New Haven, CT – A Yale professor is facing calls for her termination after she tweeted on the day of the barbaric Hamas terror attacks that Israel is a ‘murder, genocidal, settler state.’
Zareena Grewal, an associate professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, among other things, posted the tweet before noon on October 7, just hours after Palestinian terrorists had crossed into Israel and begun slaying innocent civilians.
A Change.org petition that has now garnered more than 20,000 signatures calls for Yale to ‘immediately terminate the employment of Zareena Grewal.’
‘She has unequivocally proven that she has no right being in her current role or in the field of education if she considers war crimes against civilians to be acts of resistance.’
On October 7, Grewal wrote: ‘My heart is in my throat. Prayers for Palestinians. Israeli [sic] is a murderous, genocidal settler state and Palestinians have every right to resist through armed struggle, solidarity. #FreePalestine.’
Several days later, as the depravity of the Hamas attacks had become clearer, Grewal wrote in response to a tweet from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘No government on earth is as genocidal as this settler colonial state.’
She has also, in recent days, retweeted posts that claim Israel has a ‘mad bloodlust’ and that those who support the Jewish state would have ‘been posting ‘I stand with slave owners’ during rebellions.’
On October 8, she retweeted a video of a news report about the brutal Hamas attacks with the caption: ‘Its been such an extraordinary day!’
The petition, written by a member of the class of 2025, reads: ‘Condoning violence, advocating for a terrorist organization, and historical revisionism and inaccuracies are all ideas that run contrary to the values of Yale University.’
Grewal, it continues, ‘has unequivocally proven that she has no right being in her current role or in the field of education if she considers war crimes against civilians to be acts of resistance.
According to her university biography, Grewal is a ‘historical anthropologist and a documentary filmmaker whose research focuses on race, gender, religion, nationalism, and transnationalism across a wide spectrum of American Muslim communities.’
Her first book is described as ‘an ethnography of transnational Muslim networks that link US mosques to Islamic movements in the post-colonial Middle East through debates about the reform of Islam.’
In her X (formerly Twitter) bio, she describes herself as a ‘Yale prof’ and ‘radical Muslim.’
She has, likely recently, limited access to her tweets.
Signers of the petition uniformly condemned Grewal’s position, writing that ‘her virulent antisemitism is disgusting and extremely dangerous.’
And arguing that ‘such rhetoric is despicable and has no place in the United States and definitely not in an institution of higher learning.’
On Saturday, Iran-backed Palestinian terrorists stormed Israel in a coordinated attack that has so far taken the lives of 1,200 Israelis, some of whom were raped, burned alive, and beheaded mercilessly by agents of Hamas.
Today, residents in Gaza faced growing uncertainty after the territory’s only power plant ran out of fuel and shut down. Over the weekend, PM Netanyahu declared war on Hamas and made it clear that Gaza would feel the impact of Israel’s retaliation for decades to come.
This week, Israeli airstrikes demolished entire neighborhoods and sent people scrambling to find safety. The war is only expected to escalate from here.
