The University of Minnesota is paying $250,000 to a professor whose job offer was rescinded in 2024 after backlash to his comments calling the war in Gaza a genocide. The University of Minnesota withdrew an offer to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies days after it was extended. In the spring of 2024, the University of Minnesota interviewed candidates to lead the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. But two days later, two board members from the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies resigned in protest. It destroyed Gaza,” Segal said.