Hebrew University professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian leaves post

Anti-Israel Hebrew University professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, who was briefly arrested in April on suspicion of incitement related to her comments on the Israel-Hamas war, has left her post at the university and won’t be teaching during the upcoming academic year, it was widely reported on Wednesday 28 August, writes Gavriel Fiske for The Times of Israel.

The university administration, which has supported Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s right to free speech in the past while simultaneously condemning her anti-Zionist public statements, has not put out a press release on the matter, but a Hebrew University official confirmed to The Times of Israel on Wednesday that Shalhoub-Kevorkian had “decided to retire” and dismissed reports in the Hebrew media that she had been terminated.

Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University’s School of Social Work and Social Welfare, had been arrested in April on suspicion of incitement but was released a day later, after the court rejected a police request to extend the professor’s remand, according to Hebrew media reports, saying that the police’s own findings did not justify the arrest.
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