That UChicago professor arrested for alleged battery on a cop? It’s Abdul El-Sayed’s sister.
It turns out that a controversial University of Chicago professor arrested last year for alleged felony aggravated battery on a police officer is the sister of Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan.
Eman Abdelhadi, an assistant professor focused on religion, gender, identity, and demography, is El-Sayed’s maternal half-sister, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
“A self-described ‘Queer Muslim’ and ‘community organizer’ who uses the pronouns ‘she/they,’ she has been at the center of far-left protests on campus,” the Beacon reported.
Abdelhadi, a signatory to an open letter pledging “solidarity” with the “Palestinian resistance” shortly after the October 7, 2023 slaughter of over a thousand Israelis by Hamas, she has been the focus of several College Fixreports over the last year.
In October, due to her aggressive actions at an anti-ICE protest, Abdelhadi was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated battery, a felony, and two counts of obstructing the peace, a misdemeanor, according to information from the Cook County Sheriff’s Office.
She argued that ICE officers had “rushed at unarmed protesters standing on a patch of grass.”
Last July, while speaking at a socialism conference, she called her employer, the University of Chicago, an “evil … colonial landlord” and a “police force.”
“Why would I organize here? I don’t care about this institution. Like I don’t — like f*** the University of Chicago […] Like, why would I put any of my political energy into this space? And I kind of had a moment of disdain for people who spent a lot of time doing that,” she reportedly said at the time.
Abdelhadi later told the Maroon campus newspaper that conservative media had “mischaracterized” her conference remarks, and “clarified” that she believes UChicago should “wield its influence more responsibly.”
In November, she posted on social media after the death of former Vice President Dick Cheney: “Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death.”
Abdelhadi added: “You don’t have to mourn war criminals. You don’t have to issue condolences to their families. You don’t have to launder their legacies. Save your grief for the innocents they killed, maimed or tortured without ever seeing justice served to their executioners.”
The Washington Free Beacon reported:
Abdelhadi is the author of the “funky, commie, queer novel” Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune alongside her “bestie,” coauthor M.E. O’Brien, a “trans communist” who wrote the 2023 book Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care. The novel is a fictionalized “oral history” of “sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes” who band together to create a “radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse.” It depicts a “communized” New York in which police are abolished and the nuclear family is replaced by “caretaking relationships within the commune.” It also depicts a Middle East in which Israel is destroyed by a “Final Intifada.”
The University of Chicago did not immediately respond to a College Fix request for comment Friday on Abdelhadi’s teaching schedule for the fall semester. Her faculty bio remains active on the University of Chicago’s website.
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