#1: Rabab Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University
#2: Hatem Bazian, University of California-Berkeley
#3: Russell Rickford, Cornell University
#4: Huda Fakhreddine, University of Pennsylvania
#5: Joseph Massad, Columbia University
#6: Samer Alatout, UW-Madison
#7: Steven Thrasher, Northwestern University
#8: Noura Erakat, Rutgers University
#9: Jairo Fúnez-Flores, Texas Tech University
#10: Jeffrey McCully, Moraine Valley Community College
Introduction:
It is no secret that American campuses are awash in a crisis of Jew hatred. From Columbia to UCLA, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to the University of Texas-Austin, last spring the public witnessed the hostile takeover of campuses by supporters of the genocidal Hamas regime. Shouting such genocidal slogans as “Globalize the Intifada” and “From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free,” student protestors—aided by radical faculty members and coddled by university administrators—proudly established and defended zones that were effectively declared Judenrein—no-go zones for Zionists and supporters of the world’s only Jewish state.
A casual observer might be forgiven for thinking that this crisis was sparked by Hamas’s barbaric October 7, 2023, massacre of over 1200 innocent Israeli civilians and the hostage-taking of several hundred more—but that event was merely a catalyst for the poisonous pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, and anti-American movement that has been increasingly extending its tentacles throughout academia over the past two decades.
Students on America’s elite college campuses have for years been fed a steady diet of Marxist claptrap and so-called post-colonial studies, all steeped in a hefty dose of Jew hatred and jihadist propaganda. Hamas’s October 7th butchery and Israel’s entirely justified response merely gave these radical campus activists the excuse they had been waiting for to call for a genocide of the Jews and the destruction of their homeland.
No longer able to deny the ferocity and breadth of the calls for a Jewish genocide on their campuses, ineffectual college administrators have taken tentative steps to try and reign in the radicals and proponents of terror on their campuses, but they have yet to confront the most obvious source of this poisonous Jew hatred—their own radical faculty who have not only called for an end to Israel, but have outright celebrated the barbaric bloodshed of the terror group Hamas.
Is it reasonable to expect college students to comprehend the true depths of Hamas’s barbarism and its inescapable link to Islamic extremism and centuries of anti-Semitic persecution when their professors, mentors, and advisors on campus are screaming for the blood of the Jews and the deaths of so-called “colonizers”?
The following report will name the ten most extreme Hamas Loyalist Professors—those who not only defended Hamas’s brutality—the slaughter of over a thousand Jews, the rape and mutilation of women, the beheading of children—but outright celebrated it as a form of liberation that should be emulated across the globe. These professors hail from some of our nation’s most prestigious private and state campuses including Columbia, Rutgers, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and San Francisco State University. Many of these professors have also encouraged and participated in the illegal pro-Hamas riots that have forced their campuses to a standstill and caused Jewish students and other supporters of Israel to fear for their safety.
We call on the universities implicated in this report to take immediate action to investigate and discipline these professors who have openly defied university policy to promote Jew hatred and to celebrate a bastion of terror.
#1: Rabab Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University
Amongst the litany of Jew-hating faculty currently teaching at American universities, one name rises above all the rest—that of San Francisco State University professor of Ethnic Studies Rabab Abdulhadi who is also the founding director of SFSU’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative (AMED), an academic program which flouts its anti-Semitism by openly declaring Zionism to be racism and Israel to be the occupier of Palestine. AMED is known for sponsoring events which feature posters reading, “My Heroes Have Always Killed Colonizers,” referring to Israel’s Jews.
On October 7th 2023, following Hamas’s massacre, mutilation, and rape of over 1200 innocent Israelis, and the taking of hundreds more as hostages, Professor Abdulhadi quote-tweeted Rep. Ilhan Omar—who has her own long record of anti-Semitism—not to agree with the Congresswoman’s remarks but to chastise her for condemning Hamas’s actions. “Seriously @IlhanMN? ‘Senseless’ #PalestineUnderAttack are merely defending themselves. Are you saying that #Palestinians should be exceptionalized from the right to defend themselves against colonial & racist violence? Check your facts! #FreePalestine #IsraeliCrimes” Abdulhadi tweeted. Apparently one of the House of Representatives leading anti-Semites isn’t extreme enough for the SFSU professor.
Also on October 7th, Abdulhadi tweeted, “It’s worth remembering how vicious colonists act when the colonized dare #breakTheirChains from #Palestine, #Algeria #Vietnam … to #TurtleIsland. No innocent bystanders here. Demand Immediate accountability for #IsraeliCrimes. #BDS.” Abdulhadi’s clear support for Hamas and their paratroopers of terror is undeniable, as is her belief that none of the 1200-plus victims of Hamas’s barbaric violence—including children and babies who were beheaded and burned alive—can be seen as “innocent bystanders.”
Professor Abdulhadi’s comments promoting Hamas and their regime of terror should not come as a surprise to anyone who has followed her academic career over the past two decades. Abdulhadi has repeatedly glorified anti-Israel terrorism in public talks.
A letter sent by a coalition of concerned Jewish groups to SFSU President Leslie Wong in 2014 describes in chilling detail how an Ethnic Studies Department event organized by Abdulhadi featured “wild inaccuracies, monstrous distortions, and blatant lies — all intended to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish state and promote a boycott that would hasten its demise.”
Professor Abdulhadi’s husband, Jaime Veve, a union activist, also spoke at the 2014 event she organized to exalt anti-Semitic terrorists and murderers. The letter to President Wong describes how Veve “insisted that Palestinians who had injured or murdered Jews were not terrorists but rather ‘heroes or heroines’ who had ‘committed political acts of defiance and resistance,’ and he justified Palestinian terrorism by calling it ‘the cry of a baby calling for the attention of the world.’”
