University of Minnesota Reaches Settlement After Rescinding Job Offer for Israeli-American Professor Who Spoke Out About Gaza
Internal documents show donor pressure drove the reversal, and the Center for Constitutional Rights said the university violated academic freedom.
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His deep knowledge of the history of the Holocaust and the genocide had earned him the direction of the Centre for the Studies of the Holocaust and the genocide of the University of Minnesota, with great appreciation and satisfaction from the academic committee called upon to evaluate the candidacy. But when the experts were brought to the attention of his article of October 2023 in which, on Jewish Current, he had defined Israel's military acti…
University of Minnesota reaches settlement after rescinding job offer for Israeli-American professor who spoke out about Gaza
The University of Minnesota paid an Israeli-American academic $250,000 for rescinding his job offer after he called Israel's assault on Gaza a genocide.
U of Minnesota Pays Holocaust Scholar After Job Offer Pulled
The University of Minnesota agreed to pay Holocaust studies scholar Raz Segal $250,000 as part of a settlement for rescinding his hire as head of the university’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Segal, who is Israeli American, accused the institution of pulling the offer because of backlash to his comments on Israel’s war with Gaza. The week after Hamas’s Oct.
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In 2024, Raz Segal was invited by the University of Minnesota to lead the center of the Holocaust and Genocide. Five days later, the institution retreated. Academic believes he is "the wrong type of Jew".
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