Dr. Hatem Bazian is the chairman of the American Muslims for Palestine. He is also a senior lecturer in the departments of Near Eastern and Ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Bazian is the co-founder of the first chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine and he founded the Center for the Study and Documentation of Islamophobia, a research unit dedicated to the systematic study of the ‘othering’ of Islam and Muslims at UC Berkeley