The University of Minnesota is in hot water after it appointed an anti-Zionist as director of its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Raz Segal worked as a professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University in New Jersey.
But Segal has spent his career bashing Israel, equating everything it has done to survive and defend itself as genocide.
Karen Painter and Bruno Chaouat resigned from the department’s advisory board in protest of Segal’s appointment:
“Dr. Segal has positioned himself on an extreme end of the political and ideological spectrum with his publications on Israel and Gaza, including an essay in which he accused Israel of genocide a week after the October 7 terrorist attacks,” Painter wrote in her Friday night resignation email to Provost Rachel Croson and Interim President Jeff Ettinger.“The CHGS director is ideally a scholar whose principal area of research and public commentary is the Holocaust itself, and certainly should not be an individual publicly identified with extremist positions on the present Middle East war,” she wrote. “We need a center director who will bring our community together to understand how the Holocaust and other genocides occurred, not someone who blames Israel for the rape and murder of 1,200 civilians, and kidnapping of hundreds more.”
Six days after the October 7 massacre, Segal wrote “A Textbook Case of Genocide” in Jewish Currents.
You’d think it’s a piece about the massacre, describing it as the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
Nope!
The piece is a sympathetic piece towards Gaza, criticizing Israel’s treatment of it. In other words, “Can you blame Hamas for attacking, murdering, and kidnapping Jews?” He also brags about his anti-Zionist studies and works throughout his career.
Israel defending itself is textbook genocide.
“Israel’s campaign to displace Gazans—and potentially expel them altogether into Egypt—is yet another chapter in the Nakba, in which an estimated 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes during the 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel,” Segal wrote. “But the assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. I say this as a scholar of genocide, who has spent many years writing about Israeli mass violence against Palestinians.”
In December, Segal signed a letter saying, “Comparing the Hamas pogrom of 7 October to the Holocaust is a misuse of Holocaust remembrance.” The historians never mention antisemitism. It’s all about Israel.
Google “Raz Segal October 7” and you get a treasure trove of his harsh words for Israel. Quite disgusting.
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