WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND: Radical Muslim lecturer at UC Berkeley whines about receiving threats over his public support for terror groups like Hamas

Hatem Bazian, a Muslim lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley as well as founder of the anti-Israel group called ‘American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)’ and co-founder of the violently anti-Semitic/anti-Israel ‘Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)’, who has been labeled the “most dangerous professor in America” says he has received death threats, harassment, and insults.

IPT – American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) was formed in 2006 as a nonprofit organization based in Chicago with chapters around the country. Its message omits any mention of peaceful coexistence with the state of Israel, and routinely includes calls for an end to the Jewish state.

AMP is a rabidly anti-Israel organization with numerous links to a U.S.-based Hamas support network that was at its height during the 1990s and into the 2000s. AMP has co-sponsored rallies featuring the chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” In that vision, Israel is erased from the map.

AMP founder and chairman Hatem Bazian, a senior lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, has a history of incendiary statements. At an anti-war rally in San Francisco, Bazian called for Americans to create a violent uprising at home similar to the Palestinian ‘intifada.’

Bazian said Islamophobia causes “Muslims in our own communities to actually go into the margin and think that they are gonna be revolutionary and engage in violence because they have been pushed to the margins.”

AMP founder Hatem Bazian was rebuked by his employer – University of California, Berkeley – for retweeting two vile anti-Semitic images that accuse “Ashke-Nazis” of rape, murder and organ trafficking.

AMP’s leaders include at least two men tied to a fundraising front for Hamas – the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), which was shut down by the government in 2001. HLF and five former officials were convicted in 2008 of illegally routing millions of dollars to Hamas.

One AMP board member, Salah Sarsour, is named in law enforcement documents as helping raise money for Hamas. Its fall convention featured the head of designated terrorist group, the  Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) equating “racism, Islamophobia and Zionism.”

 Bazian has become one of the main figures behind a campaign of hate against Jews and Israel in the United States. In 2001, he was a co-founder of the group “Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).” SJP’s stated goal is to promote a “just resolution of the plight of the Palestinians” and employs boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns as well as mock checkpoints and mock “apartheid walls” on campuses throughout the U.S. to promote that cause.

Canary Mission SJP’s theatrical and physical violence aims mainly at intimidating and marginalizing Jewish students on campus. It uses violent imagery to bypass discussion and skip right to the hate, accusing its opponents of apartheid, Nazism and genocide. Its extremist speakers use lies and distortions to portray Israel and its supporters as absolute evil to create a hateful worldview.

When the SJP deploys makeshift checkpoints on campuses where its members yell, “Are you Jewish?” at passing students, when it disrupts Holocaust memorials and Jewish student concerts, when it assaults and intimidates Jewish students on campus– it is making the trees and stones of the Ivy League and the Public Ivies a place of terror and danger for Jewish students.

During 2011’s Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, SJP achieved another milestone by getting the Berkeley Student Senate to pass a resolution boycotting companies that do business with Israel.

Hatem Bazian is a former fundraising speaker for Kindhearts, a HAMAS front group shut down by the US government in February 2006 and is listed as a specially designated terrorist organization. In June of 2004, Bazian was featured in a KindHearts Fundraising Dinner, entitled ‘Palestinians in agony!’

Steven Emerson, in his book American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us ( pp. 214-215), quotes Bazian sermonizing at an American Muslim Alliance conference in May 1999 in California, promoting the Islamic State of Palestine. Excerpts from the quote read:

“In the Hadith, the Day of Judgment will never happen until you fight the Jews. They are on the west side of the river, which is the Jordan River, and you’re on the east side until the trees and stones will say, oh Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him! And that’s in the Hadith about this, this is a future battle before the Day of Judgment.”