🧵 Campus Antisemitism Is Evolving, Not Ending. A Gaza ceasefire doesn’t mean peace on campus. The new frontlines of antisemitism are being drawn in universities - in classrooms, student unions, and lecture halls.
At Princeton, a course titled “Gender, Reproduction, and Genocide” will teach students that Israel is committing genocide - based on debunked UN claims and a false story about Israel “destroying embryos.”
This isn’t scholarship. It’s propaganda.
The course also compares Gaza to the Holocaust - a morally bankrupt inversion that trivializes the industrial murder of six million Jews.
No credible educator should teach this.
The professor, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, has previously denied Hamas’ rape and murder of Israelis on October 7.
She is now teaching a course on “genocide.” Let that sink in.
At University College London, an academic invited by the radical Students for Justice in Palestine openly repeated a classic blood libel, claiming Jews need gentile blood for “special pancakes.”
This was said at a major Western university in 2025.
At City College of New York, a Hillel director was told he “caused disgust” and was “responsible for murder” - simply for being a Zionist Jew.
Activist groups then condemned the event for “normalizing Zionism.”
Student leaders are part of the problem.
A Harvard Crimson column encouraged students to avoid friendships with certain “morally objectionable” Zionists.
Imagine this being said about any other minority group.
At Oxford, the incoming student union president, Arwa Elrayess, compared the death of Anne Frank with that of a Gazan child - an obscene Holocaust inversion used to delegitimize Israel and erase Jewish trauma.
This isn’t isolated. It’s systemic.
Courses based on lies. Lecturers spreading libels. Student leaders weaponizing the Holocaust.
Jewish students are being pushed out of academic life - not by fringe extremists but by the institutions meant to protect them.
Jewish students deserve safety, dignity, and an education grounded in truth.
Universities must confront campus antisemitism head-on - not excuse it under “academic freedom” or activism.
Until academia holds itself accountable, antisemitism will continue to fester behind the veneer of scholarship.
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Campus Frontlines: Professors and Students Continue to Fuel Antisemitism
Key Takeaways:
- University antisemitism persists despite the Gaza ceasefire, with faculty and student leaders promoting false genocide claims, Holocaust inversion, and openly hostile rhetoric toward Jewish students and Zionists.
- Academic credibility is collapsing, as courses and lectures at top universities rely on debunked allegations about Israel and platform speakers who spread classic antisemitic tropes, blood libels, and October 7 denial.
- Student leaders and campus activists are normalizing Jew-hatred, using anti-Israel politics to justify social exclusion, demonization, and weaponization of Jewish trauma, leaving Jewish students unsafe and higher-education standards in crisis.
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There may be a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, but on university campuses globally, antisemitism has yet to end. The encampments that took up space both on the lawns of universities and on the front pages of newspapers may be gone, but the new form of antisemitism, one that student leaders and professors are driving, is not.
Antisemitic Academia
The top global universities are expected to train students to become the next leaders in society. That requires complex courses to be taught with accuracy and objectivity.
This is not the case at Princeton, however. One course, entitled Gender, Reproduction, and Genocide, is scheduled for the spring 2025-2026 semester. Taught by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, the course is said to explore “genocide through the analytic of gender” and specifically will focus on the “ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
In the course, students will “engage reproductive justice frameworks,” suggesting that Israel is committing genocide by deliberately targeting institutions that would prevent women from becoming pregnant. However, this claim, spread by the UN, has no factual basis.
The UN report relies on a 2024 ABC News story that claimed an IDF shell was deliberately fired at an IVF clinic in December 2023, allegedly destroying more than 4,000 embryos with the intention to “prevent births.” But even ABC News and its sole source, who was not present at the time, could not verify that an IDF shell caused the damage. In fact, a wide-angle photo of the scene shows a nearby high-rise building visibly damaged, while the IVF clinic itself appears fully intact.
If the course’s entire framework being held up by falsified information wasn’t enough, it also seeks to compare the history of the “genocide” in Gaza to other genocides, including the Holocaust. There is no lack of moral clarity more evident than flattening the Holocaust into a political talking point. No comparison can be made between a war of defense and the industrialization of murder that the Nazis waged against the Jewish people.
Yet, this vile comparison does not come as much of a surprise, considering the professor herself has, in the past, denied the murder and assault of Jews. For a course that bases itself on feminism and reproductive frameworks to be taught by a professor who has accused Israel of lying about the rapes and murder of babies on October 7 is not only profoundly immoral, but also an outright betrayal of the feminist standards she supposedly upholds.
Antisemitism from faculty is not limited to academic courses. A Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at University College London hosted Samar Maqusi as part of a series titled “Palestine: From Existence to Resistance.” Although the lecture was advertised as a discussion on the origins of Zionism, Maqusi instead promoted classic antisemitic tropes, including that Jews require the blood of gentiles for making their “special pancakes,” referring to a medieval blood libel in which Jews use the blood of gentiles for making matzah.
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Unfortunately, many discussions of Zionism on university campuses come from those with hostile and thus inaccurate beliefs on what it truly means to be a Zionist. Even in an interfaith discussion at the City College of New York, a Hillel director was told he was “responsible for the murder” of Gazans and caused “disgust” in other participants because he was a Zionist. Activist and student groups further condemned the interfaith discussion. Not in favor of defending the Hillel director whose sole wrongdoing was being a Jew, but because interfaith efforts were causing the “normalization of Zionism.”
In warping the definitions to fit the narrative of the speaker or lecturer, lectures and campus spaces have become breeding grounds for bias and thinly veiled antisemitism.
Antisemitic Student Voices
Student leaders and activists have also frequently isolated their Jewish peers.
At The Harvard Crimson, one column suggests that there are some “visions of Zionism more morally objectionable” and therefore one might “feel wary of staying friends with Zionists.” It should then be no wonder to the author why Jewish students feel isolated on campuses.
This becomes all the more problematic when the students elected to represent the entire student union are not neutral nor representative on complex issues, particularly regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at large.
At the University of Oxford, the Oxford Student Union elected Arwa Elrayess as the incoming president. She has been part of a no-budget documentary on the pro-Palestine protests that erupted after October 7. In one post promoting the film, Elrayess makes the moral equivalence between the Holocaust and the war against Hamas in Gaza by comparing the deaths of Anne Frank and Hind Rajab, a Gazan civilian.
Elrayess is meant to represent all students equally. Still, her posts suggest otherwise and are part of a worrying trend of using Jewish trauma to uncritically discuss Israel’s war.
As the current academic year continues, it remains clear that the issue of antisemitism on campus has not gone away, nor can it be afforded to be swept aside and ignored. When courses are built on debunked claims and student leaders use Holocaust inversion to further their anti-Israel narratives, it becomes evident that this issue is not isolated but rather is systemic, requiring urgent and sustained action.
Jewish students on campuses worldwide deserve the same safety and respect as any other student, and all students deserve an education grounded in truth and accuracy. The moral and intellectual integrity of higher education depends on confronting antisemitism directly, rather than allowing it to fester under the guise of activism or academic freedom.
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Posted Dec 1, 2025, 6:55 PM UTC