Muslim Community College Professor Pleads Guilty

(UPDATE 10:20 PM EDT, MAY 5, 2026: According to Loay Alnaji’s attorney, Ron Bamieh, Ventura County Superior Court Judge Derek Malan indicated that he would sentence Alnaji to one yr in prison adopted by three years probation if he entered a guilty plea to all fees. Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko’s workplace is opposed to that potential sentence and is asking for the utmost sentence for Alnaji. Kessler’s household also opposes the deal. Sentencing has not yet occurred, and is scheduled for June 25, 2026. We are in the method of contacting Bamieh and the District Attorney’s workplace, and acquiring all data from Tuesday morning’s listening to.)

ORIGINAL STORY

In an unscheduled court look Tuesday morning, Loay Alnaji, the Muslim neighborhood school professor/pro-Hamas agitator who assaulted and killed a Jewish man during protests following the October 7 assaults on Israel, pled guilty to one depend of involuntary manslaughter and felony depend of battery inflicting critical bodily injury, with a critical felony enhancement and aggravating components of weapons use and susceptible sufferer for both counts.

Alnaji faces up to 4 years in prison for each felony depend, and will probably be sentenced in June.

On November 5, 2023, Alnaji was one of the leaders of a pro-Hamas demonstration in Thousand Oaks, California, organized by the Islamic Society of Simi Valley (ISSV), and Paul Kessler was one of a handful of pro-Israel counterprotesters. Alnaji hit Kessler in the face with a large steel bullhorn, inflicting Kessler to fall and fracture his cranium. Kessler died roughly seven hours after the altercation.

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At the time of Kessler’s death, Alnaji and his supporters claimed that Kessler was the aggressor and he “slipped.” They also claimed Alnaji and his fellow agitators have been merely peaceable protestors, but video RedState printed at the time contradicts that. Kessler and his fellow pro-Israel counter-protesters have been stationed across the road from the pro-Hamas mob, but the mob crossed to come to him and get in his face.

In this video, taken as Kessler was being loaded into an ambulance, you possibly can hear the pro-Hamas agitators’ blatant antisemitism at the 0:45 mark: “Hitler didn’t want you, Hitler didn’t want you, Hitler didn’t want you, Hitler should’ve smashed you.” The man shouting into the bullhorn has been recognized as Mamdouh Elalami, ISSV’s 2023 Man of the Year. (Warning: Strong language)

 

Elalami was joined in his antisemitic chants by ISSV’s Imam Shaykh Omar Jubran, the daddy of Kareem Jubran, a candidate for Mayor of Simi Valley and current Simi Valley Unified School District Trustee. In the years since Kessler was killed, ISSV obtained approval from town to vastly broaden their mosque, over vehement objections from neighbors.

Alnaji, a naturalized citizen initially from Jordan, has been on paid administrative depart from the Ventura County Community College District, where he was a pc science professor and school advisor for the Muslim Student Association, since his arrest in 2023.

According to court data, an amended data was filed by prosecutors in the case Tuesday morning. We have requested a copy of that and will update this story as more data turns into obtainable.

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