The London School of Economics is investigating comments made at a meeting held on Holocaust Memorial Day after complaints from Jewish students.
At a panel discussion, hosted jointly by the Palestine and Feminist Societies, speaker Rana Baker allegedly said Lebanese suicide bomber Sana Mehaidli was "admirable" and "deserves a standing ovation".
Mehaidli killed two IDF soldiers when she exploded a car bomb near an Israeli convoy in Lebanon in 1985.
Later, panel chair Aitemad Muhanna-Matar, an LSE research fellow, responded in the campus newspaper to a complaint from the Israel Society, by comparing Palestinian resistance to Israel to Jewish resistance against the Nazis. The comment lead to a further complaint from the Jewish Society.
LSE said it was: "conducting its own investigation and will take appropriate steps wherever necessary."
The student union is also conducting its own probe. The Feminist Society has issued a formal apology.
Millie Foster, JSoc president, said: "We hope the university and student union will take necessary action to hold Aitemad Muhanna-Matar to account."
On Tuesday, a talk by Israeli Ambassador Daniel Taub at LSE was interrupted by protests, a walk-out and the setting off of a fire alarm.