Overview: Ibrahim Abusharif [Ibrahim N. Abusharif] has supported terror financiers and spread hatred of Israel.

As of November 2021, Abusharif’s LinkedIn page said he was an Associate Professor in Residence of Journalism at Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) since August 2013 and an Associate Professor of Journalism at NU-Q from August 2008 to July 2013.

As of the same date, Abusharif’s LinkedIn page said he was a Lecturer at Northwestern University (NU) in Evanston, Illinois, in 2008.

Abusharif was reportedly the former editor of Islamic Horizons magazine, published by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) in 1991.

In 2000, Abusharif was reportedly a partner in Starlatch Press, “a publisher of English-language books aimed at educating Muslims and non-Muslims about the religious, spiritual and cultural aspects of Islam."

Abusharif was also a founder, editor and treasurer of the Quranic Literacy Institute (QLI), a Oak Lawn, Illinois-based not-for-profit organization that ostensibly worked to translate the Quran and other Islamic texts from Arabic to English via “the “Quran Project."

QLI was revealed to be a “money-laundering clearinghouse" for the Hamas terror organization, during the time Abusharif served as QLI’s treasurer from 1990-1998.

Supporting Terror Financiers

In 1998, during Abusharif’s tenure as QLI’s Treasurer, QLI was found guilty of funneling money, to the Hamas terror organization.

On June 9, 1998, the U.S. Federal government filed a complaint of forfeiture against QLI alleging the organization “for nine years supported ‘a conspiracy involving international terrorist activities and domestic recruitment and training in support of such activities’" for Hamas.

The complaint resulted in the U.S. government’s seizure of more than $1 million of QLI’s assets in 1999.

The QLI funds directed to Hamas were also the subject of a 2004 civil lawsuit against QLI for “aiding and abetting Hamas in the death of a 17-year-old citizen, U.S. David Boim."

Boim was gunned down by Hamas terrorists in 1996 as he stood with friends at a bus stop near Jerusalem.

In the November 2004 lawsuit against QLI, Boim v. Quranic Literacy Institute, the U.S. District Court For The Northern District of Illinois commented that “as the Treasurer of QLI and as an active volunteer with both QLI and the Quran Project, Mr. Abusharif would seem to have first-hand knowledge of why QLI and the Quran Project were started, and what went on at the business."

In December 2004, QLI was found guilty of funding terrorist activities and liable to pay compensation to David Boim’s family. The federal jury entered a $52 million judgment against the charities and the trial judge tripled the amount to $156 million.

In 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed [p.39] the judgment against QLI.

Spreading Hatred of Israel

On January 19, 2019, Abusharif tweeted a New York Times piece titled: “Time to Break the Silence on Palestine" and commented: “Bold, interesting piece." The piece accused Israel of adopting “practices reminiscent of apartheid in South Africa and Jim Crow segregation in the United States" and promoted BDS.

Abusharif retweeted an April 7, 2018 tweet that read: “Israeli forces have killed dozens in Gaza since March 30, including Yaser Murtaja, a brave photojournalist wearing a vest marked ‘Press.’ All countries must condemn Israel's shooting of unarmed Palestinians, who have every right to protest and demand their human rights."

On March 30, 2018, some 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza approached Israel’s border to take part in “Land Day Protests" or the “March of Return." The violent demonstrations were instigated by Hamas on the Israeli-Gaza border. Participants declared their intention to harm Jews across the border under the pretext of “peaceful resistance."

March participants sent scores of kites bearing explosive devices across Israel’s border to burn Israeli crops and homes. Rioters also made numerous attempts to breach Israel’s border fence, which caused the Israeli Defense Forces to respond with live fire.

Agitators also threw Molotov cocktails, firebombs, shot firearms and threw rocks under the cover of smoke from burning tires.

Most of the Gazans who died between March 30, 2018 and April 6, 2018 were identified as terror operatives who were killed while rioting against IDF forces, carrying out terrorist attacks, or attempting to breach the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip.

Yasser Murtaja, a photojournalist, was reportedly a Hamas spy who used drones to film Israeli positions. Murtaja was shot on April 6, 2018, as he filmed the 2018 “March of Return" protest in Gaza.

NU-Q Courses

In September 2020, Abusharif was listed as an instructor for a course in the Fall of 2020 at NU-Q titled: “Journalistic Storytelling Across Media "

The course description stated: “Students will produce a range of journalism stories across a variety of forms and platforms: writing for print and digital outlets, as well as creating audio, video and interactive graphics. You will also learn how to amplify your storytelling by tapping into social media tools to reach, attract and interact with a wider audience."

Abusharif was also slated to teach a course in the Fall of 2020, titled: “Storytelling: Magazine and Feature Writing."

The course description stated: “Magazine and Feature Writing students will be introduced to the editorial flank of the magazine world (online and print)—a vast and storied part of not just journalism but public debate, controversy, and exchange of ideas."

In the Spring of 2020, Abusharif taught a nine-week course, titled: “News Gathering and Assessment."

The course description stated: “Focuses on news gathering as the ‘science of verification,’...You will gather and verify information to produce new pieces of reporting as well as adding facts and context to existing reporting as part of ethical aggregation and curation."

Also in Spring 2020, Abusharif taught a course titled: “Special Topics: Media and Religion."

The course description stated: “Matters of faith and its practices, contestations, pamphleteering, violence, social backlashes, and fictive storylines are all fodder for media content and for provoking crucial global conversations."
Qatar - Terrorism
Qatar is one of the primary state backers of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and has provided funding for Hamas in the past. Qatar facilitates funding to advance extremism around the world, including the West.

Founded in Egypt 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational Islamist organization, listed as a terrorist organization in at least six countries, including Egypt, Russia and Saudi Arabia. Hamas, a terrorist group dedicated to Israel’s destruction, is listed as one of the Brotherhood’s offshoots.

Hamas has been designated a terrorist organization by the European Union, Canada, Australia, the United States and Israel.

The Hamas founding charter has called for the murder of Jews, and Hamas has hosted “summer camps," that taught children how to wage war.