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.”
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.