Hadeeqa Malik

On September 3, 2024, Hadeeqa Malik posted a YouTube link on LinkedIn of the first episode of a webinar series on "Islamic Political Activism," a project she worked on through CUNY4Palestine. Malik moderated the webinar episode in conversation with Imam Tom Facchine, and Brother Raja Abdilhaq. The original video has since been removed from YouTube.

In the webinar conversation Malik began [00:01:45]: "The movement for Palestine and the resistance that we're seeing is probably, it's just the most profound, most powerful thing ever. The movement for Palestine coming out of Gaza and all of Palestine is nothing short of Islamic, which is something that we are going to focus today's conversation on. It's nothing short of iradah, its nothing short of jihad."

Among Palestinians and anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” is a euphemism for nationalistic terror and is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence.

Jihad is an Arabic word that refers to a "holy war." The term has been adopted by anti-American and anti-Israel groups as a call for violence against the U.S. and its allies.

She continued [00:02:03]: "And today inshallah we're going to start to define what those words mean and how exactly we're going to take part in this and how to play it out here in the west and how to do our part and do our role for the sake of Allah and for the sake of doing what Allah would be pleased with, which is to do our role and play our role properly in the pursuit of justice."

Malik concluded her introduction [00:02:24]: "We understand that, I mean I'm saying this as an activist, it is dangerous and disrespectful to secularize the movement as the fathers of Gaza are leading with Islam in their core and center."

She also said [00:23:10]: "We know that like you both mentioned when you're fighting for the sake of Allah, when you are are living and worshipping Allah, that intrinsically means that you are fighting for Palestine in every means in every way that you can and in with that being said as well um it it we're kind of talking about making the movement Islamic um and and just like navigating how to do that."

Malik stated [00:23:37]: "Imam Tom he actually he called us out recently...a lot of us organizers we do tend to like try to reinvent the wheel by reframing our organizing and activism for Palestine through liberation ideologies that have been recognized in the west. So we frame it through uh the lens of you know ideologies that people that are palatable for non-Muslims."

She later added [01:36:05]: "I think that last point that brother really honed in on was reminding me of...Malcolm X and you know the idea of doing something by any means necessary and thinking about like unpacking what that means any means like what are the means that we have available..."

Anti-Israel activists use the phrase “By any means necessary” as one of multiple euphemisms for terrorist violence, of which another is “resistance.”

At the end of the webinar, Malik said [02:02:51]: "how gangsta are you? That's just me question, how how much are you willing to do it and I know everyone has their own risk levels but at the end of the day that's a question to ask ourselves. How committed am I to this? To what extent of my personal material gains am I willing to sacrifice for this bigger noble cause. I truly believe that when your heart is in the right place if you get suspended, if you get doxed because it's bound to happen when you're doing a righteous cause and when you're doing something for the sake of Allah here in the west, it will never ever be in vain."

Malik concluded [02:03:30]: "The true believer knows that the Akhirah is a promise and the true believer knows that none of this is in vain, that this is all jihad, that this is all iradah, and this is all counted for by Allah...the conversation of doxing, the conversation of getting arrested and suspended, I think it's time for Muslims to start to say alright alright so what you want, I'mma do I'mma do what I got to do because that's it's it's about time to do that..."

For more information on how SJP activists aim to cause the collapse of America from within, check Canary Mission's campaign titled: "Bringing the War Home."

On July 6, 2025, CCNY SJP posted the video of Malik shouting and harassing NYPD officers. In the video Malik is leading a chant: "We read the badges of the pigs! So to the Rahman's and the Muhammad's! To the Ali's and the Abdullah's! To the Rafid's! To the Rafid's! To the pigs! Who can call themselves by the name of Islam! To the Muhammad's! Put some respect on that names!"

In the video Malik reads the badge of an officer and points at him when she screamed the name "Rafid," she continued to scream in the officer's face and at the end of the video the officer is replaced in the line.

On July 8, 2025 the New York Post published an article that said: "City College student Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik — who interned for Mamdani prior to his mayoral campaign — verbally attacked an officer over his career choice at what appears to be a pro-Palestine demonstration on the CUNY school’s campus, the video, originally posted on Feb. 28."

On July 10, 2025, Mondoweiss published an article that said Malik "is suspended from CCNY, she is not permitted to enroll in any other CUNY college."

On July 11, 2025, the Left Voice published an article that said: "Malik has been accused of Islamophobic behavior toward a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer at a rally protesting Governor Kathy Hochul’s planned visit to the CCNY campus in February."

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.

In 2024, Hadeeqa Malik posted on LinkedIn about her time working in Mamdani's office and expressed ambitions to continue working in electoral politics. In the post she said: "I applied for this role with the full intention that this would be my “last shot” at electoral politics to see if I could still invision a future for myself within it at any level or capacity."

On January 25, 2025, Malik posted a selfie with Mamdani on LinkedIn in support of him in the primary elections: "You have so much power in the upcoming June primaries, you have a little less than two weeks to register as a Democrat in NYS to vote in the mayoral primary elections."

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.

Hadeeqa Malik’s Participation in the Pro-Hamas Encampment at Columbia University (Columbia)

Malik's Support for Terrorism

Harassment of a Police Office

Anti-Israel Activism (SJP, WOL)

Hadeeqa Malik’s Participation in the Pro-Hamas Encampment at Columbia

Hadeeqa Malik’s Participation in the Pro-Hamas Encampment at CCNY

Malik's Support for Zohran Mandani

SJP

WOL

CAIR

MSA

BDS

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