This is a "victory"? Less than 2 years' salary? What about the job? This is not something to celebrate.
On Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 10:38 AM Alan Ginsberg via groups.io <ginsberg.alan1= [email protected]> wrote: > from Center for Constitutional Rights > > > The University of Minnesota (UMN) has paid Israeli American scholar Raz > Segal $250,000 as compensation for rescinding its job offer to head the > school’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS) in 2024. Internal > documents confirm that the University’s revocation was based on Dr. Segal’s > First Amendment-protected speech under pressure from donors who objected to > his criticism of Israel’s assault on Gaza, particularly his description > <https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide> of it as a > genocide – an opinion now widely shared by scholars > <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/01/israel-committing-genocide-in-gaza-worlds-top-scholars-on-the-say>, > legal experts, and human rights groups. > > “The attack against me by these donors presented a world turned upside > down: my commitment, as a Jewish scholar of the Holocaust and the > grandchild of four Holocaust survivors, to stopping a livestreamed genocide > in front of our eyes posed, in their minds, a threat to Jews,” *said > Prof. Segal.* “That the University accepted this lie in its decision to > revoke my job offer exposed its intellectual and moral bankruptcy, as noted > in dismay by many faculty and students, including Jews, in their emails to > the University. This settlement represents a successful refusal to accept > the world of lies that blur an ongoing genocide, and a commitment to > continue the intertwined struggles for truth, justice, and accountability – > in Palestine and on our campuses.” > > full at > https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/victory-academic-freedom-university-minnesota-reaches-settlement > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42901): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42901 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/120702253/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
