Amin Husain

Husain was affiliated with WOL as early as 2016, two years before it changed its name in February 2018 from NYC SJP, a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). 

In April 2021, Decolonize This Place and WOL were part of a coalition of New York City anti-American groups called the “International Imagination of Anti-National Anti-Imperialist Feelings (IIAAF),” when IIAAF launched the Strike MoMA campaign. Strike MoMA targeted individual members of the board of trustees of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for various reasons, including their pro-Israel activism.

Husain’s LinkedIn page also said he was the “Co-Managing Editor” of Tidal Magazine, since September 2011 and an artist at MTL Collective, since September 2009.

As of January 29, 2024, Husain’s LinkedIn page said he had been an adjunct professor at the Pratt Institute (Pratt) since 2016, at New York University (NYU) since 2015 and at the New School for Social Research (New School) since 2013. In 2021, Husain was listed on the NYU website as teaching part-time at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. All three institutions are located in New York, New York.

As of January 2024, a spokesperson for the New School reportedly said Husain “has not been affiliated with the university since 2019.” On January 25, 2024, an NYU spokesperson said the university suspended Husain. Also that day, The Free Press reported that in November 2023, he spoke at an SJP event where he denied that Hamas beheaded babies and raped women on October 7, 2023.  

As of March 2022, Husain’s since-deleted NYU page said he was a co-founder of the anti-Israel activist groups NYC Solidarity with Palestine and Global Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.). He was listed on the Facebook page of his film “The Coming Intifada” as having been a “key Occupy Wall Street organizer.”

Husain’s LinkedIn page also said he received a law degree from Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington, in 2001, and a Master of Laws (LLM) from Columbia University School of Law (Columbia), in 2004.

As of January 29, 2024, Husain went by the name “Husain Amin” on LinkedIn.

For more information, see the Canary Mission page Within Our Lifetime: The NYC Org Inciting Its Activists To Violence.

Organizing Violent New York City Disruptions

On April 22, 2022, Husain spoke at a Strike MoMA Zoom session. In the session he referenced a DTP plan to damage the New York City subway as a means of shutting down the city.

He promoted [01:34:28] “waging…war” on the “nerve centers of the city” and having the “ability to shut down the city,” in reference to three DTP actions that damaged the subway system in 2019 and 2020. Husain continued [01:35:02] by outlining his desire to get "everyone to be resisting" as a form of "militancy and insurgency."  

Husain’s comments built upon three Decolonize This Place “direct actions” that were called FTP I, FTP II and FTP III, all standing for “F**k The Police.” 

FTP III was in January 2020 and rioters caused $100,000 in damage to the subway, including Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan. The subway is run by the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), which manages the city’s public transportation.

FTP II and FTP I both took place in November 2019. In the days leading up to FTP III, which used the hashtag #FTP3 online, Decolonize This Place said that FTP I and FTP II “halted business for four hours in downtown Brooklyn and Harlem.”  

FTP II was in Brooklyn and Harlem in Upper Manhattan. Police reportedly arrested no less than 58 protesters for “charges of disorderly conduct and obstruction of governmental administration.” 

FTP I was in Brooklyn where close to 1,000 protesters reportedly “blocked traffic, vandalized a city bus” and then went to the subway where they began “jumping the turnstiles en masse” and chanting anti-police slogans.

In the days leading up to FTP III, Husain used Facebook to encourage subway vandalism and attacks on police, while Decolonize This Place tweeted [00:00:18] that people should “build and f**k s**t up all day long” on city streets, trains and walls. After FTP III, Husain shared to Facebook photos of broken subway card readers.

FTP III demands included “immediate withdrawal of MTA police from the train stations” and elimination of other security measures. Decolonize This Place claimed FTP III was a response to “racist practices” by the New York Police Department (NYPD) and MTA police like “fare evasion enforcement.”
 
In the April 22, 2022, Strike Moma Zoom session, Husain said [01:32:10]: ”One of the things that … we've been thinking about is like how do you organize block-by-block right now, in a way that kind of embodies this kind of [insurgent] thinking and I think that we're we're thinking about the subway again.”

