Individuals

An increasingly hostile campus environment doesn’t just magically happen. Behind the encampment protests and the sometimes-violent university occupations are people driving the conversation. Activist Tracker maintains a growing database of individual case files documenting the faculty members, students, activists, and public figures shaping campus discourse around radical ideology, hostile activism, terror, and antisemitism.

Each entry lays out what these individuals are actually doing on campus: the petitions they sign, the demonstrations they support, the statements they make, the organizations they lead, and the social media posts they proudly put out into the world.

Jonathan Tuttle

📍 Cambridge

🗺️ Massachusetts

🏫 Harvard University (Harvard)

Jonathan Tuttle was a Harvard University librarian who used his staff position to engage in extremist activism on campus. A founding signatory of Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP), Tuttle became known for openly promoting radical anti-Zionist rhetoric, defending disruptive protests, and endorsing chants that justify violence.

Dina Khoury

📍 # District of Columbia

🗺️ District of Columbia

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Dina Rizk Khoury is a Lebanese-American historian and Guggenheim Fellow (2007). She serves as Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University and has held influential leadership roles in academic associations.

Charles Gelman

📍 New York City

🗺️ New York

🏫 New York University (NYU)

Charles Gelman, a lecturer at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, came under public scrutiny after an incident in December 2023 in which he was filmed tearing down a poster that raised awareness of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas. The act drew outrage as it dismissed the suffering of innocent hostages, including women and children, taken during Hamas’s October 7 terror attacks. By framing his actions as a response to “75 years of Israeli occupation,” Gelman directly targeted Jewish identity and history, while undermining the reality of Hamas’s crimes.

Rebecca Karl

📍 New York City

🗺️ New York

🏫 New York University (NYU)

Rebecca E. Karl, a professor in the Department of History at New York University (NYU), has repeatedly aligned herself with anti-Israel activism on campus. Through petitions, public letters, and faculty initiatives, she has defended controversial student actions, demonized Israel, and lent her support to disgraced academics who spread antisemitic rhetoric. Her record reflects a pattern of normalizing hostility toward Jewish students under the banner of political activism.

Samantha Jaser

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🗺️ New York

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Samantha Jaser, a former New York University (NYU) official, has been directly tied to spreading antisemitism and promoting dangerous conspiracy theories in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 terror attacks. Her public statements on social media denied Hamas atrocities, recycled antisemitic tropes, and fueled hostility on campus at a time when Jewish students already faced a climate of fear and intimidation.

Mary Nolan

📍 New York City

🗺️ New York

🏫 New York University (NYU)

Mary Nolan is a professor in the Department of History at New York University (NYU). Her record of activism shows repeated alignment with campus movements that have normalized antisemitism and created hostile environments for Jewish students.

Angela Zito

📍 New York City

🗺️ New York

🏫 New York University (NYU)

Angela Zito, an associate professor in the Department of Arts & Science at New York University (NYU), has used her platform to align with anti-Israel narratives and support faculty activism that undermines Jewish safety on campus. Rather than condemning Hamas terrorism after the October 7, 2023 massacre, Zito signed onto statements that shifted blame onto Israel and legitimized disruptive encampments that targeted Jewish students.

Fred Moten

📍 New York City

🗺️ New York

🏫 New York University (NYU)

Frederick Charles Moten, a professor and associate chair of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, has a long record of demonizing Israel, endorsing boycotts, and aligning with groups that excuse or glorify terrorism. He is also listed as a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in English at the University of California, Riverside.

Eve Tuck

📍 New York City

🗺️ New York

🏫 New York University (NYU)

Eve Tuck is an Associate Professor of Critical Race and Indigenous Studies at NYU and director of a new Indigenous Studies center. She has faced criticism for defending Palestinian “resistance” in the immediate aftermath of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 massacre, signing statements that demonize Israel, and lending academic legitimacy to rhetoric that has been used to excuse terrorism.

Sonya Posmentier

📍 New York City

🗺️ New York

🏫 New York University (NYU)

Sonya Posmentier is an Associate Professor of English at NYU who has repeatedly used her position to defend pro-Palestinian activism on campus, sign statements framing Israel as an aggressor, and dismiss concerns about antisemitic harassment. Her activism has included public speeches, signatures on petitions, and direct participation in protests that disrupted campus life.

Amin Husain

📍 New York City

🗺️ New York

🏫 New York University (NYU)

Amin Husain is a New York–based adjunct educator and activist who organized and promoted disruptive, often violent actions in NYC while aligning with movements that deny or excuse terror against Israelis. NYU suspended him on January 25, 2024; the New School says he has not been affiliated since 2019. He has taught part-time at NYU’s Gallatin School and Pratt Institute.

Helga Tawil-Souri

📍 New York City

🗺️ New York

🏫 New York University (NYU)

Helga Tawil-Souri is a professor at New York University whose career combines scholarship with open pro-Palestinian activism. Through her writing, conferences, and direct participation in encampments, she has repeatedly accused Israel of genocide, denied its security concerns, and endorsed boycotts that target Israeli institutions.

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