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American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) Chair Dr. Hatem Bazian at UC San Diego in May 2024: Our Fight for a Free Palestine Is a Fight Against Racism, Islamophobia, and Antisemitism; Those Who Threaten th

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) Chair Dr. Hatem Bazian at UC San Diego in May 2024: Our Fight for a Free Palestine Is a Fight Against Racism, Islamophobia, and Antisemitism; Those Who Threaten th

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Dr. Hatem Bazian, the national chairman of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and a professor at UC Berkeley, said that 'Those making threats against the ICJ are 'on the take' of ADL' and have received 'close to six million dollars from AIPAC.' Speaking at the University of California San Diego in a speech uploaded to his YouTube channel on May 9, 2024, Dr. Bazian said that it was Europe, not Muslim society, that 'is racist, was racist, continues to be racist and has not recovered from its racism.'
Dr. Bazian, who is a co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine, further said that 'Our fight for a free Palestine is a fight against racism, against Islamophobia, against antisemitism as it has been articulated, and not according to ADL, Netanyahu, Biden, and European racism' and that 'what we are seeing today is a dying colonialism.'
Two members of AMP's board, Osama Abuirshaid and Salah Sarsour, are connected to the Holy Land Foundation, which has been investigated for funneling funds to Hamas, and five of its members served prison sentences for their terror-linked activity.
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