Hebrew University suspends lecturer who criticised Zionism

The Hebrew University has suspended Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian of the Faculty of Law after a series of inflammatory statements, the university said in a statement on Tuesday 12 March, writes Gavriel Fiske for The Times of Israel. The unusual move came a day after Shalhoub-Kevorkian, an outspoken critic of Israel and Zionism, told Channel 14 in an interview that Zionism should be abolished and called into question the rapes and other atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October.

Shalhoub-Kiborkian said that Israelis act afraid when they walk by and hear her talking Arabic on the phone, but they “should be scared because criminals are always scared … it’s time to abolish Zionism. It can’t continue, it’s criminal. Only by abolishing Zionism can we continue”.

Shalhoub-Kevorkian has been active in international progressive academia for many years. In October, several weeks after the Hamas assault of 7 October and shortly after Israel’s ground incursion into Gaza began, she was signatory number one to an open letter accusing Israel of genocide. The letter, which was signed by more than 1,000 academics around the world, called for “the immediate cessation of the Western-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza and the egregious violation of Palestinian children’s rights”.
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