Share:
Husam El-Qoulaq
Husam El-Qoulaq [Husam Al-Dean El-Qoulaq] has spread hatred of Israel and engaged in anti-Israel activism.
In 2011, El-Qoulaq was affiliated with the anti-Israel campus group Muslim Student Association (MSA) chapter at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley).
In 2015, El-Qoulaq was active with a student group at Harvard Law School (Harvard Law) affiliated with the national anti-Israel campus organization Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
As of March 2025, Husam El-Qoulaq's Facebook page said he had studied at UC Berkeley. El-Qoulaq reportedly majored in peace and conflict studies. UC Berkeley is located in Berkeley, California.
As of the same date, Husam El-Qoulaq's Facebook also said he studied at Harvard Law from 2013 to 2016. Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
As of the same date, Husam El-Qoulaq's Facebook said he was located in Los Angeles, California.
On October 20, 2015, during the "Knife Intifada," El-Qoulaq organized an anti-Israel event titled: "The Palestine Exception to Free Speech." The event was sponsored by the Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine (JFP), an affiliate of the national anti-Israel campus organization Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
In October 2015, there was an upsurge in violence across Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife Intifada,” was characterized by young Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and attempting to stab Israeli civilians.
The term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” carries the connotation of violence. Palestinian intifadas waged against Israel have been marked since 1987 by hundreds of hijackings, shootings, stabbings, bombings and suicide missions.
The event description accused Israel of "increasingly destructive assaults on Gaza" and blamed pro-Israel organizations in the U.S. for leveraging "their significant resources and lobbying power to pressure universities, government actors, and other institutions to censor or punish advocacy in support of Palestinian rights."
The “Israel Lobby” is a conspiracy theory alleging Israeli and Jewish control over the U.S. government. Proponents of the theory decry the negative effects on American interests, particularly in foreign policy.
On October 11, 2011, El-Qoulaq participated in a protest in support of the "Irvine 11."
The “Irvine 11” were a group of 11 University of California students, many of whom belonged to the Muslim Student Association (MSA), who were detained by police for disrupting a speech given by then-Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren, in 2010. Ten of the students were charged with and convicted of two misdemeanors of “conspiring to disrupt – and then disrupting” Oren’s speech, and sentenced to three years of “informal probation.” The MSA was also suspended by the university.
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.
Sign up for our weekly newsletter
Donate