Husain also said: [01:09:16]: “Just like we did with museums and just like we did with universities, our neighborhoods are sites of struggle … Those sites are for us to reclaim and for the relationships to figure out how to build ‘em, how to defend ‘em, how to connect with other people and how to take this state down! There’s no allegiance to this government; there can’t be.”

Husain later said [01:35:01]: “We want everyone to be resisting and to be insurgent and so the places of contact, just by our presence, could be that form of militancy and insurgency that provides for difference and possibility right now.”

On April 1, 2022, Husain featured [00:03:18] in another Strike MoMA Youtube video where he said: “What we're interested right now is, how is the city a field of operations? And how can it help us build anti-colonial struggle …”

On April 23, 2021, Husain shared to Facebook the pages of a Decolonize This Place and Strike MoMA pamphlet, demonizing the New York City Police Foundation. In addition to featuring graphics that depicted police as pigs, one image said: 

“What does it mean to see the city as a theater of operations?
To disrupt the heart of empire, you strike strategically and with precision ...everywhere.
It's about more than 'museums'...
Always has been
Let us dance on their rubble
UNSETTLE EVERYTHING”

On February 5, 2020, Husain shared a graphic on Facebook with a screenshot of a local television report showing masked agitators and the headline: “TWO WANTED FOR VANDALIZING SUBWAY… DURING ‘DAY OF ACTION’ AGAINST MTA.” 

Husain’s graphic read: “NO SNITCHING” and “STAY SAFE COMRADES!!!” He wrote in the post: “Decolonize This Place: F**K @NY1 || NO SNITCHING.”

On January 23, 2020, Husain posted multiple graphics to Facebook showing how to bring small items onto the subway to vandalize property, or evade identification by police. His graphics included “green laser 303” to “blind cops and cameras,” a hammer to “smash ticket machines and cop cars,” and Gorilla Glue to “clog ticket readers.”

On January 18, 2020, Husain wrote on Facebook: “Decolonize This Place: NYPD KKK, HOW MANY KIDS DID YOU KILL TODAY?! FTP 3 is a citywide day of action on January 31, 2020. How will you participate?” His post’s graphic portrayed police officers as Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members and pigs. The image was captioned: “FTP III Citywide #J31.”

On October 31, 2019, Husain shared a Facebook photo with a banner that read: “ANTE UP! PUNCH THAT COP!! NYPD OUT OF MTA,” with other text saying, “HIT EM!” 

Husain wrote in the post: “Groups and communities are working hard || These are the tip of the iceberg. See you tomorrow at FTP Emergency  Action against the police and MTA. ”

Denying Hamas Terrorist War Crimes of October 7, 2023

On December 5, 2023, Husain was reportedly featured as a speaker at an SJP “teach-in” at The New School, where he denied reports that Hamas terrorists beheaded Jewish babies and raped women during the October 7 massacre. He told students present: “We know it’s not true.”

Denial of the Hamas war crimes of October 7, 2023, among anti-Israel activists has been likened to Holocaust denial among neo-Nazis.

Hamas terrorists murdered at least 40 Israeli Jewish babies during its October 7, 2023, terror attacks. Some of the babies were beheaded and some were murdered in front of their parents.

At the same December 2023 event, Husain reportedly referred to the October 7 Hamas atrocities as the “Palestinian liberation struggle.” He also said: “If you don’t like Hamas, free the land and the people.” He further said of New York City: “We live in a Zionist city…let’s be real about this, let’s be f**king real.”

Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture.

Husain also reportedly spoke at an SJP event on November 17, 2023. In January 2024, The Free Press reported about a video of the event: “‘This land isn’t for the Jews, I’m sorry,’ he says in the video, referring to Israel. ‘This land is for a lot of other things that has to do with profit, that has to do with imperialism, that has to do with interests, geopolitical interests, so that’s something also to keep in mind.’ ‘There is no perfect f**king victim,’ he adds. ‘You’re either on the side of the colonizer or the colonized.’”

One way that anti-Israel activists spread anti-Semitism is by claiming that Israeli Jews have no connection to the Land of Israel.  

