MPAC Responds—George Mason Law professor shared an AI-generated racist image targeting Rama Duwaji, First Lady of New York City

Washington, D.C. | www.mpac.org | March 24, 2026—We are disgusted by and strongly condemn George Mason Law professor Adam Mossoff’s amplification of a racist, AI-generated caricature targeting Rama Duwaji, the First Lady of New York City. For a law professor to circulate such dehumanizing imagery and pair it with inflammatory rhetoric is shameful and dangerous.

This image relies on ugly and deeply familiar tropes used to vilify Arab and Muslim women and to cast them as inherently suspect, threatening, or undeserving of dignity. Coming from a faculty member at a respected law school, this conduct is especially alarming. No student should have to wonder whether a professor who publicly traffics in racist caricature and public targeting can treat them fairly in the classroom.

At a time of rising anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian hate, this kind of public targeting only fuels hostility and harassment. We call on George Mason University to immediately open an investigation, suspend Professor Mossoff during that process, and publicly condemn this behavior. Institutions of higher education have a responsibility to make clear that racist and dehumanizing conduct from faculty will not be tolerated.