During her tenure at SFSU, Abdulhadi has sought to build relationships with anti-Israel terrorists. While attending a university-sponsored trip to Israel in 2014, she met with anti-Israel terrorists Leila Khaled and Sheikh Raed Salah. Abdulhadi has praised Khaled, a notorious airplane hijacker, as “an icon in liberation movements and…an icon for women’s liberation.” Salah served a prison sentence in Israel for aiding the terrorist group Hamas. He has also been charged for incitement to violence for giving a public speech in which he accused Jews of using the blood of Palestinian children to bake their bread. Despite this, Abdulhadi has insisted that he does not have terrorist ties.
In September 2020, Abdulhadi and AMED held an event featuring Khaled. Abdulhadi planned to stream the event on Zoom, but the platform canceled its coverage citing Khaled’s terrorist record.
Abdulhadi also attempted to open a formal collaboration between SFSU and An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine. An-Najah University has been described by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as “known for its advocacy of anti-Israel violence and its recruitment of Palestinian college students into terrorist groups.”
The notorious professor has not hesitated to use her privileged position as a professor at SFSU to promote her anti-Israel agenda. Abdulhadi is a founding member of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI), and also supports the wider Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel, an anti-Semitic, Hamas-funded campaign to isolate and weaken the Jewish state. She frequently promotes BDS at university-sponsored events and forums.
In March 2019, she shared a live video and statement on the official Facebook page for the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative (AMED). The statement demonized Israel and invoked anti-Semitic conspiracy tropes by accusing the SFSU administration of “collaborat[ing] with the Zionist designs to silence us… staff, faculty and community who view Israel (as I do) as a colonial, racist and occupying power…” and labeled the administration’s conduct as “the weaponizing of free speech in the service of Nazis, Zionists and other white supremacists…” In July 2019, she shared an image of a large banner exhorting “Zionism = Racism, Silence = Death, Palestine is a Queer Issue – Boycott! Divest! Sanction!”
Abdulhadi has repeatedly propagated anti-Semitic tropes accusing Jews of conspiring to orchestrate world affairs and of possessing dual loyalties—a slur implying that Jews have more loyalty to Israel than to America or other nations. In September 2020, the professor said on Facebook: “I think we need to go to [then U.S. vice presidential candidate] Kamala Harris and say to her: ‘…It’s not okay that some of our representatives actually have dual Israeli-U.S. passport. That’s not okay! That’s not okay!…”
In a February, 2019 interview with Arab Talk, Abdulhadi denigrated pro-Israel groups in America, saying [00:07:09]: “These groups are bullies…they push around in Congress and they bribe them, and they give them money, they twist their arms and so on, there are used to basically silencing everybody and crushing everybody.”
While Abdulhadi uses the public resources of San Francisco State to promote her Jew hatred, she is notably less tolerant toward pro-Israel views. When SFSU President Leslie Wong was forced to clarify that he welcomes Zionists at the University, Abdulhadi responded by equating Zionists with the KKK: “I’m waiting for him to say, white supremacists is welcome, KKK is welcome, David Horowitz is welcome, Richard Spenser is welcome, Neo-Nazis are welcome, homophobes are welcome, misogynists are welcome, why stop only at Zionists? Welcome them all. I mean bring the…whole club. Bring everybody who is right wing and racist, bring them to campus, why only stop at Zionists.”
This is the same toxic ethos that is now spouted by rabid Jew-haters and Hamas supporters on campuses across the nation—and Professor Abdulhadi was one of its earliest adherents and promoters.
Abdulhadi has also dedicated herself to encouraging the next generation of Jew haters. For several years she served as faculty advisor to SFSU’s chapter of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS), an SJP surrogate group. During her tenure as faculty advisor, organization president Mohammad G. Hammad was exposed as having written a number of threatening social media posts describing his wish to attack students, teachers and Israeli soldiers and to ally himself with anti-Israel terrorists including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Hammad’s posts included a photo of himself holding a large knife with the caption, “I seriously cannot get over how much I love this blade. It is the sharpest thing I own and cuts through everything like butter and just holding it makes me want to stab an Israeli soldier…” Hammad was investigated for terrorism by the FBI.
Despite her atrocious record, Abdulhadi is still being lauded as a leader in her field. In January 2023, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) awarded its 2022 Jere L. Bacharach Service Award to Abdulhadi—a dubious honor given MESA’s own record of anti-Semitism and extreme hostility toward Israel.
As one of the most extreme proponents of Hamas and other anti-Israel terrorist groups in academia, Professor Abdulhadi deserves to be first on the list of Hamas Loyalist Professors.
#2: Hatem Bazian, University of California-Berkeley
Any list of Hamas Loyalist Professors would be incomplete without the inclusion of Berkeley Professor Hatem Bazian. A Palestinian immigrant from Nablus in the West Bank, Bazian has spent his entire academic career, since his days as a graduate student, #2founding and growing a jihadist, Jew-hating superstructure within America. As a co-founder of both Students for Justice in Palestine, the campus hate group responsible for the majority of the pro-Hamas riots and encampments that disrupted campus life over the past year, and American Muslims for Palestine, a front group that exists to funnel money to Hamas, Bazian is a key player in the pro-terror campus left.
Speaking at a public rally on October 8, 2023, one day after Hamas militants murdered, raped, and mutilated over 1200 innocent Israeli Jews, Bazian lauded the massacre as a “transformation.”
“I wanted to contextualize what is taking place today in Palestine,” he explained, stating “When the colonized take matters into their own hands…a new man is born” and jubilantly declaring “What is taking place today is a transformation.”
Professor Bazian also shamed fellow Jew-hating academic Cornel West for calling the Palestinian violence “barbaric,” yelling “Shame on you, Cornel! Shame on you!” to cheering from the crowd.
Speaking at another pro-Hamas rally in Washington, DC on October 21, Bazian, addressing Americans and Israelis, again celebrated the events of October 7th: “You have lost the war! You have lost the war! There is the history before October 7th and there is the history today! We are not going back to pre-October 7th! And we’re not gonna stop!”
