Posted on 11/07/2025 8:51:58 AM PST by DFG
Princeton University is launching a new anthropology course on "Gender, Reproduction, and Genocide" in Gaza, a class whose description puts the Israel-Hamas war on par with the Holocaust. The for-credit, graded course is being taught by a "noted Palestinian feminist" who has made provably false claims that Hamas did not kill babies or rape women on Oct. 7, and also called for an end to the Jewish state.
"Drawing on decolonial, Indigenous, and feminist thought, we examine how genocidal projects target reproductive life, sexual and familial structures, and community survival," the course description reads. "Students will engage reproductive justice frameworks, survivor testimony, and Palestinian feminist critiques of colonial violence, while situating Gaza within comparative histories of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and genocide against Black and Indigenous populations."
Undergraduates who take the class can get credit toward an anthropology major or toward a minor in "gender and sexuality studies."
Instructing the course is Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a scholar who "retired" under pressure last year from her professorship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem after she was suspended—and arrested and briefly detained for incitement—for her inflammatory, anti-Israel rhetoric.
The suspension came in March 2024, after Shalhoub-Kevorkian accused Israel and its supporters of lying about Hamas's atrocities, including rapes and killing babies. She also said the State of Israel should be destroyed.
"It’s time to abolish Zionism," she said, according to the Times of Israel. "It can't continue, it's criminal. Only by abolishing Zionism can we continue. They will use any lie. They started with babies, they continued with rape, and they will continue with a million other lies. We stopped believing them, I hope the world stops believing them."
She also claimed Israelis act scared when they hear her speaking Arabic, adding they "should be afraid because criminals are always afraid. They cannot dispossess my land, they cannot displace my people. They cannot kill and not be afraid, so they better be afraid."
In late March, Shalhoub-Kevorkian changed her tune and, according to a university official she met with, "clarified" that, as a feminist, she believed Oct. 7 victims' claims that they were raped. She did not retract her allegation that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza.
Seven months later, Princeton welcomed Shalhoub-Kevorkian to its anthropology department as a Global South Visiting Scholar. She was later named the Stanley Kelley, Jr., Visiting Professorship for Distinguished Teaching.
Princeton, which is a relatively small university that does not have medical, law, or business schools, is by far the wealthiest university in the country when measured by enrollment, with $4 million in its endowment per full-time student.
The university's president, Christopher Eisgruber, has largely flown under the radar while his Ivy League counterparts at far larger Columbia, Penn, and Harvard universities—which are more dependent on federal grants—were forced to resign over their handling of campus anti-Semitism.
The Trump administration suspended dozens of Princeton's federal grants—totaling roughly $200 million—in April, but half of those were restored by August.
Shalhoub-Kevorkian's course—and her presence on campus in an exalted visiting professorship—could bring fresh scrutiny to Princeton.
Among the required readings is an essay titled "Reprocide in Gaza: The Gendered Strategy of Genocide Through Reproductive Violence," by Hala Shoman, a former Gazan dentist and self-described political and social activist. Reprocide, she writes, is "the systematic targeting of a group's reproductive capacities … as a deliberate strategy of erasure."
"Israel has weaponized reproductive health through direct military targeting, siege conditions, forced displacement, environmental toxicity, and gendered violence," Shoman wrote, arguing the Jewish state has intentionally bombed fertility clinics and "has created conditions in Gaza that make pregnancy dangerously high-risk."
Shoman also alleged Israel has widowed nearly 14,000 women and cited Salama Maarouf, the head of Gaza's Government Media Office, without noting Hamas controls the agency.
A Princeton spokeswoman directed the Washington Free Beacon to the university's academic freedom and free expression webpage, but did not comment further.
Princeton (especially its science dept) once had a high reputation
its current administrators drag the college into the toilet of history with Satanic trash like this
it is quite sad
Guess the videos from 10/7 are all CGI to make ham-ass look bad huh?
It still has a great reputation. A silly anthropology class nobody really cares about will not change that.
“Kevorkian”...name checks out.
America- what a country!
The Princeton Institute for Advanced Study is most probably the sole remaining bastion of trustable academia.
I believe, hope it is still not corrupted yes
sorry to have to disagree but it does not take many reports as sickening as this one to utterly besmirch a previously-very good reputation
ask any business leader, it is same
right! 7 Oct (and 11/7) were all Jewish propaganda
along with
our moon landing, of course
./s
Employers are catching on to the fact that the “Elite” schools are no longer elite because they no longer admit only the best of the best qualified undergrads (which they never really did. In my graduating class we had a few go to the Ivy schools but the very best went to “lesser” schools)
The Ivy schools now intentionally recruit sub standard DEI students and then indoctrinate them into radical activist theories that make them unemployable at best and more often than not malcontent, chip on their shoulders trouble makers. .
IOW, Cucker Tarlson in drag?
I am sure there is a huge calling out there for people with this degree.
2 words: Hillsdale College
Unfortunate but yes. That’s accurate.
We will never hire any graduates of the anti/ American, anti- Christian, anti- Jewish racist universities. The graduates are indoctrinated to have rotten bigoted attitudes and a “feeling of entitlement” that prevents them from ever being sane, rational, or productive
There are still some other colleges providing good educations
Yes and it’s amazing just how easily and cheaply American college administrators sell out to enemy money. Why, they behave just like so memy of our politicians!
How can a university hire these lunatics? This isn’t free inquiry, it’s freak show.
Just what is a Palestinian feminist? Are the Palestinians leading the way in women's rights?! As they do in LGBT issues....
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