NOTE: This is the second time today we're reporting on this (scroll down for the earlier piece). Let's hope this stays front and center. We added her to our AntiSemite watch list, too.
SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – AMCHA Initiative, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Zionist Organization of America, on Wednesday, March 26, wrote to San Francisco State University (SFSU) President Leslie Wong urging him to investigate a recent event held by SFSU Professor Rabab Abdulhadi where she and others glorified and condoned terrorism to SFSU students. AMCHA Initiative coordinated the letter after obtaining an audiotape of the March 6 event. According to eye-witness accounts, Jewish students were in tears following the meeting.
“This is the same professor who was the faculty advisor to the SFSU knife-wielding student investigated by the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force,” said UCSC Professor Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, AMCHA cofounder. “Is she trying to recruit new soldiers from the SFSU student body?”
“A professor promoting terrorism to impressionable students?,” asked UCLA Professor Leila Beckwith, AMCHA cofounder. “This is dangerous.”
Abdulhadi is SFSU Ethnic Studies Professor and Director of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative (AMED). AMED sponsored the event last fall where students could make posters that said, “My Heroes Have Always Killed Colonizers,” meaning Jews, and images of the convicted hijacker Leila Khaled holding a gun. Abdulhadi was also the faculty advisor to Mohammad Hamad, the SFSU student shown wielding a knife on social media with the caption, “I love this blade…it makes me want to stab an Israeli soldier” and publicly threatened SFSU Jewish students, Israelis and supporters of Israel. CLICK HERE TO KEEP READING