The professor also denied the details of Hamas’s atrocities, posting on Twitter that “Biden lied about seeing photos of beheaded babies…”
Bazian’s rhetoric, and the Jew-hating organizations that he founded, had a vast impact in spreading pro-Hamas activism across the nation. Just days after Hamas’s October 7 attack, the national Students for Justice in Palestine organization, which Bazian co-founded, published a toolkit to ensure that its campus chapters stayed unified in their Jew-hating, genocidal rhetoric. The pro-Hamas toolkit called the October 7 slaughter a “historic win” and used positive euphemisms to describe the mass-murder of men, women, and children, calling it “the Palestinian resistance [that] stormed the illegitimate border fence.”
According to the Canary Mission, an anti-Semitism watchdog group, “The kit featured flyers with images of hang-gliders (one of the methods Hamas terrorists used to get over the border fence) and characterized all Israeli civilians as ‘settlers,’ and thus legitimate targets.”
Students for Justice in Palestine was the premier organization promoting anti-Jewish violence on college campuses over the past year and organizing pro-terror events calling for a worldwide intifada and a genocide of the Jews.
Bazian has a long record of promoting terrorist violence extending back over the past two decades. At a 2004 anti-war rally in San Francisco, Bazian called for an Intifada, or violent uprising, in America, stating, “Well, we’ve been watching [an] Intifada in Palestine, we’ve been watching an uprising in Iraq, and the question is that what are we doing? How come we don’t have an Intifada in this country?… it’s about time that we have an Intifada in this country that change[s] fundamentally the political dynamics in here. And we know … they’re gonna say some Palestinian [is] being too radical. Well, you haven’t seen radicalism yet!”
In July 2017, Bazian retweeted an anti-Semitic meme which plays on classic tropes of Jewish blood libel and also compares Jews to the Nazis. The meme was originally tweeted by infamous anti-Semite Ron Hughes, whose account Bazian follows. It featured a photo of a man presumed to be Jewish, with Hasidic style curls, with the quoted statement: “MOM LOOK! I IS CHOSEN! I CAN NOW KILL, RAPE, SMUGGLE ORGANS & AND STEAL THE LAND OF PALESTINIANS *YAY* ASHKE-NAZI.”
Bazian has promoted the idea of a world Jewish conspiracy, telling student protestors on one occasion to “look at the Jewish names on the school buildings,” and adding, “Take a look at the type of names on the buildings around campus — Haas, Zellerbach — and decide who controls this university.” He has also called the U.S. Congress “an Israeli-occupied territory” and has suggested that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) controls U.S. foreign policy.
He has also repeatedly denied the Jewish people’s historic connection to the land of Israel, writing in a 2014 article published in the Harvard International Review that much of ancient Jewish history in the land of Israel is a “mythical past” and that Jews are a group that is a “historical passer-by in the land.”
The Jew-hating professor has repeatedly defended the anti-Israel terror group Hamas going back long before October 7th, tweeting an article which disputed Hamas’s status as a terrorist organization. The article claimed that “The Europeans who fought Nazism with arms were labeled ‘terrorist’ by Hitler. Hamas is fighting against the occupation of Palestinian lands and is labeled ‘terrorist.’”
For his vast record of pro-Hamas activism and his role in constructing the premier pro-terror student organization in America, Professor Bazian should be known as one of the most ardent Hamas
#3: Russell Rickford, Cornell University
Cornell associate professor of history Russell Rickford made national headlines for his enthusiastic and boisterous approbation of Hamas’s barbaric October 7th massacre of Israeli civilians during which over 1200 were maimed, mutilated, and slaughtered, and hundreds more taken hostage.
At a rally hosted by the ironically-named group, Jewish Voice for Peace, in Ithaca, New York on October 15, 2023, barely a week after Hamas’s attack, Rickford lauded Hamas in the highest terms and celebrated the outright slaughter of Israel’s Jews.
“What has Hamas done?,” Rickford asked. “Hamas has shifted the balance of power. Hamas has punctured the illusion of [Israeli] invincibility. That’s what they’ve done…Hamas has changed the terms of debate.”
Rickford continued extolling the virtues of the terrorist group, saying that “Hamas has challenged the monopoly of violence” and that the Palestinians “were able to breathe for the first time in years” thanks to the bloody October 7th massacre.
“[I]t was exhilarating! It was exhilarating! It was energizing! And if they [Palestinians] weren’t exhilarated by this challenge to the monopoly of violence, by this shifting of the balance of power, then they would not be human. I was exhilarated!” Rickford concluded, expressing sheer joy at the extent of Hamas’s slaughter.
Even in the highly anti-Semitic world of higher education, Rickford’s remarks praising the massacre were considered a step too far. The professor requested and was granted a leave of absence from the university, but remained an employee and is still listed as a professor on the university’s website.
Unsurprisingly, Professor Rickford has a long history of praising terrorist violence against Israel. At a September 2021 lecture held by anti-Semitic Rutgers Professor Noura Erakat on “Palestine: Settler Colonialism, Sovereignty and Apartheid,” Rickford celebrated the recent escape of several convicted terrorists from the maximum security Gilboa Prison in Israel, citing the incident as “a marvelous example of tenacity and defiance that would live on in the imaginations of people around the world.” The escapees were members of the terror groups Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade who had been convicted of criminal attacks on Israelis during the bloody Second Intifada.
Rickford also penned an article for Vox.com describing “How Black Lives Matter reenergized Black-Palestinian solidarity.” In the piece, Rickford described his experience marching at a Cornell rally in support of acts of terrorism from the terrorist organizations Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) as “one of the truly gratifying moments of my life as an internationalist.”
The professor has a long record of demonizing Israel and promoting anti-Semitic tropes. In a 2018 article published by the African American Intellectual History Society, Rickford stated that “Israel and the U.S. are leading propagators of racist belief systems” and claimed that “Israel is especially useful because it serves as a laboratory for the development, testing and dissemination of techniques of surveillance and control… that enable the targeting of Black and brown people within the U.S.”
In an interview with the Cornell Sun from 2017, Rickford argued that “[the] colonial occupation of Palestine remains one of the world’s most visible campaigns of white supremacist violence”—an absurd accusation given that the majority of Jewish citizens of Israel are of Middle Eastern or North African descent.
