Rabab Abdulhadi

Rabab Abdulhadi Director & Senior Scholar, Arab & Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies Program at San Francisco State University

Pro-Hamas Letter

In the wake of a terror attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023, Harvard University students signed an open letter blaming Israel. After the students received negative media coverage, the ANSWER Coalition jumped to their defense in an open letter titled: "Open letter against intimidation at Harvard: Defend the freedom to speak in support of Palestine!" Rabab Abdulhadi signed the letter. Excerpt:

We stand together against the racist harassment and demonization of Pro-Palestine student activists at Harvard and elsewhere across the country. These attacks are designed to intimidate, weaken, and silence people's right to speak out in support of the Palestinian people's struggle against occupation and apartheid. Their educational and professional futures are being threatened and right wing political operatives have even rented a TV truck to drive around campus displaying the students' faces. Some are even receiving death threats..."

"Support Bill Ayers"

In October 2008, several thousand college professors, students and academic staff signed a statement Support Bill Ayers in solidarity with former Weather Underground Organization terrorist Bill Ayers.

In the run up to the U.S. presidential elections, Ayers had come under considerable media scrutiny, sparked by his relationship to presidential candidate Barack Obama.

We write to support our colleague Professor William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who is currently under determined and sustained political attack...

We, the undersigned, stand on the side of education as an enterprise devoted to human inquiry, enlightenment, and liberation. We oppose the demonization of Professor William Ayers.

Rabab Abdulhadi signed the statement.

Palestine delegation

US Prisoner, Labor and Academic Delegation with colleagues from the Institute for Women's Studies at Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine, March 29, 2016

At a moment of growing resistance to state violence and injustice the world over, a delegation of nineteen anti-prison, labor and scholar-activists from the United States traveled to Palestine in March 2016. Our delegation included former US-held political prisoners and social prisoners, former Black Panther Party members, prison abolitionists, trade unionists and university professors. We are the first US delegation to Palestine to focus specifically on political imprisonment and solidarity between Palestinian and US prisoners. Our delegation also focused on recent labor struggles in Palestine for bread and dignity, and on the struggles of Palestinian intellectuals to assert the rightful claims of Indigenous Palestinians to their land, culture and history.

• Rabab Abdulhadi, author and professor, San Francisco State University*, California
• Diana Block, author and activist, California Coalition for Women Prisoners*, San Francisco, California
• Susan Chen, counselor faculty, member California Faculty Association - SFSU chapter Affirmative Action Rep, San Francisco State University*, California
• Dennis Childs, author and professor, University of California*, San Diego
• Susie Day, writer, Monthly Review Press*, New York City, New York
• Emory Douglas, Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture, Black Panther Party, 1967-1982
• Johanna Fernandez, author and professor, City University of New York-Baruch College*; Organizer, Campaign to Bring Mumia Home
• Diane Fujino, author and professor, University of California*, Santa Barbara
• Alborz Ghandehari, member of BDS Caucus of UAW 2865, University of California Student-Workers Union*
• Anna Henry, activist and member, California Coalition for Women Prisoners*, San Francisco
• Rachel Herzing, independent scholar and co-founder, Critical Resistance*, Oakland, California
• Hank Jones, activist, former US-Held political prisoner and member, Black Panther Party, Los Angeles, California
• Manuel la Fontaine, former US-held prisoner and member, All of Us or None*, San Francisco, California
• Claude Marks, Former US-held political prisoner, Freedom Archives*, San Francisco, California
• Nathaniel Moore, archivist, Freedom Archives*, San Francisco, California
• Isaac Ontiveros, member, Critical Resistance*, Oakland, California
• Michael Ritter, counselor faculty; member CSU Academic Senate & CFA Board of Directors, San Francisco State University*, California
• Jaime Veve, Co-Convener, Labor for Palestine*, New York City, New York
• Laura Whitehorn, Former US-held political prisoner, New York City, New York