Hatred of America

On August 16, 2021, Husain spoke [00:15:41] at a WOL rally in Manhattan, where he said: “Yes, to taking the streets but also to building the alternatives that make this f**king government obsolete. Because there’s absolutely no way for us to get free just in the ‘hood without being anti-imperial. F**k this U.S. empire!” 

At the rally, Husain also said [00:14:28]: “10 years ago in Occupy Wall Street, there was less people. There were 15, but you know what they were talking about? F**king revolution. Everyone feels it, everyone knows it,” as he pointed to the crowd. 

Husain continued [00:14:41]: “From the Palestinian liberation struggle, we’re saying ‘intifada’ but in whatever language and whatever struggle you come from, those are our interconnected struggles.”

Since the early 2000s, the term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” has carried the connotation of violence.  

On July 21, 2021, Husain shared a Facebook photo where he held a banner that read: “FROM THE U.S. TO PALESTINE ABOLISH THE SETTLER STATE. 1948 - REMEMBER, REBEL.”

On July 4, 2021, Husain shared to Facebook a photo of an American flag and Israeli flags on fire, along with multiple photos of people at a march holding Palestinian flags. 

On the same day, Decolonize This Place and WOL co-organized an anti-America rally in Brooklyn where protesters burned [00:00:01] an American flag and several [00:00:20] Israeli flags. The Decolonize This Place Instagram post for the event said it was intended to “redirect the false pride of American Independence Day to pride in our resistance…”

On January 3, 2020, Husain shared a graphic on Facebook that described the United States as “settler colonial white supremacist project.”

On November 9, 2016, Husain posted to Instagram a photo of two women holding an American flag, along with a sign over the flag that said: “NO ALLEGIANCE TO WHITE SUPREMACY.”

On November 20, 2012, Husain said [00:02:36] in a speech: “And then I came over here, searching for an American Dream that has never existed.’’

Husain also said [00:06:58]: “Who does the government serve? And who do they protect? We’ve been in the shadows of 9/11 for too long. We didn’t do it. This did it [gesturing towards the surrounding buildings on Wall Street]. And who owns this? Who controls this? Because I‘ll tell you what. I’m fighting for Palestine by fighting here.”

Hatred of Police

On August 23, 2021, Husain posted to Facebook multiple images of children’s cartoon characters throwing Molotov cocktails. 

One graphic showed Elmo from Sesame Street about to throw a Molotov cocktail at a burning police car. The car had its tires flattened and windows broken, as well as an Anarchy symbol painted on it.

On July 12, 2021, Husain shared a photo on Facebook of a cardboard placard that read “ACAB - EVEN YOUR DAD.”

“ACAB” is an acronym that stands for “All cops are bastards.”

On March 2, 2021, Husain shared a graphic on Facebook with a caption that read: “THE ANSWER ALWAYS IS F**K THE POLICE.”

On the same day, Husain shared a graphic on Facebook with a caption that read: “Kill the cop in your head.” 

On December 10, 2019, Husain shared an image on Facebook with a caption that read: “FOR ‘I LOVE YOU; SAY F**K THE POLICE.”

Claiming to Have Participated in the First Intifada

On July 1, 2016, Husain spoke [00:01:47] at an anti-Israel rally about his experience during the first intifada: “Living 18 years in Palestine, I was fighting in the first uprising, I was throwing rocks, Molotov cocktails, the like.”

Although romanticized as a form of “popular resistance,” rock throwing remains a deadly form of violence. 

In the same 2016 speech, Husain promoted [00:04:53] the BDS movement because it “gets around the idea of violence and nonviolence, which no one should judge each other on.” He then advocated [00:05:25] for “fighting for justice in all the ways possible — and yes, Jihadis — Jihadis in all the ways possible…” 

Husain continued [00:06:12]: “It is our moment to fight, and don’t let anyone tell you that you need to renounce your brother or sister because they are fighting in a way that’s unacceptable.” 

On November 20, 2012, Husain said [00:02:27] in at an anti-Israel rally: “I grew up in Palestine, and I was there during the first Palestinian uprising, and I was a member of Fatah and part of the resistance movement.”

