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.

Thea Abu El-Haj
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Thea Abu El-Haj is a professor at Barnard College with a history of promoting extremist rhetoric and supporting radical movements. She has used her academic platform to push anti-Semitic narratives, justify hostility against Jewish students, and endorse the dangerous Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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Huda Fakhreddine
📍 Philadelphia
🗺️ Pennsylvania
🏫 University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
Huda Fakhreddine is a University of Pennsylvania professor whose role in the Palestine Writes Festival, support for campus protests and encampments, statements in support of October 7th, and opposition to congressional antisemitism investigations have made her one of Penn's most controversial faculty activists.
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Gregory Pflugfelder
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Associate Professor of Japanese History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, Gregory Pflugfelder has publicly expressed support for initiatives led by extremist organizations opposing Jewish communities. His actions and affiliations raise serious concerns about fostering environments that support division, antisemitism, and potentially harmful rhetoric on university campuses.
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David Kazanjian
📍 Philadelphia
🗺️ Pennsylvania
🏫 University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
David Kazanjian, a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), has aligned himself with campaigns and events that have promoted antisemitism and created hostility on campus. His endorsements and public positions have raised serious concerns about his role in normalizing extremist rhetoric in academia.
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Rudy Martinez
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 New York University (NYU)
Rudy Martinez is a radical anti-Israel activist with a history of supporting terrorism, spreading anti-Semitic rhetoric, and engaging in unlawful protests that have led to his arrest.
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