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Patrick McDonald '26
Campus Reform
Excerpt: Princeton University is offering a new course titled “Gender, Reproduction, and Genocide” that compares the Israel–Hamas conflict to the Holocaust.
The class is instructed by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a self-identified “noted Palestinian feminist” who has publicly denied that Hamas killed babies or raped women during the Oct. 7 massacre, according to The Washington Free Beacon.
Some fact checking would help the author.
1 baby died on October 7th. From gunshots through a door.
Many atrocity claims have no evidence or have been outrighted debunked.
Further, why is this a free speech issue?
By Tal Fortgang ‘17
What is an Ivy League university? The simplicity of the question is deceiving. Everyone knows what Harvard is. Except increasingly, no one does – not the students who attend, and certainly not the administrators who shape the institution, thereby answering that question every day.
Isaac Barsoum
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: On Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, Sunrise Princeton, alongside the Princeton Progressive Coalition, organized a rally of more than 100 demonstrators. We called on the University to act as a leader by defending life-or-death climate research, divesting from weapons manufacturers to end the genocide in Palestine, protecting immigrants and international students, and safeguarding academic freedom in a time when rising authoritarianism threatens progress across the world.
As a lead organizer for this rally, I learned an important lesson: Princeton students care a lot about progressive change, and are willing to publicly display their support because they’re optimistic that their actions can make a difference on a policy level. They just feel like they’re too damn busy.
Annabel Green
Princetonians for Free Speech
Excerpt: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s debut 1920 novel, This Side of Paradise, follows protagonist Amory Blaine, who enjoys a particularly affluent life as an undergraduate at Princeton. Fitzgerald writes of Princeton:
Bill Staedeli '85
November 17, 2025
Why is this a free speech issue? True, no one appears to be trying to stop this professor or this class. But imagine another course, taught by a pro-Israel professor. The many, documented atrocities from October 7th; how Hamas was able to win the PR war by hiding behind innocent Gazans; how the UN’s antisemetic policies prevented aid from getting to Gaza while Isreal took the blame. What are the chances that class would get off the ground without being shut down?
It’s a disservice to students that Princeton would sponsor a course that fails to present the different sides of an issue. Academic freedom, you say? What’s academic about indoctrination? Start teaching kids how to think, not what to think. Then perhaps the free speech climate will improve.