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.

Saskia Sassen
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Saskia Sassen is a Columbia University sociologist whose academic work on globalization and urban systems has been repeatedly intertwined with sustained public advocacy against Israel, including framing Israeli military actions as genocidal and portraying Gaza as a testing ground for urban warfare.
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Sumaita Mulk
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Sumaita Mulk is a Columbia Law School student activist who served as a public spokesperson and organizer for Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition formed to pressure Columbia University to reinstate suspended anti Israel campus groups and advance BDS aligned demands during the post October 7 campus unrest.
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Tajee Bounds
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Tajee Bounds is an activist who led and organized protest activity tied to the Columbia University Apartheid Divest coalition during the April 2024 campus unrest, including demonstrations that escalated into the illegal occupation of Hamilton Hall and mass arrests by the NYPD.
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Anthony Zenkus
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
for BDS, and Participation in Pro-Hamas Campus Protests Anthony Zenkus is a senior lecturer at Columbia University’s School of Social Work who publicly spread anti-Israel rhetoric, minimized the threat posed by Hamas, and participated in the pro-Hamas encampment at Columbia during Israel’s war with Hamas following the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks.
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Zainab Khan
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Zainab Khan is a Columbia University graduate student and activist affiliated with pro terror and anti Israel coalitions who has publicly supported extremist slogans, endorsed violent campaigns, and participated in organizing efforts seeking to reinstate suspended campus groups tied to radical activism. Her record includes involvement with CUAD, Within Our Lifetime, and professional ties to the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights.
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Najam Iftikhar Haider
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Senior Faculty Role, Pro-Palestinian Activism, and Defense of Hamas-Aligned Campus Movements Najam Iftikhar Haider is the chair and a professor in the Department of Religion at Columbia University whose public record includes sustained anti-Israel activism, support for Hamas-aligned campus groups, defense of student protest language following October 7, and backing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement during Israel’s war against Hamas.
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Thahiya Hassan
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Barnard College (Barnard)
Thahiya Hassan is a Barnard College undergraduate who has repeatedly used social media and direct action to promote extreme anti Zionist rhetoric, explicit calls for violence, and participation in unlawful campus activity. Her public record includes antisemitic slurs, endorsement of violent slogans, and direct involvement in the illegal takeover and barricading of Hamilton Hall during the Columbia University protests.
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Sueda Polat
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Columbia University (Columbia)
Sueda Polat is a Columbia University student who played a central organizing, negotiating, and spokesperson role in the April–May 2024 pro-Hamas encampment at Columbia, publicly defending the occupation of campus property, endorsing confrontations with police, and promoting the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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Stephen Coffey
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🗺️ New York
🏫
Insertion of Political Indoctrination into Columbia Astronomy Course Materials Stephen Coffey is a Columbia University graduate student and teaching assistant in the Department of Astronomy who was found in January 2025 to have inserted political and ideological content into course materials for an undergraduate astronomy lab, in violation of university policy and departmental guidance.
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Siraj Ahmed CUNY professor faculty Hamas Terror support
Siraj Ahmed
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
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Public Expression of Support for Hamas at CUNY Event
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Raphael Rouquier
📍 Los Angeles
🗺️ California
🏫 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Raphael Rouquier is a UCLA mathematics professor and Academic Senate legislator who has repeatedly leveraged his academic standing to advance political activism. Through public criticism of university leadership, participation in Palestine focused protests, and sustained ideological messaging on social media, he has framed campus enforcement and governance as repression while minimizing the safety concerns tied to protest escalation.
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Severin Fowles
📍 New York City
🗺️ New York
🏫 Barnard College (Barnard)
Mediation Role During Barnard Building Occupation and Violent Sit-In
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