Fatah is the primary faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Fatah’s armed wing is the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which has been listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the U.S. State Department since 2002 and was responsible for suicide bombings [00:13:37] during the second intifada. 

Inciting Hatred Against Pro-Israel Donors

In April 2021, Decolonize This Place and WOL were part of IIAAF when it launched the Strike MoMA campaign, which conducted “10 weeks of protests outside of MoMA.” The protests were held weekly from April 9 to June 11 and were billed [pp.6-7] as “Phase 1” of the campaign. 

Strike MoMA personally targeted Jewish MoMA Board of Trustees members specifically for their Israel activism or business ties to Israel, independent of any other issues. The list included cosmetics executive Ronald Lauder for being president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and hedge fund manager Daniel Och for being on the board of Birthright Israel, a heritage trip to Israel for Jewish young adults from across the world.

On June 11, 2021, Husain featured in a Daily Mail video from a Strike MoMA march where he spilled [00:01:11] red paint on the sidewalk in front of the offices of BlackRock, a global asset management firm. BlackRock has invested in Lockheed Martin, which has done business with Israel, since 1971. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink sits on MoMA’s board of trustees.
 
Also on June 11, 2021, WOL chairperson Nerdeen Kiswani and Husain featured in a Youtube video from that day’s Strike MoMA march, where they both spoke outside of Rockefeller Center after protesters set an Israeli flag on fire and tore it apart.
 
Kiswani began [00:00:13] by saying: “You know how amazing it is, burning this Zionist flag that is responsible, that it symbolizes, the ethnic cleansing and the genocide of Palestinians?” Kiswani described the march as a “@wolpalestine x DTP action.”
 
Kiswani then said [00:00:35]: “We burning that s**t in the heart of the belly of the beast, in the heart of New York City, in front of Rockefeller, in front of the most notorious Zionists in this country that are right here in our city.” 
 
Kiswani continued [00:00:49]: “We marched today, we took over the streets and we visited multiple Zionist settler foundations. Multiple. We let them know we know where they’re at. We know where they work. We’re gonna find out more about where they’re at too. And we’re gonna go after them.”
 
As protesters burned [00:01:05] an Israeli flag, Husain said [00:01:23]: “Palestine is not only over there, it’s over here. And we’re tired of just marching at the embassy. We will go to where these people feel they are comfortable.”
 
Husain then said [00:01:40]: “The money of the Rockefeller’s created MoMA. It’s no surprise, it’s no surprise that they wash their blood money with art.”  

Husain told [00:03:00] the crowd: “You took Fifth Avenue. You took Sixth Avenue. You took Rockefeller Center. You went to the NYPD Foundation that is actually funded by people on the board at MoMA and you told them we’re not gonna use f**king words. We will go wherever you are comfortable.” 

Husain concluded [00:03:16] his speech saying: “So finally, I am going to hand it over to Nerdeen to close out. One last thing, there’s an afterparty. Afterparty in front of MoMA at 8:30 because the illuminator is going to project large on the building for all our people back home to see our messages.” 

At the Strike MoMa afterparty, organizers projected an image onto the MoMA building that read [slide 5]: “Long live Palestine! Fire to the colonizers!” Other projected graphics listed [00:04:00] MoMA board members. Music at the event included a song that said [00:00:18]: “F**k Israel, Israel a b**ch. B**ch, we out here mobbin’ on some Palestine s**t.”

In 2021, Husain also signed [p.42] a document titled: “Free Palestine/Strike MoMA: A Call to Action,” that was part of a pdf called the “StrikeMoMa Reader.” The document Husain signed demonized [p. 41] multiple Jewish MoMa donors. 

Visiting a PIJ Terrorist Leader

In November 2015, Husain worked as a filmmaker on a film titled: “The Coming Intifada.”

On November 16, 2015, the film’s Facebook page posted images from the production and wrote: “In this scene, Andrew Ross, Amin Husain, and other Occupy [Wall Street] activists, visit Khader Adnan and partner.” 

Khader Adnan was a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organization. A 2007 YouTube video showed Adnan praising and encouraging suicide bombings: "Who among you will carry the next explosive belt? Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?” In May 2023, Adnan died in prison after refusing medical treatment during a hunger strike.