Professor Rickford has half-heartedly attempted to apologize for his most heinous comments—those describing Hamas’s October 7 massacre as “exhilarating” and “energizing”—but one can be excused for doubting his sincerity. In the immediate backlash that followed these remarks, Rickford doubled down on his enthusiasm for Hamas’s brutality, only to later apologize “for the horrible choice of words,” which he described as “reprehensible.” It remains unclear whether the professor regrets not only his choice of words, but also his pro-Hamas sentiments and celebration of Israel’s potential annihilation.
As of the Fall 2024 semester, Rickford is back teaching at Cornell again, and the university has clarified that no disciplinary action was taken against him for his comments celebrating Hamas’s massacre of Israel’s Jews. Given Rickford’s long history of celebrating terrorism against the world’s only Jewish state and repetition of Hamas’s propaganda lies, a true change of heart seems unlikely.
#4: Huda Fakhreddine, University of Pennsylvania
An associate professor of Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Huda Fakhreddine has repeatedly voiced praise for the Jew-hating terrorist group Hamas and has specifically lauded their barbaric attack on innocent Israeli civilians on October 7th during which over 1200 were slaughtered and many more raped, mutilated, and taken hostage.
On October 7, 2023, just hours after this massacre, Fakhreddine tweeted in Arabic, “While we were asleep, Palestine invented a new way of life,” clearly celebrating the brutal slaughter of Israeli innocents.
A few days later on October 12, Fakhreddine doubled down on her warped view of the conflict, posting a “Statement of Solidarity with Palestine” which charged Israel with “sole responsibility” for Hamas’s October 7th massacre. The statement claimed that “The Palestinian resistance efforts”—note the whitewashing of mass rape and baby-killing as acts of “resistance”—“are a response to 75 years of occupation, colonization, and apartheid by the Israeli settler colonial regime.”
In a Facebook post one week later, Fakhreddine added: “When we chant, ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ we are calling for a one state, one person=one vote, where everyone living between the river and the sea is free and treated as a human being with rights and dignity. If some see freedom and equal rights for all as an existential threat, then they are the problem. No country should require oppression and apartheid to exist.”
As the anti-Semitism watchdog site Canary Mission notes, “‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free’ is a chant calling to dismantle the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state.” It is a genocidal call for the annihilation of Israel and the destruction of its entire Jewish population.
So extreme are Fakhreddine’s views that she rejects even the common pro-Palestine descriptor of Gaza as an “open-air prison,” tweeting that, “Gaza is not an open-air prison. Prisoners receive visitors and aid is allowed to be passed to them. Gaza is a Nazi-style concentration camp, a concentration camp under bombardment.” Fakhreddine’s comparison of Israel’s conduct to Hitler’s Nazi regime is a common and widely-used form of Jew hatred.
The professor has repeatedly made clear that she supports Hamas’s attack on innocent Israeli civilians. In a civil rights case filed in U.S. District Court, Jewish students at Penn allege that at a pro-Palestine rally on October 16, 2023, one speaker declared that “all settlers and all settlements are legitimate military targets and they will be targeted.” The same speaker also told Jewish students to “go back to Moscow, Brooklyn . . . fucking Berlin where you came from.” According to the case filing, “Professors, including Huda Fakhreddine, cheered the speaker on and clapped in approval.”
Last May, when students created an illegal pro-Hamas encampment on Penn’s campus, Professor Fakhreddine was on hand to support them. When university officials finally allowed city police to clear the encampment, Fakhreddine sided with the students who illegally occupied university land and claimed that students were “brutalized” by law enforcement. She further drew a parallel to the actions of Philadelphia and campus police and an instance from her childhood when Israeli military forces “invaded” her village in Lebanon.
Fakhreddine was one of the faculty organizers of the notoriously anti-Semitic Palestine Writes Literature Festival, held on campus in the fall of 2023. At that event, which brought many known Jew haters to Penn’s campus, Fakhreddine used the genocidal phrase “From the river, to the sea,” promoting the destruction of Israel and its Jewish population.
The professor also denied the well-established fact that the Jewish people have deep ancestral ties to the land of Israel, stating “And now, as Zionists continued to forcibly remove us from our homes, destroy and build over our ancestral villages, cemeteries and archaeological heritage. They have invented a stunning new tale of indigeneity [that is] propagated in popular culture throughout the West in particular.”
She also invoked anti-Semitic tropes that Jews control the media, stating “An open collaboration with Israel media continues to remove or shadow ban Palestinian content on social media, a phenomena that was verified by an independent investigation commissioned by Facebook itself that revealed unequivocal anti Palestinian bias. Financial platforms like PayPal have been pressured by Zionists to disallow Palestinians even the most mundane of transactions.”
Fakhreddine mocked concerns about the potential for anti-Semitism at the festival as “Hysterical and racist accusations that our presence here poses a threat to Jewish students on campus, making them feel unsafe and fearful of wearing their kippas” adding, “Again, this is an old, well worn colonial script of the violent, dark, irrational and savage native. Which I will not dignify with a response.”
In perhaps her most direct statement of Jew hatred, Fakhreddine alleged that “So many of us in this room have had to watch our elders die in refugee camps that aren’t fit for rodents, all so they [Jews] can have an extra country if they want, the violence of which is on full display on this campus every year when Zionists set up their so-called Birthright Trips propaganda tours to recruit young American Jews to become our colonizers, tormentors and Lords.”
For her outright and enthusiastic support for Hamas’s October 7 massacre targeting Jewish civilians in Israel and her well-documented record of anti-Semitism, Penn Professor Huda Fakhreddine deserves her place on the list of Hamas-loyalist professors.
#5: Joseph Massad, Columbia University
During the more than two decades that he has been teaching students at Columbia University, Joseph Massad, a professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History, has accumulated a reputation as a notorious Jew-hater and an ardent supporter of the terrorist group Hamas. Yet it was an essay describing Hamas’s barbaric October 7th massacre of innocent Israelis as “‘awesome,” “astonishing,” “astounding,” and “incredible” that finally forced the university to launch a half-hearted “investigation” into his behavior.
