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Editor’s note: American campuses are awash in a crisis of Jew hatred. Ineffectual college administrators have taken tentative steps to try and rein in the proponents of terror on their campuses, but they have yet to confront the most obvious source of this poisonous Jew hatred—their own radical faculty who have not only called for an end to Israel but have outright celebrated the barbaric bloodshed of the terror group Hamas.
The Freedom Center is exposing these radical, pro-terror faculty as the Top Ten Hamas Loyalist Professors. We will be publishing one school per day as a series on Frontpage. Hatem Bazian, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California-Berkeley, is #2 on our list.
#2: Hatem Bazian, University of California-Berkeley
Any list of Hamas Loyalist Professors would be incomplete without the inclusion of Berkeley Professor Hatem Bazian. A Palestinian immigrant from Nablus in the West Bank, Bazian has spent his entire academic career, since his days as a graduate student, founding and growing a jihadist, Jew-hating superstructure within America. As a co-founder of both Students for Justice in Palestine, the campus hate group responsible for the majority of the pro-Hamas riots and encampments that disrupted campus life over the past year, and American Muslims for Palestine, a front group that exists to funnel money to Hamas, Bazian is a key player in the pro-terror campus left.
Speaking at a public rally on October 8, 2023, one day after Hamas militants murdered, raped, and mutilated over 1200 innocent Israeli Jews, Bazian lauded the massacre as a “transformation.”
“I wanted to contextualize what is taking place today in Palestine,” he explained, stating “When the colonized take matters into their own hands…a new man is born” and jubilantly declaring “What is taking place today is a transformation.”
Professor Bazian also shamed fellow Jew-hating academic Cornel West for calling the Palestinian violence “barbaric,” yelling “Shame on you, Cornel! Shame on you!” to cheering from the crowd.
Speaking at another pro-Hamas rally in Washington, DC on October 21, Bazian, addressing Americans and Israelis, again celebrated the events of October 7th: “You have lost the war! You have lost the war! There is the history before October 7th and there is the history today! We are not going back to pre-October 7th! And we’re not gonna stop!”
The professor also denied the details of Hamas’s atrocities, posting on Twitter that “Biden lied about seeing photos of beheaded babies…”
Bazian’s rhetoric, and the Jew-hating organizations that he founded, had a vast impact in spreading pro-Hamas activism across the nation. Just days after Hamas’s October 7 attack, the national Students for Justice in Palestine organization, which Bazian co-founded, published a toolkit to ensure that its campus chapters stayed unified in their Jew-hating, genocidal rhetoric. The pro-Hamas toolkit called the October 7 slaughter a “historic win” and used positive euphemisms to describe the mass-murder of men, women, and children, calling it “the Palestinian resistance [that] stormed the illegitimate border fence.”
According to the Canary Mission, an anti-Semitism watchdog group, “The kit featured flyers with images of hang-gliders (one of the methods Hamas terrorists used to get over the border fence) and characterized all Israeli civilians as ‘settlers,’ and thus legitimate targets.”
Students for Justice in Palestine was the premier organization promoting anti-Jewish violence on college campuses over the past year and organizing pro-terror events calling for a worldwide intifada and a genocide of the Jews.
Bazian has a long record of promoting terrorist violence extending back over the past two decades. At a 2004 anti-war rally in San Francisco, Bazian called for an Intifada, or violent uprising, in America, stating, “Well, we’ve been watching [an] Intifada in Palestine, we’ve been watching an uprising in Iraq, and the question is that what are we doing? How come we don’t have an Intifada in this country?… it’s about time that we have an Intifada in this country that change[s] fundamentally the political dynamics in here. And we know … they’re gonna say some Palestinian [is] being too radical. Well, you haven’t seen radicalism yet!”
In July 2017, Bazian retweeted an anti-Semitic meme which plays on classic tropes of Jewish blood libel and also compares Jews to the Nazis. The meme was originally tweeted by infamous anti-Semite Ron Hughes, whose account Bazian follows. It featured a photo of a man presumed to be Jewish, with Hasidic style curls, with the quoted statement: “MOM LOOK! I IS CHOSEN! I CAN NOW KILL, RAPE, SMUGGLE ORGANS & AND STEAL THE LAND OF PALESTINIANS YAY ASHKE-NAZI.”
Bazian has promoted the idea of a world Jewish conspiracy, telling student protestors on one occasion to “look at the Jewish names on the school buildings,” and adding, “Take a look at the type of names on the buildings around campus — Haas, Zellerbach — and decide who controls this university.” He has also called the U.S. Congress “an Israeli-occupied territory” and has suggested that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) controls U.S. foreign policy.
He has also repeatedly denied the Jewish people’s historic connection to the land of Israel, writing in a 2014 article published in the Harvard International Review that much of ancient Jewish history in the land of Israel is a “mythical past” and that Jews are a group that is a “historical passer-by in the land.”
The Jew-hating professor has repeatedly defended the anti-Israel terror group Hamas going back long before October 7th, tweeting an article which disputed Hamas’s status as a terrorist organization. The article claimed that “The Europeans who fought Nazism with arms were labeled ‘terrorist’ by Hitler. Hamas is fighting against the occupation of Palestinian lands and is labeled ‘terrorist.’”
For his vast record of pro-Hamas activism and his role in constructing the premier pro-terror student organization in America, Professor Bazian should be known as one of the most ardent Hamas loyalist professors.