands of innocent lives lost does not make anyone antisemitic. You can turn your backs on me because I am on the right side of history because I don’t want the babies to die," Nixon said in a speech before the Florida Legislature.
Nixon has supported reducing U.S. aid to Israel and reevaluating the partnership between the two countries, citing humanitarian concerns over its war with Gaza — views that align with the DSA.
But on its website, the DSA goes further. Among its other party platforms, like abolishing the U.S. Senate and government-subsidized housing, it states that it supports autonomy for the Palestinian people.
"[We] recognize the rights of the Palestinian people, including the right of return, the right to resist military occupation and the right to self-determination in a free Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital," the DSA website states.
Mahmoud, for her part, agreed in a post to X in 2018.
"Any means used by Palestinians to liberate ourselves from white supremacist Israeli colonizers is just. We will return. Wait on it," Mahmoud wrote.
Even before the 2023 conflict with Gaza, which prompted international debate about its protections for civilian casualties, Mahmoud had asserted that Israel was carrying out a systematic elimination of Palestinians.
"You’re doing exactly what Hitler did. It’s a mass genocide and ethnic cleansing that Israel is conducting," Mahmoud wrote of Israel in 2015.
"’I’m embracing my Israeli side.’ B----, so you embracing imperialism and racism? OK," she posted in 2016.
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"Defend, as defined by Israeli forces: use Palestinians as target practice, sexual assault 75% of children in custody, apartheid," she wrote in 2017.
Mahmoud did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.