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.

Image of Rutgers professor Noura Erakat
Noura Erakat
📍 New Brunswick
🗺️ New Jersey
🏫 Rutgers University (Rutgers)
Noura Erakat is a Rutgers Associate Professor who has, in her academic authority, justified Hamas terrorism, spread unsubstantiated claims as fact before the United Nations, and used antisemitic Holocaust inversion rhetoric.
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Image of Harvard professor Vijay Iyer
Vijay Iyer
📍 Cambridge
🗺️ Massachusetts
🏫 Harvard University (Harvard)
Vijay Iyer is a Harvard professor, musician, and Pulitzer Board member whose repeated support for anti-Israel petitions, protest encampments, and faculty activism networks places him among the academics helping drive campus anti-Israel campaigns in the United States.
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Image of Stanford professor Robert Crews
Robert Crews
📍 Stanford
🗺️ California
🏫 Stanford University
Robert Crews is a Stanford history professor with a focus in Islamic studies whose public record includes anti-Israel petitions, support for campus divestment campaigns, essays accusing Israel of war crimes, and social media posts criticizing Israeli military actions.
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Image of Stanford University professor Marci Kwon
Marci Kwon
📍 Stanford
🗺️ California
🏫 Stanford University
Marci Kwon is a Stanford art history professor and co-director of the Asian American Art Initiative who has signed faculty letters condemning Israel and opposing federal investigations into antisemitism on university campuses.
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Image of Stanford University professor Priya Satia
Priya Satia
📍 Stanford
🗺️ California
🏫 Stanford University
Priya Satia is a Stanford history professor whose public record includes support for BDS, essays framing Israel as a colonial project, and criticism of federal antisemitism investigations, raising questions about bias in the classroom.
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Portrait of Stanford professor Patricia Alessandrini
Patricia Alessandrini
📍 Stanford
🗺️ California
🏫 Stanford University
Patricia Alessandrini is a Stanford CCRMA composer with a nearly 20-year record of signing cultural and academic boycott petitions targeting Israel and amplifying genocide accusations during the Gaza war after October 2023.
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Image of Mrigender Singh Virk of Stanford Hospital
Mrigender Singh Virk
📍 Stanford
🗺️ California
🏫 Stanford University
Mrigender Singh Virk is a Stanford-affiliated pathologist who signed Faculty for Justice in Palestine petitions accusing Israel of genocide and supported academic boycotts, while amplifying similar claims, as well as parroting antisemitic conspiracy theories, on social media.
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Ali Raza Khaki of Stanford
Ali Raza Khaki
📍 Stanford
🗺️ California
🏫 Stanford University
Ali Raza Khaki is a Stanford medical oncologist who has publicly criticized Israel on social media, repeatedly describing the Gaza war as “genocide.” He also signed a petition urging Stanford Medicine to formally condemn Israel and divest. This profile examines his anti-Israel posting, activism, and what it means for professional neutrality at Stanford.
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Image of Stanford University School of Medicine faculty Ala Soofian
Ala Soofian
📍 Stanford
🗺️ California
🏫 Stanford University
Ala Soofian is a Stanford-affiliated pediatrician whose name appears on multiple petitions accusing Israel of genocide and urging sanctions, divestment, and U.S. arms embargoes. Her activism timeline and its implications within Stanford’s medical community are outlined here.
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Image of Stanford professor Usha Iyer
Usha Iyer
📍 Stanford
🗺️ California
🏫 Stanford University
Usha Iyer is a Stanford Film and Media Studies professor who has endorsed academic boycotts of Israel, signed BDS-aligned petitions and anti-Israel letters, and hosted campus programming framing Zionism as oppressive. This profile examines how her activism could conflict with her academic role at Stanford University.
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Image of Stanford professor Vaughn Rasberry
Vaughn Rasberry
📍
🗺️ California
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Vaughn Rasberry is a Stanford professor and Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education who has publicly supported the BDS movement, and shared posts accusing Israel of apartheid and genocide and denying its right to exist. His record raises questions about whether academic neutrality exists on Stanford's campus.
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Image of Sharika Thiranagama wearing a scarf
Sharika Thiranagama
📍
🗺️ California
🏫
Sharika Thiranagama is a Stanford University anthropology professor and Director of Graduate Studies who has publicly backed pro-Palestinian activism, signed letters accusing Israel of genocide, and supported BDS-aligned efforts. As a member of Faculty for Justice in Palestine, her activism raises real questions about bias, influence, and how politics shapes leadership inside Stanford’s graduate programs.
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