Raz Segal

2 months ago | jacobin.com | Raz Segal

What lies at the core of the unconditional support Germany extends to Israel, including in the last sixteen months of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza? This question remains relevant even if the current cease-fire will bring an end to the genocide: addressing it sheds light on the decades-long process of Israeli settler colonialism that led to the genocide, an ongoing Nakba that continues to unfold regardless of the cease-fire.

Jul 11, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Raz Segal

Genocide is the culmination of a process that turns the world upside down — that frames defenseless people as dangerous enemies; violent states as innocent societies threatened by blind hatred and fanaticism; and lies as truth. Genocide — the destruction of a people, and destruction of their world — finally, is falsified and rationalized as heroic, as righteous.

Jul 11, 2024 | forward.com | Raz Segal

Genocide is the culmination of a process that turns the world upside down - that frames defenseless people as dangerous enemies; violent states as innocent societies threatened by blind hatred and fanaticism; and lies as truth. Genocide - the destruction of a people, and destruction of their world - finally, is falsified and rationalized as heroic, as righteous.

Jun 21, 2024 | znetwork.org | Raz Segal |Amy Goodman |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González

We speak with Israeli American Jewish scholar Raz Segal about the University of Minnesota’s move to rescind a job offer over his comments early in the war on Gaza, when he characterized the Israeli assault as a “textbook case of genocide.” Segal was set to lead the university’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, but after two board members quit in opposition to Segal’s selection and a smear campaign led by the pro-Israel group Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the...

May 14, 2024 | time.com | Raz Segal

IdeasMay 14, 2024 6:57 AM EDTRaz Segal is associate professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and an endowed professor in the study of modern genocide at Stockton University. As Gaza solidarity encampments take root at dozens of campuses across the U.S., many Democratic and Republican lawmakers—in addition to President Joe Biden—have accused protestors and colleges of rampant antisemitism. That’s woefully misguided—and dangerous.