Boston University’s radio station, WBUR, has pulled an episode of its program “On Point” after a Northwestern University professor denied on the broadcast that women and children died in the October 7 Hamas terror attack in Israel. An Islamic Studies professor at Northwestern’s Qatar campus, Khaled Hroub, dismissed the widespread reports of women and children dying as coming from unreliable “Israeli state media.”

Following Mr. Hroub’s comments, editors of “On Point,” which airs on National Public Radio and is distributed as an NPR podcast, pulled the episode from NPR’s podcast lineup. The editors said in a statement that Mr. Hroub, “was on the program to provide a factual history of the Islamist group.” However, the editors noted, “in an environment where disinformation is both rampant and dangerous … we felt compelled to pull this hour of our programming from national distribution after its initial broadcast.”