On the evening of January 11, 2023, Lara Sheehi came home, greeted her dog, and sat down to resume the constant task of an always-on academic: her university email. Tucked between the messages from colleagues and students and committees needing her attention was a request from the Washington Free Beacon , a far-right online newspaper. A reporter was reaching out for comment on a story the Beacon was doing on her. Sheehi is a renowned clinical psychoanalytic psychologist and was, at the time, an assistant professor of clinical psychology at George Washington University’s Professional Psychology Program. She is also Lebanese, and on the record in every conceivable way as anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian. Over the past several years Sheehi has risen to prominence in the clinical field, and her place in it was cemented with the publication of her book Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine in 2021.…