Suspended Hebrew U professor reinstated after recanting doubts over Hamas Oct. 7 rapes

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a Palestinian professor at the Hebrew University who was suspended from her role two weeks ago after a series of inflammatory statements, has been reinstated after recanting some of her remarks, Haaretz reports.

Shalhoub-Kevorkian, who has spoken out against Israel and Zionism in the past, was interviewed by Channel 14 on March 11, and she accused Israel of genocide in Gaza and called into question the rapes and other atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7.

The senior lecturer will be allowed to return to teaching following a meeting with university rector Tamir Sheafer. Shalhoub-Kevorkian was requested to recant her questioning of Hamas’s sexual assault during its October 7 onslaught, but was not requested to walk back her claim that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, according to Haaretz.

Shalhoub-Kevorkian, the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology at the Hebrew University, according to her faculty page, is an expert on “trauma, state crimes and criminology, surveillance, gender violence, law and society.”