San Francisco State University was ground zero for the rise of Islamist antisemitism on American college campuses. 
Back in the 90’s when UC Berkeley Professor Hatem Bazian was at San Francisco State University, he participated in an assault on the offices of the Golden Gater student newspaper accusing it of being full of Jewish spies. Jewish students had complained about anti-Semitic behavior by Bazian, in his role as student body president, and his campaign against Hillel, the leading Jewish campus organization, was a direct attempt to disenfranchise Jewish students.

The more things change, the more they stay the same at SFSU.

“Whose Narrative? 20 Years Since 9/11/2001,” is being co-sponsored by SFSU’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora (AMED) Studies Department as well as by Rutgers’ Center for Security, Race and Rights. The virtual event “includes speakers who have been convicted of terror and /or are affiliated with U.S. designated terror groups, as well as organizations who have incited violence and racial hatred,” Shalev wrote. He cited Dr. Sami Al-Arian as one example, noting that Al-Arian was deported from the United States to Turkey in 2015 after being convicted of having ties to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. Al-Arian also heads Istanbul Zaim University’s Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA), which held a conference featuring speakers with ties to Hamas, according Shalev.

Shalev also noted that the event will feature UC Berkeley Professor Hatem Bazian, the co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine and American Muslims for Palestine who has once called for an intifada, or armed uprising, in the United States. Additionally, one of the co-sponsors of the event is the Palestinian Youth Movement, which calls “for the liberation of Palestine through armed resistance, violence, and terror,” Shalev wrote.