San Francisco State’s Rabab Abdulhadi: Always the Victim

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Rabab Abdulhadi

At the Algemeiner, Campus Watch Fellow Andrew Harrod reports on a Washington, DC lecture from San Francisco State University professor Rabab Abdulhadi, who continues to portray herself as a victim of the “Israel Lobby,” merely for being held accountable for her radicalism. For instance, the partnership she brokered between SFSU and jihadist-dominated An-Najah National University (see petition above):

“We are reminded of McCarthyism in the 1950s,” asserted San Francisco State University (SFSU) Professor of Race and Resistance Studies Rabab Abdulhadi at Washington, DC’s anti-Israel Jerusalem Fund conference.

Her clichéd and morally inverted presentation, “In Service of State Violence: Palestine and Restrictions on Academic Freedom,” before about 20 people, depicted the professor — a notorious Israel-hater — as a victim of nefarious right-wing forces.

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Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.
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