A far-left professor at the University of Chicago was arrested Friday and charged with violent felonies stemming from riots at an ICE facility in the suburbs of the city. 

Associate Professor Eman Abdelhadi of the University of Chicago’s Department of Comparative Human Development was arrested on Oct. 3 and charged with two counts of aggravated battery to a government employee, a Class 3 felony, and two counts of resisting/obstructing peace, a Class A misdemeanor, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Monday to Fox News Digital.

Abdelhadi was released from custody after her initial appearance on Saturday. 

A mugshot of Eman Abdelhadi from Oct. 3, 2025.  (Cook County Sheriff’s Office)

The professor spoke on a panel called “Revolutionary Accompaniment: Holding Each Other When Things Fall Apart.” 

According to the Truthout interview, she also organizes with Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at the University of Chicago, and has referred to the war in Gaza as a “genocide.” 

“This is a painful lesson that a lot of us in the Palestine solidarity movement have been learning is that we don’t have power… what we don’t have is power… the question I’m asking myself, and I’m asking you to ask yourself, ‘is where can I actually build power?’” she said at Socialism 2025. 

Much of her X feed consists of resharing posts that are critical of Israel, but she shares some posts of her own. 

Federal law enforcement agents break up protesters outside of an immigrant processing center with a barrage of tear gas and pepper balls on Sept. 27, 2025, in Broadview, Illinois. The demonstrators were protesting a recent surge in ICE apprehensions in the Chicago area, part of a push by the Trump administration dubbed Operation Midway Blitz.  (Getty Images)

“Do you see that fight for Palestine is the fight for the whole world? A world where no one is disposable, where no one is disappeared—not by ICE or the IDF, where the will of the people of the world matters more than the will of profit and empire. Do you see it?” she recently wrote.

Abdelhadi did not return a request for comment.

Fox News’ David Spector contributed to this report.