A New York University adjunct professor and pro-Palestinian activist told a group of students during a recent “teach-in” that claims that Hamas beheaded an Israeli infant were “not true,” according to a video. , denounced New York City as “Zionist.” From the event.
Amin Hussain, 48, led a foul-mouthed debate on the Israeli war on Dec. 5 at the New School, hosted by the Palestinian militant group Students for Justice, during which he advocated for the liberation of the Palestinian people. defended the right to fight. and downplayed claims of Hamas atrocities.
“They're trying to say… 'Oh my god, you guys support rapists and people who decapitate babies.' Either way, we know that's not true. I know,” Amin says in a two-minute clip taken from the livestream.something that happened First obtained by The Free Press.
In the recording, Hussain, an adjunct faculty member at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Learning, can be seen sitting behind a desk facing the audience wearing a traditional Arabic keffiyeh headdress.
“We live in a Zionist city,” Husayn declares. “Let's be real…these people might say they should go back to their country because of the keffiyeh.”
One of the students said, “We're doing our best.''
Hussain denounces alleged discrimination against Muslims as “bullsh*t” before deriding a petition launched last year by New York University graduates calling for his firing.
“I have a petition going around because I am an anti-Semite. By the way, I have won anti-Semitism honors many times,” says the New York University official.
Hussein went on to say that his profile on the Canary Mission, a website that documents professors, student activists, and organizations that spread hatred against the United States, Israel, and Jews on college campuses, was “not my own.'' “This is one of the best biographies ever written.”
“It's endless. The quotes are better than I could have imagined,” he joked, eliciting laughter from the audience. “And everything they quote is true.”
Hussain's page-long entry on the Canary Mission portal states that he has “organized multiple violent disturbances in New York City with anti-Israel activists Within Our Lifetime (WOL), and “He promoted hatred against the police and incited hatred against pro-Israel supporters.” A group from New York. ”
The educator's online documents further claim that Hussain participated in a series of violent protests and riots caused by Palestinians in the late 1980s and early 1990s, known as the First Intifada. He also personally visited the leader of the Palestinian Islamic terrorist organization. It's jihad. ”
“He also expressed support for the terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), praised its leaders, encouraged other terrorists, and spread hatred against Israel,” the watchdog group said in its introduction. There is.
Hussain, a founding member of the radical activist group Decolonize This Place, hailed Palestinian resistance as “heroic” the day after the deadly October 7 attack by Hamas, and previously It caused confusion and became a hot topic.
During his “teaching” at the New School, Hussain openly defended the various factions involved in what he called the Palestinian “liberation struggle”.
“These groups are fighting for the liberation of people and land. It's a right. You can do it,” he says in the video. “If you don't like Hamas, right? Free the land and the people.”
The newspaper contacted Hussain on Thursday for comment on the inflammatory content of his “teach-in.”
The New School did not respond to requests for comment.
According to his biography on New York University's website, Hussain earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Valparaiso University, a law degree from Indiana University School of Law, and a master's degree from the prestigious Columbia University School of Law. are doing.
From 2016 to 2022, Hussain taught a course called “Art, Activism, and Beyond” at New York University Gallatin.
The Post contacted the university to find out Hussain's current employment status.
