Amin Husain

Amin Husain is a Palestinian-American activist and adjunct professor. He is the lead organizer of Decolonize This Place and the MTL+ co-founder whose organization is founded on five main issues: Free Palestine, Indigenous Struggle, Black Liberation, Global Wage Workers, and de-gentrification. He is part of the part-time faculty at New York University and focuses on resistance and liberation and postcolonial theory in his teaching. He is a founding member of Global Ultra Luxury Faction; founding member and managing editor of the magazine Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy; founding member of the collective MTL; and founding member of NYC Solidarity with Palestine.He has directed and produced an experimental documentary film about Palestinian Territories titled, On This Land.He is a supporter of New York City Students for Justice in Palestine and is an active supporter of the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) movement, emphasizing the cultural and academic boycott of Israel.

He has called BDS the tool to blur the distinction “between violence and nonviolence.” In 2012, at an Occupy Wall Street demonstration on “Al-Quds Day” he stated that he grew up in Palestine and was a member of Fatah and part of the resistance movement to Israel. He said, “Then I came over here, searching for an American Dream that has never existed…I’m fighting for Palestine by fighting here.” In 2019, he led the weekly protest at the Whitney Museum in New York called the “Nine Weeks of Art and Action” to protest Warren B. Kanders’ position as the vice-chair of Whitney's board. At the end of the protest on May 17, 2019, the protestors walked to Kanders home.

He recently was the mastermind of an assault of the NYC subway, which caused $100,000 worth of damage. NYU has since pulled his contact information from their website.

He has a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Valparaiso University, a J.D. from Indiana University School of Law and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School.