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University of California, Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian has made a career out of demonizing critics as Islamophobes and flipping the script, arguing jihad is not the problem, but its critics are. He accuses opponents of promoting a type of McCarthyism and a racist clash of civilizations against Muslims.
"...Islamophobia comes in as a way to rationalize a clash of civilizations, using cultural markers as a way of constructing difference," Bazian said in a speech last month at the Muslim American Society's (MAS) joint conference with the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) held in Baltimore. "Let me say the following: Cultural racism is another signpost for biological racism."
Bazian's anti-Semitism runs deep. As a San Francisco State University (SFSU) student in the late 1980s and early 1990s he campaigned against Hillel, the student Jewish organization. He allegedly participated in an assault on the SFSU campus newspaper, The Golden Gator, claiming it was filled with "Jewish spies," a 2011 Campus Watch report said. Bazian also allegedly worked to prevent a Jewish student from being appointed to the Student Judicial Council. He also served as president of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS), which was aligned with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).