Re: "Victory for Academic Freedom as University of Minnesota Reaches Settlement With Holocaust Scholar Who Had Job Offer Pulled"

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
>
>
> 
>


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