Massad’s long record of anti-Semitism is hardly up for debate. He denies the Jewish people’s historical connection to Israel, claiming absurdly that the very establishment of Israel as a Jewish homeland was anti-Semitic because it differentiated Jews from other “white Europeans.” He has maliciously slandered Israel as a “racist settler colony” and has compared the Jews to Hitler’s Nazi party. In a speech given at Oxford University in 2002, Massad denied that Israel had a right to exist, claiming “The Jews are not a nation… The Jewish state is a racist state that does not have a right to exist.” This is the language of Nazism.
Massad’s comments on the October 7th terror attacks should not have come as a shock to the Columbia administration as he has repeatedly indicated his support for Palestinian terrorism against Israel, stating in a 2002 lecture that Israel is “a Jewish supremacist and racist state” and adding that “[e]very racist state should be destroyed.”
“It is only by making the costs of Jewish supremacy too high that Israeli Jews will give it up,” Massad said in another address, a clear endorsement of terrorism. The professor has also declared that the “resistance of Palestinians”—“resistance” is a well-known euphemism for terrorism among the pro-Hamas set— must extend to Israel’s “civil institutions” and he has referred to Palestinian terrorists as “anti-colonial resisters.”
In a 2006 article titled “Pinochet in Palestine,” Massad described the terrorist organization Hamas as the only group prepared to “defend the rights of the Palestinians to resist the Israeli occupation.”
Massad also has a record of promoting and acting on his anti-Semitism in the classroom. He was one of several Columbia professor profiled in the 2004 film Columbia Unbecoming which was produced by the David Project. The film exposed Massad’s anti-Semitic commentary in the classroom and his intimidation of pro-Israel students. According to witnesses interviewed in the film, Massad asked a Jewish student who had formerly served in the Israeli Defense Forces, “How many Palestinians have you killed?” and he ordered a female student to leave his class because she asserted the indisputable fact that – unlike Palestinian terrorists – Israel warns Palestinian civilians before launching attacks. In 2011, another Jewish student reported that she was discouraged by a Barnard Professor from enrolling in Massad’s class because it might be “uncomfortable” for her—an indication that the professor’s Jew-hatred extends to the students in his classroom.
Massad’s extensive catalogue of written work provides ample evidence of his Jew hatred and his sympathy for Islamic terrorism directed against the Jewish state. In a May 2013 editorial for Al Jazeera titled “The Last of the Semites,” Massad falsely declared that Jewish claims to Israel as their homeland originated only during the Protestant Reformation and argued that Zionism itself is anti-Semitic and a policy promoted by the Nazis.
In the wake of Hamas’s barbaric attack on innocent Israeli civilians, Massad published an article calling the events of October 7th—events that included the rape and mutilation of women and the gruesome slaughter of children in front of their parents—“awesome” and “the stunning victory of the Palestinian resistance” against “cruel colonizers.”
”The sight of the Palestinian resistance fighters storming Israeli checkpoints separating Gaza from Israel was astounding,” Massad wrote. In a section subtitled “Jubilation and Awe,” he added, “No less awesome were the scenes witnessed by millions of jubilant Arabs who spent the day watching the news, of Palestinian fighters from Gaza breaking through Israel’s prison fence or gliding over it by air.”
Former Columbia President Minouche Shafik—who stepped down from her post in August after widespread criticism of her failure to confront pro-Hamas riots and encampments on campus—testified before Congress in April that Massad was “under investigation” and that she was personally “appalled” by his comments.
Yet when asked why Massad was still permitted to teach students after praising Hamas’s massacre, Shafik responded, “In his case, he has not repeated anything like that ever since,” leading Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to respond, “Does he need to repeat stating that the massacre of Israeli citizens was awesome?”
#6: Samer Alatout, UW-Madison:
Samer Alatout is a Palestinian associate professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at UW-Madison who has long been noted for his record of Jew hatred and his whitewashing of Hamas’s terrorist violence. In recent months, his promotion of Hamas has become even more explicit, praising the organizers of the barbaric October 7th attacks on Israeli civilians and participating in—and getting arrested—during an illegal anti-Israel demonstration on campus.
Just days after Hamas’s massacre of Israeli innocents, Alatout made his support for the terrorist organization clear, tweeting, that “Hamas fighters r precisely the kids & grandkids of those who were displaced from Palestine in 1948. They r the Palestinians if one comes to think of it. In refugee camps, they live legacies of that war and hold tight to the right of return (enshrined in international law).” While most leftist critics of Israel were attempting to draw a moral distinction between Hamas and the larger mass of Palestinian people, Alatout was doing precisely the opposite—and justifying the actions of Hamas.
In another tweet on October 13, 2023, Alatout attempted to absolve Hamas and blame Israel for the barbaric massacre of 1200 innocents and the kidnapping and maiming of many more. “…[I]t is not about Hamas, not about Gaza, and not about the recent attack by Hamas. Israel has been targeting Palestinians within Israel, in Gaza, in the West Bank, and in the Diaspora. The demand: Die silently, without a whimper,” he wrote.
Professor Alatout has repeatedly invoked the Holocaust in condemning Israel’s actions to defend itself from Hamas, a classic form of anti-Semitism. On November 15, 2023, Alatout tweeted, “#Israeli use of #Goebbels’s (the Nazi propaganda guy) approach of ‘lie, lie, and keep lying until people believe you,’ will not work in 2023.” Two days later, he compared Israelis to Holocaust deniers, tweeting, “Deniers of the ongoing #Genocide_of_Palestinians should be ashamed. They are made of the same moral depravity of which Holocaust deniers are made of.”
Alatout was one of the organizers of a letter to the UW-Madison administration titled “Criticism of Israel is not Antisemitic.” The letter was signed by over 230 faculty, staff, and graduate students at the university, and alleged that “harassment and intimidation of students who criticize Israel” was taking place on campus.
