Over a month has passed since a professor at a prestigious private university was detained on serious charges during an anti-ICE demonstration, yet the institution remains tight-lipped about any disciplinary actions taken against her.
Eman Abdelhadi was apprehended on October 3 near the ICE processing center in Broadview, Illinois. She faces two felony charges of aggravated battery against a government employee, along with two misdemeanor charges for resisting or obstructing a peace officer.
Since the incident, the University of Chicago has not responded to numerous inquiries about Abdelhadi’s current employment status, any disciplinary measures imposed, or whether she continues to teach. The university also did not reply to the latest request for comment from Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
A mugshot of Eman Abdelhadi, dated October 3, 2025, was released by the Cook County Sheriff’s Office.
Abdelhadi, who serves as an assistant professor in the University’s Department of Comparative Human Development, still appears on the faculty profile page as of Wednesday. Her Bluesky profile identifies her as an “Assistant Prof at UChicago.”
While the university has publicly denounced political violence, it has not specifically addressed the situation involving Abdelhadi.
“Safety is a paramount concern at the University of Chicago. Violence runs contrary to the University’s core values of free and open inquiry, dialogue and debate,” Gerald McSwiggan, UChicago’s director of public affairs, told Fox News Digital in October. “The University promptly looks into any safety concerns, and takes action if necessary to uphold the safety of the University community.”
Abdelhadi has a sordid history with her employer. She cursed the school out at Socialism 2025, a conference for radical socialists, earlier this year.
The University of Chicago campus map on Oct. 18, 2022. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“F— the University of Chicago, it’s evil, you know it’s a colonial landlord. Like, why would I put any of my political energy into this space? I kind of had a little bit of disdain for people who spent their time doing that,” she said.
However, she reasoned that she could leverage the university for some form of power.
“Turns out, I work at one of the biggest employers in the city of Chicago. I work at a place that is a landlord, a healthcare provider, a police force, f— that s—, but, they are, and a place where I have access to thousands of people that I could potentially organize… actually, this is where I need to build power. That’s possible structural leverage,” she said.
She is a known anti-ICE activist, and just a day before her arrest, joined a far-left podcast to demonize federal law enforcement.
University of Chicago anti-Israel protest. (Getty)
“These people are terrorizing our communities and they’re setting up shop,” she said, referring to federal immigration officials. “I mean, in Broadview, ICE has been setting up shop in our backyard. Just brazenly taking up community resources to terrorize this very same community. And so it felt really important to join protesters out there to say, not in our city, not in our name, not in our backyard.”
“There’s no center left,” she said on the podcast. “You’re either resisting or you’re complicit.”
Abdelhadi is also a loud voice in the anti-Israel movement, often referring to the now-dormant war in Gaza as “genocide.”
Abdelhadi did not return a request for comment Wednesday.
Sign for the University of Chicago in the Hyde Park area of Chicago. (Istock)
Meanwhile, UChicago’s student newspaper, The Maroon, began tracking ICE operations in Chicago with an interactive in late October.
“The Maroon is documenting Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sightings in the Hyde Park, Kenwood, and Woodlawn neighborhoods on an interactive map following the launch of ICE’s Operation Midway Blitz last month,” the news article containing the map says.
The newspaper is also soliciting tips from the public about ICE’s whereabouts.
