Israel is committing’genocide’, according to the professor originally chosen for the role.
Due to allegations that its primary choice for the position accused Israel of “genocide,” the University of Minnesota halted this week’s hiring decision.
According to The Minnesota Republic, two members of the center’s board resigned in opposition to the university’s plan to hire Raz Segal ( pictured ) as the chair, so the interim president, Jeff Ettinger, announced the change on Monday.
After a number of college people “expressed ] their interest in providing a view on the getting process,” Ettinger said they put the hiring decision on hold” to let an opportunity to determine future ways.”
At Stockton University in New Jersey, Segal is professor of Holocaust and massacre reports. In an Oct. 13 par- ed in the Israeli Currents, he wrote Israel is committing” a textbook circumstance of murder” in Gaza.
The doctor even criticized President Joe Biden for calling the Hamas terrorist assault on Israel” an act of absolute evil.” According to Segal, “dehumanizing language is evidently calculated to defend the widespread destruction of Israeli lives” in the words of American and other social leaders.
When the committee members of the Holocaust center resigned, they mentioned his op-ed and another remarks.
The Washington Free Beacon accounts:
On Friday, Minnesota’s time College of Liberal Arts professor, Ann Waltner, extended an offer to Segal to function as the agency’s head, according to an internal contact obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Members of the university’s advisory committee immediately reacted to the decision, with two members, music professor Karen Painter and French professor Bruno Chaouat, announcing their resignations from the table within hours.
According to the Republic, Painter wrote in her resignation letter that Segal “has positioned himself on an extraordinary end of the political and ideological band” with his papers on Israel and Gaza, including an article in which he accused Israel of murder a week after the terrorist attacks on October 7.
Instead of blaming Israel for the murder, murder, and kidnapping of 1,200 citizens, she wrote,” We need a facility director who will provide our society together to know how the Holocaust and other pogroms occurred.”
In Chaouat’s resignation letter, obtained by the Free Beacon, he questioned how the decision was made to hire Segal.
Segal is “unfit” to serve in the role where the” core mission” is to educate locally and internationally on the specific history of the Holocaust and genocides in order to raise awareness and stop further dehumanization and violence, according to Chaouat, who previously served as interim director of the center.
Segal “has failed to recognize the genocidal intent of Hamas”, Chaouat wrote.
The Department of Education is looking into several universities, including the University of Minnesota, in response to antisemitism allegations.
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