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That UChicago professor arrested for alleged battery on a cop? It’s Abdul El-Sayed’s sister.
The College Fix ^ | 15 Aug 2026 | Jennifer Kabbany

Posted on 08/16/2026 7:39:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan

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 Fix reports 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.

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KEYWORDS: abdulelsayed; elsayedcrimefamily; emanabdelhadi; terrorist

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The U of Chicago probably costs at least $70K a year. And this is what is on the faculty?!
1 posted on 08/16/2026 7:39:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

She’s not mentally stable


2 posted on 08/16/2026 7:41:33 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: butlerweave

And an out lesbian. I’m sure she’d be welcome in Gaza.


3 posted on 08/16/2026 7:42:17 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.)
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“…A self-described ‘Queer Muslim’…”

Such a crazy beast could only live in America.

4 posted on 08/16/2026 7:46:32 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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The U of Chicago probably costs at least $70K a year. And this is what is on the faculty?!

It had issues in the 1980s, and has gotten steadily worse.
5 posted on 08/16/2026 7:47:04 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Rummyfan

I see arrested. How about tried, convicted and imprisoned?


6 posted on 08/16/2026 8:04:25 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (If the Islamic Republic government is in power in Iran when the war is over, we will have lost.)
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To: KarlInOhio

It will be plea bargained to misdemeanors and she’ll walk with probation.


7 posted on 08/16/2026 8:05:52 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

For most part universities are a grift on those paying tuition and on the taxpayers. They produce many who are mentally unstable, self-loathing, variously perverted and politically radical. What a corrosive waste in society. Many professors are absolute losers in life...except they grift outrageous salaries ands benefits.


8 posted on 08/16/2026 8:07:01 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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UChicago is private. They can waste their money any way their governing board and alumni are willing to allow it.


9 posted on 08/16/2026 8:09:37 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Rummyfan

He was arrested and charged with battery, not an alleged battery.


10 posted on 08/16/2026 8:17:11 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Rummyfan

Apparently, you do not need to be either smart or mentally stable to be a college professor.


11 posted on 08/16/2026 8:20:54 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell warned us about Rivers of Blood. Well, I sure hope they're coming. It's the only fix.)
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She uses two subjective pronouns? I hope she lets people know when she is feeling singular and when she is feeling plural.


12 posted on 08/16/2026 8:30:41 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: Reily
UChicago is private. They can waste their money any way their governing board and alumni are willing to allow it.

The following from Claude does NOT include studenty loan/Pell Grant aid:

The cleanest single number: UChicago's grants and contracts totaled $662 million in fiscal 2025, down from $711 million in fiscal 2024. Federal sources make up the large majority of that, historically around 80 to 85 percent, so federal dollars to the university proper run roughly $550 million or so a year. For scale, that sits against a total university budget of about $3.2 billion.

UChicago manages Argonne National Laboratory and co-manages Fermilab through separate contracting entities. Those labs run on DOE appropriations in the range of a billion-plus and several hundred million respectively, and that money is genuinely federal money flowing through a UChicago-affiliated management structure.

Depending on which convention someone is using, "federal money to UChicago" can therefore be quoted anywhere from about $550 million to well over $2 billion, and both figures can be defended. It's worth pinning down which one a given source means.
13 posted on 08/16/2026 8:32:52 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Reily

UChicago is private.

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It gets a ton of government money, so it’s not a private university.


14 posted on 08/16/2026 8:41:28 AM PDT by TTFX
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To: Rummyfan

De-naturalize and deport


15 posted on 08/16/2026 8:52:26 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Rummyfan

Is she ever critical of expansionist, colonialist, hegemonic Islam?

Does she ever want to teach at an Arab university so she can speak truth to power there and punch up?

Not likely.


16 posted on 08/16/2026 8:57:28 AM PDT by heartwood
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This family raised some truly aggressive radicals.

tell us more about the parents.


17 posted on 08/16/2026 8:59:02 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

18 posted on 08/16/2026 8:59:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Rummyfan

In the future, published arrest records should include nationality, ethnic origin and political party affiliation. /s


19 posted on 08/16/2026 9:04:36 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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Well, she’s exactly what the U of Chicago wanted. They hired her.

Liberal parents forking over $70k a year apparently don’t care.


20 posted on 08/16/2026 9:34:32 AM PDT by simpson96
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