Hatem Bazian: On the Record

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Documented record

• July 31, 2017: On July 31, 2017, Hatem Bazian — a UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies lecturer, co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine, and prominent campus BDS advocate — retweeted an image of a Hasidic Jewish man captioned with a blood-libel/ethnic-slur meme tagged "#Ashke-Nazi," which UC Berkeley's administration publicly said "clearly crossed the line." MOM LOOK! I IS CHOSEN! I CAN NOW KILL, RAPE, SMUGGLE ORGANS & AND STEAL THE LAND OF PALESTINIANS *YAY* ASHKE-NAZI Source 1 Source 2

Where Galil stands

Our opinion: We don't stand with public academics who broadcast blood-libel imagery and ethnic slurs against Jews to their own followers, whatever framing they offer afterward.

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Sources manually reviewed 2026-07-27. Corrections and later context will be appended to this page.