Well, whaddya know, radical leftist and candidate for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, has an equally radical half-sister about whom I have written twice. Her name is Eman Abdelhadi. She is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Comparative Human Development who first came to my attention in 2024 when student protests in support of Hamas led to calls for withholding federal funds from leftist activist universities. I wrote,
There are increasing calls for stopping the flow of federal funds directly or indirectly to colleges and universities with bloated bureaucracies, huge endowments, and faculty committed to leftist propagandizing. Lawmakers should heed those calls and close the spigot to bigots and other assorted demagogues and miscreants who propagate anti-America hatred; anti-Semitism; anti-white, anti-male, and anti-heteronormativity bigotry; and absurd, dangerous anti-woman/anti-science superstitions about biological sex.
Abdul El-Sayed’s half-sister, the keffiyeh-wearing Abdelhadi, was one of the leftist activists about whom I wrote:
Closer to home we find University of Chicago’s Eman Abdelhadi, socialist, labor organizer, and “queer Muslim,” who believes that “capitalism is at the root of pretty much all of our social ills and … plays a lot into all the oppressions that we face.”
She ironically described the [University of Chicago] administration’s response to the student protest in support of Hamas as terrorism: “The point of this raid was terror. They waited for those kids to fall asleep. And then they pulled the tents from under them while they were sleeping. Shame on the University of Chicago.”
Poor sleepy revolutionaries. It’s so hard to fulfill Abdelhadi’s revolutionary fever dreams without a solid eight hours cradled in the arms of Morpheus—dreams that Abdelhadi described on the social justice news website Truthout: “The encampment was not only a triumph of revolutionary thinking, it was also a triumph of revolutionary practice. In a reactionary present whose days are clearly numbered, each encampment was a practice run for a revolutionary future. Every time we seize a space in this world and decide to run it for ourselves, decide to feed ourselves, to shelter ourselves, to keep each other safe — we beckon to a revolutionary horizon.”
A year ago in August 2025, I wrote about a special Independence Day event, Socialism 2025, held in Chicago at which El-Sayed’s radical sister spoke:
University of Chicago assistant professor/activist—mainly activist—Eman Abdelhadi confessed her reasons for working at a university she loathes: “I don’t care about this institution. Like I don’t—like fuck the University of Chicago. It’s evil. … It’s a colonial landlord. … And a place where I have access to thousands of people that I potentially organize. … this is where I need to build power. … [T]his is my best possible structural leverage.”
She actually said the quiet part aloud. Abdelhadi has no commitment to the University of Chicago’s motto: “Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched.” Instead, she is using her position to acquire power and create activists who will serve political goals antithetical to truth and decency.
This is yet another reminder to keep your kids out of institutions of indoctrination where propaganda is systemic. …
Everywhere socialism/communism has been tried, it has failed. The people become impoverished and dispirited, and a powerful corrupt ruling class emerges. Chicago is a fitting location for a socialist conference.
Abdelhadi spoke at five breakout sessions titled “The Left and the Family,” “Anti-Colonial Political Education,” “Revolutionary Accompaniment: Holding Each Other When Things Fall Apart,” “What’s Next for the Palestine Solidarity Movement,” “All Our Movements in This Together.”
The description of “The Left and the Family” session includes this:
Socialist analysis makes clear that the nuclear family form is an inherently repressive, racist, and hetereo-sexist [sic] institution that functionally reinforces and reproduces capitalism. … Is a politics of family abolition in tension with a leftist family agenda focused on policies like universal preschool, child tax credits, and more?
Radicals have long found comfy homes in our esteemed universities from which they have been working tenaciously to deconstruct and then re-construct a new unrecognizable America. And now these radicals and their disciples are moving into positions of political power. After indoctrination comes activism.