Professor Claims Israel Guilty of White “Jewish Supremacy”
He characterizes the entire Ashkenazi population as racist.
The director of the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MAHG) program at Stockton University has charged Israel with a litany of “heinous crimes” and misdeeds in his recently published academic article.
Raz Segal, a historian and professor who teaches many students, published his antisemitic rhetoric in the prestigious Journal of Palestine Studies. Central to his claim is that Jews are now perpetuating a “Jewish supremacy” and are themselves engaging in antisemitism.
“White supremacy in Israel has manifested itself as Jewish supremacy… creating a White Jewish settler society,” Segal says, bizarrely arguing that Israel is alluring to “white antisemitism” (i.e. white Jews) because the population is mostly Ashkenazi, he argues.
He further denigrates Israeli Ashkenazi Jews in his article, blaming them for the war.
“White supremacy in Israel, however, manifested itself as Jewish supremacy, which now defined state power and served as the guiding principle for the unprecedented project of creating a White Jewish settler society,” says Segal.
Without providing a clear definition of what he means by “settler antisemitism,” he continues to imply that white Jews such as those from Litvak or Ashkenazi descent are racist against Mizrahi Jews.
Ironically, by characterizing the entire Ashkenazi population as racist, he himself is committing an act that most people would consider racist.
“Settler antisemitism [white Jews in Israel] became an important force in rejecting and excluding multiple Jewish identities and people who threatened it, especially those rooted linguistically and culturally in the Arab world,” Segal adds.
He also goes on to claim that black people should be resentful of Jews.
“The Jew must see that he is part of the history of Europe, and will always be so considered by the descendants of the slave,” he says, quoting one of his fellow scholars.
“Jews thus remain a group that promoted itself at the expense of another group,” he claims further.
In April, at the height of the campus protests against Israel, Segal traveled to the pro-Hamas encampment at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was photographed in conversation with another professor, Omar Bartov, speaking with the students.
Bartov, who shares similar radical viewpoints as Segal, has also repeated claims about Jewish supremacism. For example, in a petition he co-penned, he claimed that “Jewish supremacism has been growing for years” in Israel.
We reached out to both professors to ask for an interview to help contextualize their statements, but neither professor took us up on it.
According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, this isn’t the first time Segal was found to be problematic or controversial.
Earlier this year, Segal accepted a job to run The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota in June. His offer was rescinded after five days, after the search committee learned he was accusing Israel of genocide in articles like this one for the website Jewish Currents.
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP), a nonprofit that advocates for the rights of professors, immediately called for the reinstatement of Segal’s job offer. But in an interview with Democracy Now!, Segal stated he has not heard from the university.
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Don 't take it as a criticism if I say I find this tribalism incomprehensibly convoluted. This blog alerted me some months ago to the protests at University of Pennsylvania. I spent some time there, in another era; it was where I learned the meaning of Zionism. And it would have been inconceivable that anti-Israel sentiment would have been nurtured in that place. To my simple mind, these developments bear testimony to the hoary notion that Jews can be the worst antisemites.
If Israelis are "settlers' in Israel, then Dr. Segal is a settler in the United States. I hope he decides to apply his theories to his own situation and goes back to Russia or Poland or wherever it is the Segals come from and make his pronouncements from there.