After commissioning an essay from Palestinian scholar Rabea Eghbariah, editors at the Harvard Law Review voted against publishing it after “concerns had arisen about staffers being offended or harassed”, a report by The Intercept has revealed.

In one of his responses to the editors, Eghbariah wrote, “This is discrimination. Let’s not dance around it — this is also outright censorship. It is dangerous and alarming.” Eghbaraiah’s email to the editors was shared with The Intercept.

The essay, “The Ongoing Nakba”, would have been the first from a Palestinian scholar published by the journal. An editor at Harvard Law Review said that Israeli scholars were well-represented in the magazine but not Palestinians.

Eghbariah’s article was published on Tuesday night at The Nation, under the headline “The Harvard Law Review Refused to Run This Piece About Genocide in Gaza.”