“We want to work with the university in order to figure out how to appropriately make the environment peaceful to protect the students, whether they are, of course, pro-Palestine or pro-Israel, or whoever it is, just to have a civil discourse,” Alatout said—a sentiment that appears in sharp contrast to his actual conduct which includes participating in an illegal and violent occupation on campus.
Profesor Alatout is fond of slinging false and demonizing accusations against Israel and its citizens. A picture accompanying an article about Alatout that was printed in the UW-Madison student newspaper, the Daily Cardinal, shows the professor lecturing before an audience of students and pointing to an enlarged image of the series of Hamas propaganda maps which falsely allege that Israel colonized and invaded the land of Palestine.
The professor has also alleged that Zionism is “a form of racism and racial discrimination” writing in a tweet that “Seeing the way #Israel commits a #genocidal war against Palestinians and the way so many #Zionists… seem to affirm their obvious repugnance towards all non-whites (within Israel or outside, against non-Jews as well as against Jews of color)…” The accusation of racism against Israel is a common form of Jew hatred and also utter nonsense, given that the majority of Jewish citizens of Israel are of Middle Eastern or North African descent.
As horrific as Alatout’s vocal declarations of support for Hamas are, they pale in comparison with his actions on campus which include participating in an illegal encampment which violated the civil rights of Jewish students at the public UW-Madison campus and engaging in a violent altercation with police who attempted to disband the protest.
Video of Alatout filmed and then tweeted by a local news channel on May 1, 2024, shows the professor pushing back against police officers arrayed with shields while chanting, “Disclose! Divest! We will not stop, we will not rest!”
The professor can also be seen in a second video taken on that same date during which he is being arrested by police who were attempting to disperse the illegal encampment that the pro-Hamas faction—including Alatout—had established on the Madison campus several days earlier in clear violation of university rules. While being arrested, Alatout yelled out, “Palestine will be free.”
Despite his violent and illegal conduct, Alatout claimed he was “targeted by police for violence” and blamed law enforcement for inflicting a gash on his forehead. “They pushed me into the ground,” Alatout told reporters. “They pushed me again and again and again.” Four law enforcement officers were also injured while clearing the encampment.
It is clear that Alatout has only himself and his unlawful conduct to blame for his injuries. “Every individual was given the opportunity to move away from the tent area and continue peaceful protest,” wrote UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin in a campuswide email. “I cannot emphasize strongly enough our support for free expression and peaceful protest.”
For his unrelenting support for Hamas and his frequently voiced Jew hatred, Professor Samuel Alatout deserves his place on the list of Hamas Loyalist Professors.
#7: Steven Thrasher, Northwestern University
Northwestern University Professor Steven Thrasher is a staunch ally to the pro-Hamas campus left at Northwestern who has engaged in illegal occupations of the Chicago campus and declared himself a “comrade” to the son of a Yemeni Houthi youth minister who shares his pro-Hamas sentiments openly on social media.
According to his biography on Northwestern’s website, Thrasher has the honor of being “the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg Chair of social justice in reporting (with an emphasis on issues relevant to the LGBTQ community) and an assistant professor of journalism.”
When an illegal encampment—the so-called “Gaza solidarity encampment”— was created on Northwestern’s campus last spring, Thrasher was front and center in defending the occupied campus zone against police and Zionist detractors.
“At Northwestern, he helped physically block police officers from entering the so-called encampment that the university said violated campus policy,” reports The College Fix. Thrasher gloated about his role defending the encampment and subduing law enforcement on X, stating, “We were successful. We locked arms and kept the police at bay. They retreated.”
During a speech given at that encampment, which he referred to as the “liberated zone,” Thrasher glibly shared a message from his “comrade” and twitter mutual Ahmed Hassan, the son of a Houthi youth minister (who was assassinated in 2020) who openly praises Hamas and the Iranian regime on social media.
Describing himself as “a young Yemeni man who lost his father due to his opposition to the Zionist regime” Hassan urged students to continue with their illegal campus riot. “You are the frontline defenders of humanity, not just in Gaza!” he said, in the message repeated to students by Professor Thrasher. “Gaza is just the beginning… Push the rock uphill… Swim against the current… If necessary, be the current itself! Be the rock… Be the mountain… But beware of retreat and surrender!”
While Hassan’s message to Northwestern students may not have mentioned Hamas directly, his social media is much more explicit. “May God be satisfied with Hamas,” he posted in Arabic recently, adding, “Hamas is winning.”
On April 6 Hassan posted, “Israel is losing. Soon enough, it will ask all the citizens to join the army[.] Hamas will end them all[.]”
Hassan has also posted in support of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, adorning his post with a heart emoji, and has shared images of the terror group’s flag.
This is the man that Professor Thrasher claims as a “comrade” and whose message he proudly shared with Northwestern’s student body.
After delivering Hassan’s message, Thrasher continued in his speech to praise the illegal occupation of Northwestern’s campus and to bash law enforcement.
“A colonial war of occupation is playing out on this lawn,” he told students, describing how he and other faculty members had “locked arms with you to keep the cops out.”
“Police officers do violence work on behalf of a ruling class that does not want you thinking internationally,” he continued, going on to praise the crowd for being “united against what bell hooks called ‘white supremacist capitalist, imperialist patriarchy.’”
Nor was Thrasher’s activism on behalf of Hamas limited to Northwestern’s campus. He described visiting “Columbia’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment” and his pride at the illegal actions of students at NYU, his alma mater, where he rejoiced that “Students have taken over Gould Plaza for a second time, turning it into NYU’s liberation zone” and “tore down a wall to do it.”
Thrasher has a long history of making statements and claims that appear to justify Hamas’s terrorism. “White supremacy and settler colonialism can NOT kill, maim and steal for decades (or even centuries) via genocidal violence and then expect patience and peace — ESPECIALLY when peaceful protest is met with economic, spiritual and literal death,” he posted on X on Oct. 9, 2023, just two days after Hamas’s brutal massacre of innocent Israeli civilians.
