(Jewish News of Northern California) Students with Stanford University’s pro-Palestinian encampment announced on social media their plans to host an imam with a long history of antisemitic statements and calls for a Muslim caliphate in the U.S.
Amir Abdel Malik Ali is scheduled to speak at 5 p.m. Wednesday at White Plaza, site of the tent encampment on campus, according to three Instagram accounts associated with the protest.
Born Derek Gilliam, Ali is a California imam who “promotes anti-Semitism, violence and conspiracy theories that blame the U.S. government and Jews for attacks by Islamic terrorists,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which profiled the religious leader back in a 2011 report of “10 leading domestic jihadists.”
