Last updated: May 10, 2026

Sahar Aziz

Sahar Aziz is a Rutgers University law professor who has spread antisemitism, expressed support for Hamas terrorism, promoted hatred of Israel and engaged in anti-Israel activism. She is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

As of April 2023, Aziz was listed as vice president of the Westfield, New Jersey School Board of Education.

In May 9, 2023, Aziz was the subject of a New Jersey School Ethics Commission investigation into allegations of anti-Semitic conduct, according to a June 2023 article in the Tri-State area news site Jewish Link. Some of the conduct in question included sharing material calling for Israel’s destruction.

In December 2023, My Central Jersey reported that the New Jersey School Ethics Commission decided that Aziz's statements "did not violate the ethics rules because they did not relate to the school district.” The report said that her statements were controversial and “likely to be perceived as offensive and hurtful to members of the district's Jewish community as well as the Jewish community as a whole."

As of September 2024, Aziz was listed as a “Distinguished Professor of Law, and Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar” at Rutgers University Law School (Rutgers Law).

Also as of September 2024, Aziz was listed as the director of the Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights (CSRR). She was further listed as its founding member. As of July 2024, CSRR was under investigation by the Republican majority on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for the center’s pro-terror and anti-Semitic views, as well as the events it organized.

As of September 2024, Aziz’s LinkedIn profile said she received a JD from the University of Texas School of Law in 2004. She also graduated from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) with a master’s degree in Middle East studies and law in 2001.

Also as of September 2024, Aziz’s LinkedIn said she was located in Newark, New Jersey.

On February 21, 2024, Aziz participated in a webinar organized by the CSRR titled: “Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine.” Aziz spoke alongside anti-Israel professor Noura Erakat.

During the webinar, Aziz claimed [01:02:39] that “Jewish American communities” enjoy “white privileging and white fragility.”

Aziz later said [01:04:09]: “...the Jewish American communities are privileged and their voices are centered, their experiences are centered, and the entire infrastructure of civil rights and human rights – I’m talking in the US context – is centered around them. That's called privilege. Right?”

Aziz continued and said [01:05:01], referring to American Jews: “They are privileged vis-à-vis their Muslim, their Palestinian, their Arab counterparts and colleagues. And, so, with privilege comes responsibility and not the abuse of that privilege to oppress other people, particularly if you also want people to pay attention and to care about the various ways in which your community may be oppressed in the more, what we'll call, traditional, Eurocentric, ‘white nationalist’ anti-Semitic form of repression.”

On March 30, 2023, a Westfield, New Jersey resident filed an amended complaint with the New Jersey School Ethics Commission against Aziz, replacing a complaint filed the previous month. The resident filed the complaint with the Deborah Project, a “public interest law firm representing victims of antisemitism and anti-Zionism in education.”

The summary of the amended complaint on the Deborah Project website alleged that Aziz violated her ethical duty as the then-vice president of the Westfield school board to appear non-biased on her public social media posts by publicly claiming that “Jewish people have no historical connection to the land of Israel, and that their presence there is an exercise in ‘settler colonialism.’”

The Deborah Project’s summary of the amended complaint further noted that Aziz signed a June 2021 “manifesto” in which she “committed to ensuring that all educational activities in which she participates will advance the belief that the State of Israel ‘enshrines’ the concept of ‘the racial supremacy of Jewish Zionist nationals.’”

The amended complaint alleged [p. 3]: “...this board of education member has spoken publicly–not on her private Facebook page, but using her bully pulpit while a New Jersey education official–to attack the Jewish people…utilizing Nazi terminology, invoking the Jewish commitment to Zion as proof that Jews believe themselves to be the ‘master race.’”

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) highlights as one possible contemporary example of anti-Semitism: “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” The U.S. State Department adopted the IHRA’s working definition of anti-Semitism in 2016. Over 40 countries have adopted the definition as well.

While the New Jersey School Ethics Commission voted to dismiss the ethics complaint against Aziz in December 2023, it decided the Deborah Project complaint was not frivolous and denied Aziz's request for sanctions against it.

On October 30, 2023, Aziz posted on X about Hamas terrorists: “The world would rather show solidarity with our corpses than honor our resistance.”

Anti-Israel activists use the term “resistance” to refer to violence and terror perpetrated against Israeli civilians and their allies. It is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence. Anti-Israel activists chant slogans such as: “Resistance by any means necessary!” and “Resistance is justified when people are occupied!” in response to terror attacks.

Aziz’s October 30, 2023 post on X linked to an article from the anti-Israel website Mondoweiss that featured a photo of Hamas terrorists approaching Israel’s border fence with Gaza on October 7, 2023.

On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation.

Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” As of November 10, 2023, approximately 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.

A terrorist detained by Israel admitted he raped an Israeli woman when he broke into a kibbutz house during the October 7, 2023 attack. In March 2024, a former hostage of Hamas publicly stated she was sexually abused and tortured while in captivity.

For more information on the October 7, 2023 terror attacks, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.

Two years earlier, during an Israeli operation against Hamas and another terror group in Gaza, Aziz signed [p. 3] a May 2021 letter titled: “Rutgers University Faculty Stand in Solidarity with the Palestinian People.”

The letter Aziz signed stated [p. 1]: “Rutgers University faculty condemn Israel’s military assault against the Palestinian people…”

The letter further said [p. 2]: “...Israel’s right to ‘self-defense’ erases the colonial context and delegitimizes the Palestinian right to resistance…”

In May 2021, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists fired over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at major population centers in Israel. Israel responded by launching “Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW),” carrying out targeted military strikes in Gaza.