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University of Minnesota pauses hiring of professor who called Israel’s war against Hamas ‘a textbook case of genocide’

The announcement of Raz Segal to head the school’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies school prompted two professors to resign from the center’s advisory board

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Anti-Israel activists chant during a rally after the University of Minnesota's campus police cleared the Gaza Solidarity Encampment

The University of Minnesota paused the hiring of a professor who wrote that Israel’s military operation against Hamas in Gaza after Oct. 7 was “a textbook case of genocide” to head the school’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies...

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