Muslim socialist professor boasts about using ‘evil’ university to ‘build power’

A Muslim professor at the University of Chicago on Saturday slammed her employer as “evil” and said she is using her position to “build power” for the pro-Palestinian movement.

“I don’t care about this institution, like f*ck the University of Chicago,” Eman Abdelhadi told attendees at Socialism 2025, an annual socialist conference. Abdelhadi is an assistant professor and director of graduate studies at the university, which she called an “evil colonial landlord.”

Abdelhadi boasted that the pro-Palestinian movement has convinced the American public to sympathize with it.

“Put Palestine in the national consciousness? We did it. Make people sympathetic to Palestine? . . . We did it,” she said through her face mask, though she lamented that “what we don’t have is power.” However, Abdelhadi said she found a solution.

“Turns out, I work at one of the biggest employers in the city of Chicago,” said Abdelhadi. “A place where I have access to thousands of people that I could potentially organize . . . This is where I need to build power. This is my best possible structural leverage.”

The socialist also spoke about using emotional manipulation to create sympathy for the pro-Palestinian movement: “As a Palestinian there is a political tool to that... I think being incredibly sad is important.”

Abdelhadi added that she’s “more Muslim than I’ve ever been” but “still not Muslim enough to stop drinking, so that’s kind of an interesting thing.”

Islamic infiltration

Abdelhadi’s strategy to infiltrate and exploit an American institution appears to be shared by other Islamists in the US.

Last year, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) revealed ambitious plans to gain power in the US political system. CAIR, whose founders have ties to Hamas, was designated a terror organization by the UAE in 2014.

"There is Islamophobia [in the U.S.] that is so deeply rooted in the culture, in academia, in Hollywood, in the portrayal of Islam,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad, who has supported Hamas and the October 7th massacre, said in a speech at the East Plano Islamic Center. “For hundreds of years, Islam has been denigrated, the Prophet has been smeared and defamed in books and textbooks that were taught in public schools, that Allah be praised, we have been working to eliminate and change.”

Awad revealed the organization's plan to create an “army” of 50,000 academics, journalists, and lawyers to create pro-Islam narratives.

“If we commit to do this, four years from now, the Muslim community will have 4,000 new journalists, we will have 4,000 filmmakers, 4,000 lawyers, 4,000 students of political science, 4,000 students of history,” he said.

Within the decade, CAIR hopes to start carving out a major Muslim presence in the US government.

“We can have in ten years, at least 40-50 members of Congress — in the US Congress.”

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