The University of Minnesota paused the hiring of a professor who wrote that Israel’s military operation against Hamas in Gaza after Oct. 7 was “a textbook case of genocide” to head the school’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS), Jewish Insider has learned.
The pause, which has not yet been publicly announced by the university, came on Monday evening after two members of the center’s advisory board resigned in protest on Friday.
“The assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes,” Raz Segal, an Israeli associate professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University in New Jersey, wrote in the Jewish Currents on Oct. 13. “I say this as a scholar of genocide, who has spent many years writing about Israeli mass violence against Palestinians,” he wrote.
A spokesperson for the University of Minnesota told JI that the director selection process was put on hold “to allow an opportunity to determine next steps.”
“The assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes,” Raz Segal, an Israeli associate professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University in New Jersey, wrote in the Jewish Currents on Oct. 13. “I say this as a scholar of genocide, who has spent many years writing about Israeli mass violence against Palestinians,” he wrote.
Literally a fucking expert on genocides…
It doesn’t matter if you’re a member of a fascists core group. If you disagree with them in any way you become an enemy
Everyone should be incredibly concerned when their political representatives demand 100% loyalty and attack anyone that disagrees with their actions and labels them an enemy.
A government that refuses to accept criticism from its own members is either facist or walking down that path
I just want to be clear we mean being a member of the core group fascists identify with, not that the group is all fascists.
Here’s an example because changing context might help:
I’m a white guy
But I’m not a white supremacist.
That doesn’t stop me from being in their “core group” which is white people.
That doesn’t mean every white person is a white supremacist. But if a white person speaks out against white supremacy, they’ll hate you even though you’re white.
Often they take that really hard. The KKK killed a lot of white people, in some areas all they killed was white people who disagreed with them, because no Black people could live there in the first place.
Its why people always need to speak out against that shit, even if you’re not in a targeted group, if they ever cross your personal moral line and you speak out, you’re immediately one of “them” and not “us”.
And fascists always need a “them” so they’ll keep moving people out of “us”.
Yup. I’m just trying to provide context because accusing someone of associating all Jews with Israel has become a favorite argument of conservatives in their attempt to make us all look like anti-semites.
If this goes to court does the university need to prove its not a genocide?
Sadly, I don’t think there’s any way this goes to court. Opinion on genocide is not a protected class, and as long as it’s not a protected class, a company in the US can decide not to hire you for essentially any reason.
It do.
Would it? If anything, this would be a freedom of speech case and truth does not have to be determined in those cases.
However, I also don’t think that the reason he wasn’t hired was a reason he could sue for.
This, obviously, doesn’t excuse what happened. I just don’t think there would be any good legal standing for a lawsuit. But I’m also not a lawyer.
Raz Segal, an Israeli associate professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies: speaks the truth based on exactly his area of expertise and cultural heritage
University of Minnesota: “hold on just a moment! Can’t have our employees do that!”
What’s next? A Nigerian-born sociology/history professor being un-hired for mentioning that the transatlantic slave trade happened??
To be fair they’re trying to hire him. It’s some donors and alumni warning they’ll disassociate from the school. This is why we need publicly funded but independently staffed universities. It makes it a lot harder for bad people to target academics inconvenient to them.
The USA has been colonized by Zionists
It is a genocide though.
Remember folks… Never, EVER, mention textbooks to a college administration.