The professor has repeatedly compared Israel to Hitler’s Nazi regime, a classic anti-Semitic trope. “This is a genocide of the disabled people, too, who will suffocate on smoke,” he posted on X. “Who ARE suffocating to death right now. You know who else suffocated the disabled? The Nazis.”
Thrasher again invoked the Nazi’s in a blog post in which he compared Gaza to a Nazi concentration camp, stating, “we can feel compassion towards a desperate people stuck inside a Nazi concentration camp.” He claimed that if the Jews had been able to escape from Hitler’s concentration camps, they would have killed “anyone they found partying” –apparently a justification of Hamas’s October 7th massacre and hostage-taking at the Nova Music Festival.
In an article published in Mondoweiss, Thrasher repeated these sentiments, reflecting on a film about the Holocaust, and claiming:
If the Jews being shot and shoveled into ovens could just break through that wall, of course, they would kill anyone they found partying right on the other side of it! And, of course, they would take women and children hostage and drag them back into their hell inside if doing so would give them leverage to free their fellow Jews from torture and death!
This thought, of course, set in motion an obvious but taboo moral question in my mind about one of the most pressing matters of our time: Is it understandable why people in Gaza, similarly trapped behind a wall in a concentration camp and experiencing genocide, would kill or take hostage people they found partying on the other side of the wall holding them in?
For his unabashed defense of Hamas and the terror group’s massacre of innocent Israelis and his unrepentant anti-Semitism, Professor Steven Thrasher belongs high on the list of Hamas-loyalist professors.
#8: Noura Erakat, Rutgers University
As an associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Dr. Noura Erakat has repeatedly used her academic position and influence to promote the terrorist organization Hamas and to justify their barbaric massacre, mutilation, and rape of innocent Israeli Jews.
In a series of tweets issued on October 7th, a day of infamy in which Hamas terrorists slaughtered over 1200 Israel men, women and children, and brutalized and raped many others, taking hundreds of hostages, Dr. Erakat raised her voice to defend Hamas’s horrors.
“#Gaza has been under a naval blockade & land siege for 17 years & its 2 mil Palestinians subject to 4 large scale offensives,” Erakat tweeted. “Any shock in response to this multi scalar attack [by Hamas] reflects an expectation that those Palestinians die quietly and a complicity in their strangulation.”
On that same day of horrors, Erakat also tweeted: “Any condemnation of [Hamas] violence is vapid if it does not begin & end with a condemnation of Israeli apartheid, settler colonialism, and occupation. #Palestine #Gaza #Decolonize.”
In another tweet she claimed: “Israel does not have a Hamas problem or a Gaza problem, it has a Palestine problem. Even if Hamas were to disappear, Israel would continue its removal and a dispossession of Palestinians…”
In yet another post on October 7th, Erakat attempted to justify Hamas’s bloodletting as a “military tactic,” tweeting, “Civilians r taken hostage, soldiers r captured. This is a military tactic. ““Hamas has demanded release of all Palestinian political prisoners…”
As horrifying as Erakat’s October 7th tweets on behalf of Hamas are, they are hardly without precedent. The professor has a long record of condoning and even celebrating terrorism against the world’s only Jewish state.
In an article written in May 2023, Erakat honored Khader Adnan, a deceased senior member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another anti-Israel terror organization.
On May 15, 2023, Erakat wrote an article honoring the deceased Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist, Khader Adnan, who is on record encouraging suicide bombings, stating “Who among you will carry the next explosive belt? Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?”
This is the man who Erakat lauded in her article and in a tweet, writing, “#MustRead thread on #KhaderAdnan. A life of compassion and resistance. A reminder that the best of Palestinian leaders have been killed, imprisoned, exiled.”
Erakat has also gone to bat for another senior member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Khaleda Jarrar, who has been repeatedly arrested and jailed by Israel for such crimes as calling for the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers and involvement in a fatal 2018 bombing attack. Of this woman, Erakat tweeted: “Khaleda Jarrar is a long time #Palestinian leader, & an elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. #Apartheid Israel keeps imprisoning her w/o charge or trial & recently *convicted* her of membership in a political party [PFLP]…”
When Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad launched yet another major round of attacks against Israel in May 2021, firing over 4,300 rockets at major population centers, Erakat was quick to defend those actions and take the side of the terrorists. “When folks tell you the problem is Hamas rockets, remind them Zionist settler colonial expansionism is the cause not the effect…” she tweeted.
Erakat has repeatedly demonized Israel and propagated anti-Semitic blood libel tropes about the Jewish people. Writing just two weeks after the slaughter of over 1200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, Erakat tweeted, “Israel has dropped the equivalent of a nuclear bomb on 2.2 besieged Palestinians & achieved ZERO of its military objectives. / This is not a war on Hamas but a war on Palestinians & particularly children…#Gaza_Genicide.”
In a separate tweet from July 4, 2023, Erakat wrote, “Israel promises the very fascist future that threatens the whole world…no one is safe. #ApartheidIsrael #Fascism #SettlerColonial #DoNotNormalizeApartheid.”
And on May 13, 2022, the professor tweeted, “Our bodies are testimony to the reality of this racist, supremacist Zionist ideology. Its drive for a satellite state for settlement necessitates segregation, removal, dispossession, elimination through & by grotesque violence. Palestinians are among its most brutalized victims.”
Despite this laser-like focus on the alleged “grotesque violence” of Israeli Jews, Erakat has celebrated Palestinian and Hamas violence against Jewish citizens of Israel, repeatedly praising known terrorists and lauding Hamas for its October 7th attack. She deserves to be known as one of the leading Hamas-loyalist faculty members in the nation.
#9: Jairo Fúnez-Flores, Texas Tech University
Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education at Texas Tech University’s College of Teacher Education. According to the university’s website, “his research is situated at the intersections of sociocultural studies in education, curriculum studies, decolonial theory, and qualitative methodology”—but in recent months he has become better known for his rampant Jew hatred and seemingly unconditional support for the anti-Israel terror group Hamas.