Supporting the PFLP

On March 8, 2021, Husain shared multiple PFLP posters on Facebook that were produced to mark International Women's Day, including one of a woman holding a rifle, that said: “Consolidating the Struggle for Equality.” 

The PFLP has been designated a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by the United States, Canada, Israel, the European Union, the Gulf Cooperation Council and Australia.  

On May 10, 2017, Husain shared to Instagram a photo of a PFLP poster in support of the “#dignitystrike.”

“Dignity Strike” refers to a hunger strike initiated by Marwan Barghouti on April 16, 2017. More than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners participated in the strike – most them also convicted for acts of terrorism. Barghouti headed the Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorist Tanzim force and founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. He was sentenced to five consecutive life terms by an Israeli civilian court for some of his crimes, including his role in the Sbarro Cafe bombing. 

On March 8, 2017, Husain shared to Instagram a PFLP poster marking International Women’s Day that depicted a woman with a rifle.

Honoring PFLP Terrorist Leaders

On July 13, 2021, Husain shared to Facebook a photo of himself with a frame that said “Freedom For Khalida Jarrar.” 

Khalida Jarrar is a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organization. She has reportedly been the head of the PFLP in the West Bank since 2016. In 2015, an Israeli military court sentenced Jarrar to 15 months in prison for calling to kidnap Israeli soldiers. Israel arrested Jarrar again in 2017 “on suspicion of involvement with terrorist activities and violent public disturbances.” In 2019, she was arrested by Israel with 50 other PFLP operatives following a deadly 2018 bombing attack.

On July 8, 2021, Husain shared to Facebook a post with a series of images honoring Ghassan Kanafani.

Kanafani was a leading member and spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during the terrorist organization’s early years. Kanafani announced the PFLP’s responsibility for the Lod Airport Massacre of May 1972 and was linked to the airport attackers. The attack killed 26 people and wounded 80 others.  

On June 3, 2017, Husain shared to Instagram a photo of Kanafani with the founder of the Japanese Red Army, the group that carried out the Lod Airport Massacre on behalf of the PFLP, which trained the Japanese terrorists. North Korea finances the attack. 

Husain wrote: “Fusako Shigenobu, leader of the Japanese Red Army, is 70 years old and remains a political prisoner to this day. She trained in Lebanon with the Palestinians and participated in and led acts of resistance against Israel and imperialism in the 70s. This is a photo with Gassan Kanafani. #decolonizethisplace.”

On May 1, 2017, Husain shared to Instagram a PFLP poster of a hand holding a large rock that said: “International Workers Day - May 1st - Taking the Sky by Storm.” Husain included a link to what he described as “A statement from Ahmed Sadaat, head of the PFLP and one of the leaders of the #dignitystrike, on May Day.” 

Ahmad Sa’adat is the Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). He is currently sentenced for terror activities, including his role in the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi and is in an Israeli prison. Under Sa’adat’s leadership, the PFLP perpetrated many suicide bombings against Israeli civilians during the second intifada. 

Promoting Terrorists

On September 17, 2021, Husain shared to Facebook a post in support of Zakaria Zubeidi. 

Zakaria Zubeidi was the former Jenin commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which is listed as a foreign terror organization (FTO) by the U.S. government. Zubeidi was involved in several terror attacks on Israeli civilians. On September 6, 2021, Zubeidi was one of six prisoners who escaped from Israel’s Gilboa prison. They were all recaptured by September 19, 2021.

On September 11, 2021, Husain shared to Facebook a graphic featuring Abu Obaida, the spokesman of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas. In the graphic, Abu Obaida praised the six terrorists who had dug a tunnel to escape from Gilboa prison, stating:“اي صفثة تبادلقادمة لن تتم الا بتحرير ابطال نفق الحريىة ابوعبيدية الناطق باسم كتايب القسام [Any future (prisoner) swap will take place only if the Freedom Tunnel heroes are set free].”

On August 23, 2021, Husain shared to Facebook a post with a graphic of a pistol that was aimed through a wall and had killed an Israeli soldier two days earlier.

