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.

Joseph Massad

📍 New York City

🗺️ New York

🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)

Joseph Massad, a professor at Columbia University, has become one of the most outspoken defenders of Hamas and an enabler of extremist rhetoric in elite academia. His lectures, writings, and activism routinely cross the line from political critique into open justification of terrorism, fostering hostility on campus and leaving Jewish students exposed to intimidation.

Nadia Abu-El-Haj

📍 New York City

🗺️ New York

🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)

Nadia Abu-El-Haj, a professor at Columbia University and co-director of the Center for Palestine Studies, has built her academic reputation not on impartial scholarship, but on historical distortion, radical activism, and the promotion of extremist ideologies. Through her writings, public statements, and direct participation in disruptive campus movements, she has played a key role in fueling antisemitism and legitimizing hostility on campus.

Rashid Khalidi

📍 New York City

🗺️ New York

🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)

Rashid Khalidi, a professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University, has played an active role in normalizing antisemitism and supporting radical movements on campus. His participation in the pro-Hamas encampment at Columbia in May 2024 and his repeated public statements justifying terrorist violence have contributed to a hostile environment for Jewish students.

Joseph Slaughter

📍 New York City

🗺️ New York

🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)

Joseph Slaughter, an associate professor at Columbia University, has played an active role in supporting disruptive campus protests that fueled hostility and antisemitism. His participation in the pro-Hamas encampment at Columbia in April 2024 and his defense of students suspended for their involvement raise serious concerns about his influence on campus. In addition to his faculty position in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Slaughter serves as the executive director of Columbia’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR), a role that gives his activism added weight within the university.

Shayoni Mitra

📍 New York City

🗺️ New York

🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)

Shayoni Mitra, a senior lecturer in the Department of Theatre at Barnard College (part of Columbia University), has been an active supporter of the pro-Hamas encampments at Columbia in 2024. She openly aligned herself with disruptive and unlawful campus protests, supported anti-Israel faculty actions, and expressed hostility toward law enforcement. Mitra is affiliated with Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine-CBT (FSJP-CBT) and a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Nour Joudah

📍 Los Angeles

🗺️ California

🏫 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Nour Joudah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at UCLA whose record includes pro-Palestinian activism, comments supporting October 7th, support for campus encampments, and ties to Faculty for Justice in Palestine and the Foundation for Middle East Peace.

Alithia Zamantakis

📍 Evanston/Chicago

🗺️ Illinois

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Alithia Zamantakis is a Research Assistant Professor in Medical Social Science who has actively engaged in radical anti-Israel activism. She participated in illegal campus encampments, spread antisemitic rhetoric, and repeatedly glorified terrorists while framing Israel as an apartheid and genocidal regime.

Homa Zarghamee

📍 New York City

🗺️ New York

🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)

Homa Zarghamee is a Professor and Department Chair in Barnard College’s Department of Economics. She has used her position of authority to legitimize and promote anti-Israel activism on campus, directly encouraging students to engage with events and rhetoric tied to Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP) and its allies.

Yogita Goyal

📍 Los Angeles

🗺️ California

🏫 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Yogita Goyal is a Professor in the Department of English at UCLA, where she also teaches African American Studies. She has repeatedly aligned herself with pro-Palestinian protests on campus, defended disruptive encampments, and criticized UCLA leadership and police responses to student demonstrations. Through her public statements, petitions, and protest participation, Goyal has promoted rhetoric that ignores the antisemitic hostility tied to these encampments while lending faculty legitimacy to disruptive and inflammatory activism.

Koh Choon Hwee

📍 Los Angeles

🗺️ California

🏫 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Koh Choon Hwee is an assistant professor of Ottoman history at UCLA. Beyond her academic work, she has repeatedly aligned herself with anti-Israel activism on campus and on social media. Koh has openly supported student encampments, reposted material from terrorist-linked figures and organizations, and shared content glorifying groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah—both of which are designated terrorist organizations by the United States and many other countries.

Saree Makdisi

📍 Los Angeles

🗺️ California

🏫 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Saree Makdisi is a professor at UCLA and an outspoken critic of Israel. He is affiliated with FSJP-UCLA and has been directly involved in campus protests, most notably supporting the encampments in 2024. His body of work and public statements consistently frame Israel as an apartheid state, promote radical one-state solutions, and downplay or distort antisemitism on campus.

Graeme Blair

📍 Los Angeles

🗺️ California

🏫 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Graeme Blair is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at UCLA and a prominent member of Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP-UCLA). He has played a leading role in defending pro-Palestinian protests on campus, repeatedly aligning himself with student activists, the encampments, and actions that created a hostile environment for Jewish students.

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