University of Minnesota’s Most Hateful

In June, the University of Minnesota was working to find a professor to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Ann Waltner, Minnesota’s interim College of Liberal Arts dean, tried to hire an anti-Israel professor to fill that role.

Waltner extended an offer to Stockton University professor Raz Segal. Six days after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Segal “penned an op-ed accusing Israel of genocide,” the Washington Free Beacon reported.
“But the assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. I say this as a scholar of genocide, who has spent many years writing about Israeli mass violence against Palestinians,” Segal wrote in the op-ed.

This is the person Ann Waltner thought was best suited to fill a role running a Holocaust study center.

Antisemitic incidents on campus have reached record highs. Universities are again and again letting opportunities to stop antisemitism on campus slip through their fingers. If Waltner had her choice, this would have undoubtedly furthered the proliferation of hate.

This was far too close of a call for a major state university.