Georgetown Law Professor Published Anti-Semitic Screeds to School’s Scholarly Article Database. When We Asked Questions, She Scrubbed Them

“…At Georgetown Law School, professors are encouraged to publish their academic work to the school’s “Scholarly Commons,” an online portal that serves as a “repository” for journal articles and other materials. This year’s submissions include lengthy papers on privacy law, tort liability, and First Amendment disputes.

In recent months, however, one Georgetown Law professor, Lama Abu-Odeh, has submitted “working papers” to the portal that stand out from the rest. They have no academic citations and make no reference to legal disputes or precedent. Instead, they consist of Abu-Odeh’s ramblings on the “genocide in Gaza”—ramblings that in some cases invoke age-old anti-Semitic tropes.

In one paper titled, “Gaza Shoah: Zionism’s Efficacious Role as Ideological Supplement in the US,” Abu-Odeh describes Israel as an “apartheid state,” lauds “resistance to the Zionist project,” and argues that Hamas terrorists did not rape Israelis on Oct. 7. She also accuses Jews of controlling the media and paying black people to support Israel…”