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 (#42899): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42899 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
