Last updated: Apr. 12, 2026

Sangeeta Kamat

Sangeeta Kamat is a professor who expressed support for Hamas terrorists and spread antisemitism during Israel’s war against Hamas in late 2023 and early 2024.

As of February 2024, Kamat was listed on the website of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (UMass Amherst) as a professor in the College of Education.

Kamat published her remarks in the wake of Hamas terror atrocities and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were executed on October 7, 2023.

The Hamas terror attacks left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”

Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, European Union, Israel and other countries. Founded in 1987, it has killed thousands of Israeli civilians through mass shootings and suicide bombings. Hamas has also kidnapped children, families and the elderly and held them hostage in Gaza. It has desecrated [slide 7] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.

As of February 29, 2024, Kamat was listed on the UMass Amherst website as a professor in the College of Education. She was also listed as a faculty fellow at the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research (CRJ) in the College of Education. UMass Amherst is located in Amherst, Massachusetts.

As of the same date, Kamat was listed online as having received a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) in 1998. Pitt is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.