On October 7, 2023, the date of Hamas’s barbaric slaughter of over 1200 innocent Israeli men, women, and children, Fúnez-Flores tweeted a quote from Palestinian poet Darren Tatour indicating his support for Hamas’s campaign of terror: “Resist, my people, resist them. In Jerusalem, I dressed my wounds and breathed my sorrows and carried the soul in my palm for an Arab Palestine. I will not succumb to the ‘peaceful solution,’ never lower my flags until I evict them from my land.”
He also shared another post that even more explicitly celebrated Hamas’s brutality as justified “resistance” and an act of “justice.” “Reclaiming your right to life is not terrorism—It’s self-determination. Resisting dehumanization, ethnic cleansing, and genocide—it’s justice,” stated the post. “Palestinians didn’t choose to take up arms, they were forced to do so by those who came and stole their land from them.” Naturally, Fúnez-Flores failed to mention that the Palestinians have repeatedly refused generous offers to provide them a state of their own, since it would mean co-existing with the Jewish state of Israel.
Lest his prior tweets were not clear enough, the Jew-hating professor added another message calling for the annihilation of the state of Israel: “PALESTINIAN MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE IN PEACE AND WITH DIGNITY IN THEIR OWN LAND. THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN AS LONG AS THE SETTLER COLONIAL STATE OF ISRAEL EXISTS,” he wrote (caps in original).
In the days and months following October 7th, as more and more horrific details emerged from the massacre were made public, Fúnez-Flores doubled down on his support for Hamas and his desire to see Israel wiped off the map.
In a November 2023 article posted to Substack, Fúnez-Flores condemned “Israel’s colonial project of death” and portrayed the world’s only Jewish state as emblematic of the entire apparatus of colonialism, writing, “I try to make visible the connections between the settler colonial state of Israel and the crucial role it has played and continues to play in reproducing coloniality not only in Palestine but across the world through the exportation of technologies of colonial violence.” He also praised “Palestinians and Indigenous peoples everywhere” for their “fight for, despite the incredible odds to build a world free of colonial domination, dispossession, and capitalist exploitation.”
In a profanity-laced and vitriolic tweet posted in January, Fúnez-Flores wrote, “F—k Israel & its supporters. F—k those who remain silent! F—k academia! F—k colonial apologists. F—k those who stop humanitarian aid! F—k the liberal “nuances”! F—k Biden! F—k everyone who says it’s not a genocide! F—k those who disregard the suffering of the Palestinians!”
The professor also joined 97 other academics in signing an open letter to the American Education Studies Association (AESA) which contained statements echoing ancient blood libel accusations against the Jews and Israel, a form of anti-Semitism going back to the Middle Ages. “Israel is a settler colonial project, whose explicit goal is the systematic killing and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians,” it claimed, painting the Jewish state and people as bloodthirsty psychopaths.
Fúnez-Flores also scolded other academics for failing to condemn Israel’s defensive war against Hamas as genocide, tweeting, “Every university and academic organization that stays silent about this is also complicit.”
Following months of anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas remarks, Texas Tech University briefly suspended Fúnez-Flores last spring, only to lift the suspension after concluding that his comments, while anti-Semitic and offensive, did not violate the university’s policy against discriminatory harassment. The professor was allowed to return to the classroom and instruct the next generation in the importance of “decolonization” and “resistance.”
#10: Jeffrey McCully, Moraine Valley Community College
Professor Jeffrey McCully has taught sociology at Moraine Valley Community College, located in Palos Hills, Illinois, since 2012. By most accounts, McCully is a popular and well-respected educator at the Community College. In 2018, he was awarded the “Embracing Diversity Award” by his college for “champion[ing] not only LGBTQ+ causes, but those of the numerous minorities on campus.” But over the past year a very different aspect of the professor’s belief system has surfaced—his support for Hamas and his promotion of the terror organization’s propaganda in his classroom.
In January of 2024, Moraine Valley posted a video featuring Professor McCully to its TikTok and Instagram accounts. The purpose of the video was ostensibly to highlight McCully’s teaching style and his respect for diversity.
“I really do my best to really create a welcoming environment for my students in class,” McCully states in the short video. “I want my students to feel safe, feel valued and feel understood, and like that they have a place here, that they belong here, because they do.”
What was overlooked by the College—or perhaps not—was the extensive display of pro-Hamas and pro-Palestinian propaganda showcased behind the professor during the video clip.
Images from the video show a banner composed of triangular Palestinian flags draped across the wall of McCully’s classroom alongside several other large rectangular posters supporting Palestine and Hamas.
One of the posters visible on the wall states the genocidal pro-Hamas slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a call for the elimination of the Jewish state and the extermination of its Jews.
According to the website, StopAntisemitism.org, which reposted the video clip, that poster also contains the hashtag “#AlAqsaFlood” which “was the Hamas operation official name for the 10/7 Israel massacre.”
To put it in the clearest language possible, McCully has a poster hanging in his college classroom that not only calls for the elimination of Israel and the genocide of the Jewish people, but further supports Hamas’s barbaric October 7, 2023 massacre, rape, and mutilation of over 1200 innocent Israeli Jews.
“It is horrifying to see Jeffrey McCully promoting violence in his classroom @morainevalley!” concludes StopAntisemitism.org. The fact that McCully’s video was intended to highlight his inclusive teaching style and his desire for his “students to feel safe, feel valued and feel understood” only adds to the irony.
“He states ‘I want my students to feel safe,’” notes StopAntisemitism.org in their post. “His Jewish students feel anything but.”
StopAntisemitism’s post about McCully swiftly went viral and the professor was placed on administrative leave for one day—allegedly to protect his mental health—before being allowed back into his classroom. Moraine Valley did remove the video from its social media feeds, but it is still available at StopAntisemitism.org. The College has not commented on the appropriateness of McCully’s classroom décor celebrating Hamas’s October 7th massacre.
For his blatant use of pro-Hamas propaganda celebrating the massacre of Jews in his classroom, Professor Jeffrey McCully belongs on the list of Hamas Loyalist Professors.