How Jewish scholars are attacked in America for calling out Gaza genocide | Raz Segal | Real Talk

“From the moment Israel was created, there’s this idea that it is unimaginable that it can perpetrate any crime under international law, let alone genocide.”

US-Israeli genocide scholar Raz Segal was the first academic to label Israel’s war on Gaza a ‘textbook case of genocide’ in 2023. But that also came with a price.

The prominent Israeli-American historian delves into the context, the intense backlash faced by Jewish scholars who speak out, and the implications for international law and human rights.

Segal is currently the associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University.

Real Talk is a Middle East Eye interview programme hosted by Mohamed Hashem.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:30 Why Gaza is a 'textbook case of genocide'
15:20 Biden's carpet-bombing remarks
29:40 Is it easy to refute genocide in Gaza?
33:42 Weaponisation of antisemitism
38:00 Did Israel fail as a security project?
43:29 Attacks against anti-Zionist views
48:40 Lobby group attacks against Raz Segal
59:50 IHRA definition of antisemitism
01:05:45 Genocide studies in deep crisis?
01:13:09 Has the field failed?

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