Rutgers University adviser routinely shares pro-Hamas social media posts, calls attacks on IDF soldiers ‘funny’
By David Spector, Emily Crane,
2024-05-21
A New Jersey lawyer who sits on one of Rutgers University’s advisory boards routinely shares bloodthirsty pro-Hamas content on his social media accounts — including a slew of posts celebrating attacks on Israeli soldiers as “hunting season.”
Rajeh A. Saadeh, a divorce and family attorney from New Jersey and member of the board of advisors for the school’s Center for Security, Race and Rights, has taken to sharing daily clips on his personal Instagram page of Israel Defense Forces personnel being gunned down in Gaza in the wake of the Oct. 7 terror attack.
In a video posted over the weekend that showed a Hamas terrorist appearing to assassinate three IDF soldiers, Saadeh captioned the video: “Say a prayer.”
“Three birds one stone,” he wrote alongside a similar post that showed three soldiers being blown up by a rocket-propelled grenade.
Another video showed Hamas fighters climbing out of tunnels and firing upon Israeli soldiers while chanting “Allah Akbar.”
“Scenes from an ongoing epic!” he captioned the clip, alongside the hashtags “funny” and “lol.”
Saadeh, who is also on the advisory for the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ New Jersey chapter, regularly retweets antisemitic content via his X account, too.
Among them is a string of reposts that claimed the discovery of Shani Louk’s body — the 22-year-old Israeli woman who was killed by Hamas and paraded half-naked through Gaza on Oct. 7 — was nothing more than a Zionist hoax.
Saadeh didn’t immediately respond to The Post on Tuesday about his social media posts. His Instagram bio notes, “From the River to the Sea Truth is always revolutionary.”
Saadeh’s slew of social media posts came to light the day before Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway was slated to testify before the House Education and Workforce Committee about antisemitism on college campuses .
Holloway is set to be grilled alongside the presidents of Northwestern University and the University of California-Los Angeles.
The president’s appearance in Washington, DC, comes after he agreed earlier this month to meet some demands of anti-Israel protesters who had erected a tent encampment on the Garden State campus.
“Over the last several days, the presidents of Northwestern and Rutgers have made shocking concessions to the unlawful antisemitic encampments on their campuses,” committee chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said in a statement announcing the upcoming testimony.
“They have surrendered to antisemitic radicals in despicable displays of cowardice.”
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So? Last time I checked we live in a free country.
Joan Karasinski
05-22
I would hope Rutgers would take some action to decelerate this situation. Free speech is one thing but to openly champion a terrorist group is questionable ethics. whatever this professor is teaching, contempt and hate should not be part of the curriculum.
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