Conversation with Professor Raz Segal: The road from Zionism to anti-Zionism

Join Tzedek Collective in conversation with Professor Raz Segal on his road from Zionism to anti-Zionism led by Ronit Lentin, on Saturday 8 February 10am (AEDT).

Free registration. Donations will be collected for Saeed Al-Akharsa family in Gaza, Palestine. Contributions to this family will cover food, shelter, medical care, clothing, and emergencies.

Online event to be held via Zoom. Access link will be delivered via email one day prior to the event.

Raz Segal is an Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide at Stockton University. He was a Senior Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (2023) and a recipient of the Baron Velge Award for his work on the history of World War II (2024). His publications include Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945 (Stanford University Press, 2016), and he is at work on a book on the distortion, weaponization, and mobilization of Holocaust history in the reproduction of white supremacy and state violence, including a focus on Israel’s assault on Palestinians from the 1948 Nakba to the current genocidal assault on Gaza. In addition to scholarly publications, he has published op-eds, book reviews, and larger articles on genocide, state violence, and memory politics in Hebrew, English, and German in The Guardian, LA Times, The Nation, Jewish Currents, +972 Magazine, Time Magazine, Forward, and Berliner Zeitung, and he has appeared on Counter Points, MSNBC, Al Jazeera English, Democracy Now! and ABC News.

Ronit Lentin, (retired) associate professor of sociology, Trinity College, Dublin, was born in Mandatory Palestine, and lived in Ireland for fifty years before moving to Gadigal land. Ronit has published extensively on race and racism, Palestine and Israel, gender and genocide. Her publications include Traces of Racial Exception: Racialising Israeli Settler Colonialism, and, as editor, Racial Capitalism and Palestine, and Race and the Question of Palestine (forthcoming).