{"id":7067,"date":"2026-08-06T12:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/?p=7067"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:30:06","slug":"an-israeli-professor-lost-a-prestigious-us-job-offer-after-speaking-out-on-gaza-now-the-university-is-paying-him-250000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/?p=7067","title":{"rendered":"An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border-color:var(--article-border)\" class=\"dcr-18ovi4x\">\n<div class=\"content--interactive\">\n<div class=\"content--interactive-grid dcr-17dl7k8\">\n<div style=\"--grid-area:media\" data-gu-name=\"media\" class=\"dcr-i4c5ct\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1mhungh\">\n<div class=\"dcr-17l77cs\">\n<figure id=\"4a1a5428-8b68-4415-a16f-0f6d2c472962\" class=\"dcr-191xnya\">\n<div id=\"img-1\" class=\"dcr-1t7hdmw\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a man in glasses and a collared shirt looks into the distance\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7e6312d21abaaa4b56b42af34ce927df5fb76f41\/0_106_1996_2494\/master\/1996.jpg?width=465&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"465\" height=\"581.0170340681364\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"dcr-up96pv\"><span class=\"dcr-kogzpx\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-18mnkpm\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1294qmb\"><label for=\"the-checkbox\" class=\"dcr-4sl2vt\"><\/label> <\/p>\n<div id=\"the-caption\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1mfxiaj\"><span class=\"dcr-13i4yc9\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1cipnsy\">Raz Segal, an associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University, at his home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 6 October 2024.<\/span> Photograph: Hannah Yoon\/The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"#img-1\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-zwabc0\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><button data-element-id=\"4a1a5428-8b68-4415-a16f-0f6d2c472962\" type=\"button\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-1bitgpn\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><span class=\"dcr-1shbixy\">View image in fullscreen<\/span><\/button><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-qda0hp\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1e9iiy9\"><span class=\"dcr-13i4yc9\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1cipnsy\">Raz Segal, an associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University, at his home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 6 October 2024.<\/span> Photograph: Hannah Yoon\/The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"--grid-area:border\" data-gu-name=\"border\" class=\"dcr-i4c5ct\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"--grid-area:headline\" data-gu-name=\"headline\" class=\"dcr-i4c5ct\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1mhungh\">\n<div class=\"dcr-33dfcc\">\n<h1 class=\"content__headline dcr-l0wuod\">An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"--grid-area:standfirst\" data-gu-name=\"standfirst\" class=\"dcr-i4c5ct\">\n<div class=\"content__standfirst dcr-1gm5ptv\">\n<p>The University of Minnesota withdrew an offer from Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies after an organized campaign against his hiring<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"--grid-area:lines\" data-gu-name=\"lines\" class=\"dcr-i4c5ct\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1mhungh\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1r7uyhr\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article style=\"--grid-area:body\" data-gu-name=\"body\" class=\"dcr-1fblwmu\">\n<div class=\"dcr-84z8ov\">\n<div id=\"maincontent\" class=\"dcr-162jgex\">\n<div class=\"article-body-commercial-selector article-body-viewer-selector content__main-column--interactive dcr-ogvvui\">\n<figure id=\"3a4f6540-0b92-45ba-9e02-79d30decacda\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.InteractiveAtomBlockElement\" class=\"element element-atom dcr-d9bay7\">\n<div class=\"interactive interactive-atom dcr-1psevrk\" data-atom-id=\"interactives\/2023\/01\/interactive-article-structure\/portrait-image-mainmedia-feature-dark\" data-atom-type=\"interactive-layout\">\n<div class=\"interactive-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"gv-atom-portrait-image-mainmedia-feature-dark\" data-did-prerender=\"true\"> <button id=\"caption-button\" style=\"opacity: 0\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">When the University of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/minnesota\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Minnesota<\/a> (UMN) extended an offer to historian Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in June 2024, it did so upon the near-unanimous recommendation of a committee of academics after a rigorous search process. The scholars had enthusiastically praised Segal, with one committee member describing a presentation he gave as \u201cbreathtaking\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">But five days after making the offer, the university abruptly withdrew it, citing \u201cperspective\u201d it had received from members of the community. The reversal followed backlash over Segal\u2019s criticism of Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza, which he called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/jewishcurrents.org\/a-textbook-case-of-genocide\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">a textbook case of genocide<\/a>\u201d in an October 2023 op-ed published in Jewish Currents. Segal\u2019s critics condemned the piece, published just days after the 7 October attacks in Israel, accusing him of justifying Hamas crimes \u2013 an assertion that Segal rejected and the article does not sustain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Last week, more than two years since the offer was rescinded, Segal reached a $250,000 settlement with the university. As is standard with such settlements, the terms of the deal stipulate the payout is not an admission of wrongdoing on UMN\u2019s part. The university did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Segal said the significant sum should encourage the dozens of scholars who have been punished for criticizing Israel with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/29\/california-professor-gaza-protest-reinstated\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">firings<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/13\/kentucky-professor-israel-lawsuit\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">suspensions<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/sep\/11\/campus-investigations-professors-gaza-antisemitism\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">investigations<\/a> to \u201cfight back\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The settlement came after Segal obtained dozens of emails through a public records request, revealing a pressure campaign on university officials by donors, legislators and pro-Israel activists. The <a href=\"https:\/\/ccrjustice.org\/sites\/default\/files\/attach\/2026\/07\/Raz%20Briefing%20Guide%20Final%20August%204%202026.pdf\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">documents<\/a> shared exclusively with the Guardian, reveal how the university shifted from defending Segal to eventually walking back their decision to hire him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cWe cannot allow someone like Raz Segal a blatant anti Zionist to head the department of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/holocaust\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Holocaust<\/a> studies [sic],\u201d onedonor wrote to the chair of the university\u2019s board. \u201cThere are many who will pull there [sic] pledges to the university if this isn\u2019t addressed.\u201d According to Segal, hundreds of emails were sent to the university following the same template, indicating a coordinated campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The Center for Constitutional Rights, which represented him, argued that the public university\u2019s actions against Segal were unconstitutional, because they retaliated against him over constitutionally protected speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cDr Segal had the courage to sound the alarm to try to prevent Israel\u2019s genocide of Palestinians,\u201d said Maria LaHood, the center\u2019s deputy legal director. \u201cAnd for this, the University of Minnesota administration overruled the will of its faculty and revoked his job offer in violation of the first amendment and fundamental principles of academic freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"42ed72b5-a4c2-42ad-a2c4-db0dee5a555d\" data-spacefinder-role=\"showcase\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"element element--showcase element-showcase dcr-46nkfa\">\n<div id=\"img-2\" class=\"dcr-1t7hdmw\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a group of people carrying Palestinian flags at a protest\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f4f9925b9e9cdb3fd6390055e91909278115ddb7\/0_0_3600_2400\/master\/3600.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"445\" height=\"296.66666666666663\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-up96pv\"><a href=\"#img-2\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-zwabc0\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><button data-element-id=\"42ed72b5-a4c2-42ad-a2c4-db0dee5a555d\" type=\"button\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-1bitgpn\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><span class=\"dcr-1shbixy\">View image in fullscreen<\/span><\/button><\/a><\/div><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1ci1e33\"><span class=\"dcr-vyhg7z\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1cipnsy\">A few hundred people gather to call for a ceasefire in Gaza before setting up an encampment on the lawn of the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis on 29 April 2024.<\/span> Photograph: Star Tribune\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Segal, who is Jewish and a dual Israeli-US citizen, the grandchild of four Holocaust survivors and a scholar of the Jewish world and the Holocaust, said in an interview that UMN leadership \u201cdetermined that I\u2019m the wrong kind of Israeli and the wrong kind of Jew\u201d. He is now a tenured professor at Stockton University in New Jersey, where he directs a master\u2019s program in Holocaust and genocide studies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">While he was early to argue that Israel\u2019s actions in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gaza\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Gaza<\/a> amounted to genocide, that position has since been endorsed by scores of scholars, human rights groups, governments and United Nations officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cI really wish I had been wrong,\u201d Segal said. \u201cBut unfortunately I wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dcr-lhbwso\">\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Two days after the University of Minnesota offered Segal the job on 5 June 2024,Karen Painter and Bruno Chaouat, UMN professors and members of the advisory board for the center Segal was tapped to lead, resigned in protest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">In a letter to university leadership, Chaouat, a professor of French and Jewish studies, and Painter, a musicology and Jewish studies professor, accused Segal of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/jewishinsider.com\/2024\/06\/university-of-minnesota-pauses-hiring-of-professor-who-justified-hamas-atrocities\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">justifying Hamas atrocities<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/tcjewfolk.com\/2024\/06\/09\/controversial-hire-leads-to-resignations-from-center-for-holocaust-and-genocide-studies-board\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">blaming Israel<\/a>\u201d for the 7 October attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Segal\u2019s article cited statements from Israeli officials, a total siege on Gaza and an aerial campaign that, by 13 October 2023, had already dropped 6,000 bombs on the territory. The same piece calls Hamas\u2019s attacks \u201cmass murder\u201d and \u201ca war crime under international law\u201d, characterizations he has made elsewhere, including in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/oct\/24\/israel-gaza-palestinians-holocaust\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">the Guardian<\/a>. \u201cI would never justify Hamas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Chaouat did not respond to a request for comment. Painter said that while she had \u201cgrave concerns\u201d about Israel\u2019s conduct in Gaza, \u201cSegal was not an appropriate choice to head our Holocaust Center\u201d, and that the search process to fill the position \u201ccircumvented the process contemplated at the time the Center was founded, which required consultation with the broader Jewish community\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">As news of the hiring got out, the university began to field media requests. It initially stood by Segal, emails show, with communications staff workshopping public statements and debating whether to say he had received the search committee\u2019s enthusiastic \u201crecommendation\u201d or \u201csupport\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">But as pressure intensified, the university began to retreat. On 8 June 2024, a senior member of the communications team warned colleagues that \u201cdefending the candidate too much at the moment can be risky\u201d. The team scrapped a sentence from a response it had drafted for media outlets saying that the university did not apply \u201cpolitical litmus tests in hiring\u201d. They also reached out to Segal asking to confirm whether he was \u201can Israeli native\u201d in order to deal with allegations he was \u201canti-Israeli\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Segal responded that he was born in Israel, grew up there and that his parents and sister lived there, as well as friends and colleagues. \u201cI care deeply about the place,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Two days later, UMN leadership informed Segal in a two-sentence email they had changed their minds after \u201cadditional members of the University community have come forward to express their interest in providing perspective on the hiring of the positon [sic],\u201d the university\u2019s then interim president, Jeff Ettinger, wrote to Segal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"48c32edc-ba9e-429f-9a8b-95394196d5ce\" data-spacefinder-role=\"showcase\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"element element--showcase element-showcase dcr-46nkfa\">\n<div id=\"img-3\" class=\"dcr-1t7hdmw\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"people sitting near camping tents on a college campus at a pro-Gaza protest\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/46fd4f0da7629c957f3212fb1c84d8442382a1c7\/0_0_3600_2400\/master\/3600.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"445\" height=\"296.66666666666663\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-up96pv\"><a href=\"#img-3\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-zwabc0\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><button data-element-id=\"48c32edc-ba9e-429f-9a8b-95394196d5ce\" type=\"button\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-1bitgpn\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><span class=\"dcr-1shbixy\">View image in fullscreen<\/span><\/button><\/a><\/div><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1ci1e33\"><span class=\"dcr-vyhg7z\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1cipnsy\">Demonstrators studied and visited after setting up tents on the lawn of the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis on 29 April 2024.<\/span> Photograph: Star Tribune\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cBecause of the community-facing and leadership role that the Director holds, it is important that these voices are heard,\u201d Ettinger added. \u201cAccordingly, the offer letter of June 5, 2024, is hereby withdrawn to allow an opportunity to determine next steps.\u201d Ettinger offered no further explanation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The letter came after a barrage of complaints to the university. One donor, Lynne Redleaf, warned that if the university went through with the hire, \u201cit will almost certainly make fundraising for this Center grind to a halt\u201d. She added that she had taken time to \u201cdig in to learn about Raz Segal\u201d and that his references in various writings on Israel to \u201capartheid\u201d and \u201csettler colonial rule\u201d led her to conclude that Segal was \u201cfar too extreme to serve as Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and he is, in fact, an anti-Zionist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cHis appointment as director is just as offensive as appointing Byron Donalds, who recently praised Jim Crow laws, to lead the African American Studies Department,\u201d Redlead added, referring to a Black, Republican legislator from Florida whose comments about racial segregation had sparked a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/republican-lawmaker-defends-jim-crow-comments-after-criticism-black-democrats-2024-06-06\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">widespread controversy<\/a> around that time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cThank you for your heads up on this,\u201d Ettinger responded to Redleaf. \u201cTimely and helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Ettinger did not respond to a request for comment. Redleaf declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">University leaders also received hundreds of nearly identicalemails expressing \u201cconcern\u201d with Segal\u2019s appointment and calling his Jewish Currents op-ed \u201cparticularly troubling to those who support Israel\u2019s right to defend itself\u201d. Most of those emails included the hashtag #Mothersagainstcollegeantisemitism \u2013 referring to a large network of pro-Israel parents who have spearheaded campaigns targeting universities over alleged antisemitism on campuses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Another email, from the director of the university\u2019s Center for Jewish Studies, warned a university official that the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Minnesota and the Dakotas, a group that claims to represent \u201cthe public affairs voice of the Jewish