Linguist and left-wing peace activist Professor Tanya Reinhardt died in New York on Saturday at age 63.

Reinhardt, an outspoken representative of the radical Israeli left, sharply criticized the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, saying they perpetuated the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. She favored an academic boycott of Israeli universities to protest the occupation.

After receiving a master's degree at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Reinhardt wrote her doctoral thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under renowned linguist Noam Chomsky.

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From 1977, she taught linguistics and literature at Tel Aviv University, including classes on critical reading of the media and the analysis of discourse based on Chomsky's methods.

For the last 15 years she also taught at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

In December, Reinhardt left Israel and settled in New York to teach at New York University.

Reinhardt and those close to her said the university's relationship to her changed after she called for an academic boycott of Israel.

Reinhardt was married to poet and translator Aharon Shabtai.