University of Minnesota pauses hiring of professor who called Israel’s war against Hamas ‘a textbook case of genocide’

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[algore]

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.

Segal, who was selected as the center’s new director by Ann Waltner, the interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts at University of Minnesota, also co-authored an Al-Jazeera article in January, in which he called Israel a “settler-colonial” power.

Last month, Segal downplayed the illegal anti-Israel encampments that have engulfed campuses nationwide— many of which have turned violent (nine people were arrested at University of Minnesota’s encampment) — telling NJ Spotlight News that claims of antisemitism were “baseless.”

“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.

In 2022, he wrote about “the reality of the system of Israeli apartheid,” stating that “just as the Israeli apartheid system denies Palestinians’ past, it also seeks to deny their future through an assault against Palestinian children.”

[Sicon]

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”

And once the controversy dies down, they'll quietly un-pause his hiring, and he can join the rest of the anti-Semites in the university's employ.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s obvious the perpfeser didn’t learn anything in “college”. Probably spent most of his time hanging out with the off duty, spring break Gurlz Gone Wild.

[ConservativeMind]

It is not “genocide” when you leave people living of that race, religion, or ethnic.

Since they have no country, getting rid of the Gaza Strip, and the people within, also couldn’t technically be genocide, again, going with the definition.

[csn vinnie]

That statement should disqualify the “professor” from any employment in the public or education sectors.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I guess there aren’t enough Somalis on staff yet.

[smokingfrog]

Gaza Strip Population

[ro_dreaming]

It’s Hamas terrorists war AGAINST Israel. Israel is just defending itself.

[JimRed]

If Israel intended genocide there would be damned few Palis left alive.

[minnesota_bound]

FTA: paused the hiring

They will still hire the terrorist supporter. Either in this position or another.