🧵 Why settle for screenshots of tweets from Eman Abdelhadi, Abdul El-Sayed’s half-sister, when the video is 1,000x…

Stu Smith@thestustustudio · Jul 6, 2025

Eman Abdelhadi: “F*** the University of Chicago... but it’s my best shot at power.” At Socialism 2025, @UChicago professor Eman Abdelhadi called her employer “evil colonial landlord." Use it. Organize it. Seize its structural leverage. “We don’t have power... but I work at one of the biggest employers in Chicago... a place with thousands of people I could potentially organize... This is where I need to build power.” She openly says it’s “brutal” organizing academics. But despite her disdain, Abdelhadi sees the university as a tactical weapon—to build a Palestine-aligned political base from within.

Stu Smith@thestustustudio · Sep 15, 2025

This is University of Chicago professor Eman Abdelhadi laying out her vision of a post-capitalist world — one that begins with abolishing the family: “The sort of destruction of the nuclear family, or the replacement of the nuclear family becomes a huge part of that… all of those needs are met by the collective, are met by the commune.” She brushes aside critiques of the Soviet Union as “capitalist propaganda” and then laments the “material constraints” of life under capitalism: “The push towards coupledom, the push towards monogamy, the push towards compulsive heterosexuality.” In other words, marriage, family, and even monogamy are cast as oppression. The reality? The family is the strongest engine of human flourishing. Decades of research show that stable families give children better outcomes, strengthen communities, and make parents healthier and happier. And if your activist radar suspects her shirt is hiding an offensive message, you’re right — stick around to see it.

Stu Smith@thestustustudio · Aug 2, 2025

🚨 The Family Must Go: DSA Panel Pushes Full-Scale Cultural Revolution “I want to perform abortions at a church before it’s all said and done.” “The only real difference between marriage and prostitution is the price and the duration of the contract.” “Sex work and marriage can’t exist without each other—they’re two sides of the same coin.” “We argue for abolition of the family in general… the institution of the family acts as part of the carceral system.” “When we talk about family abolition, we’re talking about the abolition of the economic unit… all of our material needs taken care of by the collective.” I don’t know what the National Democratic Socialists of America are thinking—but they just uploaded a panel to their YouTube channel from Socialism 2025 called “The Left and the Family,” and no surprise, it is anti-family, anti-children, and deeply disturbing. The panelists: – Emily Janakiram, writer and organizer with New York City for Abortion Rights – Katie Gibson, Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago – Eman Abdelhadi, University of Chicago sociologist (and somehow the most reasonable one) This is their “future of care”: abolish the family, collectivize child-rearing, normalize sex work, and radicalize children into the movement. It feels like the Democratic Socialists of America are drunk off their Zohran Mamdani win—and now they want to burn the whole house down.

Stu Smith@thestustustudio · Jul 31, 2025

At tonight’s Democratic Socialists of America mass call titled Fight Fascism, Build Socialism, University of Chicago professor Eman Abdelhadi offered a revealing look into the DSA worldview when it comes to Zohran Mamdani. “What we saw with the Mamdani campaign isn't just that he won despite Palestine and every mainstream media outlet painted it as a fight between him and New York Jews.” Abdelhadi doubled down. “Mamdani won the Jewish vote in New York. He won it. He won the Jewish vote. Not only that, it wasn't despite Palestine that he won, it was because of Palestine... We had data coming out this past week showing that people came out to vote for him specifically because he was against the genocide.” Abdelhadi went on to say that the public stands with DSA on all the winning issues. “The public stands with us on trans rights. The public stands with us on unions. The public stands with us on against ICE. The public stands with us against capitalism.” For Abdelhadi, DSA is the engine for revolutionary transformation. “Now is the time to build the power to actually deliver what it is that the American public wants. DSA is the best positioned organization in the country to do that... I hope you do it for Palestine. I hope you do it for trans rights... I hope you do it for every cause we care about.”

Stu Smith@thestustustudio · Nov 7, 2025

🚨 UChicago Prof: Americans Didn’t “Take to the Streets” to Defend Harvard — Calls for a “Radical Horizon” to Remake Universities University of Chicago professor and resident activist Eman Abdelhadi, who was recently arrested after showing up at an ICE processing facility in Illinois and charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery of a government employee, now says the public didn’t “take to the streets” when Harvard, Northwestern, and other elite universities came under fire. Abdelhadi claims universities have “not managed to articulate our benefit to the broader society” and insists campus organizers must pursue what she openly calls a “radical horizon.” “For those of us who organize in universities this needs to be the radical horizon… the university as truly a public good.” And when Abdelhadi says “public good,” she does not mean better access or a more affordable tuition. She means a university stripped of merit standards, remade as a political engine, and expected to pour its resources into local activist projects. Encampments are repeatedly held up as the model for what she envisions.