Florida Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Angie Nixon paid at least $8,400 to a social media manager whose online history includes posts celebrating Hamas and wishing death on Zionists, and her campaign won't say whether it knew about any of it.
Sara Mahmoud, who worked as the Nixon campaign's social media manager as recently as June, maintained a years-long trail of posts across multiple accounts and aliases expressing support for Hamas, calling for Zionists to die, and targeting Jewish people with hateful language, Fox News Digital reported in an exclusive. The antisemitism watchdog Canary Mission cataloged Mahmoud's comments and dozens of others like them across her digital footprint.
Nixon, a Florida state representative backed by the Democratic Socialists of America, won a Democratic Senate primary earlier this year. Federal Election Commission filings show her campaign paid Mahmoud at least $8,400 between June and July. Third-quarter filings have not yet been released, so the full amount may be higher.
Mahmoud's posts date back to at least 2015 and run through 2018, covering multiple platforms and aliases. One X account containing the post "Can Zionists die already?" was recently deleted. In 2016, she wrote: "Wow, white Jews are so entitled lmfaoooo please die."
On November 18, 2018, the same day Hamas fired as many as 400 rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel, Mahmoud posted a message praising what she called "freedom fighters":
"Glory and honor to our freedom fighters. Praying for their safety and success."
Later that year, she reposted a celebration of Hamas's 31st anniversary. The repost read: "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."
Hamas is the organization responsible for the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel that left roughly 1,200 people dead.
The posts Fox News Digital surfaced were not one-off remarks. They formed a pattern stretching over several years and escalating in tone. In 2017, Mahmoud wrote: "Twitter banned me for saying zios [sic] should ch*ke but here's my cute a** nails." She treated a ban for inciting violence as a joke.
In a 2018 post to X, she wrote: "Any means used by Palestinians to liberate ourselves from white supremacist Israeli colonizers is just. We will return. Wait on it." The phrase "any means" leaves little room for interpretation, it endorses any form of action, without limit, against Israeli civilians.
In 2015, she compared Israel to Nazi Germany: "You're doing exactly what Hitler did. It's a mass genocide and ethnic cleansing that Israel is conducting." A year later, she mocked someone for "embracing my Israeli side," writing: "B****, so you embracing imperialism and racism? OK."
In another undated post, she declared: "Zionism is a form of white nationalism, period. I'm really sick of seeing folks contesting this fact." And separately: "Zionism = white supremacy. PLZ get this!"
In 2017, she wrote: "Defend, as defined by Israeli forces: use Palestinians as target practice, sexual assault 75% of children in custody, apartheid." That statistic was Mahmoud's own unsourced claim.
The Nixon campaign's response to the revelations was notable for what it refused to address. A campaign spokesperson declined to say whether the campaign was aware of Mahmoud's posts at the time of hiring. The spokesperson also declined to comment on whether the campaign considered the posts appropriate.
The campaign said only that Mahmoud is no longer working for Nixon and that she "had found another employment opportunity." Whether Mahmoud left voluntarily or was pushed out remains unclear. Fox News Digital reported that Mahmoud did not respond to a request for comment.
That sequence, refuse to answer, decline to judge, announce a quiet departure, is a familiar pattern. It avoids accountability without requiring anyone to say the posts were wrong.
Mahmoud's hiring did not happen in a vacuum. Nixon herself has pushed to reduce U.S. aid to Israel and called for reevaluating the U.S.-Israel partnership, citing humanitarian concerns over the conflict in Gaza. She has expressed alarm at the American relationship with Israel but has said her criticisms are "strictly limited to the Israeli government."
In a speech before the Florida Legislature, Nixon said:
"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."
There is a wide distance between opposing a government's military conduct and employing someone who posted "Can Zionists die already?" and praised Hamas on a day the group launched 400 rockets at Israeli civilians. Nixon's stated position, that her concerns are about the Israeli government, not Jewish people, becomes harder to credit when her campaign's own social media operation was run by someone with Mahmoud's record.
Nixon's Senate bid carries the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA's own platform, published on its website, states that the organization "recognize[s] 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 platform also calls for abolishing the U.S. Senate and government-subsidized housing.
Mahmoud's posts go well beyond the DSA's official language. Wishing death on Zionists, celebrating Hamas rocket attacks, and endorsing "any means" of violence are not policy positions. They are expressions of open hostility toward a people and open support for a designated terrorist organization. But a candidate who runs under the DSA banner and hires someone with Mahmoud's history invites the question of where the line is, and whether anyone on the campaign bothered to look for it.
The antisemitism watchdog Canary Mission maintained a profile on Mahmoud that cataloged her posts and "dozens of others like them." That profile was publicly available. A basic search of the person hired to manage a Senate candidate's public image would have surfaced it.
The campaign's refusal to say whether it knew about the posts before hiring Mahmoud leaves two possibilities. Either the campaign failed to vet its own social media manager, a person whose entire job is public communication, or it knew and hired her anyway. Neither answer reflects well on a candidate asking Florida voters to send her to the United States Senate.
Voters can judge policy disagreements on their merits. But when a campaign pays thousands of taxpayer-solicited dollars to someone who cheered Hamas rocket fire and wished death on Jewish people, the question is no longer about policy. It is about judgment, and the kind of people a candidate chooses to surround herself with when she thinks nobody is watching.
