Princeton University, a prestigious Ivy League institution, is introducing a thought-provoking course that delves into the convergence of gender studies and what it terms as the “genocide” occurring in Gaza.
Scheduled for the upcoming spring semester, this 200-level course, titled Gender, Reproduction, and Genocide, will be available for students eager to explore these complex themes.
The course description on Princeton’s official site outlines that this seminar investigates genocide through the lens of gender, concentrating particularly on the ongoing situation in Gaza. The curriculum draws from decolonial, Indigenous, and feminist perspectives to analyze how genocidal activities impact reproductive lives, sexual and familial structures, and the perseverance of communities.
Individuals strolling across Princeton University’s campus. (iStock)
Encompassed within both the anthropology and gender studies and sexuality programs, this course offers a multidisciplinary approach.
The course promises to engage students with reproductive justice frameworks, survivor narratives, and critiques from Palestinian feminists on colonial violence. Additionally, it places the situation in Gaza within a broader historical context, comparing it with the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and genocides against Black and Indigenous communities.
The class also promises that students will interface with “leading feminist scholars.”
Visiting scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, an Israeli-born feminist scholar who abruptly retired from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem amid scandal last year, will instruct the class.
Hamas terrorists watch the handover of three Israeli hostages to a Red Cross team in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on Feb. 8, 2025. (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Princeton described Shalhoub-Kevorkian as a “feminist whose scholarship on the settler colonial state’s brutality, unchilding, securitized and sacralized politics, state crime, law and society, and global feminist politics, challenges epistemic violence.”
In Israel, she was an outspoken critic of the war in Gaza and reportedly cast doubt on reports of sexual violence by Hamas terrorists during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israeli concertgoers. Over the past several years, she faced significant backlash from state leaders.
President Donald Trump successfully negotiated a peace deal between Israel and Hamas on the two-year mark of the beginning of the war. That deal included a ceasefire and Israeli troop withdrawal in exchange for the return of Israeli hostages held in brutal conditions in Gaza.
President Donald Trump during a dinner with Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, in the Blue Room of the White House on July 7, 2025. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize after the historic agreement.
Princeton referred Fox News Digital to a letter by its president, Christopher L. Eisgruber, regarding the school’s commitment to academic freedom.
The school said that Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s appointment as a visiting scholar concludes next July.
Shalhoub-Kevorkian did not return a request for comment.
