A left-wing journalism professor at a top Chicago-area university has for months justified Hamas terrorists’ war on Israel and even joined anti-Israel student agitators on campus, Fox News Digital learned after reviewing his social media and blog posts.
Steven Thrasher is an associate professor of journalism at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and has been “regularly published in the New York Times, BuzzFeed News, Esquire, the Nation, the Atlantic, the Guardian, and the Daily Beast,” according to his school biography.
A review of Thrasher’s social media accounts found that stretching back to October of last year, when Hamas launched an attack against Israel, Thrasher espoused anti-Israel rhetoric appearing to defend Hamas.
“White supremacy and settler colonialism can NOT kill, maim and steal for decades (or even centuries) via genocidal violence and then expect patience and peace — ESPECIALLY when peaceful protest is met with economic, spiritual and literal death,” he posted on Facebook on Oct. 9 of last year.
Thrasher’s posts have drawn criticism from Jewish groups and Republican lawmakers, who accuse him of fostering a hostile environment for Jewish students on campus.
“Staff like Professor Steven Thrasher continue to peddle hateful antisemitic canards,” Florida Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez, who sits on the committee holding Thursday’s hearing, told Fox News Digital.
“This professor has employed hateful rhetoric, invoked antisemitic tropes, and fostered a hostile environment that endangers Jewish students on campus.”
Thrasher is scheduled to appear before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on Thursday to answer questions about his actions.