The post that Husain shared said: “عينك راسك انت هدفي يا محتل[Your eyes, your head, you are my target, oh occupier].” The caption on the image read: “كن موتا احمر لا ترحم جيش العدوان [Be a red death, do not have mercy on the aggressor's army].”

On August 21, 2021, a Palestinian gunman shot Israeli Border Police Staff Sergeant Barel Hadaria Shmueli at point-blank range in the head. He died of his wounds nine days later. Shmueli was attempting to contain Hamas-led violent riots along the northern section of the border fence between Israel and Gaza.  

Hatred of Israel

On April 17, 2019, Husain wrote on Facebook: “We center #Palestine and highlight the complicity of @whitneymuseum in the slow genocide of the the Palestinian people, and the setter-colonization and occupation of all Palestine from the river to the sea.”

Husain’s post featured a graphic promoting a Decolonize This Place and WOL protest in support of the Great March of Return.

On March 30, 2018, some 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza approached Israel’s border to take part in “Land Day Protests” or the “March of Return.” The March of Return was organized and funded by Hamas as a campaign of violent protests along Israel’s border to spotlight the demand of Palestinians to “return” to Israel. 

The violent riots during the “March of Return” continued into 2019 and included armed protesters using gunfire, penetrating Israeli territory, launching incendiary kites into Israel and throwing IEDs, hand grenades and Molotov cocktails. Some of the attacks were carried out by Hamas operatives.

On May 23, 2017, Husain posted to Instagram a Decolonize This Place graphic showing American and Israeli flags that was titled: “FINANCING FASCISM.” Husain wrote in the post: “To the point. #dignitystrike #decolonizethisplace.”

On February 18, 2015, Husain co-wrote an article, titled: “Against Amnesia: The Cultural Boycott of Israel Matters.” Husain suggested that Israel was responsible for “apartheid,” “racism,” “open air prisons” and “military experimentation on people.” 

In the same article, Husain claimed that Israel “intentionally targeted homes and the infrastructure of living, such as factories and schools” during Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in 2014.

Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians and to destroy Hamas attack tunnels.

Throughout the summer of 2014 — during Operation Protective Edge (OPE) — Hamas's deployment of human shields was extensively documented and publicized. Hamas encouraged Gazans to act as human shields to frustrate Israeli efforts to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza. 

WOL Activism

On September 17, 2021, Husain spoke [00:27:12] at a “Globalize The Intifada” rally outside MoMA as part of “Phase 2” of the Strike MoMA campaign. 

Husain said [00:27:12]: “We are ending at the university, at NYU, and we’re really kind of reaching out to the students and to the faculty. Our groups Decolonize this Place, Within Our Lifetime, Globalize the Intifada is our way of building power and building a movement in the city and the students are critical to this work.”

“Globalize the Intifada” is an anti-Israel campaign launched by Within Our Lifetime (WOL) in the summer of 2021, intended as an “ongoing strike at the heart of empire [sic] with Palestine as its compass.” The movement seeks to “break free from the genocidal grip of U.S. imperialism and Zionism” and advocates “liberation by any means necessary.”  

Husain continued [00:27:37]: “So we’re here to support you and support the organizing that’s happening on campus. Don’t let them isolate schools, universities, we are connected in struggle and we have to be connected in organizing…” 

Supporting BDS

On October 11, 2021, Husain wrote a post on Facebook in support of his friend, artist Ian Alan Paul, who authored a letter in support of BDS to an Israeli art museum. 

Husain included a link to Paul’s letter and wrote in his post: “For those artists who stand in solidarity with the Palestine people and their call to #bds — an example how to respond when contacted by an Israeli institution or curator …”

On May 23, 2021, Husain wrote on Facebook that his political allies in the “artworld” should support BDS and “speak out against Zionism/Israelisettler colonialism/war crimes/apartheid/ethnic cleansing/military occupation...” 

Husain added: “you should know such positions will be challenged outright and publicly. You should know you can no longer talk about social justice, abolition, and decolonization without being explicit and clear about Palestine.”

Husain concluded: “YES, Free Palestine. To those who follow me or are ‘friends’ online, if the above sits with you the wrong way, at least now you know and you should unfollow me.”

On December 9, 2016, Husain shared to Instagram a photo showing Decolonize This Place activists and a light display on a building that read: “BDS is the floor not the ceiling.”

On July 29, 2016, Husain detailed in an interview how he uses art to promote politics, including BDS. He described an “intervention’’ that he organized with G.U.L.F. against the Guggenheim Museum, saying: “We had to get into the space undetected and break up into groups, and people put media they’d created themselves on the walls. It was a transgression; it caused harm to the museum and simultaneously allowed everyone to make their own art.”

In the interview, Husain also said: “Another example that emphasizes action more so than art and organizing would be the dropping of a 90 ft. x 45 ft. banner off of the Manhattan bridge that said: ‘Gaza in our hearts/Boycott/Divest/Sanction/Israel.’”

Husain continued: “We bought all of the pieces without credit cards and worked day and night for about 20 days, studying the NYPD and researching laws around federal terrorism charges. Then we did a successful action—and never got caught.’’

WOL

Within Our Lifetime (WOL) is a pro-terror activist group in New York City dedicated to Israel’s destruction within the lifetime of its members. 

Acts of violence and physical confrontations with police have frequently occurred at WOL protests and marches. WOL uses harassment campaigns to target pro-Israel organizations or companies that do business with Israel, making it a part of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. 

Multiple activists who have either burned Israeli flags or led chants at WOL rallies were later jailed for violent anti-Semitic hate crimes, including Saadah Masoud and Waseem Awawdeh. In Masoud’s case, he received 18 months in jail for an anti-Semitic assault at an April 2022 WOL rally and two other anti-Semitic assaults in 2021.

WOL promotes “resistance” against Israel “by any means necessary,” calls to “Globalize the Intifada,” spreads incitement and idolizes [00:34:06] Palestinian terrorists like Leila Khaled and others at rallies and online events.

WOL was founded by Nerdeen Kiswani and Dan Cione in 2015. Kiswani is a frequent speaker at WOL rallies where she has promoted terrorism against Israelis and called for the death of Zionists. She has also provided support for Masoud and other activists following their arrests. 

WOL began as the New York City chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), going by NYC SJP, but changed its name in 2018. The group is not found to be registered in any U.S. state as a nonprofit organization under its official name. Nor is there any listing for WOL under its name on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website for tax-exempt organizations.

BDS

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by Omar Barghouti in 2005 to challenge “international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.” BDS is an allegedly “Palestinian-led movement,” although leading BDS activists have admitted [00:01:01] this is not true. 

One of the demands of BDS includes [point 3] what is generally known as the “right of return,” a demand discredited as a way to eliminate Israel. Barghouti said the “right of return” is a means to “end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.”  

Barghouti has said that BDS “aims to turn Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.”

In his activism, Barghouti has also said [00:05:55] regarding Israel: “Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No…rational Palestinian, not a sellout Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”

The movement has been linked to numerous terrorist organizations and received a public endorsement from Hamas in 2017.

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 the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments and student groups, backed by their own anti-Israel members and affiliates, have proposed resolutions on some form of boycott of, or divestment from, Israel and Israeli-affiliated entities.

Boycott resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.

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 on campus. On one campus, when the student government debated a BDS resolution, reports emerged of violent threats against those opposing it.

SJP

SJP is a 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. Bazian has spread classic anti-Semitism, reportedly promoted religious anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group. In 2004, Bazian called for “intifada” in America.

SJP organizes anti-Israel campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks, often in collaboration with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Muslim Students Association (MSA) campus chapters.

SJP has been a major force in pushing the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement on campuses. Chapters have initiated dozens of BDS resolutions in student governments, which have been proposed on or around Jewish holidays, a time when many Jewish students are off-campus.

SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, disrupted pro-Israel campus events and demonized pro-Israel campus organizations.

Chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for numerous terrorists and whitewashed terrorism.

Social Media and Weblinks

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amin.husain.14 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/amh2011newyork [Deleted]

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/on_this_land/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/husain-amin-179b436/

University Website: https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/amh20.html [Deleted]