Princeton University is under fire for launching a controversial new anthropology class, that equates Israel’s war against Hamas with the Holocaust. The course, titled “Gender, Reproduction, and Genocide,” is taught by a “noted Palestinian feminist” who has denied Hamas atrocities and called for the destruction of 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. It adds that students will “situate Gaza within comparative histories of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and genocide against Black and Indigenous populations.”
The instructor, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, “retired” from her position at Hebrew University after being suspended and detained for incitement over her comments denying Hamas’s Oct. 7 atrocities. “It’s time to abolish Zionism,” she said. “They started with babies, they continued with rape, and they will continue with a million other lies.”
Despite her remarks, Princeton appointed Shalhoub-Kevorkian as a Global South Visiting Scholar and later as the Stanley Kelley, Jr., Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching.
Among the required readings is “Reprocide in Gaza: The Gendered Strategy of Genocide Through Reproductive Violence,” which claims “Israel has weaponized reproductive health through direct military targeting, siege conditions, forced displacement, environmental toxicity, and gendered violence.”
Princeton’s silence has raised concerns about the growing influence of anti-Israel rhetoric in elite academia. The Trump administration previously suspended roughly $200 million in Princeton’s federal grants, half of which have since been restored — but the course could draw renewed scrutiny.