community\u201d, was planning to coordinate a \u201cvolley\u201d of donor objections, even after the offer had been withdrawn. The director, Natan Paradise, said he had warned the JCRC that the group risked creating an atmosphere so toxic it would be impossible to recruit candidates for the role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Local legislators entered the fray as well. On 13 June 2024, Marion Rarick, a Republican state representative and lead of the legislature\u2019s higher education committee, wrote in a letter signed by 69 of her colleagues that they were \u201celated\u201d the university had paused Segal\u2019s hiring but expressed concern it took the \u201coutcry from the Jewish community to bring about this action\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Segal took issue with the implication that his detractors speak for a broader Jewish community, noting that many Jewish people inside and outside UMN had written to the university to support him. Beth Gendler, director of Jewish Community Action, a progressive group, wrote in an email to Ettinger: \u201cIf, as you have indicated, you intend to consult with community members, we implore you not accept the false assertion of one consensus voice for Minnesota Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Ethan Roberts, the JCRC\u2019s deputy executive director, confirmed that the group organized opposition to Segal\u2019s appointment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cThe issue was not whether Professor Segal had the academic freedom to express controversial opinions. He unquestionably did,\u201d he added. \u201cThe question was whether someone holding these views was appropriate to lead a Holocaust and genocide center with a longstanding, community-facing relationship with Holocaust survivors, their descendants, Jewish students, Minnesota\u2019s broader Jewish community, and [sic] had been a longstanding partner to our organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">He said that the \u201cminority of Jewish Minnesotans\u201d who supported Segal \u201chad every right to express that position, just as the majority of Jewish Minnesotans who opposed his appointment had every right to express theirs\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"126d10b1-26a2-4715-869b-627977c766ed\" data-spacefinder-role=\"showcase\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"element element--showcase element-showcase dcr-46nkfa\">\n<div id=\"img-4\" class=\"dcr-1t7hdmw\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"protesters chanting during a rally \" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c9b875ff796100bb5a940a9ae80bf4261064d470\/0_0_3600_2400\/master\/3600.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"445\" height=\"296.66666666666663\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-up96pv\"><a href=\"#img-4\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-zwabc0\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><button data-element-id=\"126d10b1-26a2-4715-869b-627977c766ed\" type=\"button\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-1bitgpn\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><span class=\"dcr-1shbixy\">View image in fullscreen<\/span><\/button><\/a><\/div><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1ci1e33\"><span class=\"dcr-vyhg7z\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1cipnsy\">Demonstrators chant during a rally against the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza after the University of Minnesota campus police cleared the Gaza Solidarity Encampment set up by the UMN Divest coalition on 23 April 2024.<\/span> Photograph: Star Tribune\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Scores of Jewish professors and community members wrote to the university in defense of Segal, the emails show, including 40 leading Holocaust and genocide scholars who signed a letter arguing that the university\u2019s actions set a \u201cdangerous precedent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Ettinger\u2019s move also drew the ire of UMN faculty, who passed a no-confidence vote against himandthe university provost; and the American Association of University Professors, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaup.org\/news\/university-minnesota-should-reinstate-raz-segal-job-offer\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">called<\/a> on the university to reinstate the offer. Dozens more emails flooded in \u2013 this time expressing shock and anger over the university\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cI was dismayed to see this news,\u201d one student affiliated with the Holocaust center wrote. \u201cThis makes us worried not only for Raz\u2019s appointment, but for the future of academic freedom and independence in the [University of Minnesota].\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The emails also showed that the university implied to Segal on at least two other occasions it would offer him tenured positions elsewhere in the university.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">But more than a year later, no new offer has materialized. Segal said he feared the \u201cstigma\u201d surrounding his withdrawn offer from UMN had damaged his chances to pursue similar academic roles, at least in the US. But he has continued to write about Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza from a scholarly perspective, arguing that genocide in Gaza is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/nov\/28\/the-genocide-in-gaza-is-far-from-over\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">far from over<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Segal said he had hoped the university would restore the original job offer it had made rather than agree to pay a settlement, but that it was made clear to him that that was \u201coff the table\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The position remains unfilled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raz Segal, an associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University, at his home in Philadelphia,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7070,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions\/7070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}