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Barry Trachtenberg

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"Trachtenberg was the only witness the government chose to cross-examine. The effort to impeach his credibility went almost comically off the rails." - M. Gessen Historian, Parent, 🚲, #FreePalestine

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Barry Trachtenberg @barryctrachtenberg.bsky.social · Jun 12

theguardian.com⁣⁣ ⁣ We are part of a group of 27 Jewish scholars of Jewish studies who have filed an amicus brief in Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump administration. We reject Harvard’s troubling assumption that being Jewish necessitates supporting Israel, or that criticism of Israel�#genocidecide

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · Jan 23

Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."

She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.

I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it.
Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.

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Jay Ulfelder @jayulfelder.bsky.social · Jan 23

Yesterday, in protest of Harvard University's response to the genocide in Gaza and deepening repression of campus activism against it, I submitted a letter of resignation from my job there. Here is that letter.

Jay Ulfelder resignation letter 20250122.pdf

drive.google.com

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Barry Trachtenberg @barryctrachtenberg.bsky.social · Jan 23

Read this urgent essay by AAUP urging academic institutions and faculty to resist “anticipatory obedience” to the Trump administration and to take proactive measures to protect faculty rights and institutional values: bit.ly/3E4a4EO

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Barry Trachtenberg @barryctrachtenberg.bsky.social · Jan 19

Poem: Your civility is a siege mondoweiss.net/2025/01/poem...

Poem: Your civility is a siege

In the wake of the ceasefire in Gaza, a poem about maintaining militant clarity on what the last year of Zionist genocide means for writers and people of conscience across the world.

mondoweiss.net

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Barry Trachtenberg @barryctrachtenberg.bsky.social · Jan 8

Proud to be the latest Elder of Zion.

support @jewishcurrents.bsky.social

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · Jan 5

Calling all at #AHA25: Join Historians 4 Palestine on Sunday Jan 5 12 pm at 1345 6th Avenue. We demand an end US stop military aid to Israel, divestment from Israeli institutions, that
AHA historians condemn Israeli scholasticide of Palestinians in Gaza, & Palestine be free 🧵

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · Jan 4

Solidarity with all the historians at #AHA this year protesting our ongoing complicity through silence with scholasticide and genocide in Gaza. If there’s one profession that should get this right, it’s ours. #skystorians

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Rad Pedagogy @radpedagogy.bsky.social · Nov 20

Our November 2024 episode features a conversation with two founding leaders of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism.

We discuss the genesis of ICSZ, responding to the institutional repression Palestine solidarity activism, creative pedagogies for our current moment, and more.

Practicing Pedagogies of Resistance and Liberation: The Critical Study of Zionism

Quickly and easily listen to Nothing Never Happens for free!

player.captivate.fm

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Barry Trachtenberg @barryctrachtenberg.bsky.social · Dec 6

Reading Hanna Lévy-Hass' Diary of Bergen-Belsen and thinking of all those resisting Israel's genocidal assault on Palestinians.

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