Raz Segal

In the context of the Gaza war, Segal has described Israel's complete blockade—which included the denial of water, food, power, and fuel to the civilian population of the Gaza Strip—as a "textbook case of genocide" and connected it to the Nakba, the expulsion of Palestinians during the establishment of Israel in 1948.^[4][5] According to Segal, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are actively engaged in three genocidal actions: acts of killing, infliction of severe bodily harm, and implementation of measures strategically designed to destroy Palestinian existence. As evidence, he cites the IDF's strategy of total warfare, destroying mass swathes of Gaza and imposing a strict blockade of essential goods.^[6] His op-ed was credited with opening discussions about the Gaza genocide.^[7]

Segal's accusations of genocide caused the cancellation of a job offer from the University of Minnesota for him to lead the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The recission was the result of a campaign led by the pro-Israel group Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas and the resignation of two of the center's board members in opposition to Segal's selection.^[8][9]

• Segal, Raz (2013). Days of Ruin: The Jews of Munkács During the Holocaust. Yad Vashem. ISBN 978-965-308-428-5.^[10]
• Segal, Raz (2016). Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914–1945. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-9897-6.^{[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]}