A prominent Palestinian academic already suspended from her university position over anti-Zionist comments has been arrested on “suspicion of incitement“.
According to Israeli media, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian has been arrested for questioning by Israeli police, who will then determine whether she should be held in custody or released.
Shalhoub-Kevorkian is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which suspended her last month after she called for “abolishing Zionism” and suggested that accounts of sexual assault during the Hamas-led 7 October attacks on Israel were a “lie”.
Israeli police reportedly asked the prosecutor’s office at the beginning of April to approve the opening of a criminal investigation against the scholar on suspicion of incitement.
The Hebrew University’s move to suspend Shalhoub-Kevorkian, whose work focuses on trauma, state crimes, gender, surveillance and genocide, was widely criticised online, with commentators accusing the university of cracking down on criticism of Israel’s actions…..more