An NYU adjunct professor and firebrand pro-Palestinian activist told a group of students at a recent “teach-in” that allegations that Hamas beheaded Israeli babies were “not true” — and denounced New York City as “Zionist,” according to a video from the event.
Amin Husain, 48, led a foul-mouthed discussion about the war in Israel at The New School, organized by the radical group Students of Justice in Palestine, on Dec. 5, during which he defended the Palestinians’ right to fight for their liberation — and played down claims of Hamas atrocities.
“They’re trying to say… ‘Oh my god, you support rapists and people that behead babies,’ both of which, whatever, we know it’s not true,” Amin says in a 2-minute clip taken from the live stream of the event that was first obtained by The Free Press.
In the recording, Husain, a part-time faculty member of NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, is seen seated behind a desk in the traditional Arabic keffiyeh headdress facing his audience.
“We live in a Zionist city,” Husain proclaims. “Let’s be f—ing real… these people can come up and say because of keffiyeh you should go back to your country.”
One of the students chimes in: “We’re trying.”
Husain decries the purported discrimination against Muslims as “bulls–t” — before mocking a petition started by an NYU alum last year calling for his firing.
“I have a petition going around, right, because I’m antisemitic. I won the honors of antisemitic multiple times, by the way,” the NYU staffer says.
Husain goes on to say that his profile on the website Canary Mission, which documents professors, student activists and organizations that promote hatred of the US, Israel and Jews on college campuses, “is one of the best biographies I have.”
“It’s endless. The citations are better than I could ever imagine,” he quips, drawing laughter from his listeners. “And everything they cite is true.”
Husain’s pages-long entry on Canary Mission’s portal states that he “has organized multiple violent New York City disruptions, promoted hatred of America and the police and incited hatred against pro-Israel supporters with Within Our Lifetime (WOL), an anti-Israel activist group in New York.”
The educator’s online dossier further states that Husain has claimed to have participated in a series of violent protests and riots staged by Palestinians between the late 1980s and early 1990s, known as the First Intifada, “and personally visited a leader of the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad.”
“He has also expressed support for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group and glorified its leaders, promoted other terrorists and spread hatred of Israel,” the watchdog group’s introduction reads.
Husain is the founding member of the radical activist group Decolonize This Place, which praised the Palestinian resistance as “heroic” a day after the deadly Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, and previously made headlines by causing disruptions in the New York City subway system.
During the “teach-in” at The New School, Husain openly defended the various factions involved in what he called the Palestinian “liberation struggle.”
“These groups are fighting for the liberation of their people and the land. That’s a right. You do it,” he says in the video. “If you don’t like Hamas, right? Free the land and the people.”
The Post has reached out to Husain Thursday seeking comment on the inflammatory content of his “teach-in.”
The New School didn’t immediately respond to request for comment.
His bio on NYU’s website states that Husain has a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Valparaiso University, a law degree from Indiana University School of Law, and a Master of Laws from the prestigious Columbia University School of Law.
Between 2016-2022, Husain had taught a course at NYU Gallatin called “Art, Activism, And Beyond.”
The Post has contacted the university to find out Husain’s current employment status.
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Snejana Farberov
