Hadeeqa Malik
Hadeeqa Malik [Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik] participated in the pro-Hamas encampment at Columbia in April 2024. The encampment also supported the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. Malik has also engaged in anti-Israel activism.
As of September 2024, Malik’s LinkedIn profile said she was the president of the anti-Israel campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at The City College of New York (CCNY) since June 2024. Her LinkedIn also said she was the group’s vice president from May 2023 to May 2024 and the group’s treasurer from January 2023 to May 2023.
For more information, see the CCNY SJP Chapter Profile.
Also as of September 2024, Malik’s LinkedIn said she was a volunteer for the anti-Israel organization Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the founder of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) chapter at her high school and served as its president from September 2020 to June 2022.
Malik’s LinkedIn also said she was a senator of the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) at CCNY since September 2024 and a racial justice fellow at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at CCNY for the 2024-2025 academic year.
As of September 2024, Malik’s LinkedIn said she was studying for a bachelor’s degree in international relations and political science at CCNY, slated to graduate in 2026. Malik also wrote that she had been a board member and student chair on CCNY’s student elections review committee since April 2023.
As of the same date, Malik’s LinkedIn said she had been a “Refugee Resettlement Intern” with the International Rescue Committee, and an intern for NYC Civic Engagement Commission since May 2023.
As of July 2025, Malik’s LinkedIn said she had worked as an outreach coordinator for the anti-Israel organization Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) since 2025.
As of the same date, Malik’s LinkedIn said she was located in New York, New York.
Hadeeqa Malik’s Participation in the Pro-Hamas Encampment at Columbia University (Columbia)

On January 25, 2025, Malik posted on LinkedIn in support of anti-Israel New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
In a February 21, 2023 podcast, Malik said [00:37:32]: “I’m on Students for Justice in Palestine and so we’re always out here and you know, making sure that we make our way into the schools, into the local offices, into social media, all the different avenues we can go with it.”
As of June 2023, Malik’s LinkedIn description of SJP at CCNY’s activities read: “Our advocacy varies from attending protests/demonstrations, to advocating within local and state government/elected officials offices, campus outreach…”
Malik’s LinkedIn included a photo from a January 29, 2023, Within Our Lifetime (WOL) “vigil & rally” in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The event was intended to “honor the martyrs of Jenin and all of Palestine,” and was titled: “NYC Stands With Jenin.”
Within Our Lifetime (WOL) is an anti-Israel activist group in New York City founded by Nerdeen Kiswani. In her WOL activism, Kiswani has called for the death of Zionists and for the destruction of Israel, spread incitement to violence and celebrated terrorists. WOL’s “Points of Unity” states: “We defend the right of Palestinians as colonized people to resist the zionist occupation by any means necessary.”
At the rally, an anti-Israel protester honored terrorist Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi by wearing a hoodie with a picture of Al-Nabulsi holding a firearm. Under the photo were the words: “بحبك يا امي وانا استشهدت [Mom, I love you. I became a martyr].”
Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi, a “commander” of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, was known as “the lion of Nablus.” On August 9, 2022, he was killed [p. 5] in a gun battle with Israeli forces. The Brigade is listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the U.S. State Department.
Demonstrators also spread hatred of Israel at the rally.
On April 20, 2024, Malik was featured [slide 5] in an Instagram photo participating in the encampment at Columbia. She can be seen in the photo wearing a keffiyeh.
On April 21, 2024, Malik was featured [slide 1] in a video posted on Instagram, participating in the Columbia encampment. The video was captioned: “The brave students of Columbia University are occupying the campus in solidarity with the people of Gaza. 🇵🇸 They have been going strong throughout the week!” In the video, Malik chanted [00:00:01]: “Columbia, you can’t hide, you get rich off genocide!”
On April 17, 2024, Columbia students and anti-Israel activists set up a pro-Hamas “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the university's main lawn. Many participants were arrested and the encampment featured multiple violent incidents, including taking over a campus building and taking a university worker hostage.
Activists protested Israel’s war against Hamas and demanded that Columbia “divest from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupation…”
The action had reportedly been planned for months and was organized by the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) coalition. The encampment was also organized by Columbia’s banned pro-Hamas activist group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the university chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). Activists reportedly received training from National SJP and other anti-Israel organizations.
On April 25, 2024, Malik was featured [slide 8] speaking at the pro-Hamas encampment at CCNY. The post was captioned: “...earlier today, student organizers set up an encampment at the City College of New York.”
The encampment was one of about 200 anti-Israel college encampments set up in North America, and over 20 globally, in the spring of 2024. The first began on April 17, 2024, at Columbia University. Protesters harassed Jewish students, blocked Jews from campus facilities and used anti-Semitic language in their activism. They also promoted BDS and protested Israel’s war against Hamas, launched after Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023.
SJP is the leading student organization engaged in anti-Israel activity on North American college and university campuses. The first chapter of SJP was founded in 2001 at the University of California at Berkeley by Professor Hatem Bazian, who has spread anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group.
SJP organizes anti-Israel campus campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks and pushing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, and SJP chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for terrorists.
Within Our Lifetime (WOL) is an anti-Israel activist group in New York City founded by Nerdeen Kiswani. In her WOL activism, Kiswani has called for the death of Zionists and for the destruction of Israel, spread incitement to violence and celebrated terrorists. WOL’s “Points of Unity” states: “We defend the right of Palestinians as colonized people to resist the zionist occupation by any means necessary.”
CAIR describes itself as a “grassroots civil rights and advocacy group” and “America's largest Muslim civil liberties organization, with regional offices nationwide.” Its official mission is “enhance understanding of Islam, protect civil rights, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.”
CAIR reportedly has “significant ties” to the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as Hamas. A number of former CAIR employees have been convicted on fraud and terrorism-related charges that resulted monetary fines, jail terms and, sometimes, deportation.
CAIR was founded in 1994 and opened its first office in Washington, DC, with the help of a $5,000 donation from the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), a charity founded by Mousa Abu Marzook.
Marzook, who was listed as a "Specially Designated Terrorist" by the U.S. Treasury Department in 1995, is reportedly a senior member of Hamas.
In May 2007, CAIR was listed as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a U.S.-filed action against the HLF for providing funds to Hamas.
CAIR was also listed as a terrorist entity by the United Arab Emirates in 2014.
The Muslim Student Association (MSA) was established by members of the Muslim Brotherhood in January 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with the goal of "spreading Islam as students in North America." A 2004 FBI investigation uncovered an internal Muslim Brotherhood document in which a brotherhood leader identified the MSA as "one of our organizations."
The MSA reportedly has “nearly 600 chapters” located in the United States and Canada, and is “the most visible and influential Islamic student organization in North America,” boasting conferences, special events, publications, websites and other activities.
The organization includes a number of previous chapter presidents with explicit links to terrorist groups. Included are al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (Colorado State University), Somali al-Shabaab militant leader Omar Shafik Hammami (University of South Alabama) and Pakistani Taliban recruiter Ramy Zamzam of the MSA's Washington, D.C. council.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
BDS initiatives include calling on institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, promoting academic and cultural boycotts of Israel, and organizing anti-Israel rallies, protests and campaigns.
The movement’s most notable achievement has been infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents and pro-terror activism on campus.

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