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.

Ann Douglas
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Ann Douglas, Parr Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, has aligned herself with anti-Israel activism through repeated faculty petitions and public endorsements of campaigns targeting Jewish institutions. Her record places her among Columbia faculty who have openly supported initiatives that vilify Israel and provide cover for antisemitic activity on campus.
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Wayne Proudfoot
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Wayne Proudfoot, a professor emeritus of religion at Columbia University, actively aligned himself with antisemitic activism on campus and justified Hamas terrorism after the October 7, 2023 massacre.
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Patricia Dailey
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Patricia Dailey is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has aligned herself with faculty and student groups at Columbia that have taken part in some of the university’s most hostile campaigns against Israel and its supporters.
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Danny Shaw
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Danny Shaw, a professor, expressed support for terrorism, spread antisemitism, and promoted hatred of Israel during Israel’s war with Hamas in late 2023 and early 2024. He participated in the pro-Hamas encampment at Columbia University in April 2024 and was fired from his university teaching position that same month. In February 2024, Shaw also published an anti-Israel book titled This Is Genocide!: Forty-eight Poems for Gaza.
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Bennet Wilcox (Jonah Ben Avraham)
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Bennet Wilcox, also known as Jonah Ben Avraham, is a Columbia University graduate who has promoted violent “intifada” rhetoric, supported anti-Israel agitators, demonized Israel, and expressed hostility toward Zionists. While at Columbia, he was involved with Barnard Columbia Socialists and later continued his activism with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).
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Lissy Romanow
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Lissy Romanow is a co-founder of IfNotNow (INN) who has been arrested while supporting disruptive protesters, joined an anti-Israel activist trip, attended an event that repurposed Jewish rituals, and promoted narratives demonizing Israel. As a national leader of INN, Romanow was complicit in the group’s decision to partner with American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), an organization widely criticized for antisemitic activity.
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Maytha Alhassen
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🗺️ South Carolina
🏫
Maytha Alhassen has repeatedly aligned herself with terrorists, extremist agitators, and anti-Israel groups. From promoting Rasmea Odeh and Marwan Barghouti as “freedom fighters” to partnering with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Dream Defenders (DD), and the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), Alhassen has built her reputation on excusing terrorism and spreading propaganda.
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Peter Feld
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Peter Feld openly celebrated Hamas’s October 7, 2023 terror attacks and later attended a New York rally supporting the atrocities. By framing mass murder and kidnappings as “victory” and “resistance,” Feld promoted extremist propaganda that glorified terrorism and normalized antisemitic violence.
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Gray Tuttle
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Gray Tuttle, a professor at Columbia University, signed a faculty statement that justified the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians. By framing mass murder, rape, kidnappings, and torture as “resistance,” Tuttle aligned himself with a campus narrative that excused terrorism in the immediate aftermath of atrocities.
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Lisa Fithian
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
In April 2024, professional agitator Lisa Fithian instructed anti-Israel activists at Columbia University’s illegal “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” She was filmed coaching protesters as they barricaded themselves inside an academic building. Fithian told them: “You can tie it right to the lock!” while activists zip-tied doors and blocked entrances. She also stood alongside protesters chanting: “Israel is a terrorist state!”
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Avery Reed
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
In April 2024, Avery Reed was arrested at Columbia University’s illegal pro-Hamas “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” She was one of 114 protesters detained by the NYPD and charged with trespassing when the encampment was dismantled.
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Saham Ali
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Saham Ali used her Columbia University commencement speech to spread anti-Israel propaganda, call for amnesty for students who vandalized campus property and occupied buildings, and endorse a coalition tied to pro-terror campus activism. Her speech came just weeks after Columbia’s “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” was dismantled for violence, intimidation, and antisemitic